Getting the most out of channel one clean/pushed advice

[plapnab]

Im running a Dual Rectifier three channel (not reborn) and I'm having some issues matching the volumes for all three channels. Over the years I have been running the orange and red channels on vintage and could blend it easily with channel one green (would use the solo boost to volume up the clean). However, lately I'm prefering the modern settings for red and orange. The masters on these are at about 10-11 o'clock. To match this with channel one I pretty much have to run the master at 5 o'clock and turn the gain up to 1 o'clock...this overdrives the channel too much. Now, if I set my green channel to how I want it (volume around noon, gain at 11 o'clock) and adjust everything to that, It's going to drop my masters on red and orange to around 9 o'clock I figure. My question is, is this going to effect my sound? I mean I can push my speakers by pushing the main output, but will running the masters this low suck my sound?

 

[UnderJollyRoger]

I don't think so. There may be a slight tonal change (since the preamp-stage volume runs lower; affecting the rest of the signal chain in whatever way it does), but I'll doubt you will hear it. It's probably more important that you have an overall volume level where the sound opens up ... you need a certain amount of volume until the amp sounds really good.

Just try it out

 

[screamingdaisy]

Listen to it and decide for yourself.

 

[yohawn74]

I have found to get the best clean out of my triple Rec, I turn the master on channel one to 10 and then just bring up the gain to desired volume level. It pushed the channel nicely and gets great cleans without distorting.

 

[b0nkersx]

Yeah I personally think running the master lower and output higher produces a different tone than output lower and master higher. I run the loop in hard bypass and then just have one volume knob per channel.. super easy to match that way.

I wish I could just bypass the output knob.. I'd be a happy camper.