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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
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| 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 |
