Support
Looper's Delight
|
Support |
|
|
The Andrew Mod, for the Mesa formula preamp, I became aware of through the reviews on Harmony Central http://www.harmony-central.com/Guitar/tab.html, and everyone there swore that the mod made the lead channels much more open sounding with out the characteristic mid range honk some boogies have. I got in touch with the guy Andrew on the Boogie board forum , http://forum.grailtone.com/, and though he doesn't use the Formula Pre any more, he was nice enough to send me the instructions and schematics, which I'd be happy to send to any one off list, as they are PDF files. As for chaining preamps in series, I like to add different over drive flavors together to create one massive one, that's been going on since Hendrix!!!!! Both of my overdrives are of the less extreme tube overdrive type but together they can create a more fuzz type smooth distortion. Incidently, my guitar first hits a Duncan pickup booster pedal that I leave on at 6 db boost, then a Keeley compressor, and then the overdrives. That black box thing looks really cool though it seems like more of a buffer preamp device than a real tweak-able preamp. Sort of like the VHT Valvulator or the Sunrise tube DI. And yes they are great for warming up your signal and correcting pick up and effects loading. But not really for tone shaping. My best Bill -----Original Message----- From: Luca Formentini [mailto:luca@unguitar.com] Sent: Monday, August 27, 2007 4:44 PM To: billwalker@baymoon.com Subject: Re: RME Firewire 800 and Guitar Amp Sim Bill wrote: > Yes , I've been really happy with both the the direct recording and > live performance results, and for now, until I can get my tech friend > to do the "Andrew Mod' , a simple three or four resistor and capacitor > modification some web techy came up with that de-honks the lead channels, > this is interesting Bill, can you please let us know something more ? > I overdrive the front end of the formula with either a Duncan twin > tube (phenomenal) or a Keeley modified Boss blues driver (ditto), if I > want furrier sounds. > this is another interesting thing: chaining preamps in series. ...that brings me up to this: http://www.sarnomusicsolutions.com/sgbb/sgbbpage.html I have also got crazy to find a half rack tube preamp. This is not exactly a preamp but it would be interesting check out it works... my best, luca www.unguitar.com