Gunny47
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Okay guys, first off, just a few things to ponder. Some background: I play in a room with wallpapered and painted walls and carpeted floors when I'm practicing on my own (my room of course). So, the sound is pretty um dead. Not saying this is a bad thing, but basically, when I'm playing clean, there is no echo or reverb of any kind at all. This makes the amp sound a little on the thin side when soloing single notes, especially with the slide, and it makes me want to turn that sucker up. And when I turn it up, its freaking loud! Too loud... :9: And then I get the thickness I want out of the tone, but then I realize that it is probably too distorted because I like a big fat clean sound.
Sometimes I bring my amp downstairs to put it in front of the computer so I can try to learn stuff from youtube. That room has a hard wood floor and is slightly longer and more open than my room upstairs and I get this amazing natural slapback reverb sort of thing. Sounds very ambient and makes me want to keep the amp at lower volume so I can get that reverberated clean tone. Then, I brought the amp in my brothers room where there was a drum set, because he has ipod speakers and I wanted to jam and learn some more derek trucks stuff on songlines. First, I shut the snare off because that was making noise, but then I got this amazing tone. It was not exactly like reverb, but almost like a stereo/delay sorta thing also. The tone resonated through the wood cab, and then resonated through the toms and bass drum, fattening the tone again. Here - example. Ever play guitar unplugged on a wooden chair or near a wooden desk? Now, take the guitar and have it touch that wood and it will resonate through that wood and make it louder and cool sounding. Same concept, but on a larger scale with the drum set.
Anyway, just a little science and things to consider for you guys. Maybe you aren't looking for distortion when you solo, but are just looking for some thickness and sustain. That's my situation. Just some food of thought..:smokin:
Okay, next - stuff about amps. After the Allman Brothers concert and me listening to a countless ampunt of Derek Trucks and SRV, I decided to check out the Fender Super Reverb. I played one a while back, like when I just started out and it "didn't have all the distortion settings" :fingersx: I've played tones of Twin Reverbs and Deluxe Reverbs since then, but they all seemed to be missing something compared to the Super REverb I was ablout to play...
And to say one thing, I loved it! It acted a lot like my Tweed Twin did when it came to clean. BIG AND FAT, DUDE! Just like a wall of clean. Looks really sharp also. Guitar: a red ES-335 Reissue, beautiful guitar. Very warm tones, more open sounding so I could play some airy jazz stuff. Jazz still sounds great on a Les Paul IMO also. But this amp seems like the perfect blues amp. Fat clean sounds, the godly Fender 'verb, 4x10 alnico speakers for that extra break up and edge when you crank it up. Just a very cool amp!
Sometimes I bring my amp downstairs to put it in front of the computer so I can try to learn stuff from youtube. That room has a hard wood floor and is slightly longer and more open than my room upstairs and I get this amazing natural slapback reverb sort of thing. Sounds very ambient and makes me want to keep the amp at lower volume so I can get that reverberated clean tone. Then, I brought the amp in my brothers room where there was a drum set, because he has ipod speakers and I wanted to jam and learn some more derek trucks stuff on songlines. First, I shut the snare off because that was making noise, but then I got this amazing tone. It was not exactly like reverb, but almost like a stereo/delay sorta thing also. The tone resonated through the wood cab, and then resonated through the toms and bass drum, fattening the tone again. Here - example. Ever play guitar unplugged on a wooden chair or near a wooden desk? Now, take the guitar and have it touch that wood and it will resonate through that wood and make it louder and cool sounding. Same concept, but on a larger scale with the drum set.
Anyway, just a little science and things to consider for you guys. Maybe you aren't looking for distortion when you solo, but are just looking for some thickness and sustain. That's my situation. Just some food of thought..:smokin:
Okay, next - stuff about amps. After the Allman Brothers concert and me listening to a countless ampunt of Derek Trucks and SRV, I decided to check out the Fender Super Reverb. I played one a while back, like when I just started out and it "didn't have all the distortion settings" :fingersx: I've played tones of Twin Reverbs and Deluxe Reverbs since then, but they all seemed to be missing something compared to the Super REverb I was ablout to play...
And to say one thing, I loved it! It acted a lot like my Tweed Twin did when it came to clean. BIG AND FAT, DUDE! Just like a wall of clean. Looks really sharp also. Guitar: a red ES-335 Reissue, beautiful guitar. Very warm tones, more open sounding so I could play some airy jazz stuff. Jazz still sounds great on a Les Paul IMO also. But this amp seems like the perfect blues amp. Fat clean sounds, the godly Fender 'verb, 4x10 alnico speakers for that extra break up and edge when you crank it up. Just a very cool amp!
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