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Yep. The most undoom thing to ask about.

Don't get me wrong, I love my little Ampeg...but since it's an Ampeg, it has those blunt bludgeoning cleans, which is nice most of the time. From time to time I want some of dem TGP Fender cleans though. You know the ones I'm talking about - always described with douchey adjectives like shimmery, alive, chime, sparkle, and other bullshit like that. BUT I WANT THEM GODDAMMIT.

How might I go about doing this without buying another amp? Compressor with tone control, EQ, buffer, an 'always on' clean boost?

So, yeah...any suggestions?

I think an EQ or treble boost is the way to go here. If you want it on cleans only, you can set it for a thinning effect and drop the level below unity. Then when you engage the effect, you get a volume drop for clean and you thin the sound a bit. I've no experience with compressors, though they might be what you want if you need to squish you sound a little, I think a tone control would be pretty important though.

I also recently turned down the bass a bit on my amp, upped the presence and switched to thinner picks. I found my recorded cleans were rather dark and dirty and this helped immensely. Of course, you may not be looking for a constant change.

RANGEMASTER. DO IT.

Seriously though, they are a great Swiss Army knife if you add a 'Range' knob onto them.

I just got this Fender PA 100 and I didn't think it could get any more Fendery on the cleans, but then I plugged in the Rangemaster and was like WUT

Eq pedal to scoop out some mids and cut some lows, then add some reverb

Rangemaster makes sense. Maybe an EQ.

Question. Let's say I generally don't like the sound of the amp when I turn down the mids, would an eq sound the same if I scooped out some mids? Or since it's operating on different/specific frequencies, would it sound different/better?

Depending on the range of the EQ pedal there would probably be some overlap but a 6 band EQ is gonna have twice the range (or at least twice the number of points) for you to be able to sculpt.

Hmmmm. Probably best to start with a Rangemaster/Treble boost and check out an EQ if that doesn't do it for me.

PUMP UP THE VOLUME SO ITS NOT CLEAN ANYMOAR!!!!!!!1

BUT WHAT ABOUT MY LAWYER BLOOZE, WHISKEY?

A compressor can work wonders

whiskey_face wrote:

t-rey wrote:BUT WHAT ABOUT MY LAWYER BLOOZE, WHISKEY?

I don't think there is a more perfect way to reply than Murderface. He just looks so disappointed.

T-Rey, someone in BST is offering to trade a Naga Viper for a Dirt Transmitter...