Hi there. I bought my first boogie last year, and I've been experimenting alot with tones and recording lately. I'm kind of a Recto-sound guy, but I can't afford a Recto+cab yet, so I went for the Nomad instead, since I got it pretty cheap. I didn't know it was so mid-y and "mellow", though.
Anyway, I have got some pretty cool tones out of it with and EQ with some scoop in the FX-loop, since this amp is very mid-ish and low-mid-ish. What I'm looking for now is some more "bite", some more heaviness and some more compression and sustain on riffs and chords.
I'm running my EMG equipped guitar right into it, with a Boss EQ in the loop, and a Rode NT-1a condenser and/or a SM58 on the speaker. I have switched a bit between the orange Modern and red Modern channels, with the extreme switch engaged, but they both seem kind of "saggy" and not very tight.
So basically I'm looking for some tips to make it sound better, more like a recto/bogner/powerball/5150 etc... Any tips to EQ settings, preamp vs poweramp distortion, etc?
Anyway, I have got some pretty cool tones out of it with and EQ with some scoop in the FX-loop, since this amp is very mid-ish and low-mid-ish. What I'm looking for now is some more "bite", some more heaviness and some more compression and sustain on riffs and chords.
I'm running my EMG equipped guitar right into it, with a Boss EQ in the loop, and a Rode NT-1a condenser and/or a SM58 on the speaker. I have switched a bit between the orange Modern and red Modern channels, with the extreme switch engaged, but they both seem kind of "saggy" and not very tight.
So basically I'm looking for some tips to make it sound better, more like a recto/bogner/powerball/5150 etc... Any tips to EQ settings, preamp vs poweramp distortion, etc?