Clip: My Engl Gigmaster 15, various tones

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for giggles, I hit record to demonstrate a little more of the Engl Gigmaster 15 head. This is a naked clip, No eq, no backing, just a tad of verb. Last clip I did was showing off the Drive channel in mix. Here I used Stat and just noodled around for a bit. 4 parts to this clip

Part 1: 0:00-1:19 (Neck pickup, noodling on Clean channel. Input gain set to about 1 oclock, for minor breakup.
Part 2: 1:20-3:08 (Start on Neck, switch to Bridge, strumming hard to show breakup on clean channel at 1ish input drive setting)
Part 3: 3:09-3:30 (Drive Channel, Neck pickup)
Part 4: 3:30-end (Drive Channel, Bridge pickup, showing how drive channel responds to rolling off guitar volume

Just a note. I didn't really setup the mics to optimally record Distortion for the guitar, I kept them in the same position as I did on the clean. I would normally move them slightly to compliment the distorted sounds. Please pardon the noodling, really just trying to show the amps sound.

As you can see, the amps clean channel can get a nice breakup going. With a strat, you have more headroom, but still, this amp isn't really made for gobs of clean headroom. I love that about it. I prefer to have a little dirt going most of the time.

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American Strat into 2x12 ear candy cab. Shure Sm7 blended with Heil PR30. 2 earthworks omni's for slight room sound.
 
Dang, sounds great. I'm a little bummed at the price tag on those, $750 or so? I'll have to wait on one.
 
Mudder":13q8fav4 said:
Dang, sounds great. I'm a little bummed at the price tag on those, $750 or so? I'll have to wait on one.
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Yeah, honestly, I think that price is too high. Not that I don't like the amp, cause I do. But it didn't even come with a stinking footswitch for that price. My biggest complaint is really that the two channels share the eq. For some guitars, it would really come in handy to have separate eq as I would love to eq the drive channel different, but it generally is ok. I also swapped out both pre and power tubes, which I felt made an improvement.

But I love that I can get drive on channel one, and its a different sound then channel 2. I would be much happier had I paid 500 bucks, but hey, I wanted to try something new and I like it lots. Power soak works great, and It is the best sounding amp at really low volumes I have had thus far.

I think if they sold it here for 500 bucks, it would sell a heck of a lot more.
 
That's what I was thinking listening to your clip, at $500 I'd be all over one. I'd say I could wait for one to come up used but Engl isn't easy to come by. Not like a lot of others anyway.
 
If I ever sell it, I will price it at 500 for and pm ya :lol: :LOL:

I am wondering if I could get it modded to add another eq (at least a depth eq on the drive at minimum). Then it would rock for switching live (after I got a stinkin footswitch that is ;) I guess a simple fix would be to get an eq pedal, but switching both eq and drive at the same time is not easily possible.

If you haven't checked out the rock cut I did with it, let me know and I will find that link again.
 
Nice sounding little amp . I'd be curious what the mxr 10 band eq in the loop would do for the amp ..
 
chobley":3cm4k70u said:
Nice sounding little amp . I'd be curious what the mxr 10 band eq in the loop would do for the amp ..
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I may have to pick one up, to set the drive how I want it when switching live.
 
Those tones really sound great man. Would've like to hear more of the high gain from the last few chords though! Really a nice array of great quality tones there :rock:
 
I really liked the clean tones. Thanks for the clip. Great playing too!
 
vchizzle":185m34fh said:
Those tones really sound great man. Would've like to hear more of the high gain from the last few chords though! Really a nice array of great quality tones there :rock:
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here is a clip, in the mix, of the drive channel

 
one last personal bump before this thread disapears into lost rig talk world.
 
Audioholic":2fzzidsj said:
vchizzle":2fzzidsj said:
Those tones really sound great man. Would've like to hear more of the high gain from the last few chords though! Really a nice array of great quality tones there :rock:
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here is a clip, in the mix, of the drive channel

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Thanks, that sounds great as well! I think I remember hearing this one the 1st time around now that I hear it.
 
What bridge pickup are you using and where was the gain set at around 3:30 when you came back in ?
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Audioholic":1qc9q0a4 said:
Hello

for giggles, I hit record to demonstrate a little more of the Engl Gigmaster 15 head. This is a naked clip, No eq, no backing, just a tad of verb. Last clip I did was showing off the Drive channel in mix. Here I used Stat and just noodled around for a bit. 4 parts to this clip

Part 1: 0:00-1:19 (Neck pickup, noodling on Clean channel. Input gain set to about 1 oclock, for minor breakup.
Part 2: 1:20-3:08 (Start on Neck, switch to Bridge, strumming hard to show breakup on clean channel at 1ish input drive setting)
Part 3: 3:09-3:30 (Drive Channel, Neck pickup)
Part 4: 3:30-end (Drive Channel, Bridge pickup, showing how drive channel responds to rolling off guitar volume

Just a note. I didn't really setup the mics to optimally record Distortion for the guitar, I kept them in the same position as I did on the clean. I would normally move them slightly to compliment the distorted sounds. Please pardon the noodling, really just trying to show the amps sound.

As you can see, the amps clean channel can get a nice breakup going. With a strat, you have more headroom, but still, this amp isn't really made for gobs of clean headroom. I love that about it. I prefer to have a little dirt going most of the time.

Here is the link:
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These were all from my American Standard Strat

Wilde noisless Pickups in all positions.

For the distortion, Input drive was the same in all clips, about 1 ocklock (which also affects the drive channel sound). and then the lead drive was set at about noon thirty. So you can hear there is plenty of gain on this amp, being able to drive the input and adjust lead drive as well for second channel.

at the end, I simply rolled off the guitar volume, then brought it back all the way up. I like that the texture of the sound remains pretty much in tact, even as you roll off the volume all the way down, and back up.
 
Great clips. I think they are much better than any of the Blackstar HT-20 I've heard. I can't hear that pedal sound anywhere that I usually hear with the Blackstar.
 
BTW, is there any way to turn off the cabinet emulation so that you can record the raw attenuated output? I've heard the cabinet emulation is not up to par with what you can do with impulses.
 
I do not think that you can turn off the analog cab simulation, mighit have to use a line out box or something. cab sim is ok, but its noisy unless you craft a special cable cutting off the ground on one end.
 
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