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Conference napalm::guitar

Title:GUITARnotes - Where Every Note has Emotion
Notice:Discussion of the finer stringed instruments
Moderator:KDX200::COOPER
Created:Thu Aug 14 1986
Last Modified:Fri Jun 06 1997
Last Successful Update:Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:3280
Total number of notes:61432

2679.0. "GP (Feb.1993) 'The Bluesmaker'" by TAEC::MALLET (There's a red house over yonder...) Mon Feb 08 1993 09:25

  I modified an old (unused) amp using the GP 'The Bluesmaker' schematic.
 It is (was ?) a mid 70' Custom Hiwatt 50 (DR504).
 The result is great, except the tone controls who sound
 'a la' marshall (binary mode : 0 or 10.... no effect between these two values !)

 I didn't used the Balance mode between the Clean and High gain channel.
 I kept the 2 stock pots, Norm. and Brilliant channel and mixed them through
 2 470K resistors. It looks more versatile to me.

 The Clean channel sounds great, mucho better than the original Hiwatt sound.
 The high gain channel is more a crunch one. Don't expect massive/lead/Tchernobyl
 gain. Anyway It IS a cooooool blues sound...

 Believe me, If you have an old amp to recycle, choose the 'Bluesmaker'

 Regards
 J.P.
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