There is an old saying "don´t change horses in the middle of the stream" - I guess the same goes for amps and wives. You can´t just expect it to be happy (new circumstances) ever after. You can expect to have to spend time to adjust to the new

Kars, do you always fiddle around with your amps like you have with your AD50? [/quote] HA HA. Yeah - guess I do. I had a Fender Hot Rod Deluxe. Which I guess is one of the most sold amps in the world and I modded it quite a lot and it sounded killer in the end. But I guess I just got bored and upda...

I don´t know. I think you need to try to get the absolute best out of your gear. Especially when you spend quite a bit of money on an expensive amp. I think I have found a few tricks to work especially well. With this mother **** it is definately the presence knob which holds the secret and a lower ...

Please excuse me for considering myself as a bit of an expert on this amp by now. It has surprised me how difficult it has been to come to terms with an amp so relatively simply. Here are what I have learned: If you play a les paul or another humbucker guitar the amp feels a little dark. Until I rea...

IMO, that's part of the allure of playing different guitars; they sound different from one another. With most of my amps, I don't adjust the EQ when I switch guitars. Though with my Vox stuff, I turn the treble knob down when I'm using single coil guitars and turn it back up for humbuckers. It's on...

My two favorite guitars are telecaster and a les paul. However - it is like two different worlds. The thing that works with humbuckers regarding your amp does not necessarily work with singlecoils. How do you guys go about it. Do you just turn the knobs on the amp or do you do it with pedals. I mean...

The presence knob is injecting high frequencies from the power amp back into the pre-amp, so if you have it up high, you're putting more top end in and overpowering the bass frequencies. Turning the treble knob down low is boosting the upper midrange as it's shaving off high end (well, not technica...

An interesting thing is that when my amp camp back from the "amp guru" who biased it, it had some really weired settings on the knobs. I wish I had taken a photo. But I do remember that the presence knob was turned allmost all the way up and that is unfortunately all I remember. The last couple of d...

nope, maybe I should try my bandmates spare Telecaster

What pups combo is in your LP? 490/498? Our other guitar player has a 2010 LP Studio with 490/498. My 2016 SG Standard also has 490/498. The difference between the 2 guitars when A/B'ed through the same amp is incredible. His LP Studio is bassy and muddy at times, where my SG is very bright, biting...

Thanks for all the input. From my experience it seems the ad50 needs a 12ax7 or similar in the PI. I have tried a 5751 and a 12at7 and a ge 6072a. All of them seems to make the sound a bit too tame and dull. I am still not convinced which tube suits the amp the best in v1. I am facinated with the ge...

Yeah, I´m at the end of the rope with this one. If the latest changes don´t do the trick an eq pedal might be worth a try. Otherwise it might be time to just accept it as it is or give it the boot

Agree with the hf drive/presence knob. On my ad50 (which I guess is somewhat in the same ball park) that made a huge difference when I started having it around 2-3o´clock. Also popping TAD RT033/ECC803S in v1 really cleaned up the sound and changing the power amp tubes as well as having it biased an...

To be honest, I have never felt quite at ease with my Orange Ad50. I have tried quiet a few things from diff. speakers, attenuators and so on. The main parts of guitar sound are guitar, plus amp, plus cab. When looking at your guitar, the first major factor that comes into play is whether you use si...

Anyone has experience with diff pre amp tubes in the phase inverter