PVFan
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heck, shoot, reading that guy's gushing about it half-sold me on it before I ever plugged in.
My copy's not that dirty-getting. Fuller made it sound really overdrivey, but mine isn't. It crunches, but it's a clean amp for the most part, my Route 66. With my Small Stone phaser and Hardwire Delay it is lush as a pitcher of Hawaiian Punch brought by yer babe of choice.
Synchronistically, I was looking for (vaguely) a clean, Fender Twin-ish sounding platform for pedals, maybe a little smaller, but with a chunk of headroom. In particular, I wanted a clean amp for a Fulltone pedal. It's the Plimsoul that I've been talking about, and it sounds utterly cool with the Z. So my pedal guy really likes my amp. And Fulltone pedals were and still are pretty much the only outboard distortion units I have ever liked. Keep yer Boss stompers and yer Tube Screamers and yer Kanjis and Eternitys and Teddys and Muffs and Kalamazoos. Not that there's anything wrong with them, but between
So, if you ever read this, Fulltone: thanks babe. For saying stuff on the Z site and for making the only distortion pedals I ever dug. That Plimsoul is incredible dude.
I swear. The distortion(s) and compression(s) I am getting.
Plimsoul > R66 > Swamp Thang.
So many kinds of gnarly distortion, and creamy distortion, and everything in between from a little to a lot. Big tone at more volumes previously available to me. Because this "micro-stack" does NOT wimp out at low volumes. All my 5150-into-Uberkab metal tones are there and just as loud but with even more useable amounts of bass and distortion and with far better cleanup. And even when I'm using a TON of distortion, like, more than I've ever been able to use, my rig is q-u-i-e-t ... shhh. Ugly as heck, though, cuz the amp is red and sits on a blue 112. But really portable & lightweight. Easy to start experimenting with speakers and stereo "microstacks". Heh heh. I have to laugh at that. Because it literally is a micro-stack. Nothing "micro" sounding about it. I'm reminded of many amps with casual adjustments to the sparse controls of this rig. SLO? Twin? 800? 5150? Herbert? And without 15 knobs and 11 switches and a ton of circuitry and over-engineering and 10 vacuum tubes to keep in fine-tuned alignment and to stress over.
I carefully expressed the above after I took my time trying to figure out why my new sounds are working so much better for me -- better, now that I've had so much success with the gear experimentation I've been angst'ing over (see last 30 gear threads of mine for details).
My copy's not that dirty-getting. Fuller made it sound really overdrivey, but mine isn't. It crunches, but it's a clean amp for the most part, my Route 66. With my Small Stone phaser and Hardwire Delay it is lush as a pitcher of Hawaiian Punch brought by yer babe of choice.
Synchronistically, I was looking for (vaguely) a clean, Fender Twin-ish sounding platform for pedals, maybe a little smaller, but with a chunk of headroom. In particular, I wanted a clean amp for a Fulltone pedal. It's the Plimsoul that I've been talking about, and it sounds utterly cool with the Z. So my pedal guy really likes my amp. And Fulltone pedals were and still are pretty much the only outboard distortion units I have ever liked. Keep yer Boss stompers and yer Tube Screamers and yer Kanjis and Eternitys and Teddys and Muffs and Kalamazoos. Not that there's anything wrong with them, but between
- the Plimsoul's hard & soft combos of distortion (and magical 'Hi-Cut'), and
- the Route 66's easily under-estimated tone stack
So, if you ever read this, Fulltone: thanks babe. For saying stuff on the Z site and for making the only distortion pedals I ever dug. That Plimsoul is incredible dude.
I swear. The distortion(s) and compression(s) I am getting.
Plimsoul > R66 > Swamp Thang.
So many kinds of gnarly distortion, and creamy distortion, and everything in between from a little to a lot. Big tone at more volumes previously available to me. Because this "micro-stack" does NOT wimp out at low volumes. All my 5150-into-Uberkab metal tones are there and just as loud but with even more useable amounts of bass and distortion and with far better cleanup. And even when I'm using a TON of distortion, like, more than I've ever been able to use, my rig is q-u-i-e-t ... shhh. Ugly as heck, though, cuz the amp is red and sits on a blue 112. But really portable & lightweight. Easy to start experimenting with speakers and stereo "microstacks". Heh heh. I have to laugh at that. Because it literally is a micro-stack. Nothing "micro" sounding about it. I'm reminded of many amps with casual adjustments to the sparse controls of this rig. SLO? Twin? 800? 5150? Herbert? And without 15 knobs and 11 switches and a ton of circuitry and over-engineering and 10 vacuum tubes to keep in fine-tuned alignment and to stress over.
I carefully expressed the above after I took my time trying to figure out why my new sounds are working so much better for me -- better, now that I've had so much success with the gear experimentation I've been angst'ing over (see last 30 gear threads of mine for details).
