Describe the setup for the FATTEST & RICHEST tone

[fingerace]

I don't know if this is the correct room for this thread but it's the closest.

What setup will give you a fat, full, rich tone? (clean) THE RICHEST...

1. Guitar
2. Pups
3. Amp

I know that most of you will say a les paul. What about (semi)hollowbodies? or chambered?

I was thinking of an all mahogany chambered singlecut set neck guitar with RW fingerboard. With seths, into a british voiced amp.

So, what do you think?

 

[Lake Placid Blues]

Re: Describe the setup for the FATTEST & RICHEST tone

I'm convinced that the guitar is more important than the amp or the pickups.

My chambered, mahogony, tele shaped guitar is usually my fattest, richest sounding guitar, regardless of other factors.

The pickups are PAF clones, much like Seths. I've tryed other pickups, even split, and the guitar is still the fattest.

I usually play it through a Marshall.

I like your plan!

 

[fingerace]

Re: Describe the setup for the FATTEST & RICHEST tone

I'm convinced that the guitar is more important than the amp or the pickups.

My chambered, mahogony, tele shaped guitar is usually my fattest, richest sounding guitar, regardless of other factors.

The pickups are PAF clones, much like Seths. I've tryed other pickups, even split, and the guitar is still the fattest.

I usually play it through a Marshall.

I like your plan!

I was quite close!

What neck wood and fretboard wood does the tele have? (I suppose it's a bolt on)

 

[fingerace]

Re: Describe the setup for the FATTEST & RICHEST tone

I know that defining fat and full is the point.

I am talking about midrange and harmonic ccomplex.

A tone that a single note of it, can fill every space the ears are searching for without anything missing! Very thick and rich overtones. It's not the same thing as a muddy tone. I mean rich and fat in a good way!

This is the tone in my head (along with one or two others)...

 

[Davey]

Re: Describe the setup for the FATTEST & RICHEST tone

mine

 

[Artie]

Re: Describe the setup for the FATTEST & RICHEST tone

One of that fattest, harmonically rich tones I've heard, is a simple SSS Strat using either a blend pot or a switch, to have all three pups on at once. My theory is that the resonant peak is spread out, so that you get a nice hi-fi sound, but also pick up three nodes on the strings.

Its the closest I've gotten to that "Sultans of Swing" sound.

 

[jeremy]

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my celtic aislynn 6L6 in cathode mode with no neg feedback running both the p10q and g12h speakers has the fattest richest, most harmonicly complex tone. so thick and meaty that with the mid control all the way up and the volume up its almost too fat for chording with a seth in the neck.

my seth/a2 bb loaded chambered oversized tele thing into that amp gives such a wide clean tone that you almost have to hear it to believe it.

 

[fingerace]

Re: Describe the setup for the FATTEST & RICHEST tone

my celtic aislynn 6L6 in cathode mode with no neg feedback running both the p10q and g12h speakers has the fattest richest, most harmonicly complex tone. so thick and meaty that with the mid control all the way up and the volume up its almost too fat for chording with a seth in the neck.

my seth/a2 bb loaded chambered oversized tele thing into that amp gives such a wide clean tone that you almost have to hear it to believe it.

If I remember correctly the aislyn is based on the 59 bassman?

I have to study more about amps!! What is the cathode mode and no negative feedback?

And where did you find the oversized tele? built it youself Jeremy?

thanks!

 

[Corbic]

Re: Describe the setup for the FATTEST & RICHEST tone

I would think that for a very fat, rich, clean sound, the ideal setup (with my limited knowledge of such things), would be a Seth Lover (or other PAF copy)-loaded Les Paul into a Hiwatt amplifier.

 

[Gearjoneser]

Re: Describe the setup for the FATTEST & RICHEST tone

Like Jeremy said, a chambered tele-gib with rosewood fretboard. The pickup you're describing is the CC, so use a CC/Seth neck.

Then get a Bassman LTD or plexi/2-12 setup, or both, in stereo!

For OD, get a Banzai Coldfusion or Klon.

That is the recipe for fat! LOL

 

[Hoss]

Re: Describe the setup for the FATTEST & RICHEST tone

my celtic aislynn 6L6 in cathode mode with no neg feedback running both the p10q and g12h speakers has the fattest richest, most harmonicly complex tone. so thick and meaty that with the mid control all the way up and the volume up its almost too fat for chording with a seth in the neck.

my seth/a2 bb loaded chambered oversized tele thing into that amp gives such a wide clean tone that you almost have to hear it to believe it.

that gave me chills!

 

[Simon_F]

Re: Describe the setup for the FATTEST & RICHEST tone

that gave me chills!

Are they multiplying, and are you losing control?

 

[SirJackdeFuzz]

Re: Describe the setup for the FATTEST & RICHEST tone

I don't know if this is the correct room for this thread but it's the closest.

What setup will give you a fat, full, rich tone? (clean) THE RICHEST...

1. Guitar
2. Pups
3. Amp

So, what do you think?

OK, my personal interpratation or FAT N'RICH, is :


Gibbo Les Paul
With Seth Lovers OR '59s
Bassman LTD


. . . or . . .



Gibbo ES-125 (semi hollow):smokin:
Standard Gibbo P90's
Marshall BluesBreaker


. . . or . . .



Gretsch Brian Setzer sig model :smokin: :smokin:
Standard TV Jones pu's
Orange AD30 HTC



These are just MY own idea of FAT N'RICH tones !

. . . FWIW

 

[Jeff_H]

Re: Describe the setup for the FATTEST & RICHEST tone

Are they multiplying, and are you losing control?

There should be a law agains't a 40 something Brit quoting a John Travolta/Olivia Newton-John song from the 70's.

 

[SirJackdeFuzz]

Re: Describe the setup for the FATTEST & RICHEST tone

There should be a law agains't a 40 something Brit quoting a John Travolta/Olivia Newton-John song from the 70's.

YES, to guitar-HELL with you . . .


. . . you know, where there is only Krank amps, and pointy BC Rich guitars :argh: :argh: :argh: :crazy:


:fing25:

 

[Simon_F]

Re: Describe the setup for the FATTEST & RICHEST tone

There should be a law agains't a 40 something Brit quoting a John Travolta/Olivia Newton-John song from the 70's.

Are you filled with affection you're too shy to convey? :banana:

 

[Jeff_H]

Re: Describe the setup for the FATTEST & RICHEST tone

You'de better shape up.....

 

[some_dude]

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The fattest I've ever gotten....

Fender Stratocaster
DiMarzio Vertual Vintage Blues Neck
Orange AD30 2x12 & Orange 4x12

Believe it or not but this is a fatter/richer tone than my Les Paul can produce....but it doesn't work for everything.

 

[Benjy_26]

Re: Describe the setup for the FATTEST & RICHEST tone

When I need a big, thick, juicy clean, I reach for my Sheraton loaded with Phat Cats. I then dial up a dual amp sim on the GT-8, a clean Vox AC30 and a low gain Matchless are my fave for this.

I run this through an EH 6L6 loaded Mesa 50:50 power amp. This is then routed to a Marshall JCM C212 cab on the right channel and a Vox Buckingham 2x12 cab on the left both loaded with a V30/G12H30 combo.

 

[Aceman]

Re: Describe the setup for the FATTEST & RICHEST tone

57 LP all-mahog black beauty (REAL/ORIGINAL!)
A2P bridge & seth middle on both pup setting
Trainwreck