Tweedy speaker distortion problem

Bfeeney

Bfeeney

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Hi everyone. I just got myself a Joyo Tweedy because I was looking for a tweed sounding amp and saw these cheap things get good reviews. I have a cabinet that has two Warehouse Guitar Speakers G8C and two G12Q in it (16ohm) that I've used for years with a Blackstar HT5 on top. Zero problems. I plugged the tweedy into the same cabinet and get speaker distortion on the clean channel when I pick a string harder, no pedals. It sounds like crap. I've fiddled with the knobs but haven't had luck getting rid of the distortion. Neither amp is turned up much because I'm a basement jammer, I might be using 1 watt. The cabinet will handle 80 watts, a lot more than the Tweedy's 20. Right now I have the Tweedy gain set at 9 'o clock, voice at 9, tone at 3 and volume at 9 on the clean channel and get speaker farting when I hit the strings hard. Again, the Blackstar doesn't do this at all. Any suggestions on what I can do? Thanks
 
its a 20w amp @ 8 ohms, so maybe 10w @ 16ohms. those four 20w speakers should not be breaking up with this thing. if it works fine with your other amp, id suspect something with the joyo. do you have another cab you can test with?
 
Thanks for the reply. I do have another cabinet. I just got a B-52 4x12 off Marketplace I'm currently using for the Blackstar (no problems with that sound). I'll swap cabs and see what happens. I was thinking I might not have the settings in the right spot since this is my first amp with a voice knob and a gain control for the clean channel.
 
How is your cabinet wired? Series or parallel?

The Blackstar is 5w, expecting a min 16ohm load.
The Joyo is 20w, expecting a min 8ohm load.

You have to pay attention to how things are connected or it's not going to work or sound good.
 
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Series/Parallel. The speakers are fine, I just swapped the Tweedy over to the B-52 cab and it's doing the same thing. It's not as bad in the B-52 cab but that's probably because it has four 12's that take a lot more watts. I might just have a bad amp. Bummer

Both amps are 8-16ohm
 
Is it possible that the input stage of the amp just can't handle a hot signal? I haven't tried the Joyo amps but I've had that happen with some "preamp" pedals. Also, does it happen if you plug into the FX return?
 
Seashore said:
Is it possible that the input stage of the amp just can't handle a hot signal? I haven't tried the Joyo amps but I've had that happen with some "preamp" pedals. Also, does it happen if you plug into the FX return?
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I'm using three guitars with <10k pickups, SC and HB without any pedals and all three do it
 
So here is something surprising. I remembered I had replaced the Chinese 12AX7 with a Sovtek I had in my box so it would have a better quality tube in it. I swapped the tubes back and noticed it sounds better.
 
The tube swap should have been mentioned in post one

I was firmly on the "send it back" wagon until I saw
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My Joyo Zombie works awesome
I got it for the gain channel
But I can't get off the clean channel

It sounds sooooo good

I like my Joyo products
 
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