The Stone Cold Bitch

The amp is not forgiving at all, and magnifies my :poo:ty playing, (much like having someone else around here riding my ass). But damn it sure sounds fine. I like the "clean" option when plugged into the "low" input as it is just a single stage with only the "Overdrive " pot to cut the volume (of course there is your volume knob on the guitar too), then straight to the fx loop and the PI. Nothing to wash out any frequencies.

If I plug into the "high" input with the "Bright "switch engaged then its a two cascaded set of stages before again hitting just the "Overdrive" pot on the way to the fx loop and the PI, again nothing to wash out any frequencies.

Or if I plug into the "Low" input with the "Bright" switch disengaged the "Overdrive" pot becomes a "Channel " pot like on a 1959 plexi bright channel, only with more gain as the plate is set at 180K instead of 100K. In that mode the CF and tonestack are in the chain.

And if I am plugged into the "High" input and the "Bright " switch disengaged, there are two cascaded stages much like a hot rodded 2204, before hitting the CF and tonestack.

The tonestack is voiced with a 33K slope resistor, 390pF Treble coupling, .022uF Mid coupling, and a.01uF Bass coupling.
 
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The amp is not forgiving at all, and magnifies my :poo:ty playing, (much like having someone else around here riding my ass). But damn it sure sounds fine. I like the "clean" option when plugged into the "low" input as it is just a single stage with only the "Overdrive " pot to cut the volume (of course there is your volume knob on the guitar too), then straight to the fx loop and the PI. Nothing to wash out any frequencies.

If I plug into the "high" input with the "Bright "switch engaged then its a two cascaded set of stages before again hitting just the "Overdrive" pot on the way to the fx loop and the PI, again nothing to wash out any frequencies.

Or if I plug into the "Low" input with the "Bright" switch disengaged the "Overdrive" pot becomes a "Channel " pot like on a 1959 plexi bright channel, only with more gain as the plate is set at 180K instead of 100K. In that mode the CF and tonestack are in the chain.

And if I am plugged into the "High" input and the "Bright " switch disengaged, there are two cascaded stages much like a hot rodded 2204, before hitting the CF and tonestack.

The tonestack is voiced with a 33K slope resistor, 390pF Treble coupling, .022uF Mid coupling, and a.01uF Bass coupling.
Sounds like Frankenstiens Swiss Army Knife !
I would love to here all the options!
 
And it's sold. I really like all of the tones that I can get out of this format, and may make another for me. I am trying to get down to only having 3 amps.

Of course to build another like this one, I'd have to part with either the Tribute amp, or my modded version of a Fender 6G2 Princeton that I decided to call Pearly Gates. Yeah I know that's stealing a name from Billy G, but that is what I hear out of it.
 
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