Warming up the Acoustic B200

[kurosawa]

Check the B200 Review By: Skooter Huk on 8/11/09 1:00 AM (it was at the bottom of the first page for me, but if someone adds a new one, its position can change).

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Guy's talking about swapping op amps to warm up the sound. This seems pretty neat to me.

 

[IZE]

I posted this in the thread I started on the 2nd page and I will post it here too....
I was thinking of trading in my Peavey Max 115 for the B200 combo for more power. The Peavey win's hand's down on construction and debility even tho it's under powered. My search continues for a better amp that I can afford.

 

[seamonkey]

What does "warm" mean?
By all accounts - it's
1. turn down the treble,
and/or
2. add mild distortion.

Changing op amps wouldn't do squat, except placebo effect.
Higher quality op-amps would reduce distortion if there's any to hear.
Changing the other components in the circuit would change the EQ frequency and/or depth and can be found in any op-amp documentation.

 

[DerTeufel]

I have a Kustom KB200H which is pretty much the same thing as an Acoustic B200. It's plenty warm in stock form if you tweak the EQ in the right areas. When I first got this amp, I didn't like the tone and was adding a bunch of low bass on the eq and not touching the mids. This resulted in a lot of mud in my tone and not cutting through in the mix. After playing with the EQ quite a bit and this is what I ended up with: low bass at noon-one o'clock, low mid (150 Hz) at 2:30-3, mids (350 Hz) at 2:30, high mids (800 Hz) at 2, 2K Hz at noon and 5K Hz rolled back to 11 to cut the harshness. This gave me a nice warm tone that sits in the mix nicely without being boomy or muddy.

IZE, the B200 combo is nice and sounds good, but I think you'd be better off getting a head and a cabinet.