Sunday, August 24, 2008

Fender Amps

These are okay, the twin and the deluxe are both good amps. Not really my style but they have a great clean tone and are sort of a classic. If we are going that route I would suggest that we avoid using the spring reverb which is built into the amp. I just don't think that's the sound we are going for.

I'm sure you have either a plug-in or a rack unit for digital reverb. I like too run the rhythm guitar through a reverse reverb, set at between 60-85% wet. Then record two tracks, pan one hard left and the other hard right. This eliminates a lot of the pick attack and creates a sort of "floating" guitar sound in stereo. I prefer the sound of an Alesis reverb or a Lexicon if you have either of those. If you don't like the sound of the reverse than try just a nice warm hall reverb.

Of course that's what I like, Micah I'm sure has his own tastes, I just wanted to throw this out there to give you some ideas.

Also, what are we doing for distortion? Micah, do you have a good stomp box? I don't see us getting the kind of distortion we need out of a Fender Twin.

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