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digitaldeath
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Loren Littlejohn
Lover of all boobage.
PostMortem1666
Ocean Planet is on burn
digitaldeath
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Thanks for the support guys! I knew you all would understand 
And thanks also for the props on the clip, that's the tone from my upcoming EP, and the culmination of all my tweaking and obsessing with this amp!
And thanks also for the props on the clip, that's the tone from my upcoming EP, and the culmination of all my tweaking and obsessing with this amp!
digitaldeath
Member
Thanks for the support guys! I knew you all would understand
Clips's blocked here in work - grrr!
Is it your Dual Rec Marcus?
paladin shredder
Member
what grates my nerves is he keeps implying is that a tube screamer is a clean boost! even with drive on zero it still adds distortion to the signal, so how does this qualify as clean?
sounds like it fucking paid off! amazing tone.
Thanks for the support guys! I knew you all would understand
sounds like it fucking paid off! amazing tone.
PhilTheBeard
"The Beard"
damn that guy is a shitbag. and yeah you cant get a clean boost out of any tubescreamer even with drive all the way down it still adds dirt when turned on.
Dude, that's not even the worst of it, THIS is what really got me:
jdurso said:
Oh ok, I guess it's fact then, how foolish of me! Even though I stated multiple times that I dial in the level on my TS for unity gain between having it on and off
iekobrid
Authorized XSr Dealer
Statements like that gave me the impression that you and he don't even mean the same thing by "tightness", forget differing "philosophies" of how to achieve it. His definition of "tight" seems comparable with "smooth". I mean, right after he tells you that clean boosts compress the signal he tells the OP that they "add dynamics", ferfuckssake.
For what it's worth, I sometimes use an overdrive pedal with the drive all the way down and the level below unity specifically for tightening purposes with the amp's internal gain set fairly high. On other amps (Recto) I've been messing with dropping the gain and treble fairly low [say, did you get my PM?] and making it up with gain and EQ boosts from the pedal, to cut down on teh fizzez.
And neither here nor there, but check out these clips:
That's a Roadster "tightened" with a clean boost, albeit one with a sweepable frequency knob. I can't make out how his is set, but I reckon he's using it to give a teensy amount of boost in the upper mids -- sort of simulating a TS mid-hump but without the low end roll-off. I have the same pedal at home and so far have had no luck dialing in a remotely acceptable tone using it with a Recto (compression + rhythm guitar
uke
but it does okay with a scratchy 5150.
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TravisW
Member
I'm thinking that guy defines "tightness" by virtue of saturation and pick response rather than outright EQ. Slamming a single 12ax7 gain stage isn't going to massively change the EQ curve of the signal that it is being fed to it.
iekobrid
Authorized XSr Dealer
Yeah, but I explained multiple times that by tightness I meant tightening excess flubby lows, and he still insists "slamming the input tube" does that. And iekobrid, yeah dude, I got your PM, sorry for not responding, but unfortunately my Dual Rec has been packed up and ready to ship since I re-amped the tracks for my EP!
Loren Littlejohn
Lover of all boobage.
Hey!
I'm a guitarist
.But what I find is that you get 2 kinds of stupidity vs. just one with drummers:
Drummers: usually just technique being poor, this translates to having the kit setup poorly. This also leads to poor timing etc... but it's all linked to technique.
Guitarists: Technique AND they are fucking morons when it comes to the gear they use.
uke:
TravisW
Member
Yeah, but I explained multiple times that by tightness I meant tightening excess flubby lows, and he still insists "slamming the input tube" does that. And iekobrid, yeah dude, I got your PM, sorry for not responding, but unfortunately my Dual Rec has been packed up and ready to ship since I re-amped the tracks for my EP!
Yeah, I saw that. The only thing better than being ignorant is being stubborn about it. I'm not the ultimate tube amp guru (tm), but have done enough tinkering around so I'm slightly less ignorant than most. I've found that once somebody's mind is made up as to what will make their tone better, it's almost impossible to change it.
It kind of reminds me of those boxes that you see for sale on Ebay that basically consist of a pot and two 1/4" jacks. The seller says to put it in the effects loop so you can crank your master volume and it will help you get that "cranked amp tone" at lower volumes. Crock of shit--it just puts another pot before your master volume pot, so you can turn the one down and turn the other up to absolutely no effect, but the guy makes $20 each and people buy them gloating about the huge difference it made on their tone.
