Amp on 10 guitar on 1

[richieG]

I was fooling around yesterday with my JMP 2204 flat out. Pre on 10, master 10 with my Les Paul.....basically just making noise and fooling around.

For the first time ever, I tried the guitar where the volume just kicks in....about 1 on the guitar,

It's a really cool thing. Not clean, but crunchy and very dynamic. Still pretty loud. Very different than the guitar up high and the amp set crunchy.

Worth trying IMO.

 

[keennay]

What power tubes do you have?

Mine with 6550's sound terrible on a Master Volume setting anywhere past 6. That might be a factor. . .

 

[richieG]

What power tubes do you have?

Mine with 6550's sound terrible on a Master Volume setting anywhere past 6. That might be a factor. . .

In this case it is EL34s.

But I have an amp with 6550s as well, and that sounds great..... Maybe you have bad tubes or the bias is out of whack.

 

[mickeydg5]

I would imagine that will attenuate a lot of frequency.
How do the two methods compare?

 

[brp]

Not noisy as hell?

 

[richieG]

Not noisy as hell?

Ummm... Not really.especially when you are playing....probarbly because there is so little guitar signal going in.

 

[richieG]

I would imagine that will attenuate a lot of frequency.
How do the two methods compare?

It sounds pretty similar, I just found it really dynamic in a hard to describe way.

Sort of like trying to describe to someone who has never used a compressor how it sounds.....if you know what I mean. The amp does not sound like it has a compressor, I just used that as an example in how it is hard to explain.

 

[DSL 50]

Accidently bumping the volume knob on yur guitar could result in a small earthquake

 

[Wycked Lester]

i usually approach blues gigs this way,... amp pretty much dimed and fully controll everything with the guitar vol.... It can become a style all of its own.