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Post subject: New Addition: SS22
Posted: Mon Apr 04, 2011 3:25 pm
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Post subject: Re: New Addition: SS22
Posted: Mon Apr 04, 2011 6:45 pm
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What speaker is in that thing, rjake?

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Post subject: Re: New Addition: SS22
Posted: Mon Apr 04, 2011 7:17 pm
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Special design by Eminence, again. Sounds like it has a pretty big peak in the midrange department.

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Post subject: Re: New Addition: SS22
Posted: Mon Apr 04, 2011 7:22 pm
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One of those new "lightning bolt" series?

How do you like it?

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Post subject: Re: New Addition: SS22
Posted: Mon Apr 04, 2011 7:40 pm
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Still a little stiff. Sounds like a 10" instead of a 12". We'll see in a couple of months. Reverb is a bit over the top. Needs a 12AY7 or a 12AU7 to drive the tank that's in it.

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Post subject: Re: New Addition: SS22
Posted: Mon Apr 04, 2011 8:26 pm
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...you lucky bum......you got the good one!!!!!

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Post subject: Re: New Addition: SS22
Posted: Tue Apr 05, 2011 8:06 am
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Haha, clever and witty :lol:

I tried a good one too and I thought it had plenty of wooof in the 'Bassman' setting but too little wooof on the overdrive channel and I couldn't really balance the two properly. I liked all the sounds of it but the OD channel needs some playing time to find your sweet spot.

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Post subject: Re: New Addition: SS22
Posted: Tue Apr 05, 2011 11:10 am
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congrats!
mine is great - loving that 42 lbs vs my twin~amp backcrusher.
i have switched the v1 into v2 and placed a few electro harmonix ax7's in there along with a mullard 12ax7 in v4, also my power tubes were biased super super hot. 34-36 mv
i rebiased them to 24 mv range, the power transformer isn't frying pan hot now

yeah there is a lil white hiss to the amp even on the clean channel. But unless i am recording i do not notice it. + there is hiss removal on that recording stuff anyways & I dont hear the hiss with a band setting even with the bossa nova stuff we do much less the rock and blues we do.

I love the sound of 6V6's and i like this amp alot.

here is a helpful link to this amp if u need apply:
http://www.fender.com/community/forums/viewtopic.php?f=13&t=47161

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Post subject: Re: New Addition: SS22
Posted: Tue Apr 05, 2011 3:00 pm
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twirlyboggs wrote:
congrats!
mine is great - loving that 42 lbs vs my twin~amp backcrusher.
i have switched the v1 into v2 and placed a few electro harmonix ax7's in there along with a mullard 12ax7 in v4, also my power tubes were biased super super hot. 34-36 mv
i rebiased them to 24 mv range, the power transformer isn't frying pan hot now

yeah there is a lil white hiss to the amp even on the clean channel. But unless i am recording i do not notice it. + there is hiss removal on that recording stuff anyways & I dont hear the hiss with a band setting even with the bossa nova stuff we do much less the rock and blues we do.

I love the sound of 6V6's and i like this amp alot.

here is a helpful link to this amp if u need apply:
http://www.fender.com/community/forums/viewtopic.php?f=13&t=47161


I was expecting a cool bias setting. Thanks for the heads up. Haven't played it much yet, but the weekend is coming.

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Post subject: Re: New Addition: SS22
Posted: Fri Apr 08, 2011 5:17 pm
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Hey, I just got my SS22 about 3 weeks ago. I love the amp. Seems to me like it breaks up a bit early, like at "3". Not nasty distortion but I'd like some more clean headroom. I'm not so sure it's a speaker issue. I'm willing to throw in a JBL K-120 but I suspect some tube tweaking might help. Any ideas?


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Post subject: Re: New Addition: SS22
Posted: Sat Apr 09, 2011 12:49 pm
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Okay folks. Here are the results of my tinkering with my Super Sonic 22.

1) Take all the tubes out it came with and sell them on Ebay. The Chinese stuff will work great in a Marshall.
2) I replaced all the 12AX7's with Electro-Harmonix 12AX7EH.
3) I replaced the P/I with an Electro-Harmonix 12AT7EH.
4) I replaced the power tubes with Electro-Harmonix 6V6EH.
5) I replaced the reverb driver with an Electro-Harmonix 12AY7EH. This swap was more of a personal taste thing, and I had one laying around. The reverb won't be as drippy, and you'll have more tweak with the knob. I may try a 12AT7EH just to hear what it will sound like, but I'm out of them.

This thing sounds like a deluxe reverb now, with a REAL attitude on the burn channel. No distortion pedal needed. I don't have near the white noise, although there is still some. It will work for me, no further mods necessary.

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Post subject: Re: New Addition: SS22
Posted: Sun Apr 10, 2011 7:17 am
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Aren't the EHX tubes also made in China?


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Post subject: Re: New Addition: SS22
Posted: Sun Apr 10, 2011 7:28 am
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Unadan wrote:
Aren't the EHX tubes also made in China?


Russia makes the EH tubes. The 6V6 tubes that came with the SS22 look like JJ's. It also had one Sovtek in V1. Not sure of the origin of the 12AT7's. I'll have to look closer.
Update: They look like EH12AT7's

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Post subject: Re: New Addition: SS22
Posted: Sun Apr 10, 2011 7:20 pm
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Okay tubeheads! I've been looking at the schematic for the Super Sonic 22 to determine where the white noise is coming from. I'll need some of you old timers (like me) to chime in. The input to the gain stage that is added when the burn channel is selected is not grounded when not in use. Could this be the problem?

http://support.fender.com/schematics/gu ... ematic.pdf

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Post subject: Re: New Addition: SS22
Posted: Sun Apr 10, 2011 9:00 pm
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A distinct possibility. As well, if R25 is a carbon-comp type resistor, I'd change it out for a metal oxide 470k.

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