What's your perfect Tone? Have you found it?

[Simon Dorn]

I like the sound. But put the mids at 10 oclock and rerecord that riff and it probably sounds awesome

I tried to raise the mids, but even 9 oclock was too much with the rest of the knobs untouched. Then i tried my old setting again, didn't like it. Neither in the room nor recorded. I checked it out with my 3 Standard SM57 Placements. Then i changed the Setting of my TS to classic clean boost settings (0,5,10) then i had.

 

[MetalHeadMike]

The absolute best sound I've ever coaxed out of an amp was two weeks ago when @Exo-metal and I got together to compare two modded Marshalls I built. One was his Langner I worked on and the other is my personal modded Super Trem. Plugged straight in, with a Bogner 4x12 loaded with Hereitage G12H-30 55Hz. Both amps just blew us away. Perfect doesn't exist, but these were close haha

It is quite the tone and feel under the fingers to behold.

 

[Simon Dorn]

I like the sound. But put the mids at 10 oclock and rerecord that riff and it probably sounds awesome

But i guess it also works with a cranked TS. It has a little less punch and a little less articulation in the room though.
Master has got to be high. It was on 1 in my Clip above, which is too low.

 

[MKibanez]

Since a few month it is my Soldano Astro 20 in a 2 x 12 Celestion V30's

 

[Greazygeo]

?

Found my tone long time ago. Probably 92-93. Modded a Marshall, ran it thru a loadbox, thru some fx then into two Marshall amp power sections into some 412 cabs. JC120 for cleans…lots to haul.
Scaled it down to my 69 Plexi into a 412 and some pedals…ultimately landed with my Wizard MC1 Rick built me in 05 and an RP1000 for fx. Still going strong.

 

[japetus]

I just need a Bassman or a Twin and a boost, an Ibanez DE-7 and a strat

 

[Simon Dorn]

Great choices.

 

[Simon Dorn]

Found my tone long time ago. Probably 92-93. Modded a Marshall, ran it thru a loadbox, thru some fx then into two Marshall amp power sections into some 412 cabs. JC120 for cleans…lots to haul.
Scaled it down to my 69 Plexi into a 412 and some pedals…ultimately landed with my Wizard MC1 Rick built me in 05 and an RP1000 for fx. Still going strong.

The Mesa Sound With a boost you'd have a Mark IV

 

[Greazygeo]

The Mesa Sound With a boost you'd have a Mark IV

That amp is hilarious. Bought it not working for cheap, easy fix to get working. Someone also tried to mod it, I put it back to stock and did a bunch of maintenance on it. Looking at the schematic, they basically borrowed heavily from a Mark II.

A bunch of various videos of this model but only the clean channel. Figured I would do one of the Lead channel. It’s not as bad as people make them out to be. Seems many just gut these and start over.

 

[Simon Dorn]

That amp is hilarious. Bought it not working for cheap, easy fix to get working. Someone also tried to mod it, I put it back to stock and did a bunch of maintenance on it. Looking at the schematic, they basically borrowed heavily from a Mark II.

A bunch of various videos of this model but only the clean channel. Figured I would do one of the Lead channel. It’s not as bad as people make them out to be. Seems many just gut these and start over.

Interesting. I read a bit about it now. I think Mesa "borrowed" it from Fender. Or maybe they both borrowed from each other, since Mesa invented cascading Tube Stages.

 

[Findthetone1]

It's a moving target for me it seems. One day it's high gain playing 80's Sunset strip rock. The next day it's a nice plexi crunch playing classic and southern rock. I will say the older I get, the more I appeciate the simplicity of a nice low to mid gain crunch tone.

 

[Dimebag11]

Splawn Quickrod + Creamback 65s - been my go to for over nearly 20 years.

 

[Simon Dorn]

Splawn Quickrod + Creamback 65s - been my go to for over nearly 20 years.

Do you have fixed settings or do you change them?

 

[thegame]

That amp is hilarious. Bought it not working for cheap, easy fix to get working. Someone also tried to mod it, I put it back to stock and did a bunch of maintenance on it. Looking at the schematic, they basically borrowed heavily from a Mark II.

A bunch of various videos of this model but only the clean channel. Figured I would do one of the Lead channel. It’s not as bad as people make them out to be. Seems many just gut these and start over.

That sounds pretty decent!

 

[Greazygeo]

That sounds pretty decent!

It is surprising. It was filthy inside, took two solid afternoons cleaning the board and temoving the copper ground bus bar, it was black!
WGS ET 65 speaker is in it for now.

 

[Dimebag11]

Do you have fixed settings or do you change them?

Subtly different depending on which guitar, nearly everything stays around noon though.

 

[311boogieman]

Subtly different depending on which guitar, nearly everything stays around noon though.

Curious if you ever tried the Treble = 0 trick?

 

[Simon Dorn]

Subtly different depending on which guitar, nearly everything stays around noon though.

Perfect

 

[alund]

My Aiken Sabre does about everything I need with tone. Add salt and pepper with an eq. Bang bang. Hair nation

 

[GreenRust]

The tone I try to go for is a cross between Rory Gallagher (Irish Tour tone), Michael Schenker (Strangers), George Lynch (Under Lock and Key and Wicked Sensation) and Jerry Cantrell (Facelift).

I get close enough to have fun with an XTC and a Range master clone or an SD1 (a cheap one is fine)