Clean amps: comp, gain stages, boosters & avoiding general early chain ridiculousness

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Re: Clean amps: comp, gain stages, boosters & avoiding general early chain ridiculousness

Post by marqueemoon » Mon Feb 05, 2024 5:32 pm

sal paradise wrote:
Mon Feb 05, 2024 8:18 am
marqueemoon wrote:
Thu Feb 01, 2024 7:20 am
Ok, I absolutely get what you mean. This has worked a treat, thank you. When the amp is pushed it has a lot more life. Sounds really
Punchy on the Strat neck pickup without the compressor.

As soon as I get up to 5 on volume, getting really flabby bottom end. Will try it with a few other guitars, definitely something weird about the way the SDS-1 works with this amp. Maybe need to try lowering the pole magnets?

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Yeah, as you push the amp little differences in pickups and such really start to reveal themselves.

I’ve backed the neck pickups down on a few guitars since switching to smaller and lower powered amps.

It can be a bit of a frustrating journey at times, but when it all comes together it’s pretty rewarding.

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