Amp Tone and Effects Placement

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Amp Tone and Effects Placement

  • Amp Tone
  • Preamp tube distortion vs. power tube saturation
  • Distortion voicing; alternating eq and saturation stages
  • Power attenuators and amp emulators
  • Product ideas using low-watt power tubes
  • Low-power tube amps and studio recording amps
  • Power-tube saturation pedals
  • Attenuators, power soaks, and dummy loads
  • Cabinet response emulators
  • Non-power-tube amp emulators
  • Speaker isolation cabinets
  • Post-amp effects placement
  • Controlling effects
  • Hum, buzz, and hiss
    … its all there!

    Principles of Rock Guitar Tone:

    “Tube amps sound good”
    “Solid-state amps sound bad”

    Try to play tube amps near their saturation point — this brings out the power tube sound and engages the guitar speakers. To play quieter, use a lower-power tube amp such as 5 watts. Strive to bring out the physical, real, tangible tone of saturating power tubes and hard-driven speakers. This includes using feedback, room noise, room reverberation, and hum and buzz. Clinically sterile tones such as a guitar effects processor and “speaker
    simulator” (treble-cut) recorded straight into the mixer sound cheap and too convenient and easily reproducible.

Books and articles about amp tone and effects paper-resources page, which includes 17 amplifier books

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8 thoughts on “Amp Tone and Effects Placement”

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  2. Hi amp question....?
    George N. Kyriazis

    Hi I bought a fender champ 30 .It doesn’t have a headphone jack . It does have an external speaker jack with

    a min load of 8 ohms. Can I use the external speaker jack as a headphone jack, safely without harming the amp?
    Please let me know . Thank You.

    1. Re: Hi amp question....?
      AJ

      : Hi I bought a fender champ 30 .It doesn’t have a headphone jack . It does have an external speaker jack with

      : a min load of 8 ohms. Can I use the external speaker jack as a headphone jack, safely without harming the amp?
      : Please let me know . Thank You.

      No you can’t Its for an external speaker. AN Ext Speaker is kind of like a cabinet

    1. Re: crategt80amp and marshallvs265amp
      michael

      : need info on crate gt 80 and marshall vs265 amps

      what kind of info are you looking for ?
      ive owned a marshall vs 265
      marshall has them on their site
      as for the crate i now have a blue voodoo
      nice amp ive had alot of crate amps too so if i can help you let me know what you are looking for ! michael

  4. amp eq
    jeff payton

    I was wondering if someone out there knew of any websites where the amp eq settings are given. I love to play guitar and to exactly match certain groups’ tones would be great.

    1. Re: amp eq
      reggie

      : I was wondering if someone out there knew of any websites where the amp eq settings are given. I love to play guitar and to exactly match certain groups’ tones would be great.

      Try the line6 website. I bought a Line6 Flextone that willI plug into my pc, and from
      there site I can download amp tones from a library automatically. The POD effect
      does the same.

      1. Re: amp eq
        michael

        : : I was wondering if someone out there knew of any websites where the amp eq settings are given. I love to play guitar and to exactly match certain groups’ tones would be great.

        : Try the line6 website. I bought a Line6 Flextone that willI plug into my pc, and from
        : there site I can download amp tones from a library automatically. The POD effect
        : does the same.

        ok i have like 200 amp settings all written down on paper
        what would you like and please list your gear it would help me greatly michael

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