EL84 Friendly Fuzz

[D.o.S.]

cuz it sports more gain than most anybody would ever truly need.

Not a real thing.

[Holy Schnikes]

cuz it sports more gain than most anybody would ever truly need.

Not a real thing.

When you're talking el84s, I feel like it's a real thing. Unless you like fizz, then it's def not a real thing.

[Holy Schnikes]

whenever i use it for i turn the gain down on the dirt channel and turn on the black forest in front of it, way better sound than the amp gain alone - but then again i might be able to run it at the same volumes you are, this one is in my living room in an apartment building.

Agreed. The Black Forest really fattens that dirt channel up, sounds crushing. It's super bright and shitty thru the clean channel but so is most everything unless you're running the gain high. Seems the TH30 really only loves dirt/fuzz/OD in the low gain dirty channel settings, def the sweet spot. The clean channel sounds super with mod and delay and verb and octave etc etc but man it's bright/harsh with fuzz cuz I run it pretty clean-ish. Works out like a 3 channel amp tho, cleans, crunch, then bring the heavy with the pedals.

[Holy Schnikes]

There's so much volume on tap with that amp too. 30 watters bring volume like I never expected.

[DarkAxel]

I think that a lot of it has to do with the preamp over the power tubes.

oh I'd say so as well

for example AC30 is great with pedals and both EL84 amps i've owned (read that as both valve amps i've owned), that is Laney VC30 and my current George Dennis, are great as well

[Holy Schnikes]

i basically can't use the clean channel unless it's around noon on a work-day


and to think i got it to use the 7 watt mode to be able to finally crank a tube amp.

Yeah, 7W sounded promising to me too but it only seems to alter tone, feel and response. The volume is def still there in spades, lots of it!