Santiago Alvarez (electronics engineer, JVM, YJM, AFD...)

2112 said:
@santiall you've been cooking up some VERY cool things - when can you start telling the public about it :D
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2112 said:
@santiall you've been cooking up some VERY cool things - when can you start telling the public about it :D
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hmmm, what could that be... perhaps you can show us something? :unsure:

ok... a couple of partners and I just launched a small brand of pedals and accessories called Citadel in the Guitar Summit. For me is more a means of putting some personal ideas and designs I've been working on, or that I am currently working on, that otherwise wouldn't see the light and would have ended as a prototype in the bench.
I am a bit overwhelmed with the response though, as we already have distribution for the whole Europe and USA seems just lacking the signature to get started...
 
santiall said:
hmmm, what could that be... perhaps you can show us something? :unsure:

ok... a couple of partners and I just launched a small brand of pedals and accessories called Citadel in the Guitar Summit. For me is more a means of putting some personal ideas and designs I've been working on, or that I am currently working on, that otherwise wouldn't see the light and would have ended as a prototype in the bench.
I am a bit overwhelmed with the response though, as we already have distribution for the whole Europe and USA seems just lacking the signature to get started...
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These ones @santiall?

Citadel Guitar Pedals | guitarguitar

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SillyOctpuss said:
These ones @santiall?

Citadel Guitar Pedals | guitarguitar

Buy Citadel Guitar Pedals online at guitarguitar. Free next day delivery on orders over £199 or click and collect. You can even trade in your old music gear towards the purchase. Shop the UK's largest guitar store today.
www.guitarguitar.co.uk www.guitarguitar.co.uk
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Yeah, those ones. Should be available in europe quite soon, working with US/CAN distribution as we speak
 
SillyOctpuss said:
@santiall loving the ability to set how the pedals power up and the Vector will be mine. Sounds great in your demo @2112
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I think that's one of those small details that can be quite useful if you have a big pedalboard.
The fuzz is an interesting one, it has low input impedance so if you connect it directly to the guitar you can get different tones than when connected after a buffer like the gate.
 
santiall said:
Hi,
I've mostly used the TC G-Major and G-Force and the the Yamaha SPX-2000 as multieffect in the FX loop of my amps, not only with a JVM, but you will need a MIDI controller with them.
If you want something with footcontroller you'll be fine with those you mention. There are some other options but make sure that they can take line level signals, not just guitar/instrument levels or you may have trouble when using the power amp loop
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I have connected serial preamp send (jvm) to insert return (g system), output L (g sys.) to power amp return. I have input clipping "red light" turning on and can't adjust/reduce input gain on g sys. It doesnt have that control. Does this means g sys can't take hot signal from jvm? I seem that g-system Isn't compatebile with jvm...
 
alenv3 said:
I have connected serial preamp send (jvm) to insert return (g system), output L (g sys.) to power amp return. I have input clipping "red light" turning on and can't adjust/reduce input gain on g sys. It doesnt have that control. Does this means g sys can't take hot signal from jvm? I seem that g-system Isn't compatebile with jvm...
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Hi, I am not familiar at all with the G-System, I've just have had a look at the manual and it states that the max input is 18dBu which should be good enough for the JVM PA insert loop. You need to go to the input level menu and set it probably to -8dB for max input level. This is what it says:
To Access the Global (Gbl) Levels Menu:
• Press EDITand then MENU.
• Select Gbl Levels using the PAGEEncoder.
• Press ENTER. Input Gain Range: -8 to 18dB This parameter sets the input gain of the instrument input where you plug in your guitar. When you have set the Input gain correctly, the red LED on the Input meters occasionallylights up when you hit the guitar hard with a “big” chord on a clean sound.

If that's not enough there a few things you can do:
- lower your JVM channel volumes. The rear loop levels depend direcly on the individual channel levels although you may still have an issue using the Clean Green if the signal is still too strong
- use the other FX loop. Set the level on the back to -10dB, MIX to 100%. Adjust the send and return levels within the g-system.
 
santiall said:
Hi all, it is my pleasure to have been invited to have my own thread here in The Gear Forum.

