STRATDELUXER97
Stratoblaster Tone Meister
I plugged my pedal board into this head today and I was pleasantly surprised to see that the amp was very accepting overall...Just a very slight loss in the highs and the lows(Very slight)due to the extra overall lead length of George Ls from the guitar to the Vox..If you use alot of pedals,you would have to invest in some kind of buffer/signal booster..
I run first into my Vox wah....then into the Duncan SFX-01...From there I have a pedal buffer which boosts the signal and does other good things before the amp sees anything at it's input...From there it was into a TS808,TS5,SD1,Jackhammer,and a DS1....I must say that my modded pedals sounded alot better than the pedals within the Vox head,especially my Tube Screamers which just enhanced everything I loved about my home made presets..
The only negative was that my modded Vox wah was a bit unclear with the high gain presets,but so was the stock Vox 847 that's built into the amp..The stock built in 847 has no sweep overall..Maybe I just need to try one of my other Vox wahs that has less gain and output?That's an easy fix for me..
Regarding the amp models...The Soldano and Boutique OD tones are excellent...I dialed up a really nice singing Warren Haynes preset with the Soldano...The boutique gain tones are great also...I'm also in love with the acoustic pedal and how it sounds alot like playing an acoustic guitar mic'd out...
I'm still sought of having some mixed emotions with the JCM 800 and the 900 tones though...I need to give my ears a rest and try again tomorrow...I do like the Plexi and the JTM45 presets and I was able to dial up some cool tones there...I'm dialing up these Marshall tones through an open back 2x12 Celestion can and more than likely these need to be coming out of my Marshall 4x12 V30 cab to really nail the whole Marshall roar? I need to try that soon.Just something screwy with the mids through the open back 2x12?
I get the feeling that the Marshall tones will shine in the context of the band with the mids and highs being so prominent,but there's this bit of bright buzzy harshness I hear...Marshalls do have this over the notes a bit and I've heard this on my actual 50 watt Marshall head...It's something you hear while you listen to the tone alone,but you miss it with a band..
Once I got more presets dialed in without any effects,I then added things like some slight hall or spring reverb to add depth and dimension to my tones,delay,and adding chorus to the acoustic tones was just heavenly! The F/C allows you to change the chorus and how it acts on the fly either adding or subtracting the overall depth and speed of the chorus..The footswitches on the F/C also allow me to kick in or kick out the added effects..i.e. Reverb,Delay,chorus etc...
The Univibe effect in this amp is excellent..As are the acoustic pedal tones...The Tube Screamer is thin and sucks bass away from your original preset..I haven't tryed the Rat or the fuzz yet,and I prefer to use my own modded pedals if needed...
I could use this amp with just my modded Tube Screamers and no other overdrive/distortion effects and be perfectly happy by using the built in reverb,delay,echo,and chorus effects built into the amp...
An Ernie Ball mono volume pedal plugged into my F/C allows me to control my overall amp master volumes and the volume control is post all preamp,effects,etc..and is at the end of the amp....
I like this amp and it's a great amp for the money! Check one out..
John
I run first into my Vox wah....then into the Duncan SFX-01...From there I have a pedal buffer which boosts the signal and does other good things before the amp sees anything at it's input...From there it was into a TS808,TS5,SD1,Jackhammer,and a DS1....I must say that my modded pedals sounded alot better than the pedals within the Vox head,especially my Tube Screamers which just enhanced everything I loved about my home made presets..
The only negative was that my modded Vox wah was a bit unclear with the high gain presets,but so was the stock Vox 847 that's built into the amp..The stock built in 847 has no sweep overall..Maybe I just need to try one of my other Vox wahs that has less gain and output?That's an easy fix for me..
Regarding the amp models...The Soldano and Boutique OD tones are excellent...I dialed up a really nice singing Warren Haynes preset with the Soldano...The boutique gain tones are great also...I'm also in love with the acoustic pedal and how it sounds alot like playing an acoustic guitar mic'd out...
I'm still sought of having some mixed emotions with the JCM 800 and the 900 tones though...I need to give my ears a rest and try again tomorrow...I do like the Plexi and the JTM45 presets and I was able to dial up some cool tones there...I'm dialing up these Marshall tones through an open back 2x12 Celestion can and more than likely these need to be coming out of my Marshall 4x12 V30 cab to really nail the whole Marshall roar? I need to try that soon.Just something screwy with the mids through the open back 2x12?
I get the feeling that the Marshall tones will shine in the context of the band with the mids and highs being so prominent,but there's this bit of bright buzzy harshness I hear...Marshalls do have this over the notes a bit and I've heard this on my actual 50 watt Marshall head...It's something you hear while you listen to the tone alone,but you miss it with a band..
Once I got more presets dialed in without any effects,I then added things like some slight hall or spring reverb to add depth and dimension to my tones,delay,and adding chorus to the acoustic tones was just heavenly! The F/C allows you to change the chorus and how it acts on the fly either adding or subtracting the overall depth and speed of the chorus..The footswitches on the F/C also allow me to kick in or kick out the added effects..i.e. Reverb,Delay,chorus etc...
The Univibe effect in this amp is excellent..As are the acoustic pedal tones...The Tube Screamer is thin and sucks bass away from your original preset..I haven't tryed the Rat or the fuzz yet,and I prefer to use my own modded pedals if needed...
I could use this amp with just my modded Tube Screamers and no other overdrive/distortion effects and be perfectly happy by using the built in reverb,delay,echo,and chorus effects built into the amp...
An Ernie Ball mono volume pedal plugged into my F/C allows me to control my overall amp master volumes and the volume control is post all preamp,effects,etc..and is at the end of the amp....
I like this amp and it's a great amp for the money! Check one out..
John
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