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So yesterday I had about half an hour at home alone and nothing to do- so I thought I'd do an experiment. I thought maybe the bandit sounded bad at high gain because the speaker wasn't moving enough, so I cranked it up as loud as it would go without resonating so loudly it picked up on recording, stuck an sm57 on the center cone and went to it. Took me about 10 minutes to get a tone that didn't sound overly muddy and a bit to get the hooked up and stuff so I had only 10 minutes to record as many clips as possible- they're messy to be sure. I used a boss os-2 to push it.
Basically what I've discovered and shouldn't be anything new is that emgs sound like complete ass with solid state amps. The jb while sounding better was still overly flabby because it's a 1x12 open back. The only clip that came out well really was the one I knew would sound good- the clean clip. I used the os-2 to overdrive it slightly in that clip as well and it also sounded good to my ears. For distortion, this amp doesn't cut the mustard. Works well enough for practices though I guess.
Anyway, thought this might be interesting to some. Could be a good amp for someone after mostly clean tones in a solid state.
Basically what I've discovered and shouldn't be anything new is that emgs sound like complete ass with solid state amps. The jb while sounding better was still overly flabby because it's a 1x12 open back. The only clip that came out well really was the one I knew would sound good- the clean clip. I used the os-2 to overdrive it slightly in that clip as well and it also sounded good to my ears. For distortion, this amp doesn't cut the mustard. Works well enough for practices though I guess.
Anyway, thought this might be interesting to some. Could be a good amp for someone after mostly clean tones in a solid state.
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