Home (amp tone and effects placement)
Key Approaches for Typical Goals
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Goal\Techn |
1.
Isocab/box/booth/room |
2. Pwr attenuator |
3. Power Scaling |
4. Pre-dist EQ |
5. Power tube
voicing/swapping |
6. Reamp gear &
technique |
7. A/B comparison
setup |
Comments |
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Get
practice-quality sound at home privately |
no,
complex |
YES - convenient |
YES - convenient |
YES - bend amps and tune pickup eq |
YES - explore basic breakup flavors |
no,
tedious |
no,
tedious |
Single
combo or separate head/cab ok.� Avoid
dialing HotPlate to 7-10 o'clock because excess upper treble. |
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Get
recording-quality sound at home privately |
YES - spk dist, avoid simulation |
no,
use isobox for spk dist |
no,
use isobox for spk dist |
YES - bend amps and tune pickup eq |
YES - dial-in variety of breakup flavors |
YES - search for settings to suss best
sounds |
YES - search for settings to suss best
sounds |
Extra
cab, spk, or combo needed for isobox |
|
Get
best sound in studio |
YES - spk dist; cabs/mics in live room/ iso
booth |
no,
use isobooth for spk dist |
no,
use isobooth for spk dist |
YES - fine-tune pickup dist voicing |
YES - mix variety of auth dist sounds |
YES - compare/ dial-in best sounds&
predist fx |
no,
emphasize new |
Use
extra cab, spk, or combo in isobooth |
|
Get
best sound at grandma's or at work privately |
no,
too bulky |
no,
too bulky/complicated |
YES - perfect application, reliable tube
life |
YES - keep main amp simple, basic pedals
ok |
no,
too complex/ $ |
no,
too complex |
no,
too complex |
Needed:
small combo amp with power tube, Power Scaling, headphone jack, fx loop, and
plug-connected speaker (max. scalability) |
|
Get
best sound in live performance |
no,
too complex |
YES - works w/ any traditional guitar
amp |
YES - elegant setup |
YES - eq stomp before dist as custom
boost |
YES - elegant setup for auth tones |
no,
live |
no,
live |
Power
Scaling integrated into club amps, or, power attenuator supplementing trad
club amps |
|
Get
any album sound privately |
YES - for best tone cloning |
no, use isobox. but easy spk/mic swap |
no,
use isobox, for spk dist |
YES - essential for tone cloning |
YES - for best tone cloning |
YES - essential for tone cloning |
YES - essential for tone cloning |
dry
samples of multi pickups |
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Technique |
# Scenarios the technique
Solves |
Comments |
|
Preamp
Dist. Voicing w/ EQ (control over pickup eq response) |
6 |
Predist
pickup eq is easy, powerful, key |
|
Power
Tube Voicing/Swapping |
5 |
If
amp permits, is easy, volume-indep, only way to get fundamental pwr-tube dist
voicing change; many preamp voicings now avail but still need more ability to
control power-tube distortion voicing |
|
Isocab/box/booth/room |
3 |
Not
the only solution to bring down room SPL, but is the guaranteed only way to
fully auth tone, and potentially private if more than 1 layer thick |
|
Power
Scaling ( |
3 |
Makes
power-tube dist fully available (the most key factor), tho no spk dist |
|
Reamp'ing
gear and technique |
3 |
If
doing tonecloning or developing mastery of dialing-in any sound, and for 15
reasons listed in Reamp page, is hugely powerful |
|
A/B
Comparison Setup |
2 |
Is
only way to toneclone and very helpful for mastering dialing-in range of
sounds |
|
Pwr
Atten |
2 |
For
trad'l tube amps, is effective and elegant |