New SV HD100 mkii owner

[frayed_sanity]

Hi there. I recently aquired a used spider valve hd100 mkii in a straight swap for my laney ironheart head. It's alot more veristile compared to the laney.

 

I was not used to the volume that's for sure! lol. The master volume was so sensitive compared to my old laney which I think had a built in attenuator in the master volume, whereas the hd100 is pure master volume.

 

I have 2.00 firmware and use the mkii edit program extensively to setup patches.

 

I have setup my volumes on all patches I use as follows.

 

Pedal Volume: min - 0, max - 40.

Channel volume for distorion/gain - 12 o'clock

Channel volume for cleans - 11 o'clock

 

Master is still pretty sensitive but I'm not blowing my head off but there is no more popping when switching between patches anymore.

 

I used to have the presence set to 100% but I was using metal blue, but now I am using metal-amber (mesa-boogie orange channel) and only need it set to 12 o'clock now and have a terrific tone.

 

I also use a bbe 482i sonic maximizer to clean up any mud in the tone and it all sounds killer together.

 

All in all I am so happy with this amp and everyday I keep discovering new tones with it. All I need now is to upgrade the fbv express to an fbv shortboard and it will be complete.

[geppert]

I think these SV MKII's are wonderful amps. With the right tweeking they sound great. I predict they will be re-discovered in the future (not too distant I hope) and be sought after IMHO. I have a SV MKII 212 and still love it, although I have switched over to a DT25 (love it a bit more) I will never sell the SV.

[frayed_sanity]

Too true. I dont think I'll ever get rid of this amp. Besides, buying and selling gear is bloody expensive haha.