Does anyone else do this?
In order to get my amps driving I need them to be up at a reasonable (loud!) volume. I've been trying to play with my amps up and putting my guitar volume on numbers 3 or 4 and increasing when I need a little more dirt.
The plus points are that I seem to get more clarity as the amps are not compressing as much with my guitars volume lower. I also have a lot of control over the sound.
The downside is that in order to get any real grit my volume on stage is loud!
I do use pedals but I set them so that the volume isn't increased much, it's the tone I want from pedals (I don't use much dirt other than a fuzz face).
Perhaps I am making life harder for myself than I need to? Perhaps power scaling would be the easy way for me here?
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I set my Fish Factory so that I don't get a big volume boost, just a bit of a change in tone. It give me a touch more sustain.
I do the same with my fuzz face.
Using the guitars volume does give you a nice amount of control. Plus if you want it (who doesn't want it) you can manipulate feedback this way.
and you cant get choppy loud clean for funk rhythm or conversely lower volume chunky driven rhythm sounds.
fine for a blues gig but for any kind of function work its difficult without a soundman to compensate for volume changes
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I couldn't have done this when doing functions. My current group is really a bit of a rocky set up where I don't have to play "clean" clean. My clean is still a bit gritty and my dirty is "led Zep" dirty.
Does your current set up include two amps?
My two are both 18 watt. One a Tweed which sounds super for lead and Rythm sounds and a Marshally type which cuts a lot better and has a lot more top end.
Having them both on gives me a really thick sound that I don't get from either on their own.
"Take these three items, some WD-40, a vise grip, and a roll of duct tape. Any man worth his salt can fix almost any problem with this stuff alone." - Walt Kowalski
"Only two things are infinite - the universe, and human stupidity. And I'm not sure about the universe." - Albert Einstein