Post by DefJef on Aug 13, 2016 11:07:26 GMT
Well then, I've tried all of my electrics through the Champ now. I'm only testing everything directly into the clean channel with some reverb and I've found that I have only one guitar which cannot be rescued by it: yes, the cheap Chinese Alnico pup equipped Squier strat. I swapped this from it's cheap sounding ceramic pups a few months back but these alnicos are certainly worse: loads of ear splitting top which just turns to mud if you dial the tone knob down a little or reduce a bit of volume, and no note bloom or character to them at all. They've got to go. I compared it to another ceramic equipped strat and the ceramic one beat it hands down.
Otherwise my two least favourite guitars have always been the humbucker equipped Aria Pro II Les Paul and a Gould humbucker and Bigsby-ed SG. The SG is saved! Hooray. It sounded fine and usable. The Aria...well it sounded better but rather characterless. Might work with pedals but it's far from essential in my collection. I think it might be going soon.
Then came the surprise guitar: my Harley Benton MS60 Vintage white. It seemed to sound better through my solid state amps than through this one. Again it was a bit bright sounding - the ceramic pups perhaps not helping here. Neck pickup was nice enough but the bridge a bit too bright.
Perhaps with some eq fiddling on the Champ amp I'll find some nicer tones for the less successful guitars and I'll pursue that a little. I'll also try a couple of electro acoustics through it; it's got such a clean channel that I wouldn't be surprised if they'd work.
Otherwise my two least favourite guitars have always been the humbucker equipped Aria Pro II Les Paul and a Gould humbucker and Bigsby-ed SG. The SG is saved! Hooray. It sounded fine and usable. The Aria...well it sounded better but rather characterless. Might work with pedals but it's far from essential in my collection. I think it might be going soon.
Then came the surprise guitar: my Harley Benton MS60 Vintage white. It seemed to sound better through my solid state amps than through this one. Again it was a bit bright sounding - the ceramic pups perhaps not helping here. Neck pickup was nice enough but the bridge a bit too bright.
Perhaps with some eq fiddling on the Champ amp I'll find some nicer tones for the less successful guitars and I'll pursue that a little. I'll also try a couple of electro acoustics through it; it's got such a clean channel that I wouldn't be surprised if they'd work.