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The dip switches are gain and eq
presets, that give the pre-amp more distortion and more top end edge, and or
bass response. There are a pair for each channel as I recall. I believe these
are based on mods done for guitarist Ronnie Montrose, who along with Alan Holdsworth
and Ty Tabor from King’s X, were Pearce’s most visible endorsers. I
believe Andy Summers and David Torn used them as well. I had the preamp version
of your amp, and before than I had a non stereo G1B, mounted in a cabinet and
an A-I power amp mounted in a separate cabinet both driving EV speakers. A
real stereo rig. Incidentally I still have an original pearce single
button foot switch for channel switching if you need one. I’ll let it go
cheap even though by now, it’s, you know, “Vintage”. The only
guy I know that might have one is Bill Delap, the Monterey based builder who
made custom guitars for Holdsworth for several years before Alan took essentially
the design Bill D. helped create, and brought it to Carvin to make an Allan Holdsworth
model. That would be the Fatboy chambered guitar. Bill Delap is hard to reach
and I don’t believe has a web site, but as far as I know, Alan gave him a
punch of Pearce gear, and he has collected that stuff for a long time. Pearce amps
are very good quality, as good a solid state amp as you will find for guitar,
smooth creamy distortion, great clean sounds, a built in limiter that really
works. The only downside of the later models was a tendency for the Alesis
designed digital effects to stop working due to, I believe faulty ribbon cable
issues. The good news is this circuit can be disabled and the amp will still
work fine. Last I heard, Dan Pearce was working at ART but that was ten years
ago. Good Luck Bill From: Travis Hartnett
[mailto:travishartnett@gmail.com] I just picked up a Pearce G2r, and I'm having no luck googling up a
manual. Anyone have any info on exactly what the front panel DIP switches
do? Off-list answer probably best in this case. |