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turn it down or a/b is there another choice ? miller
--- In , "Brain Brimstone" <Brain@b...>
wrote:
>
> 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.
