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Old April 9th, 2008, 11:31 PM   #8 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by Scott S View Post
I'm curious how over-filtering ruins the preamp tone, though -- does it make it too clean-sounding? The hi-fi folks have no reservations about using as much filtering as possible, and Fenders are generally considered to be under-filtered compared to other amps.
Trying it in one of your amps would be the best way to find out. It's hard for me to put it accurately into words, but in general it causes a loss of bass, and kind of a flat feeling, that is less responsive. I'm hoping others will have more to add.

In comparison, the 5F6A Bassman has 8uF filtering 4 trodes. And a Deluxe Reverb has 16uF for 5 triodes. (oops, make that 6 triodes)
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