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[_tom_]

i see... great advice! you made me realize how much of an idiot i am! right, so guitar and possibly pickup upgrade first, then amp... trouble is, the Laneys are single channel. any ways to change from clean to monstrous distortion instantly on a single channel?

On a single channel amp you could use something like the Award Session SoloBooster - http://www.award-session.com/solobooster.html

I think its basically just a footswitchable adjustable volume cut. Basically the same as rolling down your guitars volume on an overdriven amp if you put that pedal infront of the amp instead of in the fx loop. Depends how "clean" you need your sound to be though. I am happy with this clean but you might prefer a less gritty clean so may hate it.

[BloodMountain]

yeah. i was thinking more of a clean clean, without any "subtle" overdrive on. are you sure that pedal can change from clean to huge distortion? wouldnt it just take the master volume down, not the guitar output volume?

[dave_mc]

^ yeah. it'll presumably take a lot of the power tube distortion out, but I guess it wouldn't take the preamp overdrive out.

i guess it depends how much gain your distorted sound has. you can definitely get from a rock overdrive/distortion down to clean solely by using your guitar's volume (especially if there's some power amp dirt in that rock overdrive)- perhaps not from a metal overdrive, though.

I guess if you footswitched the gain boost out, AND rolled down your guitar volume, it might do it- but you'd need to get tom to try it on his, first.

[screamingdaisy]

^ yeah. it'll presumably take a lot of the power tube distortion out, but I guess it wouldn't take the preamp overdrive out.

i guess it depends how much gain your distorted sound has. you can definitely get from a rock overdrive/distortion down to clean solely by using your guitar's volume (especially if there's some power amp dirt in that rock overdrive)- perhaps not from a metal overdrive, though.

I guess if you footswitched the gain boost out, AND rolled down your guitar volume, it might do it- but you'd need to get tom to try it on his, first.

I could clean up my GH100TI with the volume, but it wasn't a clean clean.....just sorta clean.

Then again, I'm not that big into clean clean.

[screamingdaisy]

yeah. i was thinking more of a clean clean, without any "subtle" overdrive on. are you sure that pedal can change from clean to huge distortion? wouldnt it just take the master volume down, not the guitar output volume?

Clean clean is overrated......clean with a bit of dirt is where all the mojo's at.

In my opinion. :D


But, if you're want both a clean clean and ball crushing dirt you might be happier with the VH100R.

[dave_mc]

^ aye. Am I right in thinking that the iommi doesn't have the footswitchable gain boost?

[BloodMountain]

hmmm yeah... could you try that tom please?

oh yeah and i checked in the guitar buyer review and it said without changing your gain level.

[screamingdaisy]

^ aye. Am I right in thinking that the iommi doesn't have the footswitchable gain boost?

5 permanantly engaged gain stages.

[_tom_]

I will give it a try when the amps "officially" mine (a week on monday!), although I dont use the GH50L's gain boost really as I dont need that much gain and found it a bit fizzy anyway, but I didnt get to tweak it much. Will let you know next week!

[BloodMountain]

ok thanks... be sure to give some sound clips too of a crushing high gain fat distortion sound though... please!

[_tom_]

I dont have a mic setup yet so I can only do videos with a camera with a mic that clips really easily so I cant really have the amp very loud.

Although to be honest from the little time I have had playing with it, the extra/hi gain option on the amp seems too fizzy for a "crushing fat hi gain" sound, everyone else says its great for metal but with my setup I've only really been able to get up to a NWOBHM level of gain (something like Diamondhead or UFO I guess) and still maintain a "good" tone. I think its down to my cab though as Eminence dont seem to be that great for metal. I'm gonna try my Behringer tubescreamer copy infront of it to see what thats like!

[dave_mc]

^ aye. Am I right in thinking that the iommi doesn't have the footswitchable gain boost?

5 permanantly engaged gain stages.

metal. \m/ :twisted: \m/

oh yeah and i checked in the guitar buyer review and it said without changing your gain level.

maybe they meant without rolling down your guitar's volume, though. I've definitely heard that you can't get crystal clean, and then engaging the boost to get metal (the boost in that case would only get you up to maybe classic rock) or vice versa, but I'm thinking that disengaging the boost and rolling down the guitar's volume MIGHT do it.

we need to wait for tom...

[_tom_]

I managed to get the house to myself for a while again today so I sneaked the laney out of its box :) Using my EQ in FX loop to tweak the tone a bit I got some awesome metal tones with the boost engaged, and even with the boost still engaged I rolled my guitars volume right down for clean and it worked quite well. So I can imagine with a footswitch to disengage the boost and some quick volume control-age you can go almost instantly from hi gain to a passable clean. I say passable because you cant really get a big warm clean sound, but its got that really nice bluesy gritty clean which I like. I tried to get a video but it was too loud for the little mic so you'll have to wait till I can afford a half decent mic if you're after clips!