is it a tube amp?
hey there, i was wondering if yer amp is tube er solid state?,,,if it's tube, yer jb seymour should be able to get a great tone, i've had 24 amp setups, and i can tell u,,a solid state marshall only sounds good in the store at a low volume, lol...if it's tube, yeah the boss
orange distortion pedal is great i usta use it when playing in cover bands 14 years ago, i did everything for me by setting the tone and drive fer each player i was trying to sound like, i could get an oversound by running the amp hot clean, the distortion pedal's drive at about 65%, the tone at about 45% (fer randy roads, the tone went to 65%, drive stayed the same)...remember the amp was running hot clean,,,,,if i really wanted really clean i would just roll off the volume just a little.....also i never ever liked
the chainsaw distortion, i always searched fer that smooth violin sound, that eddie/malmsteen/satch sound,,,,,i found that if i wanted a heavier tone like megadeath/metallica, i just kept the tone fer the boss distortion on 45%tone, and let the heavy bass guitar become a huge factor too,,,fer that zztop/robin trower/ frank marino/eric johnston sound, i'd just flip over to the ibineze tube screamer (the green pedal is the only tube screamer to have)still running the amp hot clean, this gave me that whole sound that, real no fuddled over driven sound, i couldn't find another driver that was as clean as that, some liked the rat pedal, i never,,also with both of those pedals in
my floor board setup, i'd always use a boss eq pedal to just a little tiny bit boost my solo'd which gave me a clean drive ontop of either mud pedal i was usin',,,,,but yeah as someone said way up there,
line 6's pod is a great little recording unit, also on that, the pod pro is a little bit cleaner because of the 24 bit digital thingy,,,,,also another person up there was talking about a large tube amp (i think mesa boogie) remember that we r custom to that big marshall sound through many years of recording, even though i love that sound!!!, i remember havin a 100watt mesa boogie mark4 that had the sweetest soloing tone, soo powerful, clean with no buzzing, cuttting, heavy, then i remember just a plain old fender driven to the hilt, man it was sooo classic, oh yeah, also the highly pushed hi-watt amp, man the who songs all sounded like the who ssongs lol, and i remember when i used my tele through a little peavey rage ampe, i couldn't get that clean snap sound anywhere lol(mics can capture that and make it sound huge), my suggestion is,,,,,,listen to guitar players and the tone they get, it's gonna take (unfortunately) some more $ers will be spent finding yer tone,,,,rule of thumb, a little more mid fer the randy road stuff,,(and alike),heavy on the bass fer the heavy chunk chunk metal, to eq's fer 2 players, distortion pedal fer van halen/randy/metallica stuff(listen to gilmour in pink floyd for that totally perfect discription of the boss orange distortion pedal),,,tube screamer fer the hendrix (and alike) stuff,,,,,guys like joe satch used dif things like the chandle tube driver, the rockman (tom sholtz of boston), and other little things to have a slightly dif sound that our ears r not instantly ready for, best of luck to u, if u reall want that marshall tone, marshall make a rackmount tube pre-amp called
the JMP-1, i used it with a 60watt tube rackmount fender super-sixty head in which i by-passed it's pre-amp section and used the marshall with it's tube power, lol when i wanted that clapton tone i just bypassed the marshall, and whaalaaa,,also rememebr that always quiet yer gear down, that way u can concentrate on dialing that great tone yer searchin for,ex. i always come outta my guitar into a boss floor pedal noise suppressor, into the amp, out into a rack hush2c noise suppressor, into rack effects (which i barely use) then into a power amp,,,,if yer usin one amp, use a noise supressor on the floor then one in the amps efx loop if it has one,,,,,if the noise things r used right, u should be loud enough to rip someone's head off, but only hear a slight slight hum when muting yer guitar, get into the habbit of turnin yer volume down every time yer not playin,,,,ok ok i gotsta go, peace.
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