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Post subject: Anyone notice this?
Posted: Wed Nov 22, 2017 3:55 pm
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Of course i know amps tend to sound different from day to day depending on your ears that day or the whether or whatever it is that causes it. But this seems much too exaggerated for it to be something like that. Has anyone else noticed that at times when you turn your GT on it's much louder than other times? Maybe it IS me, but i swear there are times it seems about twice as loud on the same patch and master knob setting that i normally used. Anyone notice this?


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Post subject: Re: Anyone notice this?
Posted: Wed Nov 22, 2017 10:21 pm
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Post subject: Re: Anyone notice this?
Posted: Sun Nov 26, 2017 3:06 am
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oczad wrote:
Has anyone else noticed that at times when you turn your GT on it's much louder than other times? Maybe it IS me, but i swear there are times it seems about twice as loud on the same patch and master knob setting that i normally used. Anyone notice this?


As old, cheap cassette recorders did, the "microphones" called ears have an automatic leveling. So it depends on the loudness of your previous surrounding, how loud you think it is.

You may not believe this. Because the processing in your brain tries to hide it from you. But all senses of living creatures are differential.

Just go out in Winter and throw some snowballs. If you afterwards let run cold water over your hands you will experience it. Look at a red light and close your eyes. you will see a complementary spot.

PS.: Never trust your senses. :lol:


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Post subject: Re: Anyone notice this?
Posted: Sun Nov 26, 2017 10:09 am
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I'm VERY familiar with that. But as i think i explained this seems at times too different for that to account for this. Not saying it's NOT the reason, but in almost 50 years of playing thru more amps than i care to admit to having owned, I've experience that many times but never to this degree.


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Post subject: Re: Anyone notice this?
Posted: Sun Nov 26, 2017 10:16 am
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I certainly don't hear this with my GT40.


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Post subject: Re: Anyone notice this?
Posted: Sun Nov 26, 2017 10:31 am
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Except for the master volume, most digital amps don't have audio going through the rest of the controls.
They are DC voltage dividers that the microcontroller interprets. Their voltage swing is from 0 to 4 volts.
On power up, the controller usually aligns the tone for the preset selected and it doesn't recognize the actual knob position.
As soon as you move a control, the controller changes to your input. Sometimes it's an abrupt change in tone.
I wonder if its this idosyncracy that you've experienced?


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Post subject: Re: Anyone notice this?
Posted: Sun Nov 26, 2017 11:13 am
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No. It will sound really loud at times when i start it up and stays like that even after playing with the physical master and changing presets back and fourth.


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Post subject: Re: Anyone notice this?
Posted: Sun Nov 26, 2017 12:01 pm
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oczad wrote:
No. It will sound really loud at times when i start it up and stays like that even after playing with the physical master and changing presets back and fourth.


This post and TimsAudio's fix my opinion, the master-volume doesn't work analog.
Otherwise there had to be a Mixer, because for BT-input you can choose between two path, with or without master volume control.

Is there any warranty, where you live?


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