From jjmcs49@yahoo.com Tue Mar 06 18:42:11 2007
Subject:Re: #3300 Leslie

I think mine sounds great. Nice deep bass and overall tone. It can be
loud, awesomely loud. The tube can add warmth, wail or scream. It is
pretty easy to adjust the tube drive to work with the XK-3 so that
with the volume pedal at say 60% (you can pick the spot) the 3300's
tube gives a clean tone but from there to the floor the scream
increases. You can have it's tube provide warmth and tone while the
XK-3's tubes provide the scream. With the tube mode adjustment, you
can set the tone of the overdrive from warmth to wail to scream. The
tube is easy to get to if you want to experiment (you might try a
6679/12AT7).

One thing that may cause a little confusion is the control layout.
From left to right it is "Tube Drive", "Volume" and "Tube Mode". This
might cause a tendency to adjust the drive and volume before the mode
(overdrive tone). You might try setting the XK-3 (or other input)
volume and overdrive where you want them, then set the 3300's drive
and mode to get the tone you want and then turn the volume up to
where you need it.

The sub-woofer output is actually a TRS output. The tip is the low
frequencies (post preamp) only. The ring is a full range post preamp
output. The volume control for this output is labelled sub-woofer
volume, but it controls both.

The fast, slow, rise and fall times are adjustable via small pots.
The manual has a procedure for returning them back to the default.
There is nothing to tell what the actual speeds are. The manual says
the defaults are set to where most people would like (IIRC the manual
says they are about 40 for slow and 400 for fast) but they should/may
be adjusted to what the user likes. Basically, turn it until you like
it, it doesn't matter if its 376 or 377. The rise and fall times are
adjustable and may be estimated by using the speed reset mode. It
would take a short novel to explain the reset procedure, but it is
pretty simple. The unit has three LED's for the speeds (red, yellow
and green). In reset mode, depending on what is being adjusted,
horn/low rotor, fast/slow, the closer you get to the default speed,
the faster one of the LED's blinks. When it stays on, you're there.
Be carefull with the low rotor, it is easy to overshoot the speed one
way or the other and have to keep tweaking back and forth until you
develop the touch. Actually, once you pick your speed, the idea is to
leave it alone. One drawback is that people will have to adjust it to
their own taste, they won't be able to ask what the "right" settings
are. ;^)

Good Luck

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