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Topic: Settings for a Fender Twin |
Tom Palmer
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East Wenatchee, WA USA (deceased)
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Posted 15 Jan 2004 2:15 pm |
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| I have a old 66 Fender Twin that rarely use for steel, in part because I haven't figured out what settings will work best. Any advice? |
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Ricky Davis
From:
Bertram, Texas USA
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Posted 15 Jan 2004 3:55 pm
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Well what kinda guitar do you have and what pickup is in it??>would better suit my answer....but ball park.
Bright switch down....
Treble on 4...
Mid on 3 or 4....
Bass on 5 or 6.....
Reverb in the 4 area...
If it's a master volume....turn it all the way up...and use the regular volume for your volume level.
Ricky |
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Jon Light
From:
Saugerties, NY
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Posted 15 Jan 2004 4:10 pm
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Hey Ricky--I got a Dual Showman Reverb recently that I have been digging big time. I did some forum searching on this subject and----------------please trust me, man, I'm not busting you here---I'm interested in how you got to where you've got------------in the past you absolutely used the bright switch up. Curious about your thinking. I'm still working on that fine line between thrill and shrill.
Also a note, Tony---as has been said elsewhere, Fenders seem to come alive at higher volumes. It may seem a bit dead at living room level and make you wonder. But my experience is that it just wants to open up. |
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JB Arnold
From:
Longmont,Co,USA (deceased)
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Bob Carlucci
From:
Candor, New York, USA
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Posted 15 Jan 2004 6:46 pm
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| Guys.. I have used Fenders exclusively for over 30 years. They DO want to be "opened up" a bit . I use a few different settings but this is ballpark.. Bass- @ 5 to 6[depending on room of course]. treble -@around 5 or a bit less.. mid- depends on roomm usually about 3 to six. Often I will raise the bass over 6, decrease treble to 3 and put the bright switch on.. This gives a nice "Fenderey "sparkle to the sound without being too piercing. I CANNOT get a good sound out of ANY Peavey even if my life depended on it... ITS NOT THE AMPS.... ITS ME!!! I have owned Session 400...A session 500 a Vegas and all sounded horrible... I also had a Peavey Deuce.. w/2 12 JBL's that sounded like the voice of heaven.. that was a tube output[4 6L6]amp 120 watts... I wish I could make those big Peavey amps sound great like SOOO many other steel players do!.. I am also a lead guitarist and The Peavey hi waatage clean amps [Sessions etc]are just not my cup of tea. I Just have the sound of tubes in my brain I guess. I am VERY glad to see so many of my fellow steel players STILL use Fender amps for steel!.. It IS a timeless sound! bob |
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b0b
From:
Cloverdale, CA, USA
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Posted 15 Jan 2004 8:08 pm
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Put the bass on 10, then turn up the middle and treble until it sounds good.
I'm moving this topic to the "Electronics" section.
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