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Hi,
For the guys that have classic 30s, what are the tone and gain settings you guys play often with and with what worship songs?
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Well, I just got mine maybe a few weeks ago so I don't think I can provide you with much useful information. That and I haven't had a chance to actually use it outside of my own place.
I can tell you from what little experimenting I've been able to do that I like to keep the bass high (9-10), mids low (3-4) and the treble pretty high (9). My gain settings vary but so far I've kept it at about an 8-9 for pre-gain and post down to about 4. Not sure if this helps but on my guitar I have the treble tone set almost the max at 10 and the bass tone set to 3.
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I don't know...havn't thought about it much.
Right now it is on
6 12 8 2 7 6.5 3
and that seems to get me a good sound with my tele
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There are some "preset" sort of settings listed in the manual. If you don't have one you can download and print the PDF version at Peavey's website. I'd share mine, but I just built an attentuator for mine, so all my settings will be different when I lead worship next time than they were before.
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yea, ive seen the manual. how did you build your attenuator?? What kind of parts would I need?
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I got the parts from PartsExpress.com Below are the part numbers. Quantity on each is just 1, but you might get 2 feet of speaker cable to be safe. You'll have to strip that particular cable of the rubber outer housing to get to the two regular wires or just use speaker wire you might have on hand already. I had to mod the female disconnects a bit by pinching them together because the posts on the stock speaker are a bit skinnier than the pieces are made for. The schematic for it is shown on the side of the box, but Major Tom posted a better looking on before here: /forum...ad.php?t=71602
Ignore the part in that thread about an 8-ohm L-pad because you need the 16-ohm one for a Classic 30 like I listed below. You could get away with none of those male and female clips if you know how to solder, I just wanted to be able to easily take mine out if I ever needed to.
095-800 GOLD 12 GA. 1/4" MALE DISCONN.. $1.50
095-810 GOLD 12 GA. 1/4" FEMALE DISCO.. $2.90
260-261 L-PAD 16 OHM 100W MONO 3/8" S.. $7.80
100-482 DAYTON S213 13 GA 2 COND SPEA.. $0.50
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thats pretty sweet, for the 1/4 mono jack, is the tip positive? or negative?
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Brent, how much wattage is that up to?
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Originally Posted by vyctr thats pretty sweet, for the 1/4 mono jack, is the tip positive? or negative? I didn't use the 1/4" jack like Tom's picture. That was a different amp there. The Classic 30 doesn't have a jack...the amp output wiring comes out of the chassis and connects directly to the speaker. I suppose you could wire it that way, but that seems like a bit of a waste to add male and female 1/4" pieces on an amp that doesn't have (or need) them.
Originally Posted by Building429_Boy Brent, how much wattage is that up to? Well the 100W description on that L-pad is a bit misleading. It has more to do with how hard you crank the drive (or "pre" level in the C30's case). The more distorted the tone, the hotter the L-pad will get. Note that when you're cranking your tubes as much as the attenuator will allow you to now, that they will be a lot hotter than usual, too. I could've kept my dinner warm in the back of my amp they got so hot when we practiced last week. Anyway, I asked Tom when I was building mine about using them on the HR Deluxe and HR Deville that my bandmates use since they're a higher wattage. Here's what he said:
Originally Posted by Major Tom Ignore the wattage rating on the L-pad, that's for recorded music type of signal. A distorted / compressed guitar signal is a whole different thing, a much higher duty cycle. The 100 watt L pad will barely handle a 30 watt amp if its pushed really hard with a fairly distorted tone. I don't think the 40 vs 60 watt Hot Rod amps are as big of a deal as the type of signal. I use one with my Hr D 4x10 and no problems. I can purposely oveheat it by cranking the distortion level up to higher than I use. Several guys use them with the 60 watt HR's with no issues. If they are using full on distortion, I would say don't use it, if its more of an OD type tone, it should be ok.
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Originally Posted by Brent I didn't use the 1/4" jack like Tom's picture. That was a different amp there. The Classic 30 doesn't have a jack...the amp output wiring comes out of the chassis and connects directly to the speaker. I suppose you could wire it that way, but that seems like a bit of a waste to add male and female 1/4" pieces on an amp that doesn't have (or need) them.
Well the 100W description on that L-pad is a bit misleading. It has more to do with how hard you crank the drive (or "pre" level in the C30's case). The more distorted the tone, the hotter the L-pad will get. Note that when you're cranking your tubes as much as the attenuator will allow you to now, that they will be a lot hotter than usual, too. I could've kept my dinner warm in the back of my amp they got so hot when we practiced last week. Anyway, I asked Tom when I was building mine about using them on the HR Deluxe and HR Deville that my bandmates use since they're a higher wattage. Here's what he said:
Yeah, I figured that wasn't the true wattage limit. Do they make higher wattage Lpads though? What if I wanted to run a 50w amp using 2 power tubes through a 1x12 with high gain?
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Originally Posted by Building429_Boy Yeah, I figured that wasn't the true wattage limit. Do they make higher wattage Lpads though? What if I wanted to run a 50w amp using 2 power tubes through a 1x12 with high gain?
I haven't found any higher than the 100 watt ones, I did quite a bit of searching. One thing you could do if you had 2 speakers is put one on each speaker, so the power would be divided between 2 of them.... that would probably handle it.
Here's a pic of my Frankenpeavey II, a highly modded Peavey Bravo I put into a dead Renoun 2x12 cab that someone gave me. Its very Vox-like, I'd like to A/B it with an AC30CC one of these days....I have 2 attenuators - those large knobs on the top right, one for each speaker. Its a 20 watt 2xEL84, right now I have a Blue Dog and a Mojotone in it, both very efficient; it is loud, very LOUD! In yer house, you'd think it was a Twin. Anyway, I usually use both speakers attenuated somewhat, 'cause its a bigger sound, but the option is there to use only one speaker; attenuate one all the way down to zero, and adjust the remaining one as necessary.
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Originally Posted by Major Tom I haven't found any higher than the 100 watt ones, I did quite a bit of searching. One thing you could do if you had 2 speakers is put one on each speaker, so the power would be divided between 2 of them.... that would probably handle it.
Here's a pic of my Frankenpeavey II, a highly modded Peavey Bravo I put into a dead Renoun 2x12 cab that someone gave me. Its very Vox-like, I'd like to A/B it with an AC30CC one of these days....I have 2 attenuators - those large knobs on the top right, one for each speaker. Its a 20 watt 2xEL84, right now I have a Blue Dog and a Mojotone in it, both very efficient; it is loud, very LOUD! In yer house, you'd think it was a Twin. Anyway, I usually use both speakers attenuated somewhat, 'cause its a bigger sound, but the option is there to use only one speaker; attenuate one all the way down to zero, and adjust the remaining one as necessary.
Haha, I love the upside-down Peavey logo.
I was actually planning on disconnecting one of the speakers. I'm pretty sure they're rated at 75watts each.