Author Topic: Matamp Little Rock - love it - ordered it! (Read 33449 times)

_tom_ · « **Reply #75 on:** June 19, 2007, 11:53:45 PM »

Sorry to kinda go OT, but would you say either a Box of Rock or Treble Twister (made by HTH I assume?) into a GH with the drive fairly low would give a decent 'DC tone? At the minute, it seems to be missing something in the upper mids and the way notes sustain or something, cant put my finger on it!

Twinfan · « **Reply #76 on:** June 20, 2007, 08:08:39 AM »

HTH's Treble Twister is a booster so it's not adding much gain or EQ by itself. It enhances the tone you've already got, so it won't help with your specific problem.

The BOR works best into a clean or slightly crunchy amp. If you have a lot of gain to start with, you won't get the best out of it. It's designed to make your non Master Volume Marshall into a Master Volume model (e.g. Super Lead into a JMP) although the tone of the pedal is based around a JTM-45 at full tilt (a la Angus in the studio).

To get a decent 'DC tone you need the amp as clean as you can with plenty of bite. I think the lack of high mids on your setup is due to you using a GH50L (more bottom heavy than a Marshall) and your speakers (G12Hs have a lot of lower frequencies). You'll need an upper mid boost pedal, probably quite sharp sounding on its own, running as a bit of a boost with a medium level of gain. I'm thinking an MXR Distortion+ (or DOD 250 Overdrive as they're virtualy the same pedal) would be ideal.

Didn't you have a RAT distortion? Have you tried that in front of the GH50L (with the gain fairly low) to give it some bite?

_tom_ · « **Reply #77 on:** June 20, 2007, 09:54:13 AM »

I see, thanks for your help :) I'll try just cranking it with the gain low later on (only quicky though, everyones at home today!). I have tried the rat which does seem to work quite well but it only seems to sound good when using the bridge pickup, neck gets too muddy and fuzzy.

Twinfan · « **Reply #78 on:** June 20, 2007, 10:42:14 AM »

That's neck pickups for you! I find them to be really sensitive.

An old skool treble booster might work well for you?

dave_mc · « **Reply #79 on:** June 20, 2007, 12:23:39 PM »

thanks for the review of those matamps and the speakers.

:drink:

Twinfan · « **Reply #80 on:** June 20, 2007, 12:39:00 PM »

No problem - thought it might be of use to some people!

Brow · « **Reply #81 on:** June 20, 2007, 06:34:30 PM »

I'm still waiting for mine to arrive :(

They said it might get shipped last Wednesday.............. then it was Friday.... then it was this Monday :roll:

Ah well, I know it'll sound great when it finally gets here :twisted: 8) :D

Twinfan · « **Reply #82 on:** June 20, 2007, 07:45:30 PM »

There was a pile of chassis' all wired up at the factory yesterday, and Dave was working on a big batch for Canada. Not sure why they haven't boxed them up and sent them out...

Brow · « **Reply #83 on:** June 23, 2007, 10:48:51 AM »

I spoke to Dave (I think) yesterday on the phone and I'm going up to fetch my amp today :twisted: :D

Twinfan · « **Reply #84 on:** June 23, 2007, 11:16:52 AM »

Superb! Let me know what you think of it :D

Brow · « **Reply #85 on:** June 23, 2007, 11:09:05 PM »

Quote from: Twinfan

Superb! Let me know what you think of it :D

I got my amp today and it sounds great :)

The Voice switch doesn't seem to do an awful lot, but aside from that, it sounds awesome :D

I'm gonna be testing it more tomorrow with my pedalboard, as I remember that it really likes OD pedals :D

Rob Stobbs · « **Reply #86 on:** June 24, 2007, 11:28:05 AM »

The Voice Switch has been the subject of quite a bit of discussion on the Matamp Forum. From what I am hearing...... it appears that a few have been in need of a tweak, but then again, I think that people "possibly" rather over estimated what it does?

The Voice switch on the GT1 is very responsive, but of course it does do a different job.

Twinfan · « **Reply #87 on:** June 24, 2007, 11:49:54 AM »

The voice switch thins out the sound. Dave described it to me as a way of controlling the use of your overdrive pedals. The voice occurs before the drive/volume stages so you can thin the sound out as it goes into the amp. So if you're using a TubeScreamer for example and you've got the amp cranked it might sound a bit too thick. Knocking back the voice one notch will thin it a little. It's a subtle trick.

How have you got your box set up to fix the cooling problem they were having? Have you got a vent on the top with the Matamp logo like I have?

Brow · « **Reply #88 on:** June 24, 2007, 11:56:59 AM »

I've only used the amp on it's own, without any OD pedals, so maybe that's why I'm not hearing too much difference when using the voice switch?

As regards the cooling issue, when I spoke to Dave on the phone on Friday he said he was playing around with CPU cooling fans and that he found 1 he thought would work in the amp.

I picked my amp up yesterday, and when it's switched on with all volumes at minimum, there's a whirring noise, so I'm guessing that it has a fan in it :)

Twinfan · « **Reply #89 on:** June 24, 2007, 12:04:31 PM »

Sounds that way. I must have the only one with a vent in the top then - cool!