I've just had a little more time with the Deluxe model and something I did that made me want to post because it helped me so much so easily, and, not post because it made it sound so much better to me that all I want to do is play it, amp, cab, no reverb even through an RCF NX10. Sounds amazing, as does the Deluxe Reverb, no tweaking on my basic preset. Like my most gigged amp, a 64 Deluxe Reverb.
Anyhow, without further adieu, all I did was raise the value of the bright cap in the ADV tone section to 343. Why that number, I don't know. Move it around and see where you like it. The effect is huge for me. What it did for me was brighten the amp enough that it still had great definition even as the gain is cranked way up, 7-10 is a vast gain difference, and the power amp 9ish unless I want the patch a little tighter, then down. What was mush and lacking the presence and character the amp has when you drive it suddenly sounded awesome, huge, dynamic, responsive to changes in everything, beautiful steel warm clean when not driven too hard. Cranking the clean sound up is great.
That one value made such a difference. I still haven't found some of the wild on the edgeness I like about it, but I'm betting some drive pedals in this might be amazing, too, for getting some more crazier gain stuff.
Other thing to note is that I'm jacking the treble (tone) control way up, even all the way sometimes. The amps gain rolls a ton of highs off when you crank it, so both the tone control and bright cap have to be up for my tastes.
Back to playing.
If anyone has other ideas about how they're running this to get sounds they like, I'd be curious and I'm sure others would, too. I'll share a patch when I get around to it, but for me as simple what I outlined above with cabs of your choice. Using 1-12 type cabs worked great, but it'll be fun to experiment.
Anyhow, without further adieu, all I did was raise the value of the bright cap in the ADV tone section to 343. Why that number, I don't know. Move it around and see where you like it. The effect is huge for me. What it did for me was brighten the amp enough that it still had great definition even as the gain is cranked way up, 7-10 is a vast gain difference, and the power amp 9ish unless I want the patch a little tighter, then down. What was mush and lacking the presence and character the amp has when you drive it suddenly sounded awesome, huge, dynamic, responsive to changes in everything, beautiful steel warm clean when not driven too hard. Cranking the clean sound up is great.
That one value made such a difference. I still haven't found some of the wild on the edgeness I like about it, but I'm betting some drive pedals in this might be amazing, too, for getting some more crazier gain stuff.
Other thing to note is that I'm jacking the treble (tone) control way up, even all the way sometimes. The amps gain rolls a ton of highs off when you crank it, so both the tone control and bright cap have to be up for my tastes.
Back to playing.
If anyone has other ideas about how they're running this to get sounds they like, I'd be curious and I'm sure others would, too. I'll share a patch when I get around to it, but for me as simple what I outlined above with cabs of your choice. Using 1-12 type cabs worked great, but it'll be fun to experiment.
