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It’s the 21st century, the technology exists… it’s called ‘google shopping’
I’ve read all of this thread so I may as well stick my 2p in as I think my personal taste is backwards from most people. …. being that I prefer distorted sounds from solid state technology and when I’m playing clean guitar sounds I prefer valve amps. Everyone seems to go on about ‘tube distortion’ but to me I can get much nicer overdrive/distortions from either SS pedals with a valve amp or a SS amp. Tube overdrive always seems a bit ‘unbalanced’ and messy to me, I can get much tighter, balanced and saturated guitar sounds from SS gear. When I’m playing clean guitar (or almost clean) to my ears valve amps sound nicer, there’s a ‘sustain and roundness’ (for want of better words) that I can’t seem to get when playing clean with SS gear. I even found this with EHX tube series pedals, I loved the wiggler for clean sounds but I thought it sounded pretty horrible with distortion.
Because of this I’ve just bought a small valve head to go along with my SS head, I use my SS Laney for aggressive distortion and overdrive sounds and my VHT special6 valve head for when I want some of those lovely well rounded cleans.
which is why I don’t agree with this at all!
Quote:With tubes, the louder, the better. Sometimes with solid state, the louder, the louder (and harsher)...because I’m the opposite.
Quote:ya my uncle bought a memory toy and broke a shaft tryin to get the knob offI did it on a rat pedal once… that was my lesson not to do it again!
Quote:Quote:they slip on like normal knobs, but they are a very very tight fit, that they are attached using a press to get them on, so unfortunately they will be extremely hard to remove!why not try sum type of slip over rubber cover, on the knob? like MXR does, or make sum thing, like maybe out of a small rubber ball? or wrap the knob in electrical tape or sum thing to make it bigger and more grip.
Yeah,that crossed my mind,but an mxr knob/rubber boot is just too low to turn with your foot without touching the adjacent knobs.The rubber ball idea is intriging,but I cant quit picture that.Maybe a golf ball drilled out to fit snugly over the knob would work?
Do you know if they are regular splined shafts like a boss potentiometer or something else?yes they are regular splined shafts.. and you can get them off without breaking the pot, what you really need to do is get something like a small screwdriver under the edge (and maybe a bit of cloth under the driver to protect the finish) and just lift it at one edge a tiny amount, then go to the opposite side and do the same, then move the knob round a little and do the same.. basically what you are doing is loosening it’s grip rather than trying to pull it off.. after a while the knob will loosen, DO NOT try and pull upwards until the knob is loose or the shaft will rip straight out of the pot. I’ve done this loads of times without breaking anything, you just need to take your time.
Hi, I’ve moved this to the the ‘help’ section because you’ll probably get a quicker reply.
Other than the fact it’s a total waste of electricity they won’t come to harm.
…but really, just turn them off.. they don’t need to warm up like an amp.
