Phil Aiken Posted October 16, 2013 Share Posted October 16, 2013 Would be interested in swapping tubes to make it more difficult to get into extreme overdrive and have more resolution for adjustment within the "sweet spot". Moog The One, VV 64 EP, Wurlies 200A 140 7300, Forte 7, Mojo 61, OB-6, Prophet 6, Polaris, Hammond A100, Farfisa VIP, ,Young Chang 6', Voyager, E7 Clav, Midiboard, Linnstrument, Seaboard Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joe Muscara Posted October 16, 2013 Share Posted October 16, 2013 Hasn't it been said that invalidates the warranty? "I'm so crazy, I don't know this is impossible! Hoo hoo!" - Daffy Duck "The good news is that once you start piano you never have to worry about getting laid again. More time to practice!" - MOI Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Doerfler Posted October 16, 2013 Share Posted October 16, 2013 Warranty? We don't need no stinkin' warranty! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
t9cstudio Posted October 16, 2013 Share Posted October 16, 2013 Are there any US warranty shops for the Burn? Kurzweil PC4, NS3-88, Kronos 2-61, QSC K8.2's. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joe Muscara Posted October 17, 2013 Share Posted October 17, 2013 Are there any US warranty shops for the Burn? There's Ken Hall Electronics servicing the US and Canada. "I'm so crazy, I don't know this is impossible! Hoo hoo!" - Daffy Duck "The good news is that once you start piano you never have to worry about getting laid again. More time to practice!" - MOI Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
I-missRichardTee Posted October 18, 2013 Share Posted October 18, 2013 Would be interested in swapping tubes to make it more difficult to get into extreme overdrive and have more resolution for adjustment within the "sweet spot". This sounds like a design flaw. Do you construe it this way? Any hope on an alternate tube for your stated goal? You don't have ideas, ideas have you We see the world, not as it is, but as we are. "One mans food is another mans poison". I defend your right to speak hate. Tolerance to a point, not agreement Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JMcS Posted October 18, 2013 Share Posted October 18, 2013 New manufacture tubes tend to sound fizzy when pushed. The high and low frequencies get rolled off and seem to get replaced by fizzy distortion. Old 50's/60's era tubes don't do that. They keep the highs and lows and add distortion to them (IMO). I have no need for a Burn, but if I had one the first thing that would happen would be the cover would come off to get to the tube. I might listen to the one that came in it for a minute but I would have a number of my favorite tubes lined up and ready for their turn in the machine. IMO, YMMV, Yada Yada Yada Would be interested in swapping tubes to make it more difficult to get into extreme overdrive and have more resolution for adjustment within the "sweet spot". Try a 12BZ7. They are like 2 12AX7s in parallel but have the same gain factor as a 12AX7. They seem to let more sound flow through, kind of like when beer cans changed to the wide mouth openings. They pull a little more current but I've never had any trouble with them in anything I've put them in. 12AT7s sound great too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Craig MacDonald Posted October 19, 2013 Share Posted October 19, 2013 Would be interested in swapping tubes to make it more difficult to get into extreme overdrive and have more resolution for adjustment within the "sweet spot". Beethree, I would strongly suggest that you make this request of Guido/Andrea at Crumar/GSI before you go swapping tubes and voiding the warranty. If you are not already a member, you should join the mojomusicians forum on Yahoo.. Guido posts regularly on there and answers questions.. IN FACT, a week or so ago, he specifically requested issues or suggestions that we would like to have addressed in the upcoming release/update of the Burn OS. Somewhere in one of the Burn related forums, they posted the reasons why switching tubes would void the warranty, and if I find it I will post it here (but as yet I am unable to find it). Craig MacDonald Hammond BV, Franken-B (A100 in a BV cabinet), Leslies 122/147/44W, Crumar Mojo, HX3 module, Korg Kronos, VR-09, Roland GAIA, Burn, Ventilator Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JMcS Posted October 19, 2013 Share Posted October 19, 2013 Quite frankly, if a good working 50 year old tube could damage a device, that device is probably going to fail anyway. Also, I suspect a tube made last month (whether in China or Russia if any are still made there) is more likely to commit suicide and take something with it than an old GE, RCA, Amperex, Tung Sol, Sylvania etc. Might it void the warranty? Sure. Will it be the cause of a failure? Probably not. Is there a risk? Sure. Sometimes you just have to live on the edge to feel alive. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
I-missRichardTee Posted October 19, 2013 Share Posted October 19, 2013 Reasoning behind "voiding warranty", please? You don't have ideas, ideas have you We see the world, not as it is, but as we are. "One mans food is another mans poison". I defend your right to speak hate. Tolerance to a point, not agreement Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JMcS Posted October 19, 2013 Share Posted October 19, 2013 So people aren't tempted to open theirs up, accidentally short something out or otherwise cause damage and expect to get a free replacement. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
I-missRichardTee Posted October 19, 2013 Share Posted October 19, 2013 So a tube, per se, in isolation, ought to have zero deleterious effect on any effects box? Burn + Tube = Effects - the tube is independent of the device? Is there a belief that an old tube, COULD do harm to the device, based on its oldness, I take it? Thank you JMcS... you are very very knowledgeable guy with clonewheels. You don't have ideas, ideas have you We see the world, not as it is, but as we are. "One mans food is another mans poison". I defend your right to speak hate. Tolerance to a point, not agreement Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JMcS Posted October 19, 2013 Share Posted October 19, 2013 One good tube made 50 years ago should work exactly the same way a tube made last month should work. Except that the old tube is probably more reliable and accurate to the specs. (IMO) To a large degree, changing a tube should be no different from changing a light bulb. It is like GE claiming that replacing one of their light bulbs in a GE brand lamp with a Sylvania bulb voids the warranty on the lamp. Replacing the tube probably isn't what voids the warranty, removing the cover does. Manufacturers don't want people (particularly untrained ones) opening up their products and damaging either the equipment or themselves. IMO, YMMV, Yada Yada Yada Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
I-missRichardTee Posted October 19, 2013 Share Posted October 19, 2013 I wonder if Guido would mind if I hired a pro to do it.. and thus keep warranty intact? You don't have ideas, ideas have you We see the world, not as it is, but as we are. "One mans food is another mans poison". I defend your right to speak hate. Tolerance to a point, not agreement Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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