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mattman sweet jazzmaster through a 70s silver face twin, what year is it, as in what wattage 100 or 135.. that should be a great sound.
my mistake, but it must be a very good amp.
edit: im soon to be buying a twin reverb, i hope it sounds as nice as a deluxe reverb only louder.
Twins are much louder and much cleaner! Heavy as hell too! They’re great amps though if you like a really clean tone (lets them work well with pedals), but don’t try to turn it up enough to distort on its own, or you’ll go deaf!
The Deluxe Reverb is famous for it’s bluesy grit when you crank it above 5 or so… They can have a little trouble keeping up with an extra loud drummer, but since all the clubs around here have their own PA systems, I can just mic it…
I have a 40Watt Bandmaster Reverb, that I play through a 4-10 cabinet when I need something louder…
I’m thinking about getting a Twin. I like playing loud and distorted, so I should be fine with the few pedals I have.
I havent gotten a chance to play it yet, the ppl at the music store are deuche bags.
yea, they are very heavy, and im very weak, soo, i might have to buy a skateboard to haul it… but i like how it stays clean from 1 to 10, i like really loud clean tube amps, but i also use a big muff as my main distortion stompbox, im buying a pollychours(sp?) or a deluxe electric mistress soon.
I’ve never heard of an electric mistress before coming to these boards…who makes it? Electro Harmonix?
"Mattman " wrote:J has stated on a few occasions that he doesn’t like humbuckers.There’s a magazine article, I think it’s in the photo album, where J says that most of the rhythm work on Where You Been was a Les Paul Gold-Top w/ p-90’s into a Fender Bandmaster amp. :aliensmile:
I’ve always liked humbuckers…do you have any idea what j’s reason is for disliking them?
I guess because they dont have that bright edge singlecoils have. I have an ovation uk2, with coil tap switches and I like to leave it in singlecoil myself…
While I was in California, we of course visited Heidis mom and step-dad. Brent (the Step-dad) has both, Twin Reverb and Deluxe Reverb. He says that the deluxe is his favorite amp out of the two because it sounds so good. It has the sound that most people want, but they dont know thats the amp that makes it. After 5, he says it doesnt really get any louder, it just starts breaking up and sound like a good tube amp….but quieter (still loud though…dont take that the wrong way….its still a tube amp). He practices with that amp and jams but plays the twin live with a plexi tone pedal. I was telling him that I think I want a Twin, and he confirmed it for me. He was telling me (as Matt said) that turn it to five and it really opens up and that is its true sound, and it only gets better after that, but turn it up in moderation…youll be waiting for it to break up…and youll be waiting untill you go deaf. The amp wont break up, which is why he uses a plexi tone pedal….friggin excellent pedal.
So I think that after playing around for almost 13 years now, I have found the right guitar/amp/pedal setup for me: a lot of guitars, a twin thrown in on top of a 410…a Head version of the twin (basically….but I want to make it) on my 412. As for pedals…now I’m using a Dod Grunge for lighter distortions, a Boss MD-2 for crazy gainy distortions…and soon a Dod YJM380 for….I dont know what it sounds like…..but thanks Javro. Also using an original crybaby, Dod Chorus (can you tell Dod is my fave?) and an Art Multiverb (series one….havent found a footswitch for it though) all through the best tuner ever….the Korg DTR1000 (of course thats my opinion….dont need hate mail saying how stupid I am over what choice of gear I like…..[Fender is so inferior to Gibson..the ONLY good Fender ’54-’64. After that they havent made anything good..you are so stupid.] yes…so stupid that I took the time to look around on a FENDER forum to only see the people bash fender and praise Gibson….funny?).As for coil taps/signal splitters on humbuckers, I have a coil tap on my ’67 Epiphone V RI that I installed along with a Duncan JB in the bridge of course. For rythm use, its full humbucker, but generally for clean I push it over for single coil.
R.J.
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