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Got to say I enjoy reading your FX reports because I know you are very picky and will find all the flaws in a piece of gear, and also will actually point them out. I'm still convinced very few people do proper warts and all reviews when they post them up. Maybe I'm just cynical, but I don't think many people have the guts to bash something they own - either out of pride, or out of not wanting to kill the resale value for when they flip it.
I don't mind if a piece of equipment has a flaw if it is one I can live with, but if it is one that I can't then I'd rather read a good review and not buy it.
Not sure if it would work for you effects wise, but you know...
Last night on the way home from practice, I was starting to think that maybe it would be easier to just solve what I don't like about the Marshall high-gain... or rather, try and give it the aspects of the EVH that I prefer. The EVH sounds much tighter with palm-muting, so maybe all of this could've been avoided just by boosting the Marshall with a tubescreamer?!
*kicks self in face*
You think I might benefit from turning the AMT's master all the way up, and then dialing in the volumes of the amp a little lower, so that I'm not hitting the channel loop with a really high level signal? I think I need to try that. Only issue with that is, you'll be boosting after the fact.. which worries me, regarding noise-floor.
You think I might benefit from turning the AMT's master all the way up, and then dialing in the volumes of the amp a little lower, so that I'm not hitting the channel loop with a really high level signal? I think I need to try that. Only issue with that is, you'll be boosting after the fact.. which worries me, regarding noise-floor.
If you're gating after the 5150, it shouldn't be too bad. At the very least, it's worth trying.
From memory I seem to think the EVH had a bigger sound to it, with the Marshall being more narrow.
Thing is with the Marshall, I used to be sooooooo into it. And when I listen to clips of it from before, it still sounds really amazing. I don't know what has changed. I am all confused now. I'm wondering if the bias has drifted or something, causing it to lack balls.
And to me, it sounds epic. There isn't a single tone there that I dislike. Okay, it's in a mix, but my guitar is loud enough to get an impression of the amp. It's sounding different to this. I did change the tubes, and Marshall did replace the main board (due to a faulty noise gate iirc, this was back in August)
I wonder if that has anything to do with it.
Gonna have to do some more comparison recordings I think, try and get to the bottom of this.
Also, your ears become accustomed to tone, I think. So after a few months of constant use, your amazing sounding amp might, to you, sound... Normal. Which causes a craving...
If you turn up the master past 9 o'clock - which seems to be unity - then keep the amp channels volumes low, the bleed really isn't so severe. What I was doing in the practice room last night was I had the master volume at 9 o'clock, and I had my amp channels near enough noon. It was fucking LOUD.. and the bleed was quite obvious. Running the master at noon, means I have to put the amp channels at less than 9 o'clock in order to prevent my face from being blown off. So I think there probably *is* a happy medium to dial in here.
So I think the bleed thing is pretty minimal. Just don't be stupid and drive the pedal too hard, and you'll be fine.
But this will increase the noise floor, and it's particularly noticeable on the cleans. Depends how anal you are about it I suppose; I *think* I could probably live with it.
Keep the bass knob low. Noon and high starts to sound extremely flubby; through a 2x12 cab anyway. Don't recall if it was any different through my 4x12, but I suspect not.
Here is another clip:
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/630473/GearDemos/AMT F1/F1QuickDemo2.mp3
This gives some idea of the bleed when the master is at about noon, and the amp channels are just below 9 o'clock. As you can hear, it really isn't too bad.
And this clip:
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/630473/GearDemos/AMT F1/F1QuickDemo3.mp3
Gives an idea of how much it affects the tone of the amp channels. It does affect them... it's not totally unpleasant, but it isn't exactly the same. Should probably be aware of that.
So I dunno... solved the bleed issue. The feedback issue is just me being too loud and not used to not having my noise-gates I think (I was using Digitech GSP previously, which had a gate I could use) so I think we can ignore that one. But the tonal variation.. not 100% sure I am happy with that, and the noise-floor... not sure there either.