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Second thing to say is that you’re driving the amp harder when playing chords, with all strings ringing, than you are when playing single notes. If you turn down the guitar for the chords then when you turn it up for the solo the amp will be driven harder, and give you some of the Overdrive you need. The amp may give you this. If you’re ever playing through an amp you don’t know, which is usually the case at a jam, then you need an Overdrive or distortion pedal to be sure of getting enough.
thx all, makes sense just need more push at that point.
^ It literally is as simple as that.
You were into the Palmer there, and I set it up for maximum preamp gain. It's not a gainy amp, so whilst I think it works really well for the crunchy Neil rhythm tone, once you go from heavy strums on multiple strings to single note soloing, you're going to need a volume and gain boost. Had I been thinking properly and noticed you didn't have any pedals I could have plugged in my little board which was just on the floor next to it which had a boost, a Tubescreamer, and a properly naughty Ibanez overdrive.
As an aside, I brought the Palmer because it's meant to be a "recording amp", and it has three different types of power tube working in Class A mode so it can simulate Fender, Vox and Marshall and even blend between all three. But it's not obvious what all the dials do (made no easier that the labels are in German!) and it seemed to flummox everyone who came across it. Not the most user-friendly of amps, even if the tone is as pure a tube tone as you're likely to come across. Ironically in this context the Katana is a far better way of dialling in a particular tone, even though the Palmer is made of heavy metal and hot glass like amps should be, and the Katana is made of ones and zeros.
There were two very common items at the jam - a Pedaltrain Nano, and a Zoom MS-50G. There were at least three or four of each brought by various people. At the risk of sending you down the rabbit hole of pedals, it's important to have a board with a handful of stuff on it when going into a thing like this so you know you can cover a few eventualities. Boost, overdrive, delay, some sort of modulation. You don't have to go the full Custom Pedal Boards route to have a decent portable effects board.
As for the notes, learn a few solos you like and take it from there.
As for "when am I ready?" You'll never be ready. It works in reverse, you become ready by doing it. - pmbomb
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ok, so it's quite normal to have an amp on good gain then pile more on with a pedal or 2? I have a Zoom G1XON, I'll bring it next time.
that's good learning, thanks all.
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but reassuringly, "there's a warning sign ahead on the road ahead".
When the recordings come out have a listen to Boulevard - I'm using a basic clean tone for bits in the verse and then a big overdrive pedal for the heavy bits and solo. It's the same Palmer amp but will sound very different. Everyone has their own way of doing things but I've always been a fan of a tube amp on the verge of overdrive if you hit it hard, with a choice of boost and overdrive to add on top. Transistor overdrives and cooking tube amps blend really nicely to give that nice, fat, harmonic-laden tone.
Just blame that @pmbomb
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