Help With My New Einstein 100w Head

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I just bought an Einstein head and have been fiddling around with the settings. So far I've found some good tones but I'm wondering if you can help me dial it in a little faster.

Please share some of your rhythm and lead settings for:

Rock
Metal
Blues
Clean

Thanks.
 
Welcome to our family :rock:

First thing's first......Diezel are made to sound GREAT with everything at 12:00, so, I'd recommend starting that way and then tweaking.

I gotta go know but I'll come back and share some settings in a while :)
 
You will need to tell us what guitar you are playing, what type of music you will mostly be playing, etc.

I set my Einstein combo on ch one for a LP to bass-11 o'clock, mid 11, treble 12-1, mode 2, gain 2 o'clock
Ch 2, deep to 12, presence to 2, bass to 11, mids to 11, treble to 12, gain to 9:30-10.
The volumes are adjusted to the room.
However, I am using KT77's, not 6L6's or EL-34's, and my pre amp tubes are all various NOS Mullards of different types, and one 5751.
This will definitely affect the tone of the amp.
These amps are so intuitive, that I recommend setting everything to 12 o'clock, then adjusting to taste, but do not look at the dial as you turn it. Once you get your hand on the correct dial you want, listen to what happens to the tone, rather then look at the dial. Once you get it to sound as you want, you will find that it may change once you go into a live playing situation, but, you will be close to the tones you desire at that point, and may only need to tweak a bit.
 
Alright I'm back.....

As Stephen said, guitars/pickups will make a huge dif. in your tone as you surely know... and even though diezels are extremele nice sounding amps, a Strat will sound BEAUTIFUL in channel 1 Texas mode (mode 2) but if you unplugg it and plug an EMG loaded guitar it'll probably sound kind of shitty since you maximized the EQs for a strat.

Now, having said that, tubes also make a HUGE dif. specially preamp tubes..... I recently put an ECC83 Electro Harmonix in V1 and the cleans came alive.....

but lets talk about what you want, Settings:

in my opinion, it doesn't end man......just yesterday I was a bit dissapointed on my Einstein's ability to sound "vintage", obviously it's no Fender but it can get VERY vintage sounding for a modern amp, I just had the wrong settings.

this are my "usual" settings, and then I'll share some not so conventional settings that I'm starting to like, and prob. keep in my Einny

Modern Clean:

Ch.1 clean mode
Gain: 12:00
Volume 1:00
Treble 1:00
Mids: 11:00
Bass: 10:00
Presence: 12:00
Deep: 11:00

More vintage cleans:

Ch1 clean mode
Gain: 1:00
volume 12:00
Treble: 12:30
Mids: 3:00
Bass: 11:00
Presence: 11:00
Deep: 10:00

For tha' blues (I'm a huge blues fan)
Use this same settings with the right guitar/pups just flip to Texas mode (ch1 mode 2)

Rock:

The greates rock tone from the Einstein TO ME, comes with setting everything to 12:00 (maybe back down on the deep a bit) and make MINOR tweaks to treble/mids/bass. If you're in Ch1 Mega mode (ch1 mode 3) set the gain to 2:00, if you're in ch.2 set the gain to 10:00

Metal:
Ch1 MEga mode
Gain: 3:00
Volume 1:00
Treble 12:00
Mids: 12:00
Bass:12:00
Presence: 11:00
Deep: 11:00

Ch2:
Gain 12:00
Vol. 1:00
Treb: 12:30
Mid: 1:00
PRes: 11:00
Deep: 10:00

IMPORTANT: when using ch.2 the position of the switch in ch1 (the one to shift between modes) has an effect on the compression of ch2. If you're in ch2 and the switch is set to "clean" you'll get a beautifull non compressed ch2 gain (I love this for rock), If you set the switch to mode 2 while in Ch2 you'll notice the tone get a bit compressed..........I love having it there when I'm playing MEtal/Hard Rock...... and finally is the modes switch is set to Mega, then the tone in ch2 will be very compressed.....VERY nice for metal Leads..... maybe a bit too compressed for rythms, but definitely tightens things up a bit.

hope that helps. :)
 
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IMPORTANT: when using ch.2 the position of the switch in ch1 (the one to shift between modes) has an effect on the compression of ch2. If you're in ch2 and the switch is set to "clean" you'll get a beautifull non compressed ch2 gain (I love this for rock), If you set the switch to mode 2 while in Ch2 you'll notice the tone get a bit compressed..........I love having it there when I'm playing MEtal/Hard Rock...... and finally is the modes switch is set to Mega, then the tone in ch2 will be very compressed.....VERY nice for metal Leads..... maybe a bit too compressed for rythms, but definitely tightens things up a bit.
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I thought I'd noticed something to this effect. Is this confirmed by Peter?
 
Not sure, but it's VERY noticable to me.... and I'm tried different preampa nd poweramp tubes, and still does it.

I rather enjoy this :)
 
Thanks everyone. My Einstein has came stock with EL34s. I started off with a flat EQ, everything at 12:00, as is the case with most amps (except Mesa where you start off at 9:00). The sound was pretty bassy so I backed off the bass and increased the mids. That seemed to help but then it was missing something, so I started playing with the depth control.

After recording a few times I realized that I have to back off the treble and use the presence. In some ways, the Einstein seems to be similar to my Marshall and Soldano amps in that way.

I still haven't yet found that happy spot yet, but I'll give your settings a try and see if it helps. I pretty much already came to terms with the fact that I'm not going to get a vintage tone out of this amp. It's totally modern, but that's ok because my original stuff isn't vintage sounding anyway.

So far I've gotten somewhat decent resuts with the following settings for channel 1, modes 1,2,3:

Bass 10:00
Mids 12:00
Treb 10:00
Pres 1:00
Depth 10:00

I don't use a lot of gain. Most of the time I keep the gain around 12:00-1:00 depending on if I'm using single coils or humbuckers.

I have EJ strats, Gibson Les Paul Std., and a Jackson Soloist. I have a little bit of a hard time with my Les Paul because it has so much low end, also with my Jackson because I put Dimarzio 36th PAFs in it. The Dimarzios have a thick midrange and low midrange and the highs can get a little harsh, so I have to dial in more depth and less treble with them.

That's pretty much it. Oh, and I also like to play instrumental rock type stuff like Yngwie, Satch, etc... I love hardcore shit like Lamb Of God, In Flames, Himsa, etc... but I don't play much of it. I bought this amp because I thought I would start playing more metal, however, I don't think that will actually happen. Who knows.
 
Hm, I tend not to use the lead channel very much so I don't notice - 95+% of my time is spent on mode 3. I also run a Sonic Maximiser on low in the loop (live/rehearsal fattening up), use a noise gate and occasionally boost with a modded TS-9...

I'm not really very subtle.

Gain's around 4:00, treble 12:00ish, mids & lows 1:30ish, presence and depth depend on the room but I don't usually put them any higher then 10:00 or so. I'm using EMG707s primarily but am waiting on a BKP Warpig loaded guitar so will almost certainly need to re EQ in the next couple of weeks.

Start at 12, go from there.

Anyone who says that the Einstein can't strip paint off the walls clearly hasn't tried!
 
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