Re: Bad Cat Trem Cat Arrives...
On Badcat and Matchless stuff, I've always thought the black logo looked better on a black background. Since I live in College Station (home of Texas A&M and I'm an Aggie), maroon was an easy choice. Woohoo!
I thought when I played this thing at the store a few times, the 1/2 power switch was fairly useless, but it's not a volume issue I'm finding, it's a distortion issue. This is going to sound weird, but when you're not driving the speakers as hard with lower watts, you're hearing more of the power tube grind and less of the speaker distorting added in.
Not better or worse, just different.
I have a lot to do today so, I woke up early and went back out and played somemore.
The control of tone is weird, but so useful, you pick it up pretty qucikly. First of all, there's a classic Cut knob ala the AC30. Then there is a 5-way predetermned tone rotary knob. 5 preset tone EQ's if you will. Or you can use a more traditional bass/treble 2 knob config. Or you can use neither, and just adjust with the Cut knob. Or you can use both at the same time. Find one of the 5 presets, but say, the particulary guitar needs a bit less bass, so you dial down the bass a bit, while keeping most of the preset eq the same.
Using this set up, I can make the two mismatched Celestion ceramic mag speakers actually sound like the Red Fang alnico. I can get excellent AC 30 tones out of it (that should be obvious), but I'm getting close to dialing in a bit of a Fender Tweed tone. Not there yet, but I think I can get it. Especially when I'm using an aby switch and running the deluxe at the same time.
I do think with a bit of EQ I can probably coax out some Marshall as well. But at the end of last night and into this morning, I gotta say, the amp is pretty much its own tone. If I wanted a Vox, I'd have bought an AC30 HW. I didn't think the AC30 was as versatile as the BC. Turns out so far I'm right.
But I'm in the massive honeymoon fornication mode right now. Let's see how I feel in a few months when the Viagra wears off.
On Badcat and Matchless stuff, I've always thought the black logo looked better on a black background. Since I live in College Station (home of Texas A&M and I'm an Aggie), maroon was an easy choice. Woohoo!
I thought when I played this thing at the store a few times, the 1/2 power switch was fairly useless, but it's not a volume issue I'm finding, it's a distortion issue. This is going to sound weird, but when you're not driving the speakers as hard with lower watts, you're hearing more of the power tube grind and less of the speaker distorting added in.
Not better or worse, just different.
I have a lot to do today so, I woke up early and went back out and played somemore.
The control of tone is weird, but so useful, you pick it up pretty qucikly. First of all, there's a classic Cut knob ala the AC30. Then there is a 5-way predetermned tone rotary knob. 5 preset tone EQ's if you will. Or you can use a more traditional bass/treble 2 knob config. Or you can use neither, and just adjust with the Cut knob. Or you can use both at the same time. Find one of the 5 presets, but say, the particulary guitar needs a bit less bass, so you dial down the bass a bit, while keeping most of the preset eq the same.
Using this set up, I can make the two mismatched Celestion ceramic mag speakers actually sound like the Red Fang alnico. I can get excellent AC 30 tones out of it (that should be obvious), but I'm getting close to dialing in a bit of a Fender Tweed tone. Not there yet, but I think I can get it. Especially when I'm using an aby switch and running the deluxe at the same time.
I do think with a bit of EQ I can probably coax out some Marshall as well. But at the end of last night and into this morning, I gotta say, the amp is pretty much its own tone. If I wanted a Vox, I'd have bought an AC30 HW. I didn't think the AC30 was as versatile as the BC. Turns out so far I'm right.
But I'm in the massive honeymoon fornication mode right now. Let's see how I feel in a few months when the Viagra wears off.
