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I've been a fan of the tone knob for awhile for clean tones, I do like the hyper clean jangle sound (hence owning a gretsch) but once you discover the tone knob has more settings than 10 and 1 there's a lot of good warm tone to be had. I think goin to school & playin jazz all the time helped me appreciate warmer tones more, too.
Anyways, for rock I usually run it wide open to help get some clarity back that you lose from using gain. Plus I guess when I thought of warm distorted tones I thought of Santana, whose tone I hate, and Slash, who I can appreciate despite Axel Rose, but his tone isn't really what I'm goin for.
A couple days ago I was jammin with some dudes, and just on a whim with my normal amp settings I decided to roll the tone knobs on my strat back to jazz position (about 2.5-3 on a scale of 1-10) and it sounded pretty good, maybe just a little muffled, so I turned em up a tiny bit more and bam, perfection. For some stuff I still ended up opening it up a little more for faster stuff, but mannnn soloing was so fun. I don't know the science behind it or if it was just in my head, but it seemed like my guitar sustained forever, and everything just seemed more fluid and less percussive, surprisingly not a lot of problems cutting through either. Kick on a TS with the gain around 2:30 and the tone at about 9:00... ****, it was pure emotion. I still want a treble booster, but... hell yes.
So after that, well, I'd been thinkin about stereo rigs for awhile now, something tweedish and something blackface-ish with the tweed set for big and warm with lots of gain and the BF big and sparkly with just a little overdrive. A 40-50 watt combo with a decent amount of speaker does me about right, so my thought was a deluxe reverb with an efficient speaker and maybe something like a Silvertone 1482 for the thickness, which in theory would put me about right for volume. But after playing with just a big warm light to medium gain tone, I think I wanna get something that just does that and keep the deville as my big chimey amp, use them both for recording maybe, or if i get famous enough to not haul my own stuff. Though of course going this route I'd need something that could pull off the chimey sound when you roll up the tone and down the volume.
So if you were gonna get an amp that could get this lead tone and still be able to pull off pretty sparkly cleans (not necessarily like a blackface, anything that says "fender" will do), what would it be? I'd prefer a tube rec for some sag
Anyways, for rock I usually run it wide open to help get some clarity back that you lose from using gain. Plus I guess when I thought of warm distorted tones I thought of Santana, whose tone I hate, and Slash, who I can appreciate despite Axel Rose, but his tone isn't really what I'm goin for.
A couple days ago I was jammin with some dudes, and just on a whim with my normal amp settings I decided to roll the tone knobs on my strat back to jazz position (about 2.5-3 on a scale of 1-10) and it sounded pretty good, maybe just a little muffled, so I turned em up a tiny bit more and bam, perfection. For some stuff I still ended up opening it up a little more for faster stuff, but mannnn soloing was so fun. I don't know the science behind it or if it was just in my head, but it seemed like my guitar sustained forever, and everything just seemed more fluid and less percussive, surprisingly not a lot of problems cutting through either. Kick on a TS with the gain around 2:30 and the tone at about 9:00... ****, it was pure emotion. I still want a treble booster, but... hell yes.
So after that, well, I'd been thinkin about stereo rigs for awhile now, something tweedish and something blackface-ish with the tweed set for big and warm with lots of gain and the BF big and sparkly with just a little overdrive. A 40-50 watt combo with a decent amount of speaker does me about right, so my thought was a deluxe reverb with an efficient speaker and maybe something like a Silvertone 1482 for the thickness, which in theory would put me about right for volume. But after playing with just a big warm light to medium gain tone, I think I wanna get something that just does that and keep the deville as my big chimey amp, use them both for recording maybe, or if i get famous enough to not haul my own stuff. Though of course going this route I'd need something that could pull off the chimey sound when you roll up the tone and down the volume.
So if you were gonna get an amp that could get this lead tone and still be able to pull off pretty sparkly cleans (not necessarily like a blackface, anything that says "fender" will do), what would it be? I'd prefer a tube rec for some sag
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