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Basically there are a lot of ways to arrive at a similar place and none of them are wrong, but I do like to be able to self mix, hence my need for a clean power section and some sort of control over master volume.
Sometimes I need a loud clean solo to ring out over the whole band, other times I need dirty power chords well beneath the vocals.
I don't think I've ever played in a band where clean was always x volume and dirty was always y volume, and other than something like a Dr Feelgood tribute I can't imagine many others do.
Not suggesting the op has horrible tone, but I used to play with a guy who had the most ear splitting trebly Reverb soaked tone ever, I used to go home after rehearsal with a headache, but he felt it was just right.
Maybe the OP is a bit brighter than he realises, this can be doubly so when you are on top of your amp.
A crafty solution for a clean volume boost from dirt pedals into amp is actually use a volume cut. This is basically a volume pot in a box with an in & out and a footswitch that's switchs the middle wiper to the end lug to bypass any attenuation. knock the pot back a bit and that's your normal sound. Hit the switch and that's your solo boost .... doesn't colour the sound, won't drive the input of the amp any harder and cost around £20 to build.
90% of the time I have an engineer turning me up and down but if I do set up a boost it's only subtle .... as I said you need less than you would think, especially if the band plays with sympathy to whoever is meant to be in the spotlight ... 90% of the time that's always the lead vox but the band it's self can also ease off slightly to get the guitar solo heard better as well. As a engineer you find the more experienced the band the less mixing they need
speak up!!!!
Depends on the genre.
I play quite aggressive metal, so dynamically it just doesn’t work to back off for a solo, adaption of tone ( less low, more mids) and good old fashioned volume are the solo tones of choice.
Its just different flavours, nothing is better or best, just 50 shades of gain.
For a proper amp journey filled with snake oil and false superlatives you’ve got to play the blues on an amp that sounds like other amps it just costs three times as much.
There's a great story about Charlie Watts. Mick sent a runner to his hotel room saying 'Mick wants his drummer'. Charlie puts his suit on, comes downstairs, punches Mick square on the nose and says 'I'm not your f**cking drummer, you're my f**cking singer', then goes back to bed.
Which I think pretty much sums it up.