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@@tonic-music thank you for your service 🫡

i dont have this amp anymore, but i remember it only being evident with lower gain settings. i didnt find it all that useful. not my favorite and i was glad to get rid of it.

Positions?

@@dressedtosmellgood whether it was neck, bridge, both ...you know the very basic electric guitar terms ... Forget it.

​@@D-8-Tone2You can't tell by listening which position im on?

@@dressedtosmellgood these videos are usually for infmative purposes....

hi, i got one for 80 bucks. the tubes are shot. can i replace them via an adapter for russian tubes ? 6N2P instead of 12AX7. i heard it should be possible to just stick them in, if your tubes run in sequence - but i dont know anything about electronics. i have an sound system repair guy, i am pretty sure he can manage to change and wire anything, but i have to tell him what to do. can you tell me what resistor to swap? i have schematics. thanks, that would be a huge help. i relly want to keep this amp. and yes, i bought 5 wrong tubes, because i thought they are interchangeble. thanks man. rythm trash guitar, i never knew how fun it could be. i lost my pinkie on the picking hand, so it was megadeth or nothing. i am just at the point where i can play one hour and really have fun, without thinking to much about playing. learned a lot from ac dc as well, iced earth, iron maiden and judas priest for the melodic stuff i can manage, which is quite a lot, surprisingly. thanks from germany! crate gtx 100. 1 giant celestion

@@grummelameise the problem with that is the heater voltage is what the 6 denotes and therefore the heater voltage of the 12AX7 is 12 volts, otherwise they are interchangeable and I considered this myself. It's possible to modify the socket adaptor with a simple voltage divider using 2 resistors, but you will have to gauge if there's enough room to achieve this in your amps and pedals normally equipped with a 12. It's tempting enough that I'll experiment using my Behringer Vintage Tube Monster and eventually, I'm planning to use the 6n2p and relative for my own original preamps. Designing around those would make it really cheap to stuff a half dozen tubes into a preamp stacked with every function under the sun we mostly see in solid-state.

@@JonDeth hi, thanks for the reply! i did answer you a few days back, but then i did something, and the comment vanished again, so i try once more: luckily, that thing is a combo; one celestion v12-80 in the bottom. i also have the behringer tube monster; its sounds like shit through the amp. people have said that i need a beffier power supply for the behringer; its 9 volt and not much amps, it is meant for smaller things apparently. there is room in the bottom of the combo. my soldering guy said that its always a huge headache to change internals of amps; because you really have to think about the consequences. i guess he meant that in a shematics way of thinking, introducing problems and whatnot. i only know shematics from cars, so..... but i think getting the thing to work properly is the first goal anyway. he said he would possibly rewire the sockets, and also find a solution for the six volts vs 12 volts., either based on your idea of resistors, or what have you. its always difficult to get ideas without looking at the real thing; he sis scheduled to take a look next week. does it make sense to change the speaker? it looks original. so thanks for the inspiration! oh, one question: is the crate gx-15 for 38 dollars US worth it? I dont have a practice amp of yet; tha big crate is way to loud anyway. thanks man! (small apartment) (there is an gx-15 for sale in my town)

