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39 minutes ago, dcbc said:

But I'm a volume knob rider as well.

I'm always amazed by how many people don't seem to know that volume and tone knobs exist on guitars. 

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1 minute ago, Deej said:

I'm always amazed by how many people don't seem to know that volume and tone knobs exist on guitars. 

And the crazy part is like 90% of parts sound better with them not on 10

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10 minutes ago, Deej said:

I'm always amazed by how many people don't seem to know that volume and tone knobs exist on guitars. 

I didn't start until I got into tweed amps.  To own a 5e3 Deluxe is to get used to playing with your volume on the guitar.  It makes such a difference, not just for volume, but for overall clean to grit.  And I'm talking most beautiful Fender clean tone to the gnarliest, compressed, distorted tone you can imagine without pedals. 

You can do the same thing by running a compressor before drives/dirt.  Volume stays the same, but the volume knob is now your drive/dirt knob.

On the tone knob, I'm always trying to dial back the ice pick on a clean bridge channel if I can.  Just a hair though.  On the neck, I'm full on Freedom Rock!

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This is the way. Tone gets tolled off ever so slightly. Then ride the volume knob.

I’ve never been able to get friendly with a compressor but I like the idea of it before the dirt. Can you post a pic of whatever setting you use to get the effect you describe?

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23 minutes ago, tbone_ said:

This is the way. Tone gets tolled off ever so slightly. Then ride the volume knob.

I’ve never been able to get friendly with a compressor but I like the idea of it before the dirt. Can you post a pic of whatever setting you use to get the effect you describe?

I've found a Boss CS2 works well for that. Anything without too much pumping.

 

A lot of amps and pedals are kind of like that anyway without a compressor, later Marshalls and stuff are already so compressed they don't get louder, just more distorted.

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40 minutes ago, tbone_ said:

This is the way. Tone gets tolled off ever so slightly. Then ride the volume knob.

I’ve never been able to get friendly with a compressor but I like the idea of it before the dirt. Can you post a pic of whatever setting you use to get the effect you describe?

To be honest, I almost never use one, particularly since I've moved to smaller boards.  But I keep one around because it's cool, valuable, and I paid $60 for it in the 90s.  Sorry for the glare on this shot.  This is the last iteration of my "big" board.  I'm not running much compression.  Just enough to give me some snap (left/bottom knob is sustain, right/top knob is output). The two drives are routed after the Ross.  One is drive knob down.  The other is drive knob probably around two.  It's the Anastasio setup, even though I wasn't playing any Phish tunes through it.  

 

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On 2/19/2025 at 10:12 AM, dcbc said:

You're going to love the SFT. 

 

As a non pedal person, I have to say this thing brings the fucking goods. Running it on 18v and it is dead on that sound. Keen to get this Hiwatt here and really crank it.

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