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Offline PRR

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"better TMB Tone Stack" post elsewhere
« on: September 02, 2020, 10:00:03 pm »
A Better TMB Tone Stack at DIY Audio forum.

At a glance: the plan looks rational. I don't know how it works on the musical ear. But it is about a dollar's worth of parts over what Leo used so it is a cheap and reversible experiment.

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Re: "better TMB Tone Stack" post elsewhere
« Reply #1 on: September 03, 2020, 06:11:01 am »
IF appropriate, could the schematic be posted here?  You have to be a member on that other site to view the document.

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Re: "better TMB Tone Stack" post elsewhere
« Reply #2 on: September 03, 2020, 12:05:38 pm »
Here ya go tubenit
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Re: "better TMB Tone Stack" post elsewhere
« Reply #3 on: September 03, 2020, 01:21:16 pm »
Tubeswell,  thank you!

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Re: "better TMB Tone Stack" post elsewhere
« Reply #4 on: September 03, 2020, 08:53:49 pm »
I've never really been a fan of the TMB tone stack in general, but this does make it look a bit more interesting.


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Re: "better TMB Tone Stack" post elsewhere
« Reply #5 on: September 03, 2020, 09:03:41 pm »
> You have to be a member

Oooops! I knew the *section* was Public but did not realize the *Attaches* were limited (of course they are).

Tubeswell got the schematic. There are six plots showing the wide variety of possible curves. The extremes are often too brutal to use, but gentle use of a sharp knife may be useful. On the plots, the dotty lines are Phase; we do NOT care here, but the plotter option to not plot phase is well hidden in that software.

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Re: "better TMB Tone Stack" post elsewhere
« Reply #6 on: September 03, 2020, 10:20:03 pm »
Interesting twist on the typical tone stack.

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Re: "better TMB Tone Stack" post elsewhere
« Reply #7 on: September 04, 2020, 07:38:54 pm »
Those guys that play metal and love an extreme mid dip. This looks like the tone stack for them. Those middle graphs. Have a huge midrange dip.

 


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