I'm 99% convinced this thing is defective but thought I'd check here just to be sure because I have no point of reference for Top Boost modules. I ordered it new from Music 123 and it arrived yesterday.
- The gain knob is pretty noisy, makes a muffled scratchy sound when adjusting it.
- The module itself is incredibly noisy, at a cleaner gain setting without a guitar plugged in, it's more noisy than my Brown module dialed with a fair amount of gain.
- I'm really suprised at the amount of gain this thing puts out, for being advertised as being a cleaner module I have to keep the gain around 8:00-9:00 (almost all the way down) just to get a "dirty clean" sound if that makes sense. Every AC30 I've played you have to really crank to get a crunchy tone out of.
- Finally I have to keep the treble almost all the way down to keep it from being icepick bright with my Tele. My tele is a bright guitar but is much warmer than other teles I've played. I was expecting a lot of chime/airy high end but this is really over the top.
With the exception of the first symptom, I would say it's got a bad tube, but the scratchy gain pot has me thinking something else is wrong.
- The gain knob is pretty noisy, makes a muffled scratchy sound when adjusting it.
- The module itself is incredibly noisy, at a cleaner gain setting without a guitar plugged in, it's more noisy than my Brown module dialed with a fair amount of gain.
- I'm really suprised at the amount of gain this thing puts out, for being advertised as being a cleaner module I have to keep the gain around 8:00-9:00 (almost all the way down) just to get a "dirty clean" sound if that makes sense. Every AC30 I've played you have to really crank to get a crunchy tone out of.
- Finally I have to keep the treble almost all the way down to keep it from being icepick bright with my Tele. My tele is a bright guitar but is much warmer than other teles I've played. I was expecting a lot of chime/airy high end but this is really over the top.
With the exception of the first symptom, I would say it's got a bad tube, but the scratchy gain pot has me thinking something else is wrong.