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How do you like your amp?

Single channel point and shoot?
38 (41.8%)
Basic twin chan clean and dirty?
36 (39.6%)
Triple Chan?
12 (13.2%)
The works, more switches than the Space Shuttle?
5 (5.5%)

Total Members Voted: 85

Voting closed: April 08, 2005, 04:05:14 PM

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Rob Stobbs

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« Reply #15 on: April 13, 2005, 11:07:30 AM »
Being Almost Older Than God Himself.......... I was bought up in the days when Amps really didn't have Master Volumes and all that clever stuff that everyone goes on about.
So I have always driven from the Volume and Tone Controls of the Guitar.
My Current Set up is a Cornford Harlequin and a Rivera Mk 11 Fender Concert via an A/B Box. The fact that the Harlequin is only 8 Watts tells you that I no longer Gig. This set up is used purely at home in the Studio.

When I was Gigging? Ahhhhhhhhhhhh......Matamp or Orange. In one particularly nasty Band that I ended up Touring with back in 1900 and Frozen over.....I had 2 120 Orange Heads and 4 4X12s and STILL struggled to get heard!!!  Course, I'm as Deaf as a Bleedin Post these days!

What was that you said? :D

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« Reply #16 on: April 13, 2005, 03:18:00 PM »
2 Orange 120w.......what -  were you insane????

How do you find the Cornford, I think they're a touch dark?
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Rob Stobbs

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« Reply #17 on: April 13, 2005, 04:20:31 PM »
:D  No......Not quite Insane....Well......er.....maybe?
Trouble was that I was having to compete witha Thunderously Loud Micced Drummer, A Bass Player who was STONE Deaf, a Keyboard and Hammond at Full Bore and another Guitarist using about 400 Watts of Marshall and Hiwatt mixed.......Thankfully the job lasted for One Tour, I honestly doubt that I'd have survived another!! :wink:

Personally, I have no problems with the Cornford, Great Little Amp.

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« Reply #18 on: April 13, 2005, 06:26:49 PM »
Running 2 Orange/Matamp stacks would be bloody loud, bet that tour was fun. Single channel amps are a lot more flexible than the lack of controls and switching would have most people believe I think, I can clean my Laney up or get it to grind when it's set right just by varying my pick attack.
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« Reply #19 on: April 13, 2005, 08:19:46 PM »
Single channel amps are great-you get your tone quickly so all you gotta do is play, no messing 8)
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« Reply #20 on: April 14, 2005, 08:25:39 AM »
I only once had a 'true' 2 channel amp, the reast have always been one tone stack with sometimes a switch for lead/clean.  The exception was an old beige Fender Temolux which I used with a Bassman 2x12 cab.  But even then I only used one channel!

When I used to gig a lot, I used various Marshalls, but nearly always 50's, other than one gig with a MV100 which I took back the next day!  We used to mike up the guitars and I could get a much better sound with the 50 watt amps.  I used to use AC30's for a bit too, but kept going back to Marshalls.  My favourite set up that I ever had was a small 50w head (probably a JMP50, but back then a Marshall 50 was either big or small to me!), with a Marshall 8x10 cabinet.  I was using an SG Junior and a Strat with a DiMarzio bridge pickup.

I have always used a very old Jennings Wah for tone shaping and I have had various boost pedals (from my Tone Bender to now a Blackstone Overdrive).  I find setting the amp up for a nice rhythm tone and then boosting the front end suits me.  Who wants a clean sound anyway  :lol:  

I actually use a Fender amp now for clean stuff, but since it is a valve amp, it is not truly clean.  I once had a HH VS for about 3 weeks.  I was recording at first and it sounded great, then I took it on a gig and it squealed like a pig!  I think the Line 6's are the same if you turn them up.  

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« Reply #21 on: April 20, 2005, 12:07:02 PM »
Voted for the single channel amps, I learned that less controls means less to fiddle with, and often better overall tone. Also, active use of volume/tone/selector and OD's or boosters pedals will add plenty of gain choices even with a single channel amp.

My own much loved amp (Budda DS30) is actually a twin channel amp but it switches between two poweramps (2x6L6 30w and 4xEL84 30w) with the same (very simple) preamp, so it's more like using two different amps in one cabinet than the usual added high-gain preamp stage. If I hadn't had this I'd probably pick two nice single channel amps and switch between them for clean/crunch and overdrive.

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« Reply #22 on: April 21, 2005, 06:56:27 PM »
Quote from: Tim
There are only 2 two tones-clean and dirty :twisted:  :D
:twisted: Heaven "n" Hellll :evil:
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« Reply #23 on: April 21, 2005, 07:07:54 PM »
I voted for Twin Channels, even though I own a(nother) 3 Channel amp. I've recently bought an Ampeg VL-503 combo, these amps were designed by Lee Jackson, and really are three amps in one.

Ch1 is great for clean tones, a wee bit of reverb, rarely use it though. Ch2 is where it happens for me, set so that it's just breaking up with either a Vintage Rat, a Guv'nor, or an Ibanez TK999US Tube King (my new toy!). Great tones across the range from cleanish to classic rock to super saturated gain. Great stuff. Ch3 is just dirty. It even has a built in attenuator, it's not so good for home use, but in a live situation, you can crank the Ch volume's, and still be able to hear afterwards.

Add to this equation a THD HotPlate attenuator (better than the built in one), where you can really get those power valves (2x 6550's)cooking.

So that's it, one channel with pedal's = 2 channels (well, it does in my book).

For home use and recording (at home), it's the PODxt every time. Great tones are there for you to find (with your BKP equipped guitar o'course!).
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« Reply #24 on: April 21, 2005, 08:51:47 PM »
I prefer a two channel setup w/ a dark footswitchable boost on the lead channel. That's quite like what the amp's going to be like I'm having built at the moment. I think that's versatile enough.
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« Reply #25 on: April 21, 2005, 11:29:53 PM »
I'm with Peterku ... I like having a dead clean channel without having to muck around with my guitar's volume control. Actually, I really only use the volume on my guitars to mute 'em ... and I don't use tone knobs at all!

For the gain channel, while I prefer hi gain amps, I usually keep the gain at about 1/2, and use an OD to push the head into distortion. I find that this adds a richness to the tone and a harmonic complexity you don't get with just the amp's gain.
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« Reply #26 on: April 22, 2005, 10:19:29 AM »
When I did the last Music Live music show with BKP, Geoff Whitehorn was there with his Crawlers, he had a great trick of using the tone control to soften the guitar tone when playing chords so it didn't overpower the solos....
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« Reply #27 on: April 28, 2005, 06:06:29 PM »
Fender Hot Rod Deluxe (I don't use the overdrive channel) into a '67 Fender Bandmaster Speaker cabinet (2 X 12" Jensens) and a Hughes & Kettner Tube Factor pedal for the dirty work.

Simple but effective, will do anything from rockabilly to metal :twisted:

It's only 40 Watts but it's louder than a flathead V8 with open headers :band1:
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« Reply #28 on: April 28, 2005, 10:30:31 PM »
If someone bought me a two channel JCM800, I'd love them forever.

Andy!
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« Reply #29 on: April 28, 2005, 11:59:42 PM »
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If someone bought me a two channel JCM800, I'd love them forever.

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