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Hello List! Longtime lurker.
I'm Brain, I play in NJ surf/garage band the Brimstones. We have a big
show this coming Monday (Cramps at Irving Plaza) and in anticipation
of that and future recordings I "upgraded" from my Premeir Tank to a
Fender RI. While I was waiting for it, I was using a friends RI and it
seemed that I was suffering from muddy sound when i turned the tank
off and used my Vox ValveTone pedal.
When I finally got mine, it was broken (tangled springs and a tube
needed replacing...?). I got it fixed under warranty since I got it
"new". After testing mine out it seemed it suffered from the same
muddy tone. A few experimentations led to finding out (as many of you
know) it was the Mixer.
At the moment I'm left with turning the mixer down when we do garage
stuff and I already got two foot switches to turn on and off. I'm okay
doing this on Monday, but not for all shows afterwards. I thought of
getting an A/B box and splitting it into two channels but this seems
like so much more work to set up, break down and to trip over. Chaos
theory rears it's head quite a bit around our equipment and the less
things that can fail the better.
So my question is: is there anything I can do to get rid of this so
that "bypass" is true "bypass"? The signal path is currently Hagstrom
III > ValveTone > Tank > '68 Twin. I would prefer to not mod the RI as
I've already needed the warrety and who knows when I'll need it
again....but I got a real good tech who does real good work, so if I
gotta, I gotta.
I figure if anybody will know, it's this list!
Thanks!
Brain
p.s. I've searched the archive and just came up with people who have
the same problem.
