Ahmed Badreldin
Inspired
I would love to hear other peoples success and failure stories on this. My own demons seem to be others greatness. I read recently on this fine forum members raving about certain boutique amps and others such as the Princeton and Bassman.
I have used the factory preset versions, downloaded and tried creating my own for SRV and blues tones through my single coil guitars. Here is the point. I cannot for the life of me create or use the presets after tweaking. My cleans are near on perfect, my rock ones with usual suspects Plexi and 5150 are pretty good, but trying to create anything on the Bassman or Fender amps and I think the Dumble or Bumble as I call it are total failure for edge of break up sustaining blues.
They are too clean or too gainy, too much bass or too thin, I have tweaked EQ and lowered bass frequency to avoid flabby bass added compressors, tried mid boost, treble boost Tube Screamers but still too clean or too metal.
The winner of them all has to be the Bassman..I havent got a clue how to get near the tones people achieve on it, but honest truth I've seen Youtube footage of the Axe and real versions and some sound boomy and awful. For a start the thing is called a Bassman, I lowered all the bass and Mid, lowered frequncy on bass in amp and it got better, but miles off a good blues tone. The Dumble too. an amp thats meant to cost £20K sounds way to muffled and bassy. I'm sure loads of people on here are great with these amps, would like to know which tones are the toughest to create.
I have used the factory preset versions, downloaded and tried creating my own for SRV and blues tones through my single coil guitars. Here is the point. I cannot for the life of me create or use the presets after tweaking. My cleans are near on perfect, my rock ones with usual suspects Plexi and 5150 are pretty good, but trying to create anything on the Bassman or Fender amps and I think the Dumble or Bumble as I call it are total failure for edge of break up sustaining blues.
They are too clean or too gainy, too much bass or too thin, I have tweaked EQ and lowered bass frequency to avoid flabby bass added compressors, tried mid boost, treble boost Tube Screamers but still too clean or too metal.
The winner of them all has to be the Bassman..I havent got a clue how to get near the tones people achieve on it, but honest truth I've seen Youtube footage of the Axe and real versions and some sound boomy and awful. For a start the thing is called a Bassman, I lowered all the bass and Mid, lowered frequncy on bass in amp and it got better, but miles off a good blues tone. The Dumble too. an amp thats meant to cost £20K sounds way to muffled and bassy. I'm sure loads of people on here are great with these amps, would like to know which tones are the toughest to create.