Diego
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As you might know, I've been a Tweaker loyalist for years. I love it. For perpetrating raunchy, vintage flavored RnR misdemeanors it's wonderful. Loud, proud, smooth and easy to live with. Beautiful cleans, too.
However, it seems like my tonal preferences have taken a U-turn this last year or so, leaning towards much heavier, saturated realms. And the Tweaker won't go that far on it's own.
I've been digging the tones on albums like Devin Townsend's Addicted, Terria and Metallica's Load for years. All of them have a heavy dose of Mesa Boogie amplification, particularly the Rectifier series I think.
So I've been getting that kind of tone from my Tweaker... In a real ghetto way. My guitar into a freakin' Line 6 Pocket POD directly to the FX Loop return of my Tweaker, in the Dual Rectifier setting, cab simulation off. I absolutely LOVE the way it sounds, man. I'm almost embarrassed to admit it! It cleans up great, crank the guitar volume and it's ****ing mayhem.
The thing is, I can do better, right?
For starters, the Pocket POD is a bit unreliable for live usage, and you can't tweak the EQ on it on the fly, or switch channels, since a clean signal into a power amp just stinks. But I think I'd like a better preamp source that MUST deliver two channels, maybe some modest FX but that will do that kind of Dual Rec savagery into a power amp, whatever that might be tomorrow.
As you might suspect, I don't care if it's tube, digital or solid state as long as it delivers some heavy American high-gain tones. No rack units, has to be a pedal.
Any ideas on how I might steer this ship a bit? I'm genuinely a bit lost for ideas here. Only thing that comes to mind is an AMT preamp.
However, it seems like my tonal preferences have taken a U-turn this last year or so, leaning towards much heavier, saturated realms. And the Tweaker won't go that far on it's own.
I've been digging the tones on albums like Devin Townsend's Addicted, Terria and Metallica's Load for years. All of them have a heavy dose of Mesa Boogie amplification, particularly the Rectifier series I think.
So I've been getting that kind of tone from my Tweaker... In a real ghetto way. My guitar into a freakin' Line 6 Pocket POD directly to the FX Loop return of my Tweaker, in the Dual Rectifier setting, cab simulation off. I absolutely LOVE the way it sounds, man. I'm almost embarrassed to admit it! It cleans up great, crank the guitar volume and it's ****ing mayhem.
The thing is, I can do better, right?
For starters, the Pocket POD is a bit unreliable for live usage, and you can't tweak the EQ on it on the fly, or switch channels, since a clean signal into a power amp just stinks. But I think I'd like a better preamp source that MUST deliver two channels, maybe some modest FX but that will do that kind of Dual Rec savagery into a power amp, whatever that might be tomorrow.
As you might suspect, I don't care if it's tube, digital or solid state as long as it delivers some heavy American high-gain tones. No rack units, has to be a pedal.
Any ideas on how I might steer this ship a bit? I'm genuinely a bit lost for ideas here. Only thing that comes to mind is an AMT preamp.
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