Quencho092
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Re: Let's talk clean tones!
i love the tone of my strat deep into the clean "headroom zone" of a 100 watt amp.
i love the tone of my strat deep into the clean "headroom zone" of a 100 watt amp.
Let's talk clean tones!
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Buttery Toneologist
Re: Let's talk clean tones!
Cool. You'd have to get pretty vintage or boutique to come up with a better amp...
PUCKBOY99 said:
Cool. You'd have to get pretty vintage or boutique to come up with a better amp...
Re: Let's talk clean tones!
I have a '94 Blue Angel with blue leather covering! It is a 1x12 model, and the cleans on that are awesome...
Here is a song with the BA, a TS5 tubescreamer, and a Line6 DL4 Delay...A Ready Thing
Well, it isn't clean, but you get to hear the amp anyway...
PUCKBOY99 said:
I have a '94 Blue Angel with blue leather covering! It is a 1x12 model, and the cleans on that are awesome...
Here is a song with the BA, a TS5 tubescreamer, and a Line6 DL4 Delay...A Ready Thing
Well, it isn't clean, but you get to hear the amp anyway...
Gearjoneser
Gear Ho
Re: Let's talk clean tones!
I really like using every tonal shade. It's really amazing how many clean tones there are. I'd guess most players focus on the different timbres of gain tones, then consider a clean tone 'a clean tone.' To me, the best clean tones are ones that don't sound compressed or gainy, but still sing with sustain. I still can't make up my mind which tube type possesses my favorite clean tone. 6L6 has the balanced and most natural tone. EL-34's have a more tubby, woody and midrangey vibe, and EL-84's have the chimey/glassy thing going on. Between a Super Reverb, Matchless Chieftain, and Vox AC-30, I can't choose a winner. They're all killer in their own special way.
I really like using every tonal shade. It's really amazing how many clean tones there are. I'd guess most players focus on the different timbres of gain tones, then consider a clean tone 'a clean tone.' To me, the best clean tones are ones that don't sound compressed or gainy, but still sing with sustain. I still can't make up my mind which tube type possesses my favorite clean tone. 6L6 has the balanced and most natural tone. EL-34's have a more tubby, woody and midrangey vibe, and EL-84's have the chimey/glassy thing going on. Between a Super Reverb, Matchless Chieftain, and Vox AC-30, I can't choose a winner. They're all killer in their own special way.
JeffB
Let it B
Re: Let's talk clean tones!
I was never much into the Fender "clean" sound, personally (an overdriven bassman/twin/deluxe is a different story). It sounds awesome and I love to hear others use it, but when I'm doing the playing I prefer a "pristine" chorused (or even a light Phaser) clean like a Roland JC, or just rolling down the guitar volume on a cranked Marshall or similar tube head (a "small" sounding clean if you will) where it's really responsive to picking attack/dynamics to break up a bit or not as I desire.
I also used to really like the Rockman clean sound (basically the same rolled down guitar volume & marshall "small" tone but crisper), until everyone and their mothers started using Rockmans
I was never much into the Fender "clean" sound, personally (an overdriven bassman/twin/deluxe is a different story). It sounds awesome and I love to hear others use it, but when I'm doing the playing I prefer a "pristine" chorused (or even a light Phaser) clean like a Roland JC, or just rolling down the guitar volume on a cranked Marshall or similar tube head (a "small" sounding clean if you will) where it's really responsive to picking attack/dynamics to break up a bit or not as I desire.
I also used to really like the Rockman clean sound (basically the same rolled down guitar volume & marshall "small" tone but crisper), until everyone and their mothers started using Rockmans
No effects
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Re: Let's talk clean tones!
I'm now "completely clean" as I've bought a decent attenuator for my Marshall plexi re-issue. Getting dirtier will come from cranking amp volume, but it won't need to go passed 5 for my taste (this is Angus Young territory). Even with this setting, you can get a clean rhythm sound with your guitar volume on 6 and cranking to 10 for leads. The only pedal on the way is an ABY box with a volume+mid boost feature.
I'm now "completely clean" as I've bought a decent attenuator for my Marshall plexi re-issue. Getting dirtier will come from cranking amp volume, but it won't need to go passed 5 for my taste (this is Angus Young territory). Even with this setting, you can get a clean rhythm sound with your guitar volume on 6 and cranking to 10 for leads. The only pedal on the way is an ABY box with a volume+mid boost feature.
Hellion
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Re: Let's talk clean tones!
The thing I've found about Polytones is that they're ridiculously clean. A lot of studio players used them in the 70's and that was because they could color the tone so much using pedals. Tommy Tedesco, Jay Graydon, Lee Ritenour all used them at some point in time. Of course, they were using pedals in front to give them distortion, phasing, chorus, etc. Polytones were kind of a "power amp" of sorts. I'm not a big fan of them either, by the way, but they do have their applications.
Mincer said:
The thing I've found about Polytones is that they're ridiculously clean. A lot of studio players used them in the 70's and that was because they could color the tone so much using pedals. Tommy Tedesco, Jay Graydon, Lee Ritenour all used them at some point in time. Of course, they were using pedals in front to give them distortion, phasing, chorus, etc. Polytones were kind of a "power amp" of sorts. I'm not a big fan of them either, by the way, but they do have their applications.
