Comments on: Tips on Tone – Issue 13 https://www.myrareguitars.com/tips-tone-issue-13 All about rare & vintage guitars, guitar amps, fx pedals and more! Sun, 09 May 2021 21:58:05 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.9.26 By: Stefano Biondo https://www.myrareguitars.com/tips-tone-issue-13#comment-647442 Sun, 02 Nov 2014 19:19:12 +0000 http://www.myrareguitars.com/?p=7242#comment-647442 Good advise, but if you do not want to trade your car for a “Axe-FX”, look for a JOHNSON MILLENNIUM J150 combo or (less space) a J250 head. These have stereo XLR outputs so that you can unhook your speakers ( its ok the output power amp is solid state) and go into a inexpensive 2 channel interface like the FOCUSRITE SCARLETT 2i and jam out to a bunch of model amps that you can modify, and all goes to your headphones. I run all that with GUITAR RIG software. JM150 and 250 have tube preamp/solid power/and digital. They were the first out there but their fixed setting turned people off and the price was high. Their mother company got bought out by LINE6 who buried them since they were coming up with their to this day inferior product.

]]> By: Gordon Kaswell https://www.myrareguitars.com/tips-tone-issue-13#comment-646796 Sun, 02 Nov 2014 16:47:45 +0000 http://www.myrareguitars.com/?p=7242#comment-646796 After trying a variety of options for good tone for recording in a small room (and on a tight budget), I went with the solid state Orange Crush CR12L. I paid $85 for it. It has 3-bands of EQ, volume, gain, and overdrive controls. The little guy sounds good on its own, and when I run it with a few (relatively inexpensive) pedals, it sounds amazing.

The trick, I think, is to dial in the best tone you can on the amp first, then bring in the pedals.

FYI, my usual setup is: Strat w/Seymour Duncan JB Jr in the middle position (running neck & middle pickups) > Dynacomp compressor > Fulltone Fat Boost (original) > MXR Black Label Chorus > DeltaLab RD-1 distortion > MXR Carbon Copy Delay. The pedals I paid about $360 for, total, so this is a mid-priced solution in a way, but I had the pedals already, so paying $85 for the Orange was pretty painless. Incidentally, when I turn off the RD-1, the clean tones are gorgeous.

I should mention that I like Rock and Blues tones. I’m guessing the amp would work for Metal too, if you have the right pedal(s) for it, but I haven’t tried it myself.

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