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Re: Speaker upgrade on DT 25

support@line6.com — Fri, 19 Apr 2013 20:34:49 GMT

Well, you can do 4, 8 or 16 ohm loads...So impedance isn't a problem....If you mean the DT25 112 cab...Not sure a 15 would fit....I have toyed with the idea of converting my DT50 112 into a 212...The baffle is wide enough...It might could even take a 15 barely...

Re: Speaker upgrade on DT 25

support@line6.com — Fri, 19 Apr 2013 20:19:59 GMT

What's that sticking out of your forehead?....Oh, an icepick....Been using those Celestions eh?

I recently changed to using Jenson Jet Tornados....I love those...Best guitar neo I have heard yet...

Re: Blown Power Transformer Club

support@line6.com — Fri, 19 Apr 2013 12:36:19 GMT

My DT50 is a very very early one and I have had it since well before they were released...I have run it flat out, left it on for 72 hours at a time, run load mismatches. My personal opinion is that the design is very solid....Whatever this deal is with the power trannies is some sort of parts quality logistics issue...I don't see it as a design defect...

Re: Blown Power Transformer Club

support@line6.com — Thu, 18 Apr 2013 13:09:50 GMT

I should have clarified....The only point I was trying to make is that with or without an attenuator, the higher the master volume the more current that is passing though the amplifier. It seems likely to me that when an attenuator is used, the amplifier is likely running at a higher volume than when an attenuator is not used....When more current is passing though the circuit, this tends to reveal isssues with components that could be out of tolerance or striaight out defective...Hence, using an attenuator might reveal something like this a little sooner...Not because it is an attenuator (it's just a load), but because the power amp is likely passing more current that it would be without one...

Re: Guitar Input Impedance Setting

support@line6.com — Wed, 17 Apr 2013 13:54:13 GMT

+1 joel and silver....

One good example of this when it is set to AUTO is too but a WAH in the first position...basically, when you select the weeper you get nearly the same tone suck that you get when you use a real crybaby...I find it a very handy setting for strats...The setting generally has almost no effect on an active guitar since the impedance is usually about 10K on those.

Re: Blown Power Transformer Club

support@line6.com — Tue, 16 Apr 2013 16:09:49 GMT

I am not a Ham radio head, but I do own a unicorn ranch...

load impedance on a tube amp doesn't matter so much if it's too low...It's when it's too high (or infinite (no load)) when you have to worry about the flyback current....You posts seems to allude the behaviors of SS design...sorry, if I am misunderstanding you...

Re: HD500 with pedals in the loop

support@line6.com — Mon, 15 Apr 2013 01:39:06 GMT

I use pedals with my HD Pods...I have an HD Desktop and HD400...The pedals are a Boss NS-2 Gate...In the send return of the Boss is a Strymon OB.1 comp, Boss auto-wah, Boss FZ-5 Fuzz and a modified DS-1...Basically GTR->NS-2->Pod GTR input...Gate, Comp, Wah, Fuzz, DS-1 I always want first before anything.

I also have a boss analog delay and boss flanger...Those I prefer after the preamp...With the HD400 it's pretty simple, I just stick those two in HD400 FX loop and set it post. I use a DT50 and DT25 on the link with that setup and generally will use the reverb in the DT's. With the HD Desktop it's a serialized setup with the Top chain is before the amp and the right chain is after...This allows me to 4CM the desktop into the amp I am using and with use the HD amp model or the preamp in the amp I am using...inject the delay and flanger before the reverb...

Anyway, my own opinion in terms of the pedals you have is that I would likely run GTR->Comp->Distortion->POD GTR input...I think I would put the EQ into the HD500 FX Loop...I used to have my Comp in the HD400 FX loop with the Delay and Flanger....It has a fantastic clean boost and it can be a bit more effective coming after the amp model on higher gain patches...With the HD500 FX Loop you can stick it anywhere you want in the chain for particular patch...So if you are using a verb in the HD500 it is really a non issue to keep it on the end of the chain...if you had external reverb you could always run the main out into the verb, then to the amp...

You idea of not using the loop is valid...You can accomplish the same thing a couple of different ways...One thing not using the loop buys you is an extra FX block...

Re: Blown Power Transformer Club

support@line6.com — Sun, 14 Apr 2013 20:47:41 GMT

Any attenuator on any amplifier causes the amplifier to operate closer to upper end tolerances of the design, parts, tubes...A proper transformer shoud outlast the amplifier...decades...I was only curious about the use of an attenuator because I it seems like it could reveal the defect sooner than running without one...hard to know though...

Re: Another 1x12 cab?

support@line6.com — Mon, 18 Mar 2013 02:52:01 GMT

I think the DT25 head seems to work better pushing 2 speakers...I have a DT25 head and the DT112 cab...I kinda wish I had two cabs...But I have a few 212 cabs I like and generally will just use one of those when needed (usually a rehearsal)...One cab works for rehearsal also, but 212s will generally have a little better bottom end to it.

Re: How to connect physical pedals after amp sim.

support@line6.com — Sun, 17 Mar 2013 11:33:28 GMT

Add an FX Loop Block to the patch and place it where you want it...Cable your pedals the HD500 FX Loop.