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How High Do You Crank Your Volume?

How High Do You Crank Your Volume?

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    Votes: 11 5.4%

  • 9

    Votes: 6 3.0%

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    Votes: 9 4.5%

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    Votes: 19 9.4%

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    Votes: 33 16.3%

  • 5

    Votes: 53 26.2%

  • 4

    Votes: 45 22.3%

  • 3

    Votes: 23 11.4%

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    Votes: 0 0.0%

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    Votes: 3 1.5%
  • Total voters
    202
#41
What I'm surprised about is guys not running their basses full open on volume. In fact, I'm gonna start a thread on that....
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Why?
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I dunno.....I know when I've recorded, the engineers always asked me to back off the volume a few notches...but I was under the impression that most of us run full-open on the volume...

Do some of you think the bass sounds better with a bit of volume cut? (Which is, after all, what the volume knob does, right? There's no "boost" there...it's all cut...or am I (once again) wrong?:hmm:
 
#42
Mesa Boogie 400+ into 4 120 watt Jensen 15" MOD speakers.

Master is at 4
Channel 2 (Preamp) pulled at about 6 for tubey goodness.
Channel 1 (Preamp) at about 0 since I don't even use it.

Thats loud enough to compete with a very loud drummer, piano player using a Sunn Coliseum, and a very pushy guitar player.

If you care my other settings are:
Bass: Pulled at 7
Treble: 5
Mid: 2

I have the graphic EQ switched off.

Oh yeah, for basses, I run a pair of Fender Precisions with flatwounds.
 
#44
Bassbasixx said:
90db of gain what is this monster ? never seen anything like this, looks old to
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Its the mic amp for an RCA 44/77 designed by Mr Olsen.
I think many producers still have this as the go to mic pre for tube goodness:
http://www.soundonsound.com/sos/oct07/articles/insidetrack_1007.htm

It has 3 1620/6J7 Steel pentodes the best transformers made by UTC
an extraordinary huge Daven dual gang pot providing gain variable negative feedback.
The one in the picture is not mine, mine has the original blue western meter and was originally built in 1938, it has been recently rebuilt
with all 19 circuit mod's by Steven Sank of Talking Dog Transducer.
So its full of multicaps and has modern large poly caps bypassing all the big lytics in the power supply and various resistor changes.
What does it sound like?. Dead right thats all, you have heard this sound on every RCA recording since the late thirties and your still listening to them on many hi end records made today.
:ninja:
 
#53
My old rig
GK 400RB-III into an Ampeg SVT115E and an Eden CXM-112
Volume = 2-3
Master = 2-3
Boost = 6-10
EQ - running flat, with occasional boost to both mid knobs at 1 or 2 o'clock

My current rig
GB Shuttle 3.0 10T on top of the Ampeg SVT115e (so the 1x15 and a smaller second cab than before)
Input Volume = 3-4
Master = 4-5
EQ - I run the mid-freq at 9-11 o'clock and the mids knob at 3 o'clock
 
#54
The loudest I've ever played Street Justice was at an audition 2 weeks ago. Both Gain and Master were just under 5. After 2 hours playing nonstop the amp was pretty warm, but no problems at all. It's as loud as I'll ever need to be without PA support, so I'm fine with my amp's power. Never blown a cone (knock wood). Bought a small fan for the amp. I got into the band.

--Bomb :bassist:
 
#56
maxgrant said:
That thing honestly looks like it was originally equipped on like a tank.
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Quite possibly, at 90db gain it was the no 1 hot tool for amplifying
any low level AF signal to drive 600 ohm phones it was used in most radio rooms during the war, it also had battery power options for field use.
Mine I think was ex RAF.
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#60
pedro said:
Huh? :confused:
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megadan said:
I am just level with my V4.
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As in, I am not over or underpowered, I've pretty much just got as much volume as I need. Having a bit more would not be a bad thing.


megadan said:
The knob is only at about 5 but the volume is about 7 - 8,
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I have the volume about 11 or 12 o'clock (practice or gig), so the knob is not turned up all the way but that's most of the volume on tap, since

megadan said:
the second half of the knob is mostly just more dirt rather than volume.
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The actual volume increase in the first half of the knob, after that, it gets a little louder but mostly it just adds more dirt; since my V-4 is a non-master volume design, the volume is the pre-amp volume and the "master" is basically on full all the time.
 

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