If I Make Only One Contribution to TAG, This Is It....

[skyboltone]

( http://soundclick.com/share?songid=6584689 )

Good grief man!!!! No lack of ideas in those cuts. Man that is sweet stuff. Is the tele cut the first one? What about the other two?

Rock on!
Dan

[Tonegeek]

What is this supposed to actually do?

This explanation is somewhat a stretch of the imagination, but here goes:

It is like "Smooth and Slim" for the ODS 124

I have never heard a "Smooth and Slim" but after reading about it's effects on the Mesa Mk I's flabby bass notes, I thought I heard a similar effect on the 124; the tone seemed smoother and slimmer.

Maybe a better way to look at it is that if you amp has a bright, coarse distortion, the 250pf/220k will smooth it out. If you already tweaked your amp to get a smooth distortion, the extra 250pf/220k may sound bad. My single coil guitars do not sound good with it. The Telecaster in this clip ( http://soundclick.com/share?songid=6584689 ) was recorded WITHOUT the 250pf/220k. To me the 250/220 sounds best with double coil guitars, but I'm still experimenting with it.

That's kind of a fattened up Roy Buchanan sound on that first third. A little more edge and whew!

[Structo]

No problem to explain.

In my amp I have installed, post Master, the IronSounds loop card, so the ouput of the loop card goes to the PI input capacitor.

I soldered the cap (actually two: 150pF + 200pF ceramics) across a 220k cf resistor. I un-soldered the shielded input to the PI, put one end of the new R/C into that eyelet, the other into another eyelet, and put the wire into this second eyelet. So the signal comes from the loop card >> thru the 250pF/220k part >> into the PI entrance.

Because I use the IronSounds loop, I don't have switching jacks to put it on, so it just precedes the PI entrance cap.

I wouldn't have believed such a simple mod could have such a profound impact on the amp's personality, but it did. After installing this, I found that if I adjusted the OD entrance trimmer, there was a nice sweet spot where the Dumble squeaky attack was best--it was, actually, at a higher setting than I'd been using.

So anyway, I'm much happier with the amp now. It goes out with me Saturday to play a gig at, of all things, a bachelorette party!!

Thanks for that.
I also have the Ironsounds loop in my amp as well.

[ic-racer]

So, after playing around with this for a while I treat the effects loop patch like one of the front panel switches. It gives a change in amp character that is pronounced and distinctly different from BRIGHT, DEEP, MID BOOST and JAZZ/ROCK.