Amplifier settings?
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LadyInTears
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volume-volume
gain-how much dirt you want
treble, mids, bass-shape your tone
awesome cleans-play around until you like what you hear
gain-how much dirt you want
treble, mids, bass-shape your tone
awesome cleans-play around until you like what you hear
VidaK
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when I first started out, I love to dime all the knobs (10/10 everything except volume) \m/
but now that I am a little older I use far lesser gain and put the treble mid bass near to 5/10
by the way, presence knob controls the ultra high frequencies, above what the treble knob controls
but now that I am a little older I use far lesser gain and put the treble mid bass near to 5/10
by the way, presence knob controls the ultra high frequencies, above what the treble knob controls
Vax
New member
On a tube amp, the gain knobs affect how hard the tubes are being driven in a particular section, so the more you turn the gain up, the more the amp will go into overdrive. Some tube amps have pre-gain to drive the preamp stage and post-gain to drive the power amp (like the Peavey Blues Classic, for eg), while the master volume determines the overall signal sent to drive the speakers. Amps that don't have post-gain control can still achieve that power amp overdrive when run at high volumes.
I don't think you'll want the technical explanation for what a tone knob actually does (controlling a variable shelving filter with a first order response), so let's go with the musical one.
The natural pickup sound has a strong low-mid emphasis and little high frequency response, which is actually a muddy and muffled sound, and requires correction and compensation for it to sound musically pleasant. The most common tone control in guitar amplifiers is a design called a tone stack, so called because the bass, middle and treble controls are electronically connected in series, usually drawn as a vertical stack. This design has the advantage of inherent middle-cut, serving a dual purpose of general tone balance correction along with tone control.
My favorite clean setting on an amp usually start with Bass/Mid/Treble on 6/6/3 respectively. Bass on 6 provides body without sounding boomy, Mid on 6 helps your guitar cut through the mix and highlights your pickups' character (bearing in mind that pickups are naturally middy), and Treble on 3 leaves out the harsher frequencies that might otherwise cause ears to bleed in the audience.
Presence boosts the upper frequencies above the normal treble control range for added high-end "sparkle". It works a little differently from the other tone knobs (It's a lowpass filter inside a global negative feedback loop. By decreasing the amount of high frequencies that are fed back, the high frequencies at the output of the amplifier are boosted).
All-in-all, crank it up, and have fun.
I don't think you'll want the technical explanation for what a tone knob actually does (controlling a variable shelving filter with a first order response), so let's go with the musical one.
The natural pickup sound has a strong low-mid emphasis and little high frequency response, which is actually a muddy and muffled sound, and requires correction and compensation for it to sound musically pleasant. The most common tone control in guitar amplifiers is a design called a tone stack, so called because the bass, middle and treble controls are electronically connected in series, usually drawn as a vertical stack. This design has the advantage of inherent middle-cut, serving a dual purpose of general tone balance correction along with tone control.
My favorite clean setting on an amp usually start with Bass/Mid/Treble on 6/6/3 respectively. Bass on 6 provides body without sounding boomy, Mid on 6 helps your guitar cut through the mix and highlights your pickups' character (bearing in mind that pickups are naturally middy), and Treble on 3 leaves out the harsher frequencies that might otherwise cause ears to bleed in the audience.
Presence boosts the upper frequencies above the normal treble control range for added high-end "sparkle". It works a little differently from the other tone knobs (It's a lowpass filter inside a global negative feedback loop. By decreasing the amount of high frequencies that are fed back, the high frequencies at the output of the amplifier are boosted).
All-in-all, crank it up, and have fun.
grin.guitar
Member
I mostly play using clean to very mildly overdriven sounds. What I have found to work very well for getting warm and yet clear-sounding cleans :
Don't depend solely on the controls on the amp...
On the guitar, set the volume to be about 7 or 8, and tone to be about 3 or 4.
On the amp, bass about 6, mids about 3, treble about 4, and just fine-tune from there.
I normally use the neck the bridge pickups (both humbuckers) together. I find it's easy to get a warm tone with the neck pickup, but when you play higher up on the neck the definition/clarity of the notes will drop. So I use the bridge pickup in combination with the neck pickup to compensate for that. Works very well for me.
Don't depend solely on the controls on the amp...
On the guitar, set the volume to be about 7 or 8, and tone to be about 3 or 4.
On the amp, bass about 6, mids about 3, treble about 4, and just fine-tune from there.
I normally use the neck the bridge pickups (both humbuckers) together. I find it's easy to get a warm tone with the neck pickup, but when you play higher up on the neck the definition/clarity of the notes will drop. So I use the bridge pickup in combination with the neck pickup to compensate for that. Works very well for me.
My current eq for cleans are: Bass 0, Mids 5-6, Treble 6-7.
I am not sure whether you could get the sound as close to mine as this is just an estimation, my knobs has no number markers.
Though if you play with this settings on the clean channel, most probably would sound dull. I usually play on the overdriven channel with my gain pointing the same direction as treble knob. The overall tone should not sound too 'dirty', then again, may sound different depending on the amp you're using. I'm just using an 8 watt practice amp. :j
I am not sure whether you could get the sound as close to mine as this is just an estimation, my knobs has no number markers.
Though if you play with this settings on the clean channel, most probably would sound dull. I usually play on the overdriven channel with my gain pointing the same direction as treble knob. The overall tone should not sound too 'dirty', then again, may sound different depending on the amp you're using. I'm just using an 8 watt practice amp. :j