I really love the VybeDeluxe module for my fender cleans. It really sounds and feels right. Rob dialed back the overall dirty gain somewhat from the initial setup for me just before making it a production module, as I wanted more room to beef up the tone prior to starting to breakup in the Vybe and the Deluxe voicing.
While I've never bothered to sit down and learn Lenny by SRV, that's one of the feels and tones I was chasing with the Vybe voicing, and it makes me happy to have that on tap. Rob totally understood what I was wanting, as he had studied to Vybroverb preamp closely. Of course the tone changes based on the power amp and speakers/cab but the essence of that golden tone is there.
The original donor was a Deluxe, and I liked aspects of the tone, and wanted to have access to that sound as well but wanted less mud in the lower midrange frequencies. That's why the voicing option is there. I switch into the thicker Deluxe seitting when I want the clean sounds to have bit more beef to them. It can be guitar dependent as well (higher output pickups vs. lower etc).
The pushed setting is there to get the old school amp breakup. Since this module is built on the clean modules, there aren't as many gain stage options so it has a bluesy raspy quality when you roll the gain up. I haven't spent as much time in this setting, but asked Rob to do it for the option since we were focusing so much of the voicing on the cleaner side of the old Fender sounds.
As for rolling down your volume knobs, split coils, coil taps, I'm all about doing this. My first axe had a Bill Lawrence that had a switch to go single coil and I've kinda always thought that was really useful. If you have 4 connecter humbucker pickups, I would strongly suggest getting at least your bridge pickup setup with a parallel/series/single switch if you can. I couldn't believe what I could do with my crunchlab bridge pickup once I had that installed.
The tone knob can go as far as I'm concerned... it's just not something I've found myself using much on any of my axes.
While I've never bothered to sit down and learn Lenny by SRV, that's one of the feels and tones I was chasing with the Vybe voicing, and it makes me happy to have that on tap. Rob totally understood what I was wanting, as he had studied to Vybroverb preamp closely. Of course the tone changes based on the power amp and speakers/cab but the essence of that golden tone is there.
The original donor was a Deluxe, and I liked aspects of the tone, and wanted to have access to that sound as well but wanted less mud in the lower midrange frequencies. That's why the voicing option is there. I switch into the thicker Deluxe seitting when I want the clean sounds to have bit more beef to them. It can be guitar dependent as well (higher output pickups vs. lower etc).
The pushed setting is there to get the old school amp breakup. Since this module is built on the clean modules, there aren't as many gain stage options so it has a bluesy raspy quality when you roll the gain up. I haven't spent as much time in this setting, but asked Rob to do it for the option since we were focusing so much of the voicing on the cleaner side of the old Fender sounds.
As for rolling down your volume knobs, split coils, coil taps, I'm all about doing this. My first axe had a Bill Lawrence that had a switch to go single coil and I've kinda always thought that was really useful. If you have 4 connecter humbucker pickups, I would strongly suggest getting at least your bridge pickup setup with a parallel/series/single switch if you can. I couldn't believe what I could do with my crunchlab bridge pickup once I had that installed.
The tone knob can go as far as I'm concerned... it's just not something I've found myself using much on any of my axes.
