MIKA-the-better-one
Jamming just now, and its a growing concern to me, my MXR blue box is sending my twin into near convulsions. The whole amp seems to rattle and hum, when I hit a low G or F# with the blue box instilling some fuzzy octave down goodness.
I would stop using this pedal BUT I use it in one of my bands songs and its kind of irraplacebale. Any idea what I should do. Before my amp litrally explodes sendig shards of wood and speaker cone into my throat causing me to die.
TomCat
HeHeHeHe.....pictures of Back to Future fills my mind...LOL.
The hum is probably just the insane amount of gain increasing the noise floor of you rig. IMO there is probably little chance of doing any damage...It must be insanely loud though....LOL....Perhaps just turn your master volume down a touch...
The only time you can really do any real damage is if you disconnect your loudspeakers from the amp...Tubes don't like that at all and are likely to fry.....
aja
AFAIK tube amps can take incredible amounts of gain at the input, unlike digital amps
TomCat
Pushing large amounts of gain into a tube amp pushes the tubes deep into compression with little chance of damage.
The sound just becomes very.......well.....compressed..... ??? ???
MIKA-the-better-one
Good to know, I think I am gonna film it sometime and post it, someone may find it interesting. BAck to the future.... wow memories
Jack-Flash-Jr
MIKA the better one wrote
Good to know, I think I am gonna film it sometime and post it, someone may find it interesting. BAck to the future.... wow memories
Please do ?
singemonkey
I thought you were asking permission. I was also going to say, "knock yourself out. Just film the blast for the forum." ?
mattayou
Just do what The Who would have done and blow it up ?
+1 to the filming bit though!
guidothepimmp
by doing the WHO he would need to use his axe as an axe and chop his twin reverb square in the speakers and then bash it repeatedly until neither his axe or amp are useable and all that is audible is the shrill feedback noise emanating from what is left of all that high gain mayhem ?
MIKA-the-better-one
ONE DAY..... Iw ould love that, i might feel guilty but i would love it so much >☹ >☹ >☹ >☹ >☹ >☹
Gearhead
Ehhh: Townsend is from before 'high gain'..... Love the expressionist approach to guitar noise though.
What about rubbing the mike stand across the guitar strings for more feedback, taking the guitar by the neck and, with an overhead swing, smashing the body onto the stage until the bits come flying off? And what about ending the live TV show off by igniting the explosives built into the drum kit? Gotta love those guys :'(
Keith and John are dead, Pete is writing is autobiography and Roger sings for cancer children. As Lenny says, rock 'n roll is dead.
You can still try to blow up your amp though. It's just that it does take quite a bit of effort :-\
Sidecar
It may be that your Amp's cab is vibrating in sympathy to notes G ~ F#, especially if you are playing very loud. The ceiling in my room vibrates in sympathy to G# ~ A ~ A# (Depending on ambient temperature) when I play loud.
I also recently discovered (with the help of Alan) that in our practice room, our amps got damaged due to excessive vibration from loud bass frequencies (again, Around G) that shook the cabinet that the amps stood on, it caused dry joints in the soldering of some components to develop and consequently, every time our bassist hit around G, the amps volume would fade as connections failed, but when he stopped it would come back. Its really an odd experience.
We now put our amps on foam to minimise the transference of vibration and us a smaller bass amp that moves less air.
