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Post by Deleted on May 29, 2018 11:39:06 GMT
Everything sounds better after a few beers. Excellent. This Katana is going to be ideal for gigs! |
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Post by Deleted on Jun 13, 2018 15:00:03 GMT
Well Dave Simpson has got his hands on a Katana 50 and boy does he like it. He gets some nice tones out of it - in spite of using fairly radical EQ settings (e.g. his Hendrix blues tone) - it's prompted me to start exploring the lead channel which up to now I've haven't bothered with. It's doesn't hurt that he's a hell of a player and a likeable guy too. I just checked through his settings and it seems he finds the Kat too bright too. Mids and trebs rarely go beyond 2 and often stay at 0. Interesting. It's as though Boss are saying, "We've already voiced it right, add more at your peril." Yet they haven't because that bass keeps needing to be whacked up. Perhaps the Kat is the best argument there is for an eq pedal. |
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Post by salteedog on Jun 13, 2018 15:19:59 GMT
I just ignore the numbers on the EQ knobs...for sure do not be afraid of playing with bass, mids or treble dialed to 10 or to 0.
Last night I experimented with a crunch tone on the lead channel...gain dialed to 0 and mids and highs dialed right back. I've been trying to nail that 'Cinnamon girl' tone where the power chords aren't fizzy but there's enough treble for the picked/arpeggiated strings in the verses to shine through. Wasn't half bad really..
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Post by Djangle on Jun 13, 2018 17:11:45 GMT
Well Dave Simpson has got his hands on a Katana 50 and boy does he like it. He gets some nice tones out of it - in spite of using fairly radical EQ settings (e.g. his Hendrix blues tone) - it's prompted me to start exploring the lead channel which up to now I've haven't bothered with. It's doesn't hurt that he's a hell of a player and a likeable guy too. I just checked through his settings and it seems he finds the Kat too bright too. Mids and trebs rarely go beyond 2 and often stay at 0. Interesting. It's as though Boss are saying, "We've already voiced it right, add more at your peril." Yet they haven't because that bass keeps needing to be whacked up. Perhaps the Kat is the best argument there is for an eq pedal. He pretty much dials all his amps EQ to zero or there about as he isnt a fan of bright trebly tones. He does this on Orange CR120/Marshall MG and Peavey Bandit. Hes a great player and sounds great through the solid state gear he uses but the best tones i heard from him was on Marshall Plexi. |
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Post by Deleted on Jun 13, 2018 20:12:09 GMT
It was telling how, despite the backing off of treble and mids, he still sounded bright. I wonder if he went into the software to attempt to solve it before just twisting stuff down. I was playing through mine this morning and did much the same as Dave: backed 'em right off.
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Post by salteedog on Jun 13, 2018 20:36:36 GMT
I very much doubt he went into the software. He sounds pretty clueless about that side of things.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 13, 2018 20:43:32 GMT
 I was thinking that when he started saying the colours of the effects he was pressing. Mind you, once I've set those knobs up they may as well be colours because I can't remember what I've set up either.
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Post by salteedog on Jun 13, 2018 21:03:33 GMT
Neither can I actually. Most of the time the only effects I use are reverb, delay and boost so it's not a big deal really.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 13, 2018 21:30:30 GMT
I was playing through my Boss ME-70 this morning and comparing it's sounds to the Katana's. They are pretty much the same. Had a lot of fun using stacked delays. Went off on a bit of an extended Brighton Rock extravaganza and got so carried away I nearly missed an appointment! Those stacked delays are made for self indulgence!
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Post by Deleted on Jun 14, 2018 19:54:28 GMT
Remember the baffles suggestion for taming the trebliness? I just saw this pic of Stevie Ray's poor old Marshall. He clearly had a similar problem.  |
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Post by salteedog on Jun 14, 2018 20:14:39 GMT
Maybe Marshall should sell a reliced amp!
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Post by Deleted on Jun 14, 2018 21:03:53 GMT
And call it a Nirvana amp.  |
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Post by Deleted on Jun 15, 2018 8:51:14 GMT
I was reading about beamy directional amps and it seems it is most common with 12" speakers, but not all of them by any means. Plenty of people have experienced it on Fenders and Marshalls too so it's not a Katana only problem. Some say just getting the speaker in will help, others have left the thing playing for days facing the floor and covered with a blanket and got nowhere. I did question why the Boss folk put that stupid little, difficult to extract, 2" prop on the bottom. Maybe it was to try and alleviate the awful directionality? I just sat playing mine and wondered why my tone was so muffled, then remembered I had set it up for its most appealing sound yesterday with it facing my head. I tipped it up on my polar bear stand and all was back as good again. Plenty do seem to have had luck with the doughnut baffle so I'm keen to try it. However I cannot get the amp apart. I have no idea what those four screws on the front do. I've taken then out and the amp stays exactly the same. I need to get at the front of the speaker somewhow otherwise I'll just have to stick the donut on the front. Hmm, might be a nice way to cover up that Katana symbol that I hate and give the amp some visual character and appeal. A target could look excellent.  |
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Post by salteedog on Jun 15, 2018 10:51:02 GMT
This might help...looks like you have to take out the main unit to get to the speaker. |
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Post by salteedog on Jun 15, 2018 10:52:02 GMT
or this one
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