eightsixboy
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Hi all,
To cut a long story short, Im basically after a nice IIC+ sort of sound, think dream theater's awake album. In my quest for this tone I finally bought a boogie last week (mini rec), I wasnt happy with the versitility with it so I swapped for a 5:25+ in 1 by 12 combo.
I love the versitility of this amp in comparison, the cleans are awesome and so are the crunch tones, but coming from my previous setup of running a vox tonlab into a fender hot rod deluxe I'm finding it a bit hard to replicate the sounds I had, especially at lower volumes, the tonelab for what it is, sounded great at home at practice volumes, but I have had thaat setup for a long time now and want a pure tube tone instead of a digital signal.
Now the burn channel does a close enough job but it can be a little harsh (not fuzzy but just a bit lifeless and over treble biased) sounding unless cranked, especially on the 5 watt mode, to get the fullest and warmest sound I'm having to use the 25 watt setting. I realise a tube amp has to be cranked a little but I would like to think I can achieve the tone I'm after at respectible noise levels.
I feel the burn channel has heaps of gain, atleast easily enough for a great rhythm tone, so I have been thinking of changing my v2 tube to a 5751 or 12ay7 to help smooth out the highs and ad some more warmth to the sound, if I need a bit more gain I dont mind using a od pedal for lead stuff.
I have been doing some reading on these forums the last few days a few guys have mentioned doing similar things but in different amps.
What do you guys think?
To cut a long story short, Im basically after a nice IIC+ sort of sound, think dream theater's awake album. In my quest for this tone I finally bought a boogie last week (mini rec), I wasnt happy with the versitility with it so I swapped for a 5:25+ in 1 by 12 combo.
I love the versitility of this amp in comparison, the cleans are awesome and so are the crunch tones, but coming from my previous setup of running a vox tonlab into a fender hot rod deluxe I'm finding it a bit hard to replicate the sounds I had, especially at lower volumes, the tonelab for what it is, sounded great at home at practice volumes, but I have had thaat setup for a long time now and want a pure tube tone instead of a digital signal.
Now the burn channel does a close enough job but it can be a little harsh (not fuzzy but just a bit lifeless and over treble biased) sounding unless cranked, especially on the 5 watt mode, to get the fullest and warmest sound I'm having to use the 25 watt setting. I realise a tube amp has to be cranked a little but I would like to think I can achieve the tone I'm after at respectible noise levels.
I feel the burn channel has heaps of gain, atleast easily enough for a great rhythm tone, so I have been thinking of changing my v2 tube to a 5751 or 12ay7 to help smooth out the highs and ad some more warmth to the sound, if I need a bit more gain I dont mind using a od pedal for lead stuff.
I have been doing some reading on these forums the last few days a few guys have mentioned doing similar things but in different amps.
What do you guys think?