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Who here has put one on your lightning?

I'm considering trying one....but I'm going to mount the pot off the chassis for the time being, so I dont go drilling holes in my chassis, unless I want the mod.

But I'm curious to hear what you guys think of the cut...and to add to the curiosity, what cap did you use for the cut control?

-Frank

Man!
Did someone pass gas in here??

...this place is a ghost town!!!

-F

Arggh it's Frank.... everybody run!

So is anyone going to offer any advice on a cut control???

Or should I get really pissy!

I haven't used one but if you serch this forum for 'cut' I'm sure you'll find plenty on what and how to do this.

For example

viewtopic.php?t=25&highlight=control

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Stephen
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To temporarily try a cut to see if you like it, you could always just tack a cap onto your master volume control.

Its really really nice. The circuit is identical to the master control, with the addition of a .0022 cap. You just wire it parallel, see my photo at the bottom of this post.

Of course the cut is more effective with the master up. I'm a clean player and never ever use the master, so it will be disabled next time I'm feeling ambitious, but the cut stays.

I really like the sound with the treble at about halfway up, and the cut at half as well. Great bite and jangle with no harshness.



P.

So, if you added a switch to that 1M master, you get to disable the MV whenever you want and you still have a cut. Seems like that would be a plan. Would you say it has any effect on 'cleaning' up the sound? or justremoving the edge you don't like?

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Steve,

Since initially posting this, I've implemented a cut control. Exactly as paul showed in the picture.

It's a very subtle control on the high end. It's like it slices off a sliver of highs from the amp. Not like a treble control, that shapes the sound....this sorta just chops the a sliver of top off the high end. The more you increase the cut, the more in chops off....

It's very useful for this amp!

The Cut not only slices off the brittleness, it seems to shape the mids slightly.

Even with a 1M pot on the master, I notice a difference in the response of the amp with the control all the way up.

In addition, at least on my amp, the master only really works in the first 1/3 of its travel. I tried lower values, parallel resistors etc., but they only made the problem worse.

With the master completely out of circuit the amp has more "transparency". The cut seems to have no effect at all when its all the way open, I guess because of the cap.

I may just replace the pot with a 6-way switch with a resistor network to maintain the possibilities, but in the past or 8 months I've never used the master outside of my house so it may just go.

P.

You may be right there...I'll have to turn up the amp and check it out.

Did you use an 250K Audio taperpot there? Looks like it i.e. A250K. the DC 30 specifies linear.

Just wondering

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I use a .0047uF cap and a 1M pot. The lightning, to my ears, REALLY needs a cut control, particularly if you want to effectively use the tonestack in all it's interactive glory (especially controlling the mids). Otherwise you'll find yourself stymied because you always have to keep the treble really low. With the cut, you can scoop mids at the tonestack level (turning bass/treb up), but still dial out some highs afterwards.

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So we have one at 250K and one at 1M. Any other suggestions. One cap at .0047 and one at .022.

Any other suggestions? the DC30 uses 250K Lin & .0022 uF.

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What would you say the differences are between the 1M/.047 combo and the 250k/.0022 combo? Is one just a stronger cut? Which one would that be? I'm really pleased at how easy this will be to impliment.

I have added the Cut Control to all kits as an improvement. Also added an extra output jack so now there's 4, 8 & 16 ohms.

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