Help me find smooth, creamy sustaining notes with a crunchy amp

[Southbound Suarez]

Re: Help me find smooth, creamy sustaining notes with a crunchy amp

I LOVE the sound of my amp & cab, which I have been playing since around 1988 or so. I do not want to change anything about my base rhythm sound, which is what I play 99% of the time. If I were a blues rock screaming lead player like winters I would use a very different setup, but I'm not. I just want to push into a smooth, creamy sustain lead sound for 30 seconds of one or two songs.

I'm done

[Dave Locher]

Re: Help me find smooth, creamy sustaining notes with a crunchy amp

I know no one is biting their nails waiting to find out what happens next (especially Southbound Suarez) but Ima update y'all anyway:
The more I thought about it the more I realized the TS-based handbuilt I have is almost what I want except for the base cut. So I did some internet searching and figured out how to mod it. Added a .22uF capacitor ($2 at local Radio Shack) in parallel with the .22 it already had on the output circuit, wired with a mini toggle switch I already had, and now at the flick of a switch I can add a ton o'bass and get really smooth and creamy.
This may sound like I ignored everyone's suggestions but it was actually the whole discussion about mid hump vs. bass bump that got me really thinking about what was missing in my overdrive. Thanks!

[Demanic]

Re: Help me find smooth, creamy sustaining notes with a crunchy amp

Dude! Grats!

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[EDX]

Re: Help me find smooth, creamy sustaining notes with a crunchy amp

lol nice, pedal modding is nice and clever but having a pedal only for the smooth creamy sound is always a good thing

[Demanic]

Re: Help me find smooth, creamy sustaining notes with a crunchy amp

Don't do the smooth creamy too often. I like a lot of chunk and sizzle. But all of my guitars have a tone knob. Most of them with a 0.047 Orange Drop. Picked up a 5 pack one day in the discount bin @GC.

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[BloodRose]

Re: Help me find smooth, creamy sustaining notes with a crunchy amp

That's Awesome!! Glad you got what you needed and it is especially cool you were able to make it!

[Dave Locher]

Re: Help me find smooth, creamy sustaining notes with a crunchy amp

That's Awesome!! Glad you got what you needed and it is especially cool you were able to make it!

Oh, just to clarify, I did NOT build the overdrive, I bought it from the guy who built it. I just soldered in two capacitors, two wires, and a toggle switch. I just never realized how much you can change the character of a pedal with just one little change or addition.

[devastone]

Re: Help me find smooth, creamy sustaining notes with a crunchy amp

The caps and resistors are pretty much what set the character, they are what does all the signal limiting, tone manipulation, and frequency dependent gain.