stevie_bees
Cat In The Hatministrator
I played through the pedal into my V-Amp this afternoon (The JTM45 will have to wait til next weekend!).
I set the V-Amp to the Classic Clean setting, with a flat EQ. I like the V-Amp, but after playing for a while the "modeliness" of it begins to tire my ears and I start fiddling with the settings too much.
No such problems firing the Blackstar through it!! It simply sounds like a valve amp!
I set all controls to the 12 o'clock position, and then adjusted the levels to suit. The 2 channels are beautifully balanced and the shared EQ works for both equally well. Each pickup position and volume setting causes the right reaction from the HT-Dual and I could get from warm, tubey neck-pickup cleans blues to screaming 80's hair metal with just a change of pickup, a stomp of the pedal and a tweak of the guitar's volume! ISP works really well too, subtly changing the response to whichever side if the Atlantic your sound hails from, and all points in between. I ended up setting it just slightly more to the US side to give the lower notes more definition.
I didn't even think about cranking the gain of both channels past the 12 o'clock position. No danger of getting bored with my sound through the V-Amp now...
Only the joy of playing it through my JTM45 awaits.
If you're pondering on whether to get one of these then ponder no more. Go and get one!!
I set the V-Amp to the Classic Clean setting, with a flat EQ. I like the V-Amp, but after playing for a while the "modeliness" of it begins to tire my ears and I start fiddling with the settings too much.
No such problems firing the Blackstar through it!! It simply sounds like a valve amp!
I set all controls to the 12 o'clock position, and then adjusted the levels to suit. The 2 channels are beautifully balanced and the shared EQ works for both equally well. Each pickup position and volume setting causes the right reaction from the HT-Dual and I could get from warm, tubey neck-pickup cleans blues to screaming 80's hair metal with just a change of pickup, a stomp of the pedal and a tweak of the guitar's volume! ISP works really well too, subtly changing the response to whichever side if the Atlantic your sound hails from, and all points in between. I ended up setting it just slightly more to the US side to give the lower notes more definition.
I didn't even think about cranking the gain of both channels past the 12 o'clock position. No danger of getting bored with my sound through the V-Amp now...
Only the joy of playing it through my JTM45 awaits.
If you're pondering on whether to get one of these then ponder no more. Go and get one!!
