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Post by Deleted on Jun 29, 2018 10:02:04 GMT
Oh my bad sorry, not amp shield! I meant that Deeflexx shield
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Post by Deleted on Jun 29, 2018 10:03:29 GMT
Im not saying buy that overpriced deflex thing but one could certainly DIY it.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 30, 2018 8:39:18 GMT
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Post by salteedog on Aug 27, 2018 19:22:37 GMT
DefJef I can't remember which thread it was but I promised to post the Global EQ changes I made to my Katana settings. The high cut might be a little extreme...certainly it reduces the effectiveness of the acoustic channel as a pseudo-FRFR amp but for the clean and drive channels I think its better than the stock settings.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 4, 2018 17:05:24 GMT
I'm not buying into that "sounds like real tube amp" any more! It's sounds like an amp that's not tube and that's fine but not for me! Maybe that expensive Kemper can get a tube amp tone but for that money I could get a fine tube amp or several 2nd hand Bugera amps
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Post by MartinB on Nov 4, 2018 18:10:06 GMT
I'm not buying into that "sounds like real tube amp" any more! It's sounds like an amp that's not tube and that's fine but not for me! Maybe that expensive Kemper can get a tube amp tone but for that money I could get a fine tube amp or several 2nd hand Bugera amps If you need a physical amp a Kemper might be the extremely expensive ticket, you could get a fantastic combo or head+cab, I already had a pretty good gaming PC and a Focusrite interface, bought the guitar rig software and so far I’m very happy with it, I will probably buy a small practice amp for my room assuming the Laney sells. I think that for someone like me who’s extremely unlikely to ever play in a band computer emulation is a good solution.
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DefJef
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Due to musical differences I've decided I can't work with myself any more.
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Post by DefJef on Nov 4, 2018 19:10:15 GMT
Well, here's a thing. First, it was so nice to just plug back into my half tube Fender Champ 25SE again. Goodness that amp sounds lovely, hiss free and clear with a great reverb. So I played for a little while all clean and telecastery nice. Then I decided to plug into the second channel normally reserved for higher output humbuckers but, thinking about how this amp works with the tubes on the power amp rather than the pre amp, I decided to max out the master volume (just as they suggest with the Katana) to push the power amp valves as much as possible and then adjust my level using the preamp volume control. That was nice, bit more breakup. I always ignore the drive channel on this amp as there are better ways to get a headache. Then I remembered the little Behringer Mic500 tube preamp I bought earlier this month to use on vocal mics and which was still in its box. Maybe I could play through that in some way. So I plugged the guitar in to it and then into the Fender Champ. There were loads of usable drive tones there as it has a ton of voices on it. It also has a limiter which acts like a compressor and I found a load of very drivey sounds that sustained well using that limiter. Then I wondered about putting the Behringer preamp into the fx loop. It was even better although the reverb acted in a strange way then. The limiter seemed to swallow then spit out the signal to the reverb so there was like a delay and then the reverb. It took a while to adjust the limiter so that didn't happen. Now I had the Fender's preamp eq before the Behringer, which has no tone controls of it's own except a bass cut and the various preset voices, and everything was very usable too. Just for fun I tried the Behringer straight in to the fx loop's return socket and, of course, this meant I was bypassing the Fender's preamp altogether but, unfortunately, also the reverb. It sounded a bit like plugging in to a hi fi and I had no eq options. Just goes to show what a nice clean sound Fender amps with 6L6s have though. Like mono hi fi. So this was all a very productive experiment and I now have a great overdrive tool which isn't a stomp box although I could put a loop switch stomp box in front of it to make it into one. I can see this being a very useful little gadget for recording though. Next will come an experiment using it on the Katana to see if that helps the feel and sounds from that amp. Think I'd better copy this post to the Behringer thread (and maybe the Fender Champ one too!).
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Post by DerAlex on Nov 5, 2018 16:52:00 GMT
Wonder what one of those tube filled preamps would sound like into it? Then again I could get a little tube amp for close to that price. Why bother? I have that pedal and I think it is awesome. I don´t have a Katana and I want to go the IR route. At least that´s my tinker plan until christmas. This preamp pedal into an IR loader (e.g. Mooer Radar) and then into headphones or external active monitor. I changed tubes in my tube amp and now it hisses and I have to pay an expert to get that right again. I hate spending that money. So if the above scenario is successful it will mean to never buy a tube amp again (unless it is magically self-biasing and taking new tubes without the need for additional setup by an expert).
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