Rediscovering models (EOB/vintage)

Chewie5150

Chewie5150

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Lately I've acquired some lower output guitars, a PRS 594 and recent TA Hollow T Classic and have been swimming in the lake of Fenderesque , edge of breakup amps. I've been a long time Axe Fx user since the Ultra days and I admit to barely using the edge of break up style amps as I'm a high gain whore. I've been spending a lot of time going through the massive pile of amp models and am just blown away by how amazing they sound. And the drives are fantastic. I didn't really appreciate the nuances with drives as much with higher gain of course but with these lower gain amps. wow.

Please share your fav edge of breakup amp/drive combos!....
 
What a timely thread… I too just got a T-style and built a patch last night based on a deluxe reverb w/ the corresponding DynaCab… just came alive … wow! … anyways, super pleased to crack open an amp and make it sing!

👍❤️🙏
 
I spend a lot of time in this 'twilight zone' between clean and overdrive. I rarely use distortion as I use a lot of extended chords that sound like poo with too much grind.

For instance, I have an 8-channel Plexi, 8-channel AC20, 8-channel Suhr Badger 30, 8-channel Jtm 45, and a few others. I have found there is a great deal of tonal difference in just .20 to .40 of the gain knob. Throw in the input trim, and you can get onion skin thin slices of gain.

I do this with both Amp 1 and Amp 2 in parallel, but muting one and then the other for 8 channels. The JTM 45 is a favorite as amp 1 is stock and amp 2 is heavily modified in an attempt to get it to Blackflag JTM 50 or JTM 45/100 territory. It has worked out really cool, wonderful textures at all levels.

There are so many tools in this Fractal machine that I don't know where the limit is yet.
 
scorch said:
I spend a lot of time in this 'twilight zone' between clean and overdrive. I rarely use distortion as I use a lot of extended chords that sound like poo with too much grind.

For instance, I have an 8-channel Plexi, 8-channel AC20, 8-channel Suhr Badger 30, 8-channel Jtm 45, and a few others. I have found there is a great deal of tonal difference in just .20 to .40 of the gain knob. Throw in the input trim, and you can get onion skin thin slices of gain.

I do this with both Amp 1 and Amp 2 in parallel, but muting one and then the other for 8 channels. The JTM 45 is a favorite as amp 1 is stock and amp 2 is heavily modified in an attempt to get it to Blackflag JTM 50 or JTM 45/100 territory. It has worked out really cool, wonderful textures at all levels.

There are so many tools in this Fractal machine that I don't know where the limit is yet.
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Sounds like big fun!

Any chance of you putting any of those presets on AxeChange?
 
scorch said:
I spend a lot of time in this 'twilight zone' between clean and overdrive. I rarely use distortion as I use a lot of extended chords that sound like poo with too much grind.

For instance, I have an 8-channel Plexi, 8-channel AC20, 8-channel Suhr Badger 30, 8-channel Jtm 45, and a few others. I have found there is a great deal of tonal difference in just .20 to .40 of the gain knob. Throw in the input trim, and you can get onion skin thin slices of gain.

I do this with both Amp 1 and Amp 2 in parallel, but muting one and then the other for 8 channels. The JTM 45 is a favorite as amp 1 is stock and amp 2 is heavily modified in an attempt to get it to Blackflag JTM 50 or JTM 45/100 territory. It has worked out really cool, wonderful textures at all levels.

There are so many tools in this Fractal machine that I don't know where the limit is yet.
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Would love to see some of these presets if you can share.
 
Chewie5150 said:
Lately I've acquired some lower output guitars, a PRS 594 and recent TA Hollow T Classic and have been swimming in the lake of Fenderesque , edge of breakup amps. I've been a long time Axe Fx user since the Ultra days and I admit to barely using the edge of break up style amps as I'm a high gain whore. I've been spending a lot of time going through the massive pile of amp models and am just blown away by how amazing they sound. And the drives are fantastic. I didn't really appreciate the nuances with drives as much with higher gain of course but with these lower gain amps. wow.

Please share your fav edge of breakup amp/drive combos!....
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The older I get, the cleaner my sound becomes.
My favorite amp these days is the bandmaster.
 
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