Express Players: How are you setting your channels?

[pd335]

Heres what I have been playing with recently --
Crunch - Green for my dirty channel and Blues - Red set very clean.
The crunch is neat as crap! Its a little clearer and more attack not as thick and the blues channel as the clean is basically the same. Its more Voxish than the green channel its got more snap and sparkle.

What have you been doin?

 

[Don]

I've got mine set up the same way right now.

For cleans I use channel 2 Blues mode set very clean and for my dirty sound I use channel 1 Crunch set very dirty mode.

 

[mesaluckystrike]

me too, seems to be a popular setup. are you in 5watt or 25/50 mode?

 

[pd335]

I mostly keep mine at 25. It sure grinds a lot more at 5 though. Have either of you used effects much? Do you run them through the loop or straight in?

 

[Don]

50 watt mode most of the time.

I use a Hughes & Kettner Rotosphere in the loop. It sounds really good there.
I use the rest of my Pedals- a BMF Fat *******, Fulltone OCD, Voodoo Lab Tremolo, BYOC delay and a tuner in front of the amp.

The tremolo and delay sound better in the loop but I haven't gotten around to changing my setup. My other amps don't have effects loops.

 

[mesaluckystrike]

Right now I use a tc nova delay, fulltone supa-trem, boss rc2 loop station and a boss noise suppressor (all in the loop). This configuration seems to sound pretty good; Sometimes I will through in a proco rat or blues driver in front.

Lately I have mostly been using the 5 watt mode. I have a 5:25.

 

[Sing4LTS]

I've bascially been using the same config. I'm in a cover band that plays a VERY wide range of music. I've got my rig setup to give me three different sounds. My clean sound is based on the blues channel with a low gain setting. For my Rock/classic rock sound I use the crunch setting with the gain around 1:00. I use the guitar volume to adjust the gain. I also use this channel for my blues stuff, I just switch to a single coil, and run a LPB-1 clean boost in my FX loop to make up for the volume lost when switching to the single coil. For my Hard rock/Metal sound, I run a MT-2 metal zone in front of the blues channel. However I have the gain turned ALL the way down on the MT-2. I adjust the EQ and volume to taste on the metal zone, and let it push the preamp on the blues channel into a really fat recto sounding territory. I know I'll probably get flamed for using a metal zone with a boogie amp, but the key is to turn the gain all way down on the metal zone, and let the preamp tubes do the rest.

I'm running everything at 50 watt mode, and don't ever go pass 10:30-11:00 on the masters. Anything more than that and the amp starts to loose focus on the bottom end. Taking off the casters and sitting her on the floor helps, as does sitting the amp back against the wall (not completely though). These settings are plenty loud enough for the drummer to hear, and we run a SM57 on it to send to front of house. Remember low stage volume is your friend. :wink:

 

[pd335]

Thanks for responding fellas!
Lots of good info here!

 

[Mercury25]

I just picked up a 5:50 112 and the crunch/blues combo seems more versatile thatn the clean/burn modes.

What are you guys running the gain at on the blues channel?

 

[Don]

I think the gain on channel 2 is set to about 10:00 on mine. That's with a Les Paul. I might use more gain with my Tele.

I just used it with my band with it set up this way last night and it worked out really well.

The Blues mode is a bit warmer and less hi-fi than the Clean mode.