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Topic: Amp Voicing |
Bill Bassett
From:
Papamoa New Zealand
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Posted 7 Jun 2018 12:59 pm |
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With modern steel guitar amps costing well over a thousand bucks and older stalwarts are out there for a few hundred, before I consider something different, I'd like an opinion or several. The question regards matching the amp to the guitar. I play an old MSA through an old Fender or Yamaha amp. (Solid state, single 12) I generally like the tone. I also have tried various Peavey 400 series amps with 15 or 2X12 speakers. Too mid rangey for me. So I like the Yamaha best. (But it's really old and unreliable now).
I recently got an older Sierra Steel. Way way way brighter than the MSA and too shrill for my little amps. I'm using a lot of EQ to modulate the high freqs. I'm wondering what a good pairing might be? Tubes again? 15 inch speaker again? Outboard EQ? I'm open to suggestion. Thanks folks, B. |
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Georg Sørtun
From:
Mandal, Agder, Norway
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Posted 7 Jun 2018 5:17 pm
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| Might be an idea to "voice" the PU to suit whatever amp you prefer..? Modifying the RC load should do the trick in the upper frequency range for most PUs. |
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Jon Light
From:
Saugerties, NY
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Posted 7 Jun 2018 5:27 pm
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| Hey Bill. You ever try a Sarno Freeloader? A buffer that clips to the leg. It has a pot that dials .... something. It is not technically a tone control but it basically can roll you from mellow/dark to twangy/bright. It is much more effective than a simple high-cut tone control in that it doesn't kill tone, just rolls it. Definitely an effective shrill-killer. |
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Lee Baucum
From:
McAllen, Texas (Extreme South) The Final Frontier
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Posted 7 Jun 2018 6:07 pm
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+1 on the FreeLoader. There is some sort of voodoo magic going on inside those devices.
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Lee, from South Texas - Down On The Rio Grande
There are only two options as I see it.
Either I'm right, or there is a sinister conspiracy to conceal the fact that I'm right.
Williams Keyless S-10, BMI S-10, Evans FET-500LV, Fender Steel King, 2 Roland Cube 80XL's,
Sarno FreeLoader, Goodrich Passive Volume Pedals, Vintage ACE Pack-A-Seat |
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Georg Sørtun
From:
Mandal, Agder, Norway
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Posted 7 Jun 2018 11:57 pm
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| The Sarno Freeloader is indeed a nice little buffer-amp, and the "voodoo / something" Lee and Jon are referring to, is its "variable resistive load" for the PU. That's only one component in a "variable RC load", but often that's all it takes to tame/tune most PSG PUs' upper register. |
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John Limbach
From:
Billings, Montana, USA
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Posted 8 Jun 2018 5:13 am
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| Sarno Black Box does the same trick using a tube. |
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Bill Bassett
From:
Papamoa New Zealand
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Posted 8 Jun 2018 6:17 am
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| I like the concept. Thanks...Freeloader or Black box nay just be the ticket. |
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