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  • Young Angus
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    Well, ill try anyway

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  • Young Angus
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    I think i do worry about this stuff too much and i just need to play...and that goes for anyone else worrying their pretty little axe weilding heads off too...just play!

    Thats what im gonna do

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  • Maximusgordon 2.0
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    I think we all may be thinking to much. Go play a LP Standard and an LP Classic through the same amp and listen...... yah, HUGE difference! I think your just into hot, rich, thick sounding pickups like the ones in the LP Classic. I had the same experience with a Gibson Goldtone, a friend has one and there was one at a music store and one sounded real thick and fat for leads and the other sounded sweet to but as far as just plain old initially "catching someones ear" with fat tone goes, those hot pickups are usually what does it.

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  • TwilightOdyssey
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    LOL! Yes! I'll keep my SPL meter handy, tho ...

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  • y2stevo
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    Originally posted by TwilightOdyssey
    That's pretty interesting ... I will have to experiment on that, and post a thread about it!
    LOL, to prove you can go deaf in such incidents?

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  • TwilightOdyssey
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    Originally posted by y2stevo
    No but an attenuated 120watt head would sound better than a non attenuated 120watt head, well of course at safe levels, i seriously doubt that he can blast the Engl at full throttle in his room without having serious case of deafness..
    That's pretty interesting ... I will have to experiment on that, and post a thread about it!

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  • y2stevo
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    Originally posted by TwilightOdyssey
    Nah, I don't think an attenuated 120W head will sound as good as a full-throttle 50W ... are you suggesting that in order to match the volume of the two heads?
    No but an attenuated 120watt head would sound better than a non attenuated 120watt head, well of course at safe levels, i seriously doubt that he can blast the Engl at full throttle in his room without having serious case of deafness..

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  • GHWelles
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    Try different preamp tubes and different power amp tubes. It can change the character and tone greatly.

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  • Vasshu the humanoid typhoon
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    Hmm maybe it will help if you did not worry so much about it, it also has a huge impact on how a player interacts with the guitar and amp.
    Something that works for somebody else may not work at all for you.
    Just play, maybe one day it will surprise you???
    Or maybe the thing is simply not for you?

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  • Young Angus
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    Its not a bad sound, just that i heard what the guy was playing today and it sounded really smooth and, well, just really good tone. But he was playing a les paul classic with gibson ceramic pickups as opposed to my standard with BB-pros...which are quite different animals.

    The Savage gets a good sound but i sometimes wonder if its as good as its supposed to be...ill figure it out

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  • Vasshu the humanoid typhoon
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    Not getting a good sound out of the Savage???
    Man that thing must be a dud!

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  • TwilightOdyssey
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    Originally posted by y2stevo
    Dude are you using an attenuator? If not then that could be your problem, Especially because its a 120watt amp!
    Nah, I don't think an attenuated 120W head will sound as good as a full-throttle 50W ... are you suggesting that in order to match the volume of the two heads?

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  • TwilightOdyssey
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    Ya know, the Savage uses 6550 power tubes, and the Thunder uses 5881 ... this is probably the difference you are hearing, my friend. I don't know if they are hot swappable, but if they are ... you should give it a try!!

    BTW, did anyone see the new Engl 580 preamp? Yee-oow!! It's HOT!!!

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  • y2stevo
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    Dude are you using an attenuator? If not then that could be your problem, Especially because its a 120watt amp!

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  • TwilightOdyssey
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    That's why I went with an Engl preamp ... this way, I could dial in the final sound with the power amp; brighter/looser = Marshall ... darker/tighter = Mesa. I ended up going with the Marshall EL34 100/100. The sound is cool; not Engl, and not Marshall.

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