Is this one rare?
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Andy, thank you for taking the time to help me with my amp. Right on about the tubes and the drilled hole kinda reminds me that we've all been abused a little but that don't mean we can't make some sweet music. I had Tony Dow (the inventer of Krank amps, about 2hrs from where I live)) give it a good servicing and we did replace those capacitors, and he is very good, but he is a Marshall guy. Who would you recomend that really knows these amps?
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Glad to help!
Other techs in your part of the world? Really don't know. But hopefully your Krankman should know his stuff...
What I meant is that a lot of less less experienced techs who have never come across old Oranges tend to assume they are just like Marshalls and set them up all wrong. I think you'll probably be in safe hands there though!
Andy.
Other techs in your part of the world? Really don't know. But hopefully your Krankman should know his stuff...
What I meant is that a lot of less less experienced techs who have never come across old Oranges tend to assume they are just like Marshalls and set them up all wrong. I think you'll probably be in safe hands there though!
Andy.
aNDyH.
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Re: Is this one rare?
Andy provided you the technical answer, and I can add the origin of this control.captaingreer wrote: 2.) What (technically) does the F.A.C. knob do?
It was designed by Mat Mathias in the sixties. By then guitarists didn't want their amps to distort, so he created the "voice control" that Orange later renamed to F.A.C. (Frequency Analyzer Control) to be able to play louder cleans as the lower frequencies will push the signal over the headroom's threshold earlier than the mids and highs.
Orange eventually discontinued this control, but Matamp has kept it. They find it to be useful as to thin out a dark sounding guitar and also can be used as a solo boost (with a footswitch). However, your F.A.C. control isn't switchable.
David
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Very cool, thank you David.
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It is very cool. Mat Mathias was undoubtedly a great amp designer. And the FAC switching, along with the Baxandall EQ and Presence / HF Drive, made these amps WAY more versatile than most people who haven't tried them would ever realise.
I still think it is a great pity that Orange don't use them on any of their modern designs.
Andy.
I still think it is a great pity that Orange don't use them on any of their modern designs.
Andy.
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So true Andy, but what surpasses all the knowledge (which is so very needed) is when I plug staight into this amp at about 2-4 oclock, or even all the way up, it is the sweetest (Orange ) sounding amp I have ever played, and in 43 years I have played a few .
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Didn't Tony Dow play Wally Cleaver on the TV show "Leave it to Beaver"? It's nice to know he found something useful to do later in life.captaingreer wrote:Andy, thank you for taking the time to help me with my amp. Right on about the tubes and the drilled hole kinda reminds me that we've all been abused a little but that don't mean we can't make some sweet music. I had Tony Dow (the inventer of Krank amps, about 2hrs from where I live)) give it a good servicing and we did replace those capacitors, and he is very good, but he is a Marshall guy. Who would you recomend that really knows these amps?
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Same name two totaly different guys... but some how I think you knew that
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No worries, it was funny.
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