[Harp-L] vic 4510T

[SONNYTONE@xxxxxxx]

Thanks Bob, and I agree the real bassman can be played stock and sound  
great. But here is the issue with a "boutique" company not helping their  
customers, and guess what, they called ME to find out how to set up Hummel's amp  when 
he bought his Victoria for harp. I couldn't make up that story. So if you  
want a harp amp, go to someone to knows harp, and will be there 100% customer  
service and knows tube setups, tone controls, how tone controls can give more  
loudness and projection than just volume, and push the envelope. I have no  
problem with Bob thinking his real bassman sounds great the way it is, I do  
believe I have taken it farther in my tube substitution manual, and all the 100  
customers who own Sonny Jr 410 will attest to that, but that is something you  
get when you buy into the company, and no SJ410 owner respectfully keeps the  
information to themselves. Did I spend nearly a half million dollars on 
vintage  amps to just give this away, no. Have I made any serious money on my 410, 
no.  Next year I hope to, and I fell I deserve to for all the research spent 
and time  offered to my customers. So if you can find one of those rare 
untouched bassmans  like Bob has, get ready to shell out 4-5K, but I would mine up 
against it any  day, and if mine if maybe 5% difference in tone just due to newer 
parts, that  ain't bad in my book. Most of my customers are not part of 
HarpL, so that is why  the list is not flooded with them chiming in. The paper in 
oil capacitors I use  have a huge factor in our tone, being the only company in 
the WORLD to use these  in stock production further separates us from 
everyone else. Bob is right on  about linear pots, BOOM, open right up. Linear means 
opens 10% at 1, so 100K out  of 1 meg 20% on 2 , 200K out of 1 meg.etc. , so 
if you have a 1 meg pot which is  the volume pot, and bass pot, you would be 
getting a lot of sound too quickly.  Bassmans call for 10% audio taper, which 
means at volume control on 5, you have  10% of the total value, so it creeps up 
to 10%, or 100K, by 5, so you have a  nice sweep, then your other 90% happens 
from 5 on, or if it goes to 12, halfway  would be 6. Many many original 
bassmans, as I have seen them dead original,  used a 1 meg audio for the normal 
volume, and a 1 meg linear for the bright  volume, if it was a 59, the 1 meg 
linear was usually an older 1956 pot they  had laying around. Bob always has great 
insight on bassmans, and I  don't ever mean to discount his saying original 
setup is best, I just have  spent so many years with high impedence mics and 
tube configurations,  it is a matter of preference, and what my customers want, 
to be able to  feel it opening up more, getting thunderous with overdrive 
later. all that. I  have not stopped pushing the envelope and have just received 
the Weber  attenuator, which will allow a big amp like my 410 to be able to be 
used in  ANY venue, that's right, for that same tone, just less decibels, in a 
small  room. Much smaller than the THD hotplate which works but is huge. Will 
have  more info SOON, look for the new site in a month, and the back page of 
Best L'il  Harphouse where our ad will be. Thanks for all of your support  and 
comments. Sonny jr.