so honeymoon over with micro terror

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so honeymoon over with micro terror

Post by Mrjones2004x » Mon Aug 13, 2012 4:27 pm

So the buzz with p90's is annoying and it get pretty loud with a high volume. Usable at low level like tv volumes but anything above is horrible. Tried a few different sockets around the house and the same.
Just tried the headphone out. Oh dear absolute rubbish! Loads more gain too which is like a horrible thin buzzing. The worse headphone out I've heard ever!
Tried through a 112 cab with a v30 and was quite full sounding but obviously lacks tube warmth.
Overall I would say its great for tv level playing with the tone at noon and maybe at 11 but any other settings are really muffled or like a boss ds1 with gain maxed and the tone on full.

Didn't want to admit it but my cube absolutely kills this amp on any setting. The rock tone at low level is good bit otherwise I've lost interest. :(
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Re: so honeymoon over with micro terror

Post by Jondog » Mon Aug 13, 2012 5:05 pm

Maybe the preamp tube is no good?
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Re: so honeymoon over with micro terror

Post by Mrjones2004x » Mon Aug 13, 2012 5:18 pm

Swapped it with my spare jj and tried a microphonic one and all the same.
I haven't tried with humbuckers so I can't tell how noisy it would be. YouTube reviews don't mention any hissing but haven't seen one tested with p90s tho.
My guitar was practically silent with the bugera and also brilliant with the cube. I'm gonna double check the electrics to make sure as it don't cause much for a bad earth.
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Re: so honeymoon over with micro terror

Post by msmith4432 » Mon Aug 13, 2012 6:11 pm

yikes, thats a bummer. At least its just a little amp and you dont have a hudge amount of money tied into it, but then again if your not going to use it that money would be better in your pocket. The cube is pretty good for what it is, hard to beat it. I have one but my daughter punched holes in the speaker when she was little, so its basically useless at this point.
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Re: so honeymoon over with micro terror

Post by Mrjones2004x » Mon Aug 13, 2012 6:56 pm

There's something special about the cube speaker because any external cab I plug into my modded cube it sounds worse. If I get time I might hook the micro terror to the cube speaker and see what it does. That speaker seems to add massive bass and fullness its strange
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Re: so honeymoon over with micro terror

Post by Thinline_slim » Mon Aug 13, 2012 9:50 pm

msmith4432 wrote:yikes, thats a bummer. At least its just a little amp and you dont have a hudge amount of money tied into it, but then again if your not going to use it that money would be better in your pocket. The cube is pretty good for what it is, hard to beat it. I have one but my daughter punched holes in the speaker when she was little, so its basically useless at this point.
Just dust off those old Link Wray licks and crank it up. Should be perfect! :P



Sorry to read the MT isn't cutting the mustard. I'd still like to try one at some point.
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Re: so honeymoon over with micro terror

Post by msmith4432 » Mon Aug 13, 2012 10:42 pm

Thinline_slim wrote:
msmith4432 wrote:yikes, thats a bummer. At least its just a little amp and you dont have a hudge amount of money tied into it, but then again if your not going to use it that money would be better in your pocket. The cube is pretty good for what it is, hard to beat it. I have one but my daughter punched holes in the speaker when she was little, so its basically useless at this point.
Just dust off those old Link Wray licks and crank it up. Should be perfect! :P



Sorry to read the MT isn't cutting the mustard. I'd still like to try one at some point.

ha ha :D didnt think of that
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Re: so honeymoon over with micro terror

Post by nedcronin » Tue Aug 14, 2012 12:01 am

Bummer man

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Re: so honeymoon over with micro terror

Post by OrangePaul » Tue Aug 14, 2012 9:57 pm

I'm sure I remember Ade saying the basic stock power pack for the MT isn't earthed...
I could be wrong.
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Re: so honeymoon over with micro terror

Post by OrangePaul » Wed Aug 15, 2012 6:54 pm

I found the video I was referring to...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ddbMnlX5 ... re=related

He mentions about using a laptop power supply for less noise and more headroom.
Some interesting stuff on the DIVO unit too...
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Re: so honeymoon over with micro terror

Post by Mrjones2004x » Thu Aug 16, 2012 12:01 am

Cool I might try that tomorrow if I get time. Gotta pay my £18k house deposit and send of the contract first tho :)
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Re: so honeymoon over with micro terror

Post by Thinline_slim » Thu Aug 16, 2012 1:32 pm

Mrjones2004x wrote:Cool I might try that tomorrow if I get time. Gotta pay my £18k house deposit and send of the contract first tho :)
I'm fairly certain that Maslow's first level in his hierarchy of needs was food, water, shelter, and gear. I'd say it's a push at that point being that they are equally important.





.... Yeah, that was a bit of a super nerd joke......
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Re: so honeymoon over with micro terror

Post by OrangePaul » Thu Aug 16, 2012 9:59 pm

Mrjones2004x wrote:Cool I might try that tomorrow if I get time. Gotta pay my £18k house deposit and send of the contract first tho :)
If you do try it Mr Jones make sure the polarity is a match for the amp...

There maybe a bit of Leeway on the voltage but don't quote me on that :D
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Re: so honeymoon over with micro terror

Post by Mrjones2004x » Fri Aug 17, 2012 3:30 pm

Tried a 19 volts supply and it worked ok but still with noise. Tested the guitar through my cube on rectum frier mode with max gain and volume and no hiss at all.
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Re: so honeymoon over with micro terror

Post by Dollywitch » Mon Aug 20, 2012 1:35 am

If you're used to the cube that's probably the problem. The cube probably has an internal noise gate as most modelling amps do. P90s are notoriously noisy. Try getting some kind of cheap noise gate pedal, like an ARTEC one.

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