THE amp i owned which had me twiddling more knobs and settings rather than enjoying the bloody thing was a mk1 boogie reissue combo. Its not the knob feast that an amp like the mk4 is with all its push pulls and knobs for this that and the other but that mk1 drove me insane.
The funny thing is how from day to day without touching any settings it would sound different and so the twiddling and adjusting routine would start all over again. The mk1 got sold and i dont miss it one bit, id rather just plug in and play.
Any amps get on your tits with the need for seemingly never ending adjustments and settings changes ?
Comments
Don't want to spend all my time twiddling dials and switches.
Now using a Yerasov GTA 15 which has volume + tone and sounds great on any setting.
I prefer having bass/mid/treble to a single tone, plus having presence is usually useful too.
Having multiple voicing options can be useful too, once you've found your favourite setting you can just leave it until you want something different.
I have one of their simpler amps (a Lonestar Special) but there are still far more options than many other makers' products.
In an ideal world, I'd like a Deluxe Reverb Reissue to cover the clean stuff, and something equally simple to handle drive tones.
"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
It sounds good on it's on but in a band it sounds like it has a severe brick wall limiter over it
if you turn it up it's deafening
very hard to get it just right
Supportact said: [my style is] probably more an accumulation of limitations and bad habits than a 'style'.
I don't get this either, when I saw Fleetwood Mac, Lindsay Buckingham kept adjusting, sometimes mid song, it sounded fine to me at the start.
I spent about 45 mins in dawsons with mustang 3 tediously scrolling thru endless presets of shite trying to find something i liked, didnt find anything. The plug in and play ideology is where its at, if only all amp companies realised this.
now I'm done, it's the best sound from my amps current set up, I won't even change the volume, it's set against the drum kit and that's that.
I really want to try a THR100 as it doesnt seem to have this to the extent that other digital stuff does, plus no menus.
No. I'm not joking.
Trying to find the sweet spot... play some chords, oh there it is! Play some riffs... try to find the sweet spot again.. etc... etc...