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Axe-Master
I’ve got a ToneKing Gremlin, cool little class A 5 watt blackface/tweed style amp running a KT66 and with a really nice built in Ironman attenuator.
Has a Alnico Cream in it too, nice $329 speaker upgrade from the previous owner.
Anyways, really good amp, but no reverb, no tremolo nothing. So I was hooking up the FM3 to run for for effects into the front end. No fx loop either lol, don’t get much on that amp for the money it cost lol
Long story short, was doing a patch with some reverb, tremolo, chorus etc, no amp or cab sims and I ended up changing presets and golly did it actually sound awesome with the amp sims and cabs active.
Turn the Gremlin up to where it normally would have edge of breakup and playing patches like “ma the meatloaf” sounded so good. Bit more dynamics, more in the room sound/feel from the semi open back cab, and a little more aggressive in your face tone, but not muddy or anything like you’d expect running a cab sim into a cabinet
I don’t know if the Alnico Cream is just a really flat speaker, or the “ultra linear” power section of the Gremlin works a certain way, but I was loving what I was hearing, cranked tweed tones, the Marshalls, Ac20, all sounded really good with stock factory presets
Connected the CLR to the output to compare, and yep, sounded great, but a little different. Little more like a mic’d guitar cab coming from a monitor. Can get a little more thumb being 500watts for a 5 watt tube open back combo, and together it was really nice with two slightly different tones.
I’ve played with power amps and cabinets before, never seemed worth the hassle, and running a cab sim into a guitar amp usually was total mud and cab sim off was usually thin and harsh so I’ve been just FRFr powered monitors for years, no exceptions.
I don’t know if it’s just this amp or speaker or what but man it sounds good
Long story short, there are no rules. Try running a cab sim into a cabinet, and amp into an amp, an amp into a pedal, if it sounds good it is good
Has a Alnico Cream in it too, nice $329 speaker upgrade from the previous owner.
Anyways, really good amp, but no reverb, no tremolo nothing. So I was hooking up the FM3 to run for for effects into the front end. No fx loop either lol, don’t get much on that amp for the money it cost lol
Long story short, was doing a patch with some reverb, tremolo, chorus etc, no amp or cab sims and I ended up changing presets and golly did it actually sound awesome with the amp sims and cabs active.
Turn the Gremlin up to where it normally would have edge of breakup and playing patches like “ma the meatloaf” sounded so good. Bit more dynamics, more in the room sound/feel from the semi open back cab, and a little more aggressive in your face tone, but not muddy or anything like you’d expect running a cab sim into a cabinet
I don’t know if the Alnico Cream is just a really flat speaker, or the “ultra linear” power section of the Gremlin works a certain way, but I was loving what I was hearing, cranked tweed tones, the Marshalls, Ac20, all sounded really good with stock factory presets
Connected the CLR to the output to compare, and yep, sounded great, but a little different. Little more like a mic’d guitar cab coming from a monitor. Can get a little more thumb being 500watts for a 5 watt tube open back combo, and together it was really nice with two slightly different tones.
I’ve played with power amps and cabinets before, never seemed worth the hassle, and running a cab sim into a guitar amp usually was total mud and cab sim off was usually thin and harsh so I’ve been just FRFr powered monitors for years, no exceptions.
I don’t know if it’s just this amp or speaker or what but man it sounds good
Long story short, there are no rules. Try running a cab sim into a cabinet, and amp into an amp, an amp into a pedal, if it sounds good it is good