Hey myles got a couple of questions for you:
First off i got a rocktron piranha preamp the other day and noticed that the hi-gain channel is kinda cheezy sounding. I can get some good distortoin outta it, but i want more thick shred and not so much tinny biting tone and theres just something it lacks, and i gotta play with the eq a bunch to get it sounding how i like it. Is it probable that this is the result of a crappy pair of tubes? its a real pain in the ass to open this preamp up, so if it wont really help too much id rather not risk anything.
Next question: I run this piranha into a peavy classic 50/50. One channel has a quartet of GT el84's #7, and the other channel has a new set of sovteks i think. This preamp/poweramp combination can really scream at a low volume... sounds really nice. But when i crank them up, it just doesnt seem to put out the advertised 100 watts. I have a hard time keeping up with the rest of the band in terms of balaced volume. When i do max out all my volume knobs it is (barely) loud enough, but sounds flabby and my tone looses all its balls. All my patches start to sound really alike. What can i tweak to fix this problem, or is it just going to be like that forever? I can go into each of my patches and max out their levels, but that doesnt leave me with a lot of room for level variation beween patches. I also Have an ADA mp-1 and it sounds pretty loud through the 50/50, but still not near loud enough. Im getting my ass drowned out by a peavey ultra 100 watt head with its volume on 5. Something just doesnt seem right... Thanks a ton.
randy
