After 2 years of working with this lap steel rig: Asher Electro Hawaiian, Ibanez TS808HW screamer, Barber compressor, LSS 112 combo. Finally starting to get a consistent tone by doing the following: no effects loop,
Keeping gain v low, drive off on ch2, smidge of reverb. Usually operating in 15w (band practice, small stage, studio), sometimes 5w in the bedroom. Using Tube Screamer for my breakup, not 12ax7's. I was just having too much trouble replicating tones at various volume levels, wattages, drives, channels, gains... seemed like I was hearing some thing different, different breakup volumes etc. every gig/session. Not crazy about tweaking the amp for 15mins at every gig.
Such a versatile amp, I feel like i've dug myself a hole with it however. Help!
Keeping gain v low, drive off on ch2, smidge of reverb. Usually operating in 15w (band practice, small stage, studio), sometimes 5w in the bedroom. Using Tube Screamer for my breakup, not 12ax7's. I was just having too much trouble replicating tones at various volume levels, wattages, drives, channels, gains... seemed like I was hearing some thing different, different breakup volumes etc. every gig/session. Not crazy about tweaking the amp for 15mins at every gig.
Such a versatile amp, I feel like i've dug myself a hole with it however. Help!