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JohnnyCrash · July 3rd, 2009, 07:17 PM

Unfortunately, you cannot turn the Normal channel into a 5E3 tweed Deluxe.

You can:
1. Lose the tonestack and simply cascade from the input triode to the output triode (V1 is the Normal channel's dual triode tube). Losing that plate-fed tonestack will give you some gain. You could put a 500k pot between to act as a sort of Pre/MV control for the Normal channel.

2. Seperate the cathode V1's second triode shares with V2 and tweak V1's cathodes and bypass caps to be more "Marshall" (2700 resistor with a 0.68uF bypass). Cascading V1 with this type of cathode might give you a Marshall style preamp gain.

IDK, I'm sure there's other options we haven't thought of yet... cathode follower tonestacks and cascading (via losing the Normal channel entirely and using its tube to tweak the Reverb channel)...

July 3rd, 2009, 07:17 PM	#7 (permalink)
JohnnyCrash Poster Extraordinaire Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: Fullerton, CA Posts: 8,744	Unfortunately, you cannot turn the Normal channel into a 5E3 tweed Deluxe. You can: 1. Lose the tonestack and simply cascade from the input triode to the output triode (V1 is the Normal channel's dual triode tube). Losing that plate-fed tonestack will give you some gain. You could put a 500k pot between to act as a sort of Pre/MV control for the Normal channel. 2. Seperate the cathode V1's second triode shares with V2 and tweak V1's cathodes and bypass caps to be more "Marshall" (2700 resistor with a 0.68uF bypass). Cascading V1 with this type of cathode might give you a Marshall style preamp gain. IDK, I'm sure there's other options we haven't thought of yet... cathode follower tonestacks and cascading (via losing the Normal channel entirely and using its tube to tweak the Reverb channel)... __________________ -- I constantly have to remind myself I'm a grownup and it's just the internet.