FuseG4
Our Neighbor Totoro
Long post, but here goes.
I got this DRRI and I haven't gotten to let it really rip since I changed tubes and speakers. I've been playing it between 1 and 3 on the vol. for a couple of weeks, anxiously waiting for a day when I could drag my amp to someone's house in the suburbs and really test the speaker and whatnot. oh and test the les lius without an attenuator. Oh and I swapped pickups on my les paul from a BB1/2 to a 59/JB, and went up 11s, and started using dunlop Jazz IIIs.
Went to my mom's house and took my Les Paul.
Commenting on the Les Lius first. I can't believe the first thing my mom says is "hey that sounds like Keith Richards!". Sweet. That alone is worth the money. My favorite mode is definitely the 5E3 mode. it goes perfectly with my amp. The bass compression is just enough to get an "almost fuzz"y ZZ Top thing going with the bridge pickup. The twin mode is sweeter but it's boomier, not as good a match for the les paul. I wish it had a tweed champ mode instead of the tchula mode, which so far I think sounds good but isn't something I'd use much.
testing the 59/JB: JB puts mids into this setup. It's much easier to pull off Led Zeppelin on a Fender amp with something like this. The middle position with both pickups on about 7 is pure sechs for me. Kinda honky, plucky, bluesy. nothing Ice picky from the JB, even with stock 500K pots. That's right. It's a JB into a Deluxe Reverb and I said nothing Ice picky.
Amp mods: So I removed V1, and the PI is now a 12ax7, and the speaker is a now a Weber 1225 (ceramic greenback-type). I was pretty blown away. I turned it up to about 7, with this les paul, no pedals, and I was legitimately getting hot, dirty blues and rock with serious grind. I actually thought my crunchbox was still on. I was inspired to play stuff like Crossroads and Immigrant Song and it came out great, and with a definite fender flavor. The speaker breakup is very smooth and I didn't get any fart or flub.
I'd say the tone was sort of like a cranked Blues Jr, but less smokey and compressed, and in between the amount of bass of a blues Jr and a HRDx. Stock, my amp wouldn't do those levels of breakup. Now it does and I'm very very happy.
So I've noticed that I've changed virtually 95% of my gear this year.
I started this year with an Egnater Tweaker, a SG special, a MIM strat, a MIM tele, an Agile AL3100, and a Yamaha Eg112. Now I have a USA strat, an Epiphone LP, and a DRRI.
I used to have a BD-2, a Danelectro Cool Cat, and a Digitech Hot Rod distortion. Now I have a Crunchbox, a Les Lius, and I kept the BD-2.
Today for the first time, I really got to feel in my gut the fruits of my labor. i heard my straight-into-the-amp tone and freaking loved it. Thanks for reading.
I got this DRRI and I haven't gotten to let it really rip since I changed tubes and speakers. I've been playing it between 1 and 3 on the vol. for a couple of weeks, anxiously waiting for a day when I could drag my amp to someone's house in the suburbs and really test the speaker and whatnot. oh and test the les lius without an attenuator. Oh and I swapped pickups on my les paul from a BB1/2 to a 59/JB, and went up 11s, and started using dunlop Jazz IIIs.
Went to my mom's house and took my Les Paul.
Commenting on the Les Lius first. I can't believe the first thing my mom says is "hey that sounds like Keith Richards!". Sweet. That alone is worth the money. My favorite mode is definitely the 5E3 mode. it goes perfectly with my amp. The bass compression is just enough to get an "almost fuzz"y ZZ Top thing going with the bridge pickup. The twin mode is sweeter but it's boomier, not as good a match for the les paul. I wish it had a tweed champ mode instead of the tchula mode, which so far I think sounds good but isn't something I'd use much.
testing the 59/JB: JB puts mids into this setup. It's much easier to pull off Led Zeppelin on a Fender amp with something like this. The middle position with both pickups on about 7 is pure sechs for me. Kinda honky, plucky, bluesy. nothing Ice picky from the JB, even with stock 500K pots. That's right. It's a JB into a Deluxe Reverb and I said nothing Ice picky.
Amp mods: So I removed V1, and the PI is now a 12ax7, and the speaker is a now a Weber 1225 (ceramic greenback-type). I was pretty blown away. I turned it up to about 7, with this les paul, no pedals, and I was legitimately getting hot, dirty blues and rock with serious grind. I actually thought my crunchbox was still on. I was inspired to play stuff like Crossroads and Immigrant Song and it came out great, and with a definite fender flavor. The speaker breakup is very smooth and I didn't get any fart or flub.
I'd say the tone was sort of like a cranked Blues Jr, but less smokey and compressed, and in between the amount of bass of a blues Jr and a HRDx. Stock, my amp wouldn't do those levels of breakup. Now it does and I'm very very happy.
So I've noticed that I've changed virtually 95% of my gear this year.
I started this year with an Egnater Tweaker, a SG special, a MIM strat, a MIM tele, an Agile AL3100, and a Yamaha Eg112. Now I have a USA strat, an Epiphone LP, and a DRRI.
I used to have a BD-2, a Danelectro Cool Cat, and a Digitech Hot Rod distortion. Now I have a Crunchbox, a Les Lius, and I kept the BD-2.
Today for the first time, I really got to feel in my gut the fruits of my labor. i heard my straight-into-the-amp tone and freaking loved it. Thanks for reading.
:lmao:
