Let's talk clean tones!

[Hot _Grits]

Re: Let's talk clean tones!

I almost exclusively play clean.

The only pedals I own are an overdrive & a wah....I've got a multi-effects unit, but it rarely gets used.

Mainly, it's Tele into a Hiwatt or the P-90 Goldtop into a Mesa Boogie Blue Angel 4x10

Keeps me humble & honest!!!!

Puckboy, is that Blue Angel still treating you good?

As for me, 90 percent of my gig is clean. Clean and on the edge of breakup is where I live. Most of my soloing is done with a clean tone. my vibrolux is quite a fat clean, which helps.

[xerxes]

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Hey! how'd he do that???

im lost as well...lol




also, i love clean tones. mostly from single coils though. when i play my strat, its about 90% clean and 10% dirty



with the humbucker guitar, its about 70% dirty and 30% clean

[PUCKBOY99]

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Puckboy, is that Blue Angel still treating you good?

Oh yeah....best move I think I've made. The P-90s match it perfectly.

I wanna figure out recording & get some clips up of this combo......very well kept secret & I thank you again!!!!

[Studiobuddy]

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Polytone minibrute or acoustic image clarus IR

[some_dude]

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For cleans, I like sitting where I can pick clean and dirty at once. That right on the verge level where picking dynamics can hold your sound clean, or send you over the edge.

I also like being pure clean, but unless you're bi-amping, it's hard to balance the volume if you're switching between clean and dirty that way.

[Quencho092]

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i love the tone of my strat deep into the clean "headroom zone" of a 100 watt amp.

[Hot _Grits]

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Oh yeah....best move I think I've made. The P-90s match it perfectly.

I wanna figure out recording & get some clips up of this combo......very well kept secret & I thank you again!!!!

Cool. You'd have to get pretty vintage or boutique to come up with a better amp...

[Mincer]

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Oh yeah....best move I think I've made. The P-90s match it perfectly.

I wanna figure out recording & get some clips up of this combo......very well kept secret & I thank you again!!!!

I have a '94 Blue Angel with blue leather covering! It is a 1x12 model, and the cleans on that are awesome...

Here is a song with the BA, a TS5 tubescreamer, and a Line6 DL4 Delay...A Ready Thing

Well, it isn't clean, but you get to hear the amp anyway...

[Mincer]

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Polytone minibrute or acoustic image clarus IR

I have no idea how polytones got the rep they have, they sound like @ss. Most players who use them would sound so much better with a Deluxe or a Twin, but they arent as small and light and roadworthy as a Polytone.

[Gearjoneser]

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I really like using every tonal shade. It's really amazing how many clean tones there are. I'd guess most players focus on the different timbres of gain tones, then consider a clean tone 'a clean tone.' To me, the best clean tones are ones that don't sound compressed or gainy, but still sing with sustain. I still can't make up my mind which tube type possesses my favorite clean tone. 6L6 has the balanced and most natural tone. EL-34's have a more tubby, woody and midrangey vibe, and EL-84's have the chimey/glassy thing going on. Between a Super Reverb, Matchless Chieftain, and Vox AC-30, I can't choose a winner. They're all killer in their own special way.

[Benjy_26]

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As for me, 90 percent of my gig is clean. Clean and on the edge of breakup is where I live. Most of my soloing is done with a clean tone. my vibrolux is quite a fat clean, which helps.

Ditto, but I do it with a Blackface Bassman head.

[JeffB]

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I was never much into the Fender "clean" sound, personally (an overdriven bassman/twin/deluxe is a different story). It sounds awesome and I love to hear others use it, but when I'm doing the playing I prefer a "pristine" chorused (or even a light Phaser) clean like a Roland JC, or just rolling down the guitar volume on a cranked Marshall or similar tube head (a "small" sounding clean if you will) where it's really responsive to picking attack/dynamics to break up a bit or not as I desire.

I also used to really like the Rockman clean sound (basically the same rolled down guitar volume & marshall "small" tone but crisper), until everyone and their mothers started using Rockmans

[No effects]

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I'm now "completely clean" as I've bought a decent attenuator for my Marshall plexi re-issue. Getting dirtier will come from cranking amp volume, but it won't need to go passed 5 for my taste (this is Angus Young territory). Even with this setting, you can get a clean rhythm sound with your guitar volume on 6 and cranking to 10 for leads. The only pedal on the way is an ABY box with a volume+mid boost feature.

[Hellion]

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Ten years ago, I was using fuzz channels almost exclusively and using clean for effect. Now it seems that I'm using clean channels the majority of the time, with distortion as the effect. Go figure.

[Hellion]

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I have no idea how polytones got the rep they have, they sound like @ss. Most players who use them would sound so much better with a Deluxe or a Twin, but they arent as small and light and roadworthy as a Polytone.

The thing I've found about Polytones is that they're ridiculously clean. A lot of studio players used them in the 70's and that was because they could color the tone so much using pedals. Tommy Tedesco, Jay Graydon, Lee Ritenour all used them at some point in time. Of course, they were using pedals in front to give them distortion, phasing, chorus, etc. Polytones were kind of a "power amp" of sorts. I'm not a big fan of them either, by the way, but they do have their applications.