Last night we played in a bar that was a pretty live room. I used my 4x6V6 clone, complete with one tube reverb and Dumbleator built in. I have the D-Lator on a switch, and switched jacks so I can either switch it out completley, or pull the cables and leave the D-Lator in the signal path.
Once I listened to the room I decided that the guitar didn't need a delay in the D-Lator so I flipped the switch. Still sounded great, but just for fun I pulled the cables and adjusted the in/out controls on the D-Lator for 0 gain.
Suddenly the harmonics came alive. Simply fretting an open A chord would bloom into the most beautiful controlled feedback.
I don't know if this was because the phase is reversed, or if it's just the effect of the cathode follower/gain stage, but I like.
D-Lator observation
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Re: D-Lator observation
I put my speaker jacks on a switch so I could change polarity, and I can definitely hear a difference. But that may not be what you're detecting.
I'd sure be interested in hearing about an experiment where you swapped polarity via the speaker cable to figure out if that is what you're hearing. But from your description, I don't think that's the whole story.
I'd sure be interested in hearing about an experiment where you swapped polarity via the speaker cable to figure out if that is what you're hearing. But from your description, I don't think that's the whole story.
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Bernardduur
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Re: D-Lator observation
My D-lator is always on; it just adds something to the tone!
Re: D-Lator observation
A story and an observation.
Back in the day folks used the old tube WEM copy-cat echo as a prestage to their amps (Jimmy Page, Joe Walsh to name the ones I know for sure). I personally tried this out and found that "hey this is great" - it was certainly the best sound I've ever got form my old AC30. The copy-cat had to go back to the owner so the experience just got filed away, it was about 1979.
The descriptions around the dumblator sound a lot like it has the same effect as the old copycat - couple of extra tube stages with pretty much no added gain but somehow it really adds "something" to the sound.
Recreating this "something" was one of my motivations for getting back into amps (as a hobbyist wannbe anyway
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... my 2c.
Back in the day folks used the old tube WEM copy-cat echo as a prestage to their amps (Jimmy Page, Joe Walsh to name the ones I know for sure). I personally tried this out and found that "hey this is great" - it was certainly the best sound I've ever got form my old AC30. The copy-cat had to go back to the owner so the experience just got filed away, it was about 1979.
The descriptions around the dumblator sound a lot like it has the same effect as the old copycat - couple of extra tube stages with pretty much no added gain but somehow it really adds "something" to the sound.
Recreating this "something" was one of my motivations for getting back into amps (as a hobbyist wannbe anyway
)... my 2c.
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Luthierwnc
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Re: D-Lator observation
My favorite sound out of these things is the clean with the Lator just above parity -- between 3-4 on both the send and return. It also doesn't overpower the OD. sh
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My last build had a bypass switch, my current one will not. This tells you how much I like the added D'lator mojo.