Treble - Mesa/Boogie ELECTRA DYNE Owner's Manual

FrONT PANeL: C
As the VOLUME is turned up from there, gain builds quickly and saturates things. The most popular range for footswitching seems to
be in this next range, 10:30 – 2:00, where the gain flows around the notes with a rushing focus that preserves the attack but prolongs
sustain. In this range the other Modes offer sounds that most players will find complimentary when jumping around the Modes. There
are still plenty of dynamics here to keep things expressive and bouncy, but at the same time, the strings feel effortless to play.
Here again, pickup style and output have great bearing on the personality and performance of this Mode and the control settings
that produce these results. Weaker vintage style pickups will produce sounds that have more high harmonics and are more open
but possibly less focused on single note soloing. Hotter pickups will grind more for crunch rhythm and have more of a pure, soaring
quality for single notes but may sound a little more plugged up with midrange for some things.
Cranking up from there the overdrive gets thick and creamy and is loaded with upper harmonics. This highest of gain ranges (2:00
– 5:30) will squeeze single notes into a beamlike stream and create giant walls of crunch for chording. As you approach the 3:00
point dynamics start to change and the defined attack softens a bit to a slightly compressed, more liquid attack. From 3:00 – 5:30
it's an all-out gainfest and this is where you will find the most harmonic haze, sustain and tube saturation. Setting the VOLUME this
high will affect the balance between the Modes and most likely make it more difficult to footswitch between the sounds without some
substantial compromises. However, if you want all the sounds to be as thick with overdrive and lush harmonic content as possible
with no need for a really pristine sound in the CLEAN Mode, by all means...crank away!
NOTE: To footswitch between high gain Rock/Metal/Heavy sounds in HI/LO and rhythm sounds with enough headroom to avoid clip-
ping in CLEAN; Set VOLUME at 3:00 – 5:00 and select CLEAN on Rear Panel GAIN TRIM switch. This will optimize the HI/LO Modes
and reduce the gain in CLEAN from (an "untrimmed") VOLUME control setting, to approximately 11:00 (with TRIM engaged) so that
the CLEAN mode will not be clipped and bloated.

TREBLE:

If the VOLUME is the most powerful control in the Electra Dyne, the TREBLE comes in a close second. The TREBLE is
responsible for shaping the character of the entire amp. It can overpower the rest of the Tone controls easily and therefore its setting
is crucial to a rich and balanced sound in all three Modes. In fact, the TREBLE feeds the signal to the MID and BASS controls and
acts like a valve for their signal strength.
TREBLE MID
When the TREBLE is set in its higher regions (2:00 – 5:30) it is sending a smaller signal to those controls and they
will be less active and the dominant character will be one of very bright, TREBLE heavy frequencies. Conversely, a
very low setting on the TREBLE will produce sounds that are perhaps a little BASS heavy and overly dark as a very
large amount of signal is shoveled toward the MID and BASS controls. So you can see that setting the TREBLE
with care and taste in mind is critical for the Tone control string to work in harmony.
Like most of the controls in the Electra Dyne, the TREBLE utilizes a ganged pot with two discreet elements so that the CLEAN Mode
can have its proper value and taper independent of that needed for the VINTAGE LO and HI. This facilitates a much better blend when
switching across the Modes in performance where readjustment of the controls is not possible and in fact - makes the whole concept
of "channel switching" a Single Channel amp possible.
Since the TREBLE is so powerful and the fact that its adjustment produces instantly recognizable results, we will leave you to explore
its power with only a few suggestions that might help you find your sound more easily.
GLOBAL TREBLE Suggestions:
1. The best balance and interactive harmony (equal power) of the Tone Control string is found with the TREBLE set in the 10:30 – 1:30 range.
Most of our favorite sounds occur in the fairly narrow band between 11:45 – 12:30, maybe as high as 1:00 for mahogany body guitars with
darker pickups. More importantly, the best footswitchable performance occurs with the TREBLE in that same rather narrow band. Outside
this band you can still footswitch between Modes, but there will be greater compromises in tonal character between the sounds.
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