joey_truelove
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The objective: I'm in mid process of completing my rig and I'm focusing on the rhythm tone for now. The plan was going with a fairly dark-ish speaker into which I could run distortion to brighten it up into something usable, something smooth and kind of light in the highs yet with an elegant roll-off in the trebles.
Type of distortion: I'm going all pedal distortion, for which I just acquired an Xotic AC Plus which is just heaven in a box. It can be set to mix hard-clipping and soft-clipping tones to the right amount of grind and tightness - just what I wanted. Then it could be said to have something of a Vox tone to it, although perhaps not that AC-cented.
Possible module: Somewhere along the line I thought the VX module would be great for a rhythm module, so I got one of those. But when I tried it in the past it turned out a bit too steely for my purposes. Probably a clash with the othewise fine stamped frame Fane speaker. Will likely replace the C4 with a lower value though, but no guarantee it will work in this position.
Output bottles: I'm just nuts about KT outputs and I'm curious about GL KT77s here, but these being bright and even described as "Voxy-sounding" it seems I'm just piling Vox-characteristics ontop of oneanother and I'm sure nothing great will come out of that - or is there? I do have a resonance switch on my Marshall poweramp, so I can tame some of the potential edge there, but nontheless...
The predicament: Well, needless to say I think I'm over compensating for the dark speaker and not going in the right direction here. I feel I should probably be going with a different module, one that is smoother or even rolled off in the highs. And one that has more natural lows, as long as they don't overbear.
I do have a backup Plexi and if that doesn't work could rebuild it into a lowered gain Brown or JTM or something. Then the problem may lie elsewhere and I'm merely trying to build around it by blaming and wanting to change the module.
Ideas? I did try the AC Plus pedal through the Egnater SL module with the KT66s (at high resonance) and a more forward cast frame Fane intended for the lead channel, and it sits pretty nicely that way, although a bit on the dark side (don't want to alter the lead settings on the module) and sounding too Marshally.[/list]
Type of distortion: I'm going all pedal distortion, for which I just acquired an Xotic AC Plus which is just heaven in a box. It can be set to mix hard-clipping and soft-clipping tones to the right amount of grind and tightness - just what I wanted. Then it could be said to have something of a Vox tone to it, although perhaps not that AC-cented.
Possible module: Somewhere along the line I thought the VX module would be great for a rhythm module, so I got one of those. But when I tried it in the past it turned out a bit too steely for my purposes. Probably a clash with the othewise fine stamped frame Fane speaker. Will likely replace the C4 with a lower value though, but no guarantee it will work in this position.
Output bottles: I'm just nuts about KT outputs and I'm curious about GL KT77s here, but these being bright and even described as "Voxy-sounding" it seems I'm just piling Vox-characteristics ontop of oneanother and I'm sure nothing great will come out of that - or is there? I do have a resonance switch on my Marshall poweramp, so I can tame some of the potential edge there, but nontheless...
The predicament: Well, needless to say I think I'm over compensating for the dark speaker and not going in the right direction here. I feel I should probably be going with a different module, one that is smoother or even rolled off in the highs. And one that has more natural lows, as long as they don't overbear.
I do have a backup Plexi and if that doesn't work could rebuild it into a lowered gain Brown or JTM or something. Then the problem may lie elsewhere and I'm merely trying to build around it by blaming and wanting to change the module.
Ideas? I did try the AC Plus pedal through the Egnater SL module with the KT66s (at high resonance) and a more forward cast frame Fane intended for the lead channel, and it sits pretty nicely that way, although a bit on the dark side (don't want to alter the lead settings on the module) and sounding too Marshally.[/list]
Why would you suggest the Bman specifically? Any advantage compared to the JTM for instance, which are after all pretty similar.
