From bright to fat?

[Jazz Rock]

Since I started to record some stuff, my taste sound wise has somehow shifted from predominantly bright to fat. In the compo I am working on, I managed to get a fairly fat sound and I love it.

So I was wondering, my taste change, could my amp follow?

There is a bright switch on my Laney LC15R. Would it be fairly easy to turn it into a fat switch like you find on Fender Blues Junior?

 

[Jazz Rock]

Re: From bright to fat?

I found the wiring but couldn't spot the bright switch!

http://www.guitarnucleus.com/gnstore/schematics/laneyschem/LC15.pdf

 

[Rushfan2112]

Re: From bright to fat?

I think the fat switch just adds an extra gain stage.

 

[Jazz Rock]

Re: From bright to fat?

Extra gain stage... interesting. Does it mean I could turn a Big Muff into a huge fat switch (with the fuzz and co. on top of course). Doesn't the Big muff has 4 gain stages? So if adding a gain stage, gives extra mids, with a wee tweak to the tone stack, I should be able to work out something.

 

[drew_half_empty]

Re: From bright to fat?

yeah, throw an onboard big muff on that thing

that'd be friggin awesome

make it footswitchable

but old bassman heads had deep switches on the bass channel, may look into one of them

 

[Amateur]

Re: From bright to fat?

Extra gain stage... interesting. Does it mean I could turn a Big Muff into a huge fat switch (with the fuzz and co. on top of course). Doesn't the Big muff has 4 gain stages? So if adding a gain stage, gives extra mids, with a wee tweak to the tone stack, I should be able to work out something.

Isn't that waht the Duncan SFX-01 pickup booster pedal is for?

 

[DesertRat]

Re: From bright to fat?

I play through a bit larger Laney, the VC30 2x12, but I too, like going for a fatter sound. I don't know how similar your amp's tone voicing is to mine but I run the controls like this: Bass 4-6 (depending on how loud i'm playing, there's some interaction between the perceived bass and volume), Mids 7 (+/-), and Treble down around 2-3. I use a clean boost pedal (smart people factory Ego Booster) that has a tone control so I can goose the mids a bit more if I want.
Hope that helps.

 

[Jazz Rock]

Re: From bright to fat?

I play through a bit larger Laney, the VC30 2x12, but I too, like going for a fatter sound. I don't know how similar your amp's tone voicing is to mine but I run the controls like this: Bass 4-6 (depending on how loud i'm playing, there's some interaction between the perceived bass and volume), Mids 7 (+/-), and Treble down around 2-3. I use a clean boost pedal (smart people factory Ego Booster) that has a tone control so I can goose the mids a bit more if I want.
Hope that helps.

Hey, my setting nowadays is bass around or less than 5, the mids @ 8 and the treble between 5 and 6.5. It is actually working quite well so far for me. Its just that I thought, seeing my tone inclination, a mid boost would be more useful to me than a bright boost. The bright boost is nice for clean tone, but useless for overdriven to distorted sound. And as I am more in overdrive these days... I found the schematic for the Blues Junior, could the blues junior fat switch be incorporated to the Laney?

 

[Jazz Rock]

Re: From bright to fat?

Isn't that waht the Duncan SFX-01 pickup booster pedal is for?

I don't know, tell me about it!

 

[Amateur]

Re: From bright to fat?

I don't know, tell me about it!

The SFX-01 is supposed to fatten the sound of your guitar, be it single coil or humbucker. I have one and it does work for me. It is not a fuzz nor a distortion pedal. You can look it up on the SD web site. Just click on the big S on the upper left hand side of this screen and it will take you there. Click Effect Pedals under Products and it is the first one on the list.