reverb and delay question....

mmguz

mmguz

New member
When I use reverb at mid position in my fender hot rod deluxe, the cleans and slow mellow solos sound great, but if I change to some palm mutting rithm, it doesnt crunch, the notes seem to stick themselves, but if i turn down the reverb to 1 or 2 ith crunches and it´s a define tone.
My question with delay it´s the same thing or i don´t loose the crunch, or wich could be the solution for have a crunchy rithm and great clean and solo tones, may be with a delay pedal tunrning it on for solos and clean?
please help.
Thank you.
 
Re: reverb and delay question....

The reverb in the Hot Rod Deluxe is good but not great. I could be wrong, but I think even tho it uses springs that the actual circuitry in that part of the amp might be solid state and kind of cheap. Real blackface Fenders use all tube reverb circuitry. Reverb sounds best, to me, at about #2 on the level control...any stronger than that and the tone gets all swimmy...not very professional sounding.

Lew
 
Re: reverb and delay question....

mmguz said:
When I use reverb at mid position in my fender hot rod deluxe, the cleans and slow mellow solos sound great, but if I change to some palm mutting rithm, it doesnt crunch, the notes seem to stick themselves, but if i turn down the reverb to 1 or 2 ith crunches and it´s a define tone.
My question with delay it´s the same thing or i don´t loose the crunch, or wich could be the solution for have a crunchy rithm and great clean and solo tones, may be with a delay pedal tunrning it on for solos and clean?
please help.
Thank you.
Click to expand...

Are you talking about the reverb level itself causing problems. If the fix is having a lower level for some parts.Then in that case, if you've got one of those reverb on/off jacks that no one seems to use,and an old volume pedal lying about (or a new one, a cheap bespeco one will work ) better if it has a minimum volume control. You can run a cable from the output jack to the reverb jack and set the amp reverb control for the maximum reverb wanted, and pull back the amount from the pedal. If you like reverb delay is not going to do the same thing, if you want a swampy, drenched reverb for clean, but a tighter, dryer sound for distortion this a good fix. If you are referring to something that the amp is doing itself because of the circuitry ... then can't help ya there. Normally high levels of reverb or delay will tend to make stuff mush together, and you will lose some definition if to much os used. I know a couple players that when playing in clubs will just trun the reverb off, and use a delay ... not the same effect, but at least you can *hear* the echo over everythingelse going on with out it turning to singing in a high school gym type of thing. Not quite sure what you mean here, but I hope this helps.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top