How to improve Peavey Ultra 112 tone?

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Re: How to improve Peavey Ultra 112 tone?

Post by chikqo » Thu Sep 10, 2009 2:35 pm

Thanks Zeppo

Yes, I think it's a matter of tastes, maybe is that I got used to the clean sound of my very first amp an american made fender HRDlx although I wasn't happy with the drive channels sound at the beggining and had to modified the amp.

It's cool to see other projects like this, thanks for the link. I'm happy you enjoyed and in a future when I decided to make more of them I'll let you know. Was very laborious because of lack of good tools and facilities. About the look I like very much the vintage style and I borrowed some ideas from the Mesa-Boogie custom design gallery. Maybe the next project my mind is cooking is to buid a hardwood combo cabinet to my HRDlx maybe flame maple or bubinga I'm still not sure. I'm planning to get a stronger amp 100 watts or more and build a 4x12 cabinet, will see while we walk.

Ed
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Fender American Strat, 3 color sunburst, Dimarzio VV neck/mid, YJM VV bridge
Fender Hot Rod Deluxe various mods
Peavey Ultra 112 combo switched to a DIY 212 half stack

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Re: How to improve Peavey Ultra 112 tone?

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Re: How to improve Peavey Ultra 112 tone?

Post by thunda » Thu Sep 10, 2009 8:15 pm

If you want some real world non-guru gobbley-gook info regarding caps, resistors, tubes, etc, check out this site:

http://www.tone-lizard.com

you might just be enlightened.

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Re: How to improve Peavey Ultra 112 tone?

Post by chikqo » Wed Sep 16, 2009 1:42 am

Thanks Thunda

Very interesting site, a very helpful tool for the ones that want to learn about electronics specially vintage tube amplifiers. Thanks again for the link.

Ed
Fender Strat MIM, white, DiMarzio VV neck/mid, Lace Sensor Red bridge
Fender American Strat, 3 color sunburst, Dimarzio VV neck/mid, YJM VV bridge
Fender Hot Rod Deluxe various mods
Peavey Ultra 112 combo switched to a DIY 212 half stack

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Re: How to improve Peavey Ultra 112 tone?

Post by chikqo » Fri Oct 16, 2009 4:42 pm

Hi guys... finally, I got a new set of tubes I ordered from Eurotubes specifically the Peavey Ultra 60 Full Low Gain Retube Kit that consist in:
-ECC83S Standard 1 for V1
-ECC832 Standard 2 for V2 & V3
-ECC83S Balanced 1 for V4
-6L6GC Matched Pair.
Replaced all the tubes and noticed a very nice enhancement in tone. The most evident change is the clean channel, the headroom has increase in a huge way now. I can turn the volume knob to 8 or 9 and the amp do not distort, now the clean channel is much more usable at higher volumes. The Ultra Crunch channel is now less saturated and it's very nice for my taste. This enhancement in conjuction with the head cab split gave a new life to this amp, of course I'm talking about the tone I want. Though it is still not as near as my Fender HRDlx tone, now is fatter than before and give more tweakable choices.

Thanks everyone for your help specially Classic30inCincy, though I'll be experimenting a little more. Thunda showed me a website that is very interesting and I'm learning some stuffs that maybe I'll run the risk to try.
Fender Strat MIM, white, DiMarzio VV neck/mid, Lace Sensor Red bridge
Fender American Strat, 3 color sunburst, Dimarzio VV neck/mid, YJM VV bridge
Fender Hot Rod Deluxe various mods
Peavey Ultra 112 combo switched to a DIY 212 half stack

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Re: How to improve Peavey Ultra 112 tone?

Post by hetfield2x4 » Sat Feb 05, 2011 6:56 pm

@Zeppo do you know who did the Ultra 112 combo to head conversion? I'm interested in doing that myself and have no clue where to start.

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