grandinq Posted April 18, 2016 Share Posted April 18, 2016 Greetings! Last Saturday my band played a short set at a benefit show. This marked the debut of my dream rig (HD500, DT25, JTV-59) in a public setting. I am happy to report it held up very well. On that afternoon, my HD500 started doing some strange things, but silverhead chimed in and I was able to mend that. I originally wanted to use the cab out from the DT25, but the sound man refused, and I yielded. He ended up doing a great job in miking the amp. As I have worked with this rig, I have settled in on the tones I want. I still love that I have all these amps and guitars as my disposal, but I have hit upon a few combinations that fit with the music. I have also benefited from the advice from these forums, In particular, on all my tones I have cut down on the Bass in the amps, brought down the Resonance and Thump to zero. These changes have allowed my guitar to sit in the mix well. Here's a clip with most of one of our original songs. It's from a camera phone, but sounds pretty good with decent speakers. I am using the Variax Mags bridge pickup, and the amp is a P75 Bright Pre, Top II, Pentode, greenback cab, and a tube drive in front. The lead tone is the same with more gain and output on the tube drive and some delay: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BF_1d0bJSfA 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tboneous Posted April 18, 2016 Share Posted April 18, 2016 Good job! You should play with using your expression pedal for your leads. Particularly in this song where your lead transitions into a softer clean chorus type of tone. I find that controlling the drive with the expression pedal helps make this type of transitions less drastic in the volume difference. It's a bit more involved than just assigning the gain to the expression pedal. You might have to also assign certain amp parameters, maybe delay, possibly a compressor to the same exp pedal. Play with it and see what makes sense. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Palico Posted April 18, 2016 Share Posted April 18, 2016 Nice! :) Here's mine in action. JTV 89F (mags) ->Pod HD500(x)->DT25 (with Direct out to the PA as well as DT25, mostly the DT though). Patch is Gate->Overdrive (drive 100% output 80%) -> Plexi Lead 100 Pre -> T75 cab -> Plate reverb. https://youtu.be/TRDz86ZL7gY 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
grandinq Posted April 19, 2016 Author Share Posted April 19, 2016 Good job! You should play with using your expression pedal for your leads. Particularly in this song where your lead transitions into a softer clean chorus type of tone. I find that controlling the drive with the expression pedal helps make this type of transitions less drastic in the volume difference. It's a bit more involved than just assigning the gain to the expression pedal. You might have to also assign certain amp parameters, maybe delay, possibly a compressor to the same exp pedal. Play with it and see what makes sense. Interesting! I love hearing how people approach this equipment in different ways. I'll play around with it. The biggest hurdle for me would be for that particular song is that I am switching from a patch that is mag humbucker and P75 amp to a Strat model in neck position with a Deluxe amp. I can't make all those changes with the pedal. I could definitely try it on some other songs, though -- thanks! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
grandinq Posted April 19, 2016 Author Share Posted April 19, 2016 Nice! :) Here's mine in action. JTV 89F (mags) ->Pod HD500(x)->DT25 (with Direct out to the PA as well as DT25, mostly the DT though). Patch is Gate->Overdrive (drive 100% output 80%) -> Plexi Lead 100 Pre -> T75 cab -> Plate reverb. https://youtu.be/TRDz86ZL7gY Great sound! I have never been able to get a tone that big out of the Plexi model, so I use the P75. Is the overdrive pedal the key there? The DT25 is such a great sounding amp. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Palico Posted April 19, 2016 Share Posted April 19, 2016 Great sound! I have never been able to get a tone that big out of the Plexi model, so I use the P75. Is the overdrive pedal the key there? The DT25 is such a great sounding amp. For that one there is 2 keys. The overdrive is 100% on the drive setting and dial back just a bit ~80% on the output. I'm basically attempting to hit the "pre amp" really hard to distort it. With some my LP or other guitars I used output on overdrive at 100% but the 89F mags are high output already so I dial it back a bit for them. The second is using the T75 cab (instead of the G25 or V30) since the DOD overdrive is kind of dark sounding. The presence and treble are also pretty high up. Also on this vid, I was using the DI on the DT to our PA, which is 2-way crossed over with JBL 18 subs. Although the most of the sound is coming direct from the DT, running it to our PA spreads the sound out a bit and 18 subs do reenforce it bit. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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