For gits and shiggles, I turned channel two of my three channel Dual into a sort of fuzz tone. This is going to look pretty dumb to some of you (and I am usually conservative with my settings), but it sounds pretty cool.
I put it on spongy and tube rectifier. I set the channel to Raw and dimmed the gain knob. I brought the volume up until it was fuzzy enough without feeling flat and left room to pump up the power tubes for some clipping. I maxed the presence, set the treble between 1 and 5, set the bass at 2 and mid at 12:30.
I use EMG's Het Set with 4.5V of output, so it's slamming V1. Rolling the volume back, tweaking the tone knob, and going between pickups gave a pretty diverse and nuanced range of sounds. Considering how it sounds like a supercharged passive, the results were remarkable. Beatles to Hendrix to Zeppelin to Sabbath to Blues to Monster Magnet to Down to Electric Wizard.
I tried the same thing on Channel 1 Pushed. Maxed the gain, volume, presence, and treble. Cut the mids a bit and put the bass around 3. It had a nice feel and sounded decent, but lacked a bit since it only uses one half of a triode. I put it back to a more balanced setting and played The Ocean at max gain. With the Mids up a bit, it almost gets a Marshall sound.
Anyway, it was just some experimenting. My Small Stone and 535Q Wah sounded great with both channels and it was great fun.
I put it on spongy and tube rectifier. I set the channel to Raw and dimmed the gain knob. I brought the volume up until it was fuzzy enough without feeling flat and left room to pump up the power tubes for some clipping. I maxed the presence, set the treble between 1 and 5, set the bass at 2 and mid at 12:30.
I use EMG's Het Set with 4.5V of output, so it's slamming V1. Rolling the volume back, tweaking the tone knob, and going between pickups gave a pretty diverse and nuanced range of sounds. Considering how it sounds like a supercharged passive, the results were remarkable. Beatles to Hendrix to Zeppelin to Sabbath to Blues to Monster Magnet to Down to Electric Wizard.
I tried the same thing on Channel 1 Pushed. Maxed the gain, volume, presence, and treble. Cut the mids a bit and put the bass around 3. It had a nice feel and sounded decent, but lacked a bit since it only uses one half of a triode. I put it back to a more balanced setting and played The Ocean at max gain. With the Mids up a bit, it almost gets a Marshall sound.
Anyway, it was just some experimenting. My Small Stone and 535Q Wah sounded great with both channels and it was great fun.
