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My Trading Feedback | You Bring The Band
Just because you're paranoid, don't mean they're not after youI found it very brash until I scooped the upper mids quite radically - I now have an overall Fenderish tonality with the EQ on top of the amp set around halfway, giving me something to play with for different venues.
Best bet is to have the two amps side by side to match the Katana properly to your Deluxe instead of trying to copy it from memory. I spent a worthwhile hour doing that today while my neighbours were out.
It's this kind of gas-fuelling logic that'll have me buying a more expensive, heavier back-up amp, damn it!
My Trading Feedback | You Bring The Band
Just because you're paranoid, don't mean they're not after youI'm already selling a nice guitar (a Gretsch).
Great fender blackface sounds (and a few extras) weighs sod all and might even squeeze on your pedalboard.
In other news, I tried this guitar into a 65 PRRI,
https://www.absolutemusic.co.uk/fender-2017-ltd-ed-american-pro-mahogany-tele-deluxe-shawbucker-crimson-red-trans.html?source=shopping&sku=fen0175104738&gclid=Cj0KCQiAi7XQBRDnARIsANeLIesFuqDzweD-8eZG-ktbisQF-QflSlT7LKpnFk1XrbgPyR-lfZDTRawaAlpVEALw_wcB
I was offered £2165 for both guitar and amp if I traded in my Roadworn 60s Jazzmaster.
SO SO CLOSE to going for it. That Tele with those Shawbuckers into a BF Princeton was something else.
Quite an expensive back-up option!!!
Either this thing only sounds good with more volume or ta going back to the shop.
I'll never understand why people say it sounds great out of the box, it sounded awful to me.
It's up to you whether you persevere, but it was definitely worth it for me.
Ill check again tomorrow with more volume but then it defetes the notion of me using this as a late night practice amp.
Factory “voicing” (before you start playing around with the global eq etc) is very much r-a-w-k which was fine for me but obviously isn’t going to suit everyone...
It's actually a very tactile amp to play once the brash mids have gone.
Hopefully this weekend I can connect it to my Mac and tweak those two channels I don’t like into something better.
Out of interest, have you played with the global eq beyond getting a more fender, scooped voicing? I'd be interested in whether it can get more voxy tones.
Also, once the global eq is set, how much "change" is available from the eq on the control panel?
On your other point, the sweep of the onboard EQ is actually very smooth and fairly limited.
To me, that's a great feature, there's no tiny sweet spot plus a load of horrible crap like there is with most non valve amps - it's natural, progressive, and you don't have to worry about accidentally dialling in a viciously unusable tone.
I've set my global EQ to give a particular overall feel with the EQ knobs set halfway.
I see on some forums people have started to experiment with speaker swaps in Katanas which seems pointless to me, the global EQ is like having an infinite and totally controllable number of speaker choices.
I don't see why you couldn't make it more Vox-like tbh, the dynamic "feel" of the amp is genuinely excellent, and the tone shaping possibilities are pretty much endless.
Hope it helps...
That's reassuring, very cool to hear it gets the feel right. I heard one when they first came out and assumed I was hearing a jtm45 so it's capable of good sounds. I have not tried one yet though.