I'm electronics engineer mostly known for my woks for the 'big M' company including several signature amps, JVM, MG, CODE series, etc. I've also been employed by Behringturd and I've been running my own consultancy firm for a few years. My works include companies like Softube, Blackstar, Harmony and Teisco, Acoustic, Harbinger, Sterling Audio, Darkglass, and Neural among others.

Happy to chat about anything, learn something and hopefully help others as well :)

As a disclaimer, any views or opinions represented here in the forum belong solely to myself and do not represent those of other people, institutions or organizations that I may or may not be associated with in professional or personal capacity, unless explicitly stated.
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My Fender ‘65 Deluxe Reverb just suddenly developed static noise. It was fine one moment and the next static… it’s only 6 months old - bought new. What’s the most likely cause?
 
Flman said:
My Fender ‘65 Deluxe Reverb just suddenly developed static noise. It was fine one moment and the next static… it’s only 6 months old - bought new. What’s the most likely cause?
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Hi, first thing to suspect in any tube amp is the tubes.
Do you know if the noise depends on the volume/tone controls of one of the channels only?
 
Hi Santiago, I've got a question about the 2525H (and 2555X) fx loop.

When I had the 2555X I clearly remember that the TC Alter Ego delay (the black flashback x4 with only vintage algorithms) distorting on some occasions.
Now that I have the 2525H, both the flashback 2 and the hall of fame 2 chop the transients with some kind of limiting and there's also a ducking effect that lowers the delay repeats and reverb tails. the result is that you struggle to have an effect that wrap around the dry sound.

I've recently bought an MXR Echoplex and this one works perfeclty.

Is the Jubilee loop hot, the TC input stage poor or a bit of both?

As a refercence I currently play the 2525H with gain at 4/10 and lead master at 7/10.
 
HotRats said:
Hi Santiago, I've got a question about the 2525H (and 2555X) fx loop.

When I had the 2555X I clearly remember that the TC Alter Ego delay (the black flashback x4 with only vintage algorithms) distorting on some occasions.
Now that I have the 2525H, both the flashback 2 and the hall of fame 2 chop the transients with some kind of limiting and there's also a ducking effect that lowers the delay repeats and reverb tails. the result is that you struggle to have an effect that wrap around the dry sound.

I've recently bought an MXR Echoplex and this one works perfeclty.

Is the Jubilee loop hot, the TC input stage poor or a bit of both?

As a refercence I currently play the 2525H with gain at 4/10 and lead master at 7/10.
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I'm leaning more towards the TC delay pedals being shit. I have experienced similar issues as you with the Flashback in the loops of my Mesas. The 2290P works a lot better.
 
HotRats said:
Hi Santiago, I've got a question about the 2525H (and 2555X) fx loop.

When I had the 2555X I clearly remember that the TC Alter Ego delay (the black flashback x4 with only vintage algorithms) distorting on some occasions.
Now that I have the 2525H, both the flashback 2 and the hall of fame 2 chop the transients with some kind of limiting and there's also a ducking effect that lowers the delay repeats and reverb tails. the result is that you struggle to have an effect that wrap around the dry sound.

I've recently bought an MXR Echoplex and this one works perfeclty.

Is the Jubilee loop hot, the TC input stage poor or a bit of both?

As a refercence I currently play the 2525H with gain at 4/10 and lead master at 7/10.
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Hi,

I guess there is nothing 'wrong', I mean broken. The Jubilee loop is in the middle of the preamp, before a gain stage and also before the tone control so it is relatively easy to distort/compress the signal after the loop which makes the delays and other timing effects to behave weird. It is a similar problem as when trying to use a delay in front of the amp, although here you may be even overdriving the unprocessed signal too.

I'm not familiar myself with the TC pedal but yes, it all points that it doesn't have enough headroom for this loop. You can try, as an experiment, to put some pedal in front of the delay (a compressor with no compression or the likes), and lower the output volume of this addtional pedal. It all should clean up but you also may lose some gain as you aren't driving back the amp properly. At least it'll confirm the issue with this pedal
 
SonVolt said:
I'm leaning more towards the TC delay pedals being shit. I have experienced similar issues as you with the Flashback in the loops of my Mesas. The 2290P works a lot better.
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we also need to add that Mesa has had several loop circuits and a few don't work that well, specially the ones with the parallel control. You may be having an additional issue here. The Jubilee is a pure series loop, so at least there isn't a parlallel path allt he time messing up
 
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