Hi people- I yesterday got myself a blacksar HT-5R metal head after demoing it against an orange Tiny terror, with a few different cabs, and ended up with the blackstar with a 1 by 4 8 inch driver cab.
Last night, I was cranking it a bit more as I had more time-but I noticed something strange.
I tend to play fairly hard-just always have, but I noticed that with the gain around 2 o clock it would make a 'popping' sound if I hit the strings hard-played softer the pop did not happen.
I backed the gain off to around 11 o clock, and could play hard again.
This being my first valve amp, why is this? Was my hard strumming sending too much signal into the amp, causing the pop sound?
Or is there another issue-it was a noticeable pop, but I backed the gain off, and it sounds about the same at 11 O clock played hard, as it did at 2 o clock played soft.
I am using a clockface for example of my settings E.g 2 o clock would be about 7 on the amp, with 11 on a clock being around 5 on the dials. (so full blast would be 5 o clock, 10 on the amp)
Any advice would be great, as its my first valve amplifier, I want to make sure its perfect,as I already spent a lot of money on it. They forgot to include the footswitch-I have to collect it next time I go by the shop, its not far though so no biggie.
EDIT: I have played it this morning, with MORE gain and volume, and no pops today!!!
Its not a crackle of a bad cable-its an actual pop when played hard.
The only thing I did this morning was remove my Boss CE-5 from the signal chain-it was on last night, but even off the problem would happen, so I moved that out.
I am going to try it with it in again, as I want to be able to use chorus as most metal I play is from the 80's, and has a chorus effect.
I am worried that because I only tested it for ten minutes this morning, it started happening last night after about an hour of playing (Not overly loud, volume 1/4 and gain set to around 7 out of 10) it happened, so I am worried it only will happen when the tubes(valves to us English) are hot-mid practice for example.
Hope someone can help me, thanks, Conan.
Last night, I was cranking it a bit more as I had more time-but I noticed something strange.
I tend to play fairly hard-just always have, but I noticed that with the gain around 2 o clock it would make a 'popping' sound if I hit the strings hard-played softer the pop did not happen.
I backed the gain off to around 11 o clock, and could play hard again.
This being my first valve amp, why is this? Was my hard strumming sending too much signal into the amp, causing the pop sound?
Or is there another issue-it was a noticeable pop, but I backed the gain off, and it sounds about the same at 11 O clock played hard, as it did at 2 o clock played soft.
I am using a clockface for example of my settings E.g 2 o clock would be about 7 on the amp, with 11 on a clock being around 5 on the dials. (so full blast would be 5 o clock, 10 on the amp)
Any advice would be great, as its my first valve amplifier, I want to make sure its perfect,as I already spent a lot of money on it. They forgot to include the footswitch-I have to collect it next time I go by the shop, its not far though so no biggie.
EDIT: I have played it this morning, with MORE gain and volume, and no pops today!!!
Its not a crackle of a bad cable-its an actual pop when played hard.
The only thing I did this morning was remove my Boss CE-5 from the signal chain-it was on last night, but even off the problem would happen, so I moved that out.
I am going to try it with it in again, as I want to be able to use chorus as most metal I play is from the 80's, and has a chorus effect.
I am worried that because I only tested it for ten minutes this morning, it started happening last night after about an hour of playing (Not overly loud, volume 1/4 and gain set to around 7 out of 10) it happened, so I am worried it only will happen when the tubes(valves to us English) are hot-mid practice for example.
Hope someone can help me, thanks, Conan.
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