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Marty, here's the mod story (also the rest of you might get a kick out of this)
Years ago, before I found a tank and I only had my Twin ('68-9 or so), I knew I
needed more
reverb to play surf. I talked to my tech - Dennis Kager at Central Jersey Music
Service -
and he thought about it and suggested this:
We take the signal coming out of the reverb tank and plug it into the
non-vibrato channel,
where it gets amplified/tonaly controlled, then it goes back into where the
reverb signal
usually goes and the mix gets controlled via the reverb knob on the vibrato
channel that I
use. This mod gets switched on via the bright switch on the clean channel.
Bright On = Mod On.
Bright Off = both channels work as normal.
I used this for a couple of years. It doesn't sound anything like a tank...in
fact it's
practically overdriven, a real nasty, brassy sound, that at the time really fit
my playing.
Eventually the noise got to be too much and I found the Premier.
Last time I took the Twin in, Dennis mentioned that the reverb tank in the amp
was shot and
did I want to replace it? I said no because I was a little short on funds and
figured it
didn't matter anyway. While messing around with sounds with the new RI, I
noticed that even
though the tank in the Twin didn't work, it was still (of course) routing the
signal, so the
EQ on the clean channel and the reverb knob were actually adding another element
to my sound.
This would explain how things would sound different all the time, knobs I didn't
think were
affecting me were, and would potentially change whenever we moved the amp
around.
Awhile ago, I noticed that one of my inputs on my vibrato channel sticks out and
the other is
flush. When troubleshooting for what turned out to be the mixer knob, I tried
both inputs, the
flush one that I normally don't use sounded much deader than the other.
So this means to do an A/B, I have to take the amp in to get that fixed, then I
can plug A
into input 1 and B into input 2. Another option is to remove the mod so I can
turn the Clean
Bright on. And then plug A into Clean and B into Vibrato and EQ the sounds
differently...which
sounds like I'll be there for hours tweaking my sound!
So, either idea is good and probably what I'll do in the long run, however,
neither one is
something I could have for the Cramps show....unless I A/B Clean/Vibrato, and
crank the treble
on the clean to make up for the lack of bright. Sorry, just thinking out loud
here.
Brain
Oh! A bit more on Dennis. If you live ANYWHERE near Edison, NJ USE. THIS. GUY!
He has been
INCREDIBLY dependable for years. I had heard he was legendary but I assumed that
was among
people I knew. Googling him bring up that he: worked at the Ampeg factory
(possibly designing
them, can't seem to find out) until he left in 1967 to make Sundown amps which
I'd never heard
of before, but all reports rave about them, later he designed an amp for Pignose
and something
called a Reverend Hellhound. Also, when we bring our Farfisa in there, he says
"oh i'll need a
something..." then pulls out a DRAWER full of them. A drawer full of Farfisa
parts, need I say
more.
Whew. Done.
Marty Tippens said:
>
> I need to hear more about your amp mod, Brian. Is it really that each of the
four inputs on
> your Twin is assigned to different channels? Normally each pair of inputs is
assigned to
> different channels and if you plug two lines in to the same pair of inputs,
they balance out.
>
> -Marty
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Brain Brimstone
> To:
> Sent: Thursday, October 14, 2004 5:43 PM
> Subject: Re: [SurfGuitar101] Re: Fender RI Mixer kills treble
>
>
> ...Also, it doesn't sound good with the vox and the 'verb. Too noisy. And an
A/B switch is
> possible, but the inputs on my Twin (modded) all sound different, so I'd
have to get that
> fixed and then set up the A/B switch....although that does sound like the
best idea so far.
>
>
> Richard said:
> >
> >
> > Hey Brain,
> >
> > This doesn't pertain to your question, but I just
> > wanna chime in and say I love The Brimstones and am
> > sick that I won't get to see you guys open for The
> > Cramps. I saw The Gore Gore Girls open for The Cramps
> > here two years ago and it was great.
> >
> > Just out of curiosity, why did you ditch the Premier
> > for The Fender RI tank? Was there a problem with it?
> >
> > Richard
> >
> >
> >
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