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Saturday, February 02, 2008

New MP3: How To Use a Tube Amp!!! 14 minutes of so

Current mood: productive

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Comments: 8

This MP3 explains how to use a Tube Amp effectively (in my way). It's to get different kind of tone from your guitar's pickup switch, tone control, and your volume control. it's pretty practical when using a Tube amp with just one channel. turn down the volume for cleans, turn it up for more grit.

I used my Strat and my Blues Jr. with the EQ:
Volume 12
Fat Switch ON
Treble 12
Bass 12
Mid 12
Master Volume 2
Reverb 3

my strat has:
Musikraft Flame Maple Neck
Fender MIM Body
RockMonkeyGuitars custom handwound pickups (7.7k, 7.8k, 7.7k)
.010 ernie ball strings
250k volume control with 470pF treble bypass cap
Fender TBX Master tone control
5-way switch

this was all done in one take, and I didn't mess with my amp's EQ at all during the recording. All I did was mess with my pickup switch, volume knob and tone knob on my guitar. My guitar has a Fender TBX Tone Control for my master tone control, and a 250k volume control with a 470pF treble bypass capacitor.

I'm open for questions. please post the questions in this blog with the format:

"What pickup config, volume, tone at *insert time here*?"

but any comments are appreciated.

12:36 pm - 8 comments - 6 Kudos - Report!

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zeppelinpage4 wrote on Feb 3rd, 2008 7:55am

Nice job, in the beginning is that the volume knob rolled down?

I noticed my own amp is surprisingly more sensitive to the guitar controls than the SS Vox, except the Classic 50 is just about always clean no matter what volume.

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ECistheBesta wrote on Feb 3rd, 2008 8:02am

the beginning is my volume knob rolled down, tone at 5 with neck pickup (this is crazy i remember this.).

i'll probably know what config it was, since i listen to my amp+guitar everyday i can guess which pickup and such haha.

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UnsignedRecords wrote on Feb 3rd, 2008 1:56pm

mm... sexy. just listening to it now.

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CanCan wrote on Feb 3rd, 2008 8:09pm

So am I. Good job.

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CanCan wrote on Feb 3rd, 2008 8:33pm

Just finished listening, nice playing.

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cheesetabman wrote on Feb 19th, 2008 8:53am

I LOVE CHEESE

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Lered_rich wrote on Apr 30th, 2008 1:08am

"470pF treble bypass capacitor"?
sory i dont know very much jsut wanting to expand my knowledge a bit

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ECistheBesta wrote on Apr 30th, 2008 11:44am

that cap lets through some treble when i turn down my volume knob, thus giving me a crispy clean tone instead of a muffled tone when i turn my volume down on my guitar.

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