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After seriously farting around with different amps and effects over the last 10 years trying to get the tone I finally figured it out for my equipment.
I had Mesa, Marshall and now Framus.
What a pain in the ass it has been! But how kick ass it feels to finally have gotten it.
Turns out I had my treble too high and mids and bass too low.
So what I have is a Framus Cobra with an Ibanez SDR 1000+ reverb delay unit - a double chip stereo unit. You can get them for $100 - $125 and it is a great unit. Can't beat them for the money. They are from the 80's.
Thats all I use. I like to get tone with my fingers not my processor. Too much compression and other effects and you lose tone dynamics. Its harder to learn to play without a lot of effects but once you learn how to get tone with your fingers and technique you will have that professional sound to your playing. And you will be able to get the tone out of your guitar instead of a $3000 Eventide doing it all for you.
the Framus is a serious high gain boutique amp and I use the second of 3 channels most of the time. The third channel is insane high gain.
Anyway, I have bass at 10, mids at 9.5 and treble at .8 - not 8 but .8 as in less than 1.
I actually was browsing and saw how Michael Schenker had his amp settings and tried it and it worked!
Can't believe it. This setting just rocks. Still getting harmonics and great treble sounds. Everything sounds more musical and smooth. No scratchiness and no excess string noise anymore. Just killer professional sound.
God - took me 10 years to finally get the sound I was looking for - I'd be pissed if I wasn't so happy.
I had Mesa, Marshall and now Framus.
What a pain in the ass it has been! But how kick ass it feels to finally have gotten it.
Turns out I had my treble too high and mids and bass too low.
So what I have is a Framus Cobra with an Ibanez SDR 1000+ reverb delay unit - a double chip stereo unit. You can get them for $100 - $125 and it is a great unit. Can't beat them for the money. They are from the 80's.
Thats all I use. I like to get tone with my fingers not my processor. Too much compression and other effects and you lose tone dynamics. Its harder to learn to play without a lot of effects but once you learn how to get tone with your fingers and technique you will have that professional sound to your playing. And you will be able to get the tone out of your guitar instead of a $3000 Eventide doing it all for you.
the Framus is a serious high gain boutique amp and I use the second of 3 channels most of the time. The third channel is insane high gain.
Anyway, I have bass at 10, mids at 9.5 and treble at .8 - not 8 but .8 as in less than 1.
I actually was browsing and saw how Michael Schenker had his amp settings and tried it and it worked!
Can't believe it. This setting just rocks. Still getting harmonics and great treble sounds. Everything sounds more musical and smooth. No scratchiness and no excess string noise anymore. Just killer professional sound.
God - took me 10 years to finally get the sound I was looking for - I'd be pissed if I wasn't so happy.
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