Made the jump...to spongy.

[kingster911]

Spongy - I never have been turned on by this sound, but I was listening to Saxon (yes, Terminal Velocity Saxon). I put my Road King II on spongy on the variac and ch. 4 vintage and it gave me that smooth but still half-biting attack for leads on such an 80s song. I was just improvving but man it did hit a certain sweeter spot than when it's on bold. So I guess I'm gonna separate my days now - Bold for Metallica playing, even with their leads, and Spongy for the pop punk/lots of chords and power chords playing (sounded great on my brit channel with overdrive going) and for liquid-y solos.

 

[MusicManJP6]

I always played Spongy when I had my Roadster...

 

[Robusto]

I love spongy!

 

[Machine Gun]

Another spongy lover here. It's definitely a nice change of pace. I'm always back and forth though. I guess I just love tweakin'.

 

[kingster911]

**** didn't know I'd find so many spongelovers!! I guess I've been pretty dialed-in and never tweaked as much as I have for the past month on my amp. Now tell me what kind of advantages you think spongy has for your style/tone like I was saying: 80s glam/metal solos and pop punky types of fast power chord songs for me.

 

[Robusto]

spongy just feels right.

 

[phyrexia]

tube/spongy is the way to do it.

 

[Fixxer6671]

I spend 99.99999% of my time in bold.... I think its time to explore :lol:

 

[TFridgen]

I'm intrigued, time to noodle...spongy style!

 

[njsurf]

Almost always on spongy/tube unless in a metal mood then bold/silicon

 

[kingster911]

**** I guess I was in a perpetual metal mood then! Even though it'd stay on Bold for reggae too. I personally don't enjoy my untouched clean tone's flavor after siwtching it to spongy, but the lead sounds are where it's at. I might just push it with the diodes though, does anyone know if that'll give the cleans back their fullness? It's like a chimey quiet breakup when I bring it down to spongy, with not as much oomph.

 

[rocksalt7]

Playin' with the sponge mode now. More of a bluesy feel for me, even w/ all the gain I dial up :shock: I'm kinda likin' it!!!

 

[kingster911]

I think we started a revolution; a Spongy revolution! Now all we need is an independent Variac switch for each channel. What the hell would they call THAT technology?

 

[fleeced]

With spongy I've found some tone heaven... from great cleans through bluesy to heavy rock rhythm

It probably also depends upon what's going into the amp? ... 90% of the time I'm playing a LP with humbuckers

 

[Robusto]

just spent 2 hrs on spongy...channels 1-4.

Aerosmith to Zeppelin to Metallica to Lamb of God.......it all sounds great! 8)

 

[kingster911]

I'm going to try to achieve my similar Death Magnetic rhythm tones on Ch. 4 modern with Spongy here in a sec. I guess it's nearer to Metallica's live much more "untouched" sound unlike the 5-distortion-pedals-at-the-same-time sound on Death Magnetic.

 

[Fixxer6671]

Almost always on spongy/tube unless in a metal mood then bold/silicon

Isn't everyone that plays a dual rec in a metal mood :wink:

:lol:

 

[kingster911]

Haha might as well be!! Yeah...Metallica deserves Bold and only Bold. Saxon gets the Spongy treatment. Yes...THAT Saxon. I'm only 20 years old too haha.

 

[JF Omalycat]

Spongy rules.

 

[Vigo1999]

spongy is the wasy to go if you want that saggy, creamy lead tone.

spongy and 50 watt setting on crunch mode on my stiletto and im in tone bliss