Warm tone...

Twitch

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I've noticed that my Classic 30 has a real clean tone, but it's not really warm. How is the blues junior for getting a real warm tone?

Also, could it be my guitar (MIM strat) that is preventing me from getting a warm tone?
 
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my jr has a great warm tone but it has a g12m greenback in it, maybe a new speaker would help your amp too
 
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i have a mim strat and a classic 30 and have no problems getting a great clean warm tone. what are the settings on the amp/which pickup you using?
 
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The BJ is pretty fat if you want it to be and the top end always sounded very "round" to me. I'd call it warm, yeah. I'd also call it superior to a Classic 30 in most ways. And by "most ways" I mean "all ways, but I'm attempting not to step on the toes of peopel who love the Classic 30." Oh wait...did I just give away my code?
 
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in general the mim strats arent the warmest thing out there but on the neck pup you should be able to get a nice warm tone
 
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when i run the stock neck pup of my strat through my classic 30 wtih the volume at like 2-3, marvolous things happen
 
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Whoa, fastest responses I've ever seen on here :saeek:

I'm using the neck pup and my C30 settings are on the clean channel -

Bass-4.5
Mids-5.5
Treble-7


EDIT: Is the Blues Junior loud enough to play over drums/guitar/bass with in a jam?
 
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try this:

reverb: 3
bass:7
treble: 6.75
mid: 6.5


you will be living large my friend

and put the tone nob on the guitar to about 1 or 2
 
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yes it is, i use mine at probably half my gigs. its nice cause you can really crank it and it isnt overly loud, its plenty loud but you wont blow peoples ear drums.

for a warmer tone, either turn down the treble or up the mids and bass. on my jr i run all the eq full up
 
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Thanks a lot, I'm going to the shop tomorrow to get my Classic 30 checked out (it's pretty damn noisy) and I'm going to try out the Blues Junior.
 
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remember the weakest part of a black blues jr is the speaker, if you can run it thru a cab with different speaker
 
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Twitch said:
Also, could it be my guitar (MIM strat) that is preventing me from getting a warm tone?

I suppose it depends on your definition of "warm." But there's an interesting thread on the FDP that has 2 Strat tone samples. One's a MIM and one's a MIA. The overwhelming concensus seems to be the MIA has a warmer, more modern tone while the MIM has a more vintage tone. And in my head I simplify that even further by saying vintage = trebly twang, modern = more bass and "fatness." If you still can't get the warmth you're looking for maybe consider a pickup change.

Here's the FDP thread
 
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xerxes said:
try this:

reverb: 3
bass:7
treble: 6.75
mid: 6.5


you will be living large my friend

and put the tone nob on the guitar to about 1 or 2

Oh boy did that ever warm up my amp. :smack: Thanks a million! Now it's just that damn tube rattle.
 
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