chillybilly
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In about a 2 month span I've done a great deal of homework in creating and tweaking presets for a covers band and doing several gigs. As related in a longer post elsewhere, the consistency/quality of live sound, monitoring options and ease of setup/teardown have been a revelation. I still feel 'survivor's guilt' regarding the speedy process before and after gigs with few or no headaches attempting, for example, to diagnose a loose patch cable on a pedalboard or to make sure all the knobs/settings on various pedals haven't moved in transport. I've always mucked in on lights & PA gear but now I do more of it!
Anyway...I've I finally had enough time to create some presets for me personally, as it were. One of them is a surf preset. As above, I've posted elsewhere about wanting a blonde Fender piggyback model (eg Showman or Bandmaster) but per forum advice the 6G12 Concert does a decent job especially with some compression in front. Which brings us to the equally vital surf ingredient of reverb. As we know, reverb is a CPU-hungry beast. As we also know, proper outboard reverb tanks have a mechanical (for lack of a better term) component - real springs react in some random, occasionally noisy ways but that's part of their charm. They also have their own tube(s) and that influences the sound as well, especially when placed before the amp input.
I'm probably not the first to ask but I'm trying to get something drippy, clucky, surfy. Right now I've gone for large hall and various/random tweaks with size, reflection etc.
Would be curious to know if others have done same and what they might have come up with.
Anyway...I've I finally had enough time to create some presets for me personally, as it were. One of them is a surf preset. As above, I've posted elsewhere about wanting a blonde Fender piggyback model (eg Showman or Bandmaster) but per forum advice the 6G12 Concert does a decent job especially with some compression in front. Which brings us to the equally vital surf ingredient of reverb. As we know, reverb is a CPU-hungry beast. As we also know, proper outboard reverb tanks have a mechanical (for lack of a better term) component - real springs react in some random, occasionally noisy ways but that's part of their charm. They also have their own tube(s) and that influences the sound as well, especially when placed before the amp input.
I'm probably not the first to ask but I'm trying to get something drippy, clucky, surfy. Right now I've gone for large hall and various/random tweaks with size, reflection etc.
Would be curious to know if others have done same and what they might have come up with.
