Do you boost your Diezel ?

[Mailman1971]

They're very very fine amps - you'll find with enough fiddling, there is no need for anything to "tighten" them up. At least this is what I've found.

To me the boost with the Diezels didnt seem to Tighten it up...but just 'shift' it slightly? If that makes sense?
But I would use the boost as a tool and find tones with it both on and off. Maybe it was just in my head...
Love using a slight clean boost in front of any amp though.

 

[Ventura]

They're very very fine amps - you'll find with enough fiddling, there is no need for anything to "tighten" them up. At least this is what I've found.

To me the boost with the Diezels didnt seem to Tighten it up...but just 'shift' it slightly? If that makes sense?
But I would use the boost as a tool and find tones with it both on and off. Maybe it was just in my head...
Love using a slight clean boost in front of any amp though.

Ah, hey, STRICTLY speaking personally here... I just never dug the Diezel tone with something in front of it as much as I did without anything in front of it

 

[proxmax]

at the hagen i like the OCD.
at the herbert the wampler sounds better.
but to be honest who needs to push a diezel?

 

[DvE]

They're very very fine amps - you'll find with enough fiddling, there is no need for anything to "tighten" them up. At least this is what I've found.

To me the boost with the Diezels didnt seem to Tighten it up...but just 'shift' it slightly? If that makes sense?
But I would use the boost as a tool and find tones with it both on and off. Maybe it was just in my head...
Love using a slight clean boost in front of any amp though.

Thats my experience as well
There is a shift into certain registers from the od808 that makes the tone sound "more metal" to my ears.

 

[ProgFree]

OCD on my Einstein, just to get a bit of extra push in Texas mode. Not because it is better.. just because it's different!

That is my approach as well. Though most of the time I don't use any boost at all.

 

[robinkimball]

Have you tried fiddling with the EQ, Pres and Deep? Maybe a bit more channel volume to get your cab to swing more? Maybe something somewhere in your chain sucking? Different pups? Or maybe just try a different cab if your current one is too boomy?

I can't help it but it just feels wrong to me pairing a 5k-6k amp that can give you pretty much all the tightness and gain you will ever need with some shabby overdrive... what a sacrilege. Obviously I am not preaching" efficiency" here, mind you.

I agree on your last sentence... I'm running direct to the amp without effect (except the OD for the tests), with an EMG JH-set, Diezel 212 FL V30 for the cab (which is still quite new too, maybe a factor).

By cranking a little bit more the presence and the mids I manage to get almost the same result so for now it's ok. And in the mix it's actually better without the boost

I think I got to much used too modelling amps

@all: thanks for the feedback !

Great advice! Thanks!

 

[petereanima]

I use a TS808 with every amp, all the time. (At least when I play "metal rhythm")
Gain at Zero, Tone "neutral" (most of the time - expect with my old Ibanez with Dimarzio Blazes - I shape the tone a bit more towards the higher mid spectrum), Level just a bit pushed.

Its not really boosting the amp, its more shaping the guitar signal. Its a tighter signal when it arrives at the amps input, and the low-cut of the TS is something I NEED..

I am sure I could compensate that with different pickups / the perfect guitarwood+pickup configuartion etc....but I (meanwhile) hate to have to try out shitlaods of stuff, Pickups for 300,-, when actually the "normal" ones and the old TS bring me the results I need.

 

[Bato]

I picked up a ts 808on ebay last weekend. Can´t wait for!

The reason i bought it is the soundshaping, too. I like the ampsound with the ts turned off. Great feel.