keewee wrote:I think this is the true nature of the vox, cold biased v1, coupled with the long tailed pair phase inverter, also cold biased leads to a rather icey sound ( many odd harmonics ) while sounding chimey at slight breakup, when overdriven harmonics start summing and subtacting alot ( modulating) thus sounding out of tune hence: The Power Cord, two may be three notes max. one notes sounds best. Example Beatles "Tax Man" George uses less than four note chords the whole song. Nature of the beast.
I wouldn't say my experience with it is quite that extensively bad, there are qualities I love about it. I'm pretty sure some of my dislike has to do with my tube selection. I need to roll. And there is that thing it does when I dime the volume... It gets very loose sounding, chords don't really hold together. I really need to fiddle with it.
If you like experimenting, try a 680r cathode bias in the ltpi instead of 1k2 . This warms the bias up. Also use 10k to 47k grid stoppers in el84's , this will smooth the distortion a bit, if you like to dime it, a solid state rect. help with any sagging. I guess Brian May adds a Large choke before the rocket choke and after the resevoir cap (BIG AND EXPENSIVE) to help with ghost notes. I heard you can plug one in the ac socket next to the amp and it will work, havn't tried it myself.
