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Hey guys I was thinking about this last night a lot as I plugged my prri into a 2x12 cab, even though I have a brand new ac15c sitting next to it.
I am only 19 but tend to stick with the more classic amps, the highest gain I will go is probably an orange, and not a rockerverb modern sound.
The reason for this being is as I do a lot of strumming and not only rocking, I simply cannot be diming a marshall for thick lead tones.
The studio is one thing, and this is kind of the way I feel about my new vox.
Crank this puppy up to ten and go to town, and for that it works great, but it seems to me the more gain you pile from the amp the more limited your sound is, and the less you can roll back and drive pedals don't want to play nice. and that is rough live.
My first tube amp 7 years ago was a TRRI. I am really not sure why, looking back, but that sound always was important to me, I didn't know that gainboxes were generally considered not as great as amp drive, so I played that for quite a while until I realized how much of a struggle it was to get a good drive sound to my peers. (don't get me wrong they can sound great though specially turned up where it is damaging your hearing!)
After that I went through a nuts period of gear swapping, and now a prri, trri, and vox ac15 sit in my room.
I started up with the Prri, based on Ryan Adams tone and that his amp was gasp (actually breaking up) but the fender breakup intrigues me so much, because it will actually almost completely clean up when you roll back. It doesn't need a ton of dialing like my vox does when I have the gain cranked for my humbuckers, and then plug in it a strat and it is a gain overload of thinness.
This breakup seems to eat pedals alive, almost any sound that I could want I can click while still retaining as much or as less as the amp sound I want in my drive sound.
Ocd for 335 and od808 for my strat makes quite a setup.
The Prri, to me is fizzy and too small by itself, and needs my ext cab to sound the way Iwant it to, and thus am trying to look at a deluxe
Don't get me wrong I love so many amps, and will always be a gear hunter and lover, but to me this vox, and even my dream orange probably would be a little bit more of a struggle live.
does anyone agree with the fender blackface breakup and seemingly endless possibilites to color it pleasingly? I am not trying to say like oh put a marshall pedal in front of it and it's a marshall!
my only beef is that I only have played them with groovetubes, and while I know blackface breakup kind of has this agressive clinky sound (less smooth than tweed) I feel like different tubes could get it a little smoother?
I am only 19 but tend to stick with the more classic amps, the highest gain I will go is probably an orange, and not a rockerverb modern sound.
The reason for this being is as I do a lot of strumming and not only rocking, I simply cannot be diming a marshall for thick lead tones.
The studio is one thing, and this is kind of the way I feel about my new vox.
Crank this puppy up to ten and go to town, and for that it works great, but it seems to me the more gain you pile from the amp the more limited your sound is, and the less you can roll back and drive pedals don't want to play nice. and that is rough live.
My first tube amp 7 years ago was a TRRI. I am really not sure why, looking back, but that sound always was important to me, I didn't know that gainboxes were generally considered not as great as amp drive, so I played that for quite a while until I realized how much of a struggle it was to get a good drive sound to my peers. (don't get me wrong they can sound great though specially turned up where it is damaging your hearing!)
After that I went through a nuts period of gear swapping, and now a prri, trri, and vox ac15 sit in my room.
I started up with the Prri, based on Ryan Adams tone and that his amp was gasp (actually breaking up) but the fender breakup intrigues me so much, because it will actually almost completely clean up when you roll back. It doesn't need a ton of dialing like my vox does when I have the gain cranked for my humbuckers, and then plug in it a strat and it is a gain overload of thinness.
This breakup seems to eat pedals alive, almost any sound that I could want I can click while still retaining as much or as less as the amp sound I want in my drive sound.
Ocd for 335 and od808 for my strat makes quite a setup.
The Prri, to me is fizzy and too small by itself, and needs my ext cab to sound the way Iwant it to, and thus am trying to look at a deluxe
Don't get me wrong I love so many amps, and will always be a gear hunter and lover, but to me this vox, and even my dream orange probably would be a little bit more of a struggle live.
does anyone agree with the fender blackface breakup and seemingly endless possibilites to color it pleasingly? I am not trying to say like oh put a marshall pedal in front of it and it's a marshall!
my only beef is that I only have played them with groovetubes, and while I know blackface breakup kind of has this agressive clinky sound (less smooth than tweed) I feel like different tubes could get it a little smoother?
