Re: heres my problem, how do i fix it.
i know exactly what you mean. that 100 is a killer amp, but like my jvm, it craves loudness. those heads have that 50watt switch, and it must be an improvement over the 100 watt mode in that respect. even then, the louder it gets the better it sounds.
the 60c, which i have, is actually a little warmer and crisper sounding than the 100 watt. i don't know if you have the combo or the head, but they're both extremely loud and powerful amps.
there are several things i've discovered about this amp. too much eq on one of the knobs can throw the feel out of whack. turn the attack level down. i see people using attack on full and i don't personally like the way it feels or what it does to the sound that much if it's all the way up.
engage the compression feature, back off the gain just a bit, and keep the contour between 10-12 o'clock. personally though, i like it with the gain at 3 o'clock and no compression. i keep the contour at 10 o'clock and the attack at 10 o'clock when i use it.
another thing i noticed is the contour vs. the eq controls. i find this a bit tricky, that's why i think the sweet spot on the contour for me is 10 o'clock. i don't scoop mids.
do you use reverb? a higher setting on the reverb master control and lower setting on the channel reverb changes the dynamics of hte reverb.
personally, it takes me about 20 minutes to warm up and get my pick hand going. if you're referring to the initial playing of hte amp, then i can see what you mean too because i always feel like there's an acclamation period with that amp every time i turn it on.
then again, i read somewhere that david gilmour never uses the same amp settings from day to day because each day it changes a bit or something like that. maybe that has something to do with it. i'm no expert though of course.
