Thenewexhibit
Experienced
I’ve been trying some new Marshall flavored amps based on some recommendations on another post, and the suggestions of amps is great! I never really tried the Splawn Quickrod, and that’s really cool! The Brit Silver is great too! The 2203 with the input boost set to 808 is great! So many fantastic tones!
I’m looking to revamp my kitchen sink preset. I basically use an AC20 Treble 12AX7 as a pedal platform amp, and then use different drives/distortion to get different shades/amounts of distortion, but since gapless switching came about, and since there are so many awesome amps, I wanted to implement that, but here’s what I’m kinda running into upon testing. The Marshall style amps sound GREAT! Super dynamic and punchy and clear. Much more preferable to me than using a distortion pedal into a clean amp. However, the sound is drastically different than switching back to the AC20 with a BB preamp set for a crunch overdrive type of tone. Just to give an example, it sounds as if the Marshall is very full and powerful across the board frequency wise, but when I switch, it makes the AC20 with BB preamp sound as if it was high passed to 125hz and low passed to 4k in comparison. Very drastic change. I’m using the same cab though and no high or low cuts (York 212 Mesa Mix 1). However, the current kitchen sink preset sounds fine to me upon using it and recording etc.; it’s plenty clear and full. It’s just that when you compare the two sounds with two different amps, they just sound so far apart. So, how do you guys manage different amps and tones sounding like they’re in the same camp so to speak? It’s making me wonder, should I even use drive pedals, and just use different amps with different drive levels? For example, I tried an AC30 Bright, and it sounded closer in the family to the Splawn when the AC30 was cranked with no pedal for that crunch tone as opposed to an AC20 with a BB preamp. Is it a drive pedal thing that just inherently lops off top and bottom end? How do you guys manage this?
I know touring acts do this with multiple real amps all the time, so how do they achieve this continuity without it sounding like vastly different setups?
I’m looking to revamp my kitchen sink preset. I basically use an AC20 Treble 12AX7 as a pedal platform amp, and then use different drives/distortion to get different shades/amounts of distortion, but since gapless switching came about, and since there are so many awesome amps, I wanted to implement that, but here’s what I’m kinda running into upon testing. The Marshall style amps sound GREAT! Super dynamic and punchy and clear. Much more preferable to me than using a distortion pedal into a clean amp. However, the sound is drastically different than switching back to the AC20 with a BB preamp set for a crunch overdrive type of tone. Just to give an example, it sounds as if the Marshall is very full and powerful across the board frequency wise, but when I switch, it makes the AC20 with BB preamp sound as if it was high passed to 125hz and low passed to 4k in comparison. Very drastic change. I’m using the same cab though and no high or low cuts (York 212 Mesa Mix 1). However, the current kitchen sink preset sounds fine to me upon using it and recording etc.; it’s plenty clear and full. It’s just that when you compare the two sounds with two different amps, they just sound so far apart. So, how do you guys manage different amps and tones sounding like they’re in the same camp so to speak? It’s making me wonder, should I even use drive pedals, and just use different amps with different drive levels? For example, I tried an AC30 Bright, and it sounded closer in the family to the Splawn when the AC30 was cranked with no pedal for that crunch tone as opposed to an AC20 with a BB preamp. Is it a drive pedal thing that just inherently lops off top and bottom end? How do you guys manage this?
I know touring acts do this with multiple real amps all the time, so how do they achieve this continuity without it sounding like vastly different setups?