Members Charliemills Posted October 1, 2008 Members Share Posted October 1, 2008 So the other guitarist in the band i'm in has had a broken Fender twin for a while. He finally got it repaired and brought it to practice on Sunday. For some reason the amp just wasn't really fitting in with our band. So for the past two nights i've spent some time messing around with it. Monday night I really wasn't impressed with it much. I couldn't really get a good solid clean tone I liked, and it didn't really seem to take overdrive pedals well. The tube breakup also sounded kind of weird. Just as some info, i've been running my Revered with p90's into a tubescreamer into the amp. Last night I started to get it sounding nice. I kind of figured the amp out a little more I guess you could say. I turned the channel volume down some and the master volume up more. I pulled all the eq down from about 7-8's to around 4-5's (except I kept the bass pretty boosted). I started to really see the appeal of the amp. My main question is this, are these amps mainly designed for clean headroom? The tube breakup on this amp sounds kind of funky to me. And if I turned the drive on my tube screamer up past about 2-3 it sounded absolutely awful. My freind is already talking about selling this amp based on it's poor performance at practice, which I think is a bit premature. I told him to give it some time. 1)Because he's just so used to using a completely different amp he needs some time to figure this one out, and 2)the brand new tubes need some time to really break in.So, any words of wisdom on really getting this amp to sound its best and what it's used for? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members guitarcapo Posted October 1, 2008 Members Share Posted October 1, 2008 Master volumes suck. Crank the master volume all the way to get the best cleans. If you want distortion use a pedal....That's the storywith all higher watt Fender amps. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Charliemills Posted October 1, 2008 Author Members Share Posted October 1, 2008 Care to elaborate? The one at my house definately does have a master volume. What kind does that mean it is? I can't seem to find a picture of the exact one I've been playing. It seems the reissues also don't have a master volume. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Charliemills Posted October 1, 2008 Author Members Share Posted October 1, 2008 Master volumes suck. Crank the master volume all the way to get the best cleans. If you want distortion use a pedal....That's the storywith all higher watt Fender amps.I happen to like the master volume control on my amp. It does seem kind of pointless to have that particular control on an amp that you can't switch channels on. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members dotlikeimpact Posted October 2, 2008 Members Share Posted October 2, 2008 You are playing a 1970s silverface model. The master volumes on those suck awfully. They are designed for maximum clean headroom. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members CenturyStanding Posted October 2, 2008 Members Share Posted October 2, 2008 I'm pretty sure there are shematics online to convert Silverface Fenders into Blackface Fenders. My Blackface Twin is a Reissue and the cleans are sex and take dirt pedals great. Instant SRV tones w/ a good Tubescreamer clone. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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