OK, first off, I just snagged a well-used Fender Model T from a guy on the HC forums. He supposedly forgot to throw the footswitch in the box, blah, blah. I doubt it'll ever show up in the mail at this point. I put up a WTB for one, but it doesn't seem likely to happen. In any case, I'm sure one of the lame-o fender ones would work, but I'd really just prefer to throw one together myself. Would anyone happen to know what type of switches they used i.e. latching or momentary? And would it be the tip, ring or sleeve to control channel switching and fx loop switching respectively?
Second issue I'm having is with the fx loop and it's dull dull tone. Even with just a 12" patch straight from the send>receive there is a very significant loss of high freq/balls/vibe, especially noticeable on the high gain channel. It's a shame because I had such high hopes for running my phaser/delays/verb in a loop for once.
Up until now I've been a single channel, everything out front of preamp guy, which was kind of the point of picking up something like the fender T with it's ultra-modern options = something different. My point is that I'm a fx loop noob and I'm not sure how much of my disappointment is just from the nature of tube-buffered fx loop tone loss or if my well-used head has been too used or if I need to do some tube swapping.
Which leads me to my next issue:
Would anyone happen to know which V position is driving the fx loop? I figured it would have been V5 or V6 so I tried a few different 12AX7 and an ECC83S, but those V positions didn't seem to effect the loop tone at all.
I've been looking around for a schematic for this head, but haven't run across it yet. Anyone care to share?
