dodger916 said:
Thanks! I love your demo vids. I have serious interest in a TA-30, so I found this very helpful.
There seemed to be a good deal of amp noise when the Volume (preamp?) was boosted. I noticed you adjusted guitar volume before and after playing. Was this due to your close proximity to the amp or the room? I've read where others have observed this from the TA-15 (noise), and was wondering if this is inherent in the amp.
Observations (well, you asked!):
1) Give a view of the footswitch
2) Leave the amp settings on the screen while playing.
3) How about some time with a Strat/single coil guitar?
4) What speaker(s) are you using?
Thanks again!
Thanks for watching. I did have to stay on top of my vol knob to help with noise. Moving further away from the amp certainly would have helped this some, but there will always be noise in a high gain amp when the master volume is cranked. This is probably more noticeable on lower wattage amps because we tend to run the volume really high.
If you're running channel 2 in Hi1 or Hi2, I think the sweet spot is about 1/4 - 1/3 up on the gain control with the boost engaged. This not only sounds the best (to me) but also keeps the noise in check, and you can hit the front end of the amp with a boost or overdrive to get more saturation when you need it.
About single coil guitars:
We would almost need to dedicate an entirely different video to that because each sound would be different. That certainly isn't out of the question, but it is a lot of time and resources to make a video like this happen. I guess my thoughts are, almost everyone will know how a custom 24 sounds, and can extrapolate from there how other guitars will react differently. The same can be said of the Strat. But which type of guitar will the majority of players be using? I really don't know the answer to that question, so I just picked the custom 24 and went with it.
We may very well do some videos with a strat style guitar... I'm thinking when we get the TA-30 combo in that would be a good time to try it. Thank you for the suggestion!
Speakers:
The cabinet was a 4x12 Rectifier Straight, loaded with Vintage 30's. It was mic'ed with a Royer R-121 into a True Systems P-SOLO Ribbon Preamp. With that mic and preamp, what you hear on the recording, is what we heard in the room.