Jason! Thank you so very much for the Love! It's been a minute My Friend. Good memories indeed. Hope all is going well for you and the family. Be well and Keep Doing You!
Cool to see the ol' SD30 getting some love and appreciation, Jason. I'm a fan of your old Budda tones in Orbit and We've. I, too, have a Series 1 handwired SD30. I purchased it used as a head and found a Budda 1x12" combo cabinet and Phat 12 to put it in eventually. Here's a tidbit from Jeff: The handwired ones have a 25k mid pot (common to vintage Marshalls) whereas the Series II models use a 50k. This is because he wasn't able to source a linear taper 25k push-pull pot that was needed for the pull-modern feature. The result of this is that the Series II models have more mids and, in my opinion, a more modern voicing when compared to the handwired which sounds more vintage. Love my handwired SD30!
That is hilarious as that was one of the things that raised my interest in the brand way back! Jag is such a monster player and I Mother Earth are a real favorite of mine also!
I’ve read numerous forums about the differences between post-Peavey and Pre-Peavey. Most people say they sound the same or very similar. I have the SuperDrive 30 series II.
Every Tonex pack that I have on my website or on ToneNet are captures I have created from scratch in my studio using the real amps with the tone models being created with a high end signal chain. I have not and will not ever offer Tonex tone models of captures somebody else created or captures from other modelers. All of my tone model captures are and will be from real amps captured by me in my own studio. Hope that helps :-)
Aw man, you missed the example where you let the SD30 power section RIP! The preamp section goes into tasty distortion when you drive it with the Drive knob, sure. But, crank that MASTER to 11 o'clock, dial back the Drive to about the same. It's getting loud now. You can use the Drive as an Overdrive pedal to get more of those tones. And, there there's the MASTER still, which, up to about 1 to 2 o'clock, amp all nice and warmed up, Drive max about 1-2 o'clock - THOSE are the TONES we die for. Sorry neighbors! No, I'm not! Never needed an overdrive pedal with my hw SD30. Jeff put in a mid scoop mod, and a channel volume balancing mod. He said they do change the tone, and yeh, still all Budda. Very versatile as you said. Imo, the mid scoop is a wanna have. If you gig and work the amp with your axes' volume knob to get at all the sweetness the amp has to offer, you'll want that mod too. Still wondering what's up with the brand. Wrote to Jeff about a service on my SD30, never heard back to have asked him about it. You should talk some about the Budda Dual Stage 30.The whaaat? Got one of them babies too... and it is, very special. 2 6L6's and 4 EL84's - '"Which power section would you like, switch at will sir!". Less than 80 made. Sound = Budda tube tone paradise.
