One Amp, One Sound For Life - No Pedals

[jeremy]

a pro reverb on 8 with celestions is gonna be way louder than i could use at most gigs but that tone would get me though most things

[beaubrummels]

really? not to my ears. both fine amps but pretty different in my experience

It does to me because I had just played Santana's at the Plant about 1994 and immediately went out to the stores looking to find something that sounded like it. The Dual Recto was the closest at the time. It just didn't clean up when I backed off the volume. But it howled like the afterburner of a jet, which is what the broken in straight cab with the 100w head into it sounded like.

[PS412]

Easy. This:

[Demanic]

I was thinking that your preferred pedal is what usually provoked the flames; not your playing.

That's just it, I don't just like ridiculous high gain. Or just clean. I like everything in-between. Along with delay, modulation and wah.

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[NegativeEase]

That's just it, I don't just like ridiculous high gain. Or just clean. I like everything in-between. Along with delay, modulation and wah.

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This new Boogie Mark V amp I got goes to both extremes (pristine to full nuclear) most functionality best for in between - -it's a good candidate for a versatile desert island amp with clean, OD and distortion without pedals

[Ascension]

One amp, no pedals. One tone, the amp can have 50 channels but you are using it for one tone. Your favorite tone. Straight amp, pick one.

Easy the Archon. Owned about anything you can name but the Archon fluid responsive high gain tone and feel still floors me every time I play through. And that is after owning and playing if for over a year..

[Mincer]

LOVE those amps and I once owned the ultimate Prosonic head. 100 watter with Reverb and a Bruce Zinky one off!

What was the deal with these amps? What did they sound like?

[Ascension]

Bought this one from Brad Whitford. Got in a financial mess and unfortunately had to sell it to save my house with a few other pieces.

[Ascension]

What was the deal with these amps? What did they sound like?

The Prosonics were pretty unique amps for Fender. Bruce Zinky creations with a triple rec set up and 60 watt Class A/B normally. They had really sweet warm cleans and a firebreathing high gain. Owned a number of them over the years. the Red one off was a 100 watt Prosonic Tonemester hybrid with a Prosinic combo pre section and a Tonemaster power section. Zinky hand built it in the Custom Shop and gave to Brad Whitford. I bought it directly from Brad still had the Property of Aerosmith inventory sticker on the back when I sold it.. May well have been the best sounding high headroom clean amp I have ever heard.
Recorded the guitar tracks here with it at a local studio using my Washburn USA MG 102.

[Mincer]

The Prosonics were pretty unique amps for Fender. Bruce Zinky creations with a triple rec set up and 60 watt Class A/B normally. They had really sweet warm cleans and a firebreathing high gain. Owned a number of them over the years. the Red one off was a 100 watt Prosonic Tonemester hybrid with a Prosinic pre section an a Tonemaster power section. Zinky hand built it in the Custom Shop and gave to Brad Whitford. I bought it directly from Brad still had the Property of Aerosmith inventory sticker on the back when I sold it.. May well have been the best sounding high headroom clean amp I have ever heard.
Recorded the guitar tracks here with it at a local studio using my Washburn USA MG 102.

Well that sounds like something I'd like. I will have to try one of them out.

[CaptainWhizz]

This new Boogie Mark V amp I got goes to both extremes (pristine to full nuclear) most functionality best for in between - -it's a good candidate for a versatile desert island amp with clean, OD and distortion without pedals

For the purposes of this thread, you have to dial that bad boy in to one tone, and never touch the settings again

[Ascension]

Well that sounds like something I'd like. I will have to try one of them out.

Cleans are not pristine they are warm round and have some nice breakup when you dig in very expressive in particular in the 30 watt class A mode. The gain side is a little different to dial in for a Fender as it has 2 separate gain controls. Takes a little time to understand but once you understand them they are fine amps! Have owned a number of them 2 combos and at least 3 heads over the years.
Here is a clip live with my true LO SN CS 1 /12 combo. https://app.box.com/shared/k8lvjisore. Wish I would have kept that one in particular.
They were all 2/10 combos as production amps but Bruce did a few from the Arizona Shop as 1/12's as that was what he wanted the amp to be as the designer.
Another live clip different outdoor event recorded with a little Sony personal recorder setting in a chair front row running the red 100 watt Prosonic head a Avatar 2/12 and my amp was not miced. https://app.box.com/s/os9ra20ogzxs56xo02z1fwxriwf73ncv

[Bogner]

For the purposes of this thread, you have to dial that bad boy in to one tone, and never touch the settings again

How many various groups of setting do you need for your main core tone? When you and that core tone and settings you usually would leave the settings as is if you were happy with what you found right?

[CaptainWhizz]

Personally, I like a 3-channel amp setup, so I can get (pushed-)clean, medium rock, and hard rock/ metal. Then pretty much leave the settings.

[misterwhizzy]

I guess I'd just have to make a non-boosted JCM800 work.