Thinking of going low gain

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njshred said:
The beauty of getting older is losing the desire to please anyone, especially strangers. Do you, and f@ck him, would be my advice. Oh and Merry Christmas.
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I was called a 'boomer' and a 'gigachad'. I dont even know what that means, but it sounds terrifying.

I remember in highschool. The kids were so cruel. And in sports they made you shower together. People would point at me and laugh. "Hey guys, look at tripod."

Who the fuck wants to be called tripod?
 
@Smash if you want to dip a toe in the clean tone world, I would try a few amps before buying.

There's Fender style, VOX style, hiwatt style, and a handful of other popular ones, and they all sound and react really differently to one another.

If you like the fender style, a vintage silverface fender (of whatever wattage/gain level suits you) or a Boogie cali tweed are the best options IMO

If you like Vox style, there are a million options, but for relatively inexpensive stuff the TopHat are the best bang for buck IMO

If you like hiwatts, you gotta go big or go home unfortunately

I would avoid the digital stuff for clean pedal platforms unless you wanna play Cure covers - in that case, buy a Roland Jazz clean


Edit: watch some youtube videos of people playing these different types of amps, with different types of guitars.

Hiwatt



Fender/Cali tweed



Vox

 
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DanTravis62 said:
@Smash if you want to dip a toe in the clean tone world, I would try a few amps before buying.

There's Fender style, VOX style, hiwatt style, and a handful of other popular ones, and they all sound and react really differently to one another.

If you like the fender style, a vintage silverface fender (of whatever wattage/gain level suits you) or a Boogie cali tweed are the best options IMO

If you like Vox style, there are a million options, but for relatively inexpensive stuff the TopHat are the best bang for buck IMO

If you like hiwatts, you gotta go big or go home unfortunately

I would avoid the digital stuff for clean pedal platforms unless you wanna play Cure covers - in that case, buy a Roland Jazz clean


Edit: watch some youtube videos of people playing these different types of amps, with different types of guitars.

Hiwatt



Fender/Cali tweed



Vox

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Thanks. This is helpful. You dont know what you dont know
 
Smash said:
I was called a 'boomer' and a 'gigachad'. I dont even know what that means, but it sounds terrifying.

I remember in highschool. The kids were so cruel. And in sports they made you shower together. People would point at me and laugh. "Hey guys, look at tripod."

Who the fuck wants to be called tripod?
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1985…. Football. We all got in a line naked with towels around our waists. The doctor and his assistant plus our trainer dude were set up in the middle of the locker room. They did our sports physicals like that. Today if they did something like that it would be nuts how people would react. Of course there was one dude walking around with his towel on his shoulder. His nickname was quarter horse….anything that big should have a rib cage and guts. I still hate that guy….
 
In all truth, i have been playing a few covers that i need a clean to crunch amp. My main bitch is not tame enough.
 
JackBootedThug said:
1985…. Football. We all got in a line naked with towels around our waists. The doctor and his assistant plus our trainer dude were set up in the middle of the locker room. They did our sports physicals like that. Today if they did something like that it would be nuts how people would react. Of course there was one dude walking around with his towel on his shoulder. His nickname was quarter horse….anything that big should have a rib cage and guts. I still hate that guy….
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Shouldn't this be in your tales from the bighouse thread? :LOL:
 
Smash said:
In all truth, i have been playing a few covers that i need a clean to crunch amp. My main bitch is not tame enough.
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Yeah man, I would do some research before dropping cash - figure out what your favorite tones like that are

There's greatness in all the flavors, but it's really hard for digital to capture the magic of a big clean or edge of breakup tone IMO

You have to feel the "Squish" and dynamics in the room for alot of these sounds to be in context and make sense

They all play and feel different
 
DanTravis62 said:
@Smash if you want to dip a toe in the clean tone world, I would try a few amps before buying.

There's Fender style, VOX style, hiwatt style, and a handful of other popular ones, and they all sound and react really differently to one another.

If you like the fender style, a vintage silverface fender (of whatever wattage/gain level suits you) or a Boogie cali tweed are the best options IMO

If you like Vox style, there are a million options, but for relatively inexpensive stuff the TopHat are the best bang for buck IMO

If you like hiwatts, you gotta go big or go home unfortunately

I would avoid the digital stuff for clean pedal platforms unless you wanna play Cure covers - in that case, buy a Roland Jazz clean


Edit: watch some youtube videos of people playing these different types of amps, with different types of guitars.

Hiwatt



Fender/Cali tweed



Vox

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@Smash This is probably the best advice you can get. I'll add that what you'll prefer is gong to depend on the tone stack used as well; which basically looking at what Dan said here from a different angle
 
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DanTravis62 said:
Yeah man, I would do some research before dropping cash - figure out what your favorite tones like that are

There's greatness in all the flavors, but it's really hard for digital to capture the magic of a big clean or edge of breakup tone IMO

You have to feel the "Squish" and dynamics in the room for alot of these sounds to be in context and make sense

They all play and feel different
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that is very insightful. I was playing my MGL with the volume reduced (volume pedal), and I finally got the dynamics that a lot of guys get with a clean amp. With a lot of gain, you get compressed and so you miss the ability to manipulate your sound with the lightly playing vs digging in thing. It is important for what I am trying to do here. I need to strum a chord but be able to dig in to get a crunch. I can go from "clean" to "fucking mean" now. I just can't go from Clean to Crunch
 
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