@@grummelameise I'm a college educated electronics engineer and it's literally the most advanced field of science on Earth; that's why when people go tinkering around inside with a DIY based source of knowledge run the risk of really screwing shit up lol. I destroyed many things in my DIY days of modifications and even after college I've broken some gear lol. It's much easier building your own designs from the ground up vs modifying a commercial product. *Majority of all the boutique brand amplifier and pedal companies don't even have significant knowledge in the science,* they're pirating existing and popular pieces of equipment and changing some key part values that shift the frequency points of the equalizer, filters, gain ratios and clipping characteristics. *It's enough to make huge changes so an old design is more modern in performance.* The Behringer Tube Monster is just prone to noise no matter what power supply you use, I have several including the original that came wih it. It's just a noisy circuit and because it's SMD(surface mount device), I won't even try serious modifications but will tinker with it a bit this year. *Tubes are voltage amplifiers, not current amplifiers so a power supply of 12vdc 1 ampere is more than enough for a single 12AX7 and a few op amps and transistors.* When power tubes are used to increase signal power, they first produce a massive amplification in voltage and then a transformer on the amplifier converts some of that voltage to current so it's more balanced. *This is typically where it's shifted from say arbitrarily, 100 VAC @1 ampere is converted into 25 VAC @4 amperes so we're still at 100-watts but there's enough current to drive the speakers. When all is said and done, there's not a whole lot of engineers in guitar equipment design and manufacturing. Most companies with engineers on the payroll are working in digital technology. *If you look at Lee Jackson who is a very famous electronics engineer in the guitar industry, almost every major brand on earth has hired him to design amplifiers for them.* He is the guy behind Crate, Ampeg, Randall and a ton of other brands producing both valve and solid-state designs with both coming from him being legendary and highly sought after. What that means is, most companies contract to an engineer to design products rather than hired on as a permanent company employee, the contract is completed and then they get residuals off every unit of the products they designed sold. Anyway, what I'm getting at is guitar technology has been at a near dead stand still for 30 or even 40 years aside from digital. *Tons of these really expensive "custom" pedals and amps from boutique brands are ultimately just a scam. I see Tube Screamer variants from them selling for $200 and beyond but I can build one for literally $5 in materials and a few hours of soldering.* *I've invented some cutting edge technology far outside the realm of audio electronics and in that, it's why engineers don't go into this industry. They can make 6 figures a year doing something else as opposed to an industry that only wants to contract them, they have to gamble on sale residuals to get paid, they're not being given employee benefits and so on.* It means unless someone like myself is also a very committed and serious player, we still don't get very good equipment when all is said and done. *I have a 3 transistor distortion that doesn't use diodes, I overdrive the transistors to clip naturally. It sounds 100% like tube distortion.* Look at everyone claiming "tube emulation" then you hear it and it's nothing like a 12AX7 distortion lol. *It's on purpose.* They want 3 distinct branches for selling us products. Tubes, Solid-State Analog and Solid-State Digital. *If someone mass markets a transistor distortion that sounds identical to valves it can be used for a guitar amp that sells for $200 instead of one with actual valves in it selling for $2,000. It is what it is man but maybe I'll launch my company by the end of next year like I'm planning and hoping to do. *ANYWAY, YES, the Crate GX-15 is well worth $38!* It's a Lee Jackson amp and once you use an EQ to scoop out the midrange on Crate's Flexwave amplifiers, they're phenomenal.* I have literally over a dozen amps which includes several GX series from Crate designed by Lee and made in America. I still need 1 final amplifier which is a GX-15R *and then I will never buy commercial guitar gear ever again.* I have a GX212 which is a pair of 12's with 120-watts and 5 Crate Heads from the Lee Jackson family but still need that tiny thing so I always have something at all sizes and powers. *The GX-15R was my very first amp but eventually modifying it prior to going to college I eventually killed it.* It absolutely screams with the right pedal overdriving it. *I literally look for GX-15's every month hoping to find one for 30 to 40 bucks locally.* Eventually, I will get one even if I have to spend more than I want. I just bought 4 new heads this year, 2 that are 100% valve, 1 Crate that's a double of the GX1200H I've had for nearly 30 years and most recently, the Kustom KG100HFX. *Until I complete my own design and build my first large scale amplifier, I know out of my 15 or 16 amps I will primarily use the Crates.* I like tubes and have some phenomenal tube amps but even as a shred and sweep player, I still prefer solid-state.

@@JonDeth i get back to you later, that is an autism style info drop, i have to sit on it for a while to process all what you mentioned. , be patient. thanks man! i appreciate it! selling 3 branches of amps, thus creating a market: If you don't know the question, the answer is always: money. i will drop that crate g x15 owner a message, thanks!

probably any TRS two button footswitch. theyre everywhere. hosa makes a generic one.

Awesome ty for your reply ! Also a struggle I’m having is there is not a footswitch port to plug into on the back ? What would be the correct spot to plug into ? The Return or send port maybe ?

What does the website say?

this is just a cell phone video dude

​@@dressedtosmellgoodAnd? There are plenty of cellphone videos that convey the basic sound just fine imho. Other recordings of this pickup show the exact same character - no dip in the mids, rather flat (as in EQ, not as in bad).

Microcoils really accentuate the fundamental of a note like no other pickup I've tried. I find I play better because I can clearly hear what I'm playing. They're brilliant. Love both neodymium & alnico.

@@ericwalters5382 I received a set recently and am looking forward to getting them installed!

They are most definitely not cheaper. But all PAF style pickups are pretty much the same assuming they are made correctly.

Irongear are not cheaper.

Both Iron Gear and GM are sourced Artec Pickups, so actually the same but GM are 30% less expensive

I still have this one if you want it

@@dressedtosmellgood Nice- how much would you want?

@@brentonhefner7769 75 plus shipping?

Yes

@@dressedtosmellgood Yes both channel being used ?

It's fine. The thing to remember with solid state amps is that you need lots of headroom. My personal view is that it's wise to have at least 100-150 watts whenever using an ss amp. That said I've brought this thing to jams and cranked it way up and thought it sounded great. Depends what you need to get out of it. Speaker selection is an important factor. Seventy-80s are not high performance speakers.

Well, humbuckers are just hum-bucking no matter what. When it comes to single coils, it depends on electricity always with any amp - in my experience. I have mine at home studio which have some grounding done and there is no problem, I've played one gig in theatre where the single coils where ABSOLUTELY UNBEARABLE and there was almost same amount of some humming shit as actual sound... I had to play all concert on the strat position 4. Just try it in different building and you will see ;)

im not even funning, this amp sounded really good. if it had more tone control features and a bigger power section i would gig it anywhere.

I was also Amazed about first Line6 Spider. But your technique also is all amp compatible. I think twisted transistor [radio] should play like mesa in your hand

Yes, vast majority of Peavey amps from that era had real spring reverb. My teal stripe Bandit has Accutronics reverb tank and makes this extra loud thunder sound if you tap it directly :D

I believe they are 12AX7.

try to find some Groove tubes, I've always had good luck with them. I'm picking up a vtx100 2x12 combo for 50 bucks. Cheers

Yeh way more underrated, most people will accept peavey make decent amps... I own the combo version of this head... its great... but the amount of people who say Crate amps are junk online, really annoys me.

@@mikethebloodthirstywould you say this crate head would be wroth it?

​​not for high gain sounds, but yeh... for blues rock tone it's very, very good.