Same here .Yep, we all do it.
Give us White, Black, Red, Blue, and Green, and the ability to make any color in the universe. And we will usually just make our favorite color.
it helps for sure thanks .@Mark Wein It’s true that using different amps dialed in with the same IR can sound a little homogenous. The cab is the main filter in our tone affecting what we hear. It’s kinda like a filter on a camera. Whatever “style” we use puts its character on everything we see. Pictures of different things with the same filter will all have a cohesive theme to them, but using different filters on the same subject will give you a much broader variety of colors and textures.
If you’re looking for significant character diversity, changing your cabs will give you a lot of options. If you want variety within the same cab, try using some really bright IRs and dial in your amps with darker settings, or try darker IRs with brighter amp settings.
I hope this helps.
The VH one?Nice! Can you link the Leon Todd video you mention in your YouTube video?
The VH one?
I guess it is, but thats the one I followed for the VH sound.Yep. I thought this one was the Steve Vai one?
That is exactly right.that you're making them all sound the same because thats the sound you hear in your head?
I have some pretty good live presets but I wanted to build a library of different versions built around different amps...sort of like bringing a pedalboard to a gig with a different amp. After building a batch of these presets I realized that regardless of amp type they all kind of sounded the same with just a slight difference in flavor.
Then I'll make a preset out of 8 of them, tweak each scene for a while, play them for a while, dig em.That is exactly right.
And I am essentially looking for the amp model (don't care which one it is) that I can tweak out to get "my" sound the closest to what I hear in my head.
So when I find one...I declare it the "holy grail" and use it for a while. Then I'll hear somebody getting a great sound with another amp model and I'll jump on that one and tweak and then declare the search is over and I found the sound!
And then a few months later...