The eternal struggle: The guitarist whose amp doesn't sound good unless it's turned up loud vs. the sound guy who wants him to turn the amp down so he can run it through the monitors

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If i was flush, I would buy a 50s tweed Tremolux, and all my issues would be solved. What a brilliant, perfect amplifier!

― Brooker Buckingham (Brooker B), Friday, 11 August 2006 21:10 (seventeen years ago) link

My playing ability may not be up to this. Is there any way I could use my actual dick to compensate for my lack of amp size?
-- nabisco (--...), August 11th, 2006 1:20 PM.
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Is it tube or solid state?
-- n/a (nu...), August 11th, 2006 2:01 PM.
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Depends on the audience, really.
-- nabisco (--...), August 11th, 2006 2:59 PM.

This thread has gone totally right.

― rogermexico (rogermexico), Friday, 11 August 2006 22:20 (seventeen years ago) link

I tried the Vox AC-15s, both of the reissue models, and they sounded TERRIBLE! Did I run into some lemons, or do these things just sound like ass?

I think it depends on the rest of your rig. Don't know about the old reissue, but the new AC15CC is effectively an AC30CC's Top Boost channel minus the AC30CC's valuable, treble-slaying cut control. An EQ pedal, a dark GTR, or a really really long cable (curly Vox style?) might help to smooth things out, but who wants to fight their own amp?

I eventually settled on one of the tweed Blues Jr's with the Jensen speaker. Great sounding amp, but a smidge boxy for the sound I'm after.

Great looking amp too - 15 watts of sex0r! There are those who say that the legendary billm Blues Junior Tone Stack Mod helps with the boxiness, but I've never heard a billm-modded Tweed BJ to say yea or nay.

― rogermexico (rogermexico), Friday, 11 August 2006 22:31 (seventeen years ago) link

Thanks for the Billm tip! I just read through his website and I'm thinking this dude has the ticket!

― Brooker Buckingham (Brooker B), Friday, 11 August 2006 23:50 (seventeen years ago) link

Right on. If you decide to pull the trigger please post an update. The mod seems to equalize response across low/mid/high to compensate for the BJ's "bass pinch," trading more bass in the mix for a little less headroom and "sparkle."

You could probably come up with something similar just by tweaking the EQ (scoop, scoop, scoop!), but it would be a unique sweet spot rather than a base tone, just as sparkly cleans become more of a sweet spot you need to chase post-mod.

― rogermexico (rogermexico), Saturday, 12 August 2006 01:02 (seventeen years ago) link

fourteen years pass...

i have a dumb stoned question about guitarists that play live with like 9 stacks of amps behind them.. is this a super pain in the ass to deal with from a soundtech's perspective? are most of the cabs and heads empty (just for show)?

for the musician, it must be an insanely intense psychedelic experience to be playing directly in front of like 8 cranked marshall stacks every night..

how does shit work

― brimstead, Sunday, 21 February 2021 19:28 (three years ago) link

I saw Dino Jr do a small venue show a few years back and J had three cranked Twin Reverbs stacked atop each other FACING HIM as his guitar monitor.

― assert (MatthewK), Sunday, 21 February 2021 21:16 (three years ago) link

Sounds like workplace related hearing loss to me. I SAID SOUNDS LIKE... you get the idea.

― I'm Going to Bring a Watermelon to Mark Grout Tonight (Tom D.), Sunday, 21 February 2021 21:35 (three years ago) link

sometimes guys would have you "sidewash", point the amp sideways across the stage instead of pointing it at the audience

― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Sunday, 28 February 2021 18:30 (three years ago) link

Just don't put the amp through the PA if it's too loud

― Mr. Cacciatore (Moodles), Sunday, 28 February 2021 18:33 (three years ago) link

I'm always on the side of the guitarists with this, but then I would be

― Mr. Cacciatore (Moodles), Sunday, 28 February 2021 18:37 (three years ago) link

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