Hi guys,
for some time now I've been listening to guys like blues saraceno, santana, andy timmons, michael schenker, robben ford and larry carlton. a rather diverse palette of tones and music(al styles) I think. I play les pauls exclusively, nothing else. but some of them have a factory installed trem, and all of them have a unique set of pickups (for example, a customwound set of bil lawrence L500's, or duncan hybrids, like the jb/fullshred hybrid in neck and bridge, airbucker a8 in neck and ceramic in bridge). that alone gives you a huge range of tones, but I also use a coiltap and the 'peter green' trick of flipping the magnet of the neckpickup so the bridge and neck are allways out of phase when put together.
The amps I use are for 90% of the time the rivera knucklehead reverb and rivera m100 with customized frontloaded cabs (one has the g12t75 + g1265 and the other has the g12t75 and a v30).
now, my point is the following.
depending on what I am about to play, I just take one channel of each amp. I only use the third channel and second channel (much less than the third though!) of the knucklehead reverb and the second channel of the m100. what the second channel of the knucklehead does, is what the m100 excels at but ok. kind of what andy timmons is doing with this stiletto (biting crunchy tones) and lonestar (full fat sirupy juicy tones) setup is doing. though I use rivera
so, I just take one channel, and with my volumepot I go to clean, crunch or fullwhack distortion. I don't use the gainboosts to get more gain, neccasarily. I use them to change the character of the overdrive. Most of the time I like the gainstructure, but I don't like having more GAIN neccasarily, so I lower the gain (the knob itself) from 6 or 7 to 5 or 6, sometimes even lower. thats why all my pickups have roughly the same output but different voicings.
For instance, I can't get that thick tone robben ford has, from my knucklehead(s third channel, the second is ok), so I use the m100. but that crunchy, honky tone blues saraceno has, can't be found in the m100 (if I have it set up for the robben ford thing, which uses completely different settings than the biting crunchy tone I also use).
am I the only one who uses his amps like this? just one channel for a song, or multiple songs, with the boosts to change the character and structure of the amp?
for some time now I've been listening to guys like blues saraceno, santana, andy timmons, michael schenker, robben ford and larry carlton. a rather diverse palette of tones and music(al styles) I think. I play les pauls exclusively, nothing else. but some of them have a factory installed trem, and all of them have a unique set of pickups (for example, a customwound set of bil lawrence L500's, or duncan hybrids, like the jb/fullshred hybrid in neck and bridge, airbucker a8 in neck and ceramic in bridge). that alone gives you a huge range of tones, but I also use a coiltap and the 'peter green' trick of flipping the magnet of the neckpickup so the bridge and neck are allways out of phase when put together.
The amps I use are for 90% of the time the rivera knucklehead reverb and rivera m100 with customized frontloaded cabs (one has the g12t75 + g1265 and the other has the g12t75 and a v30).
now, my point is the following.
depending on what I am about to play, I just take one channel of each amp. I only use the third channel and second channel (much less than the third though!) of the knucklehead reverb and the second channel of the m100. what the second channel of the knucklehead does, is what the m100 excels at but ok. kind of what andy timmons is doing with this stiletto (biting crunchy tones) and lonestar (full fat sirupy juicy tones) setup is doing. though I use rivera
so, I just take one channel, and with my volumepot I go to clean, crunch or fullwhack distortion. I don't use the gainboosts to get more gain, neccasarily. I use them to change the character of the overdrive. Most of the time I like the gainstructure, but I don't like having more GAIN neccasarily, so I lower the gain (the knob itself) from 6 or 7 to 5 or 6, sometimes even lower. thats why all my pickups have roughly the same output but different voicings.
For instance, I can't get that thick tone robben ford has, from my knucklehead(s third channel, the second is ok), so I use the m100. but that crunchy, honky tone blues saraceno has, can't be found in the m100 (if I have it set up for the robben ford thing, which uses completely different settings than the biting crunchy tone I also use).
am I the only one who uses his amps like this? just one channel for a song, or multiple songs, with the boosts to change the character and structure of the amp?
