Bedroom warrior tone improvements

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zedhed71 wrote:All this makes me feel like Im currently residing in the overkill department.....My "practice" rig at the moment is, Mesa electradyne on a 4x12 with a 2x12 off to the side angled up plus the slave out on the mesa into a fender performer 1x12 sitting on another 1x12 extension cab and the stereo out on the pedal board going into a peavey delta blues 1x15 (also angled up)on the other side of the room.
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higainer wrote: AC-30's or plexi's really only give up the goods when pushed, but by then the vol is just impractical.
See, my amps of choice: Plexi's. Mine sounds terrible until its pushed. Hence my choice for low wattage cooked. Like i said, its all preference.

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I recently joined the 100w half stack in the bedroom club. I love it for the intangible something extra that it gives me, even at low volume.
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LucyTheSpud wrote:See, my amps of choice: Plexi's. Mine sounds terrible until its pushed.
PPIMV helps.
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godgrinder wrote:
LucyTheSpud wrote:See, my amps of choice: Plexi's. Mine sounds terrible until its pushed.
PPIMV helps.
Mine has been modded for one. It does help, but with the master below 9oclock (11oclock is my low gig volume) the amp sounds really choked and thin. Plexi's need to breathe.

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Yes, I can confirm that a plexi in it's sweet spot in a confined space will destroy your ears.
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calling card wrote:Put aside 'tone' and make music.
Sweet, lovin' music?

Much like my guitar playing, being married with 2 young kids, in the bedroom all by myself is pretty much the only place I get to do that as well...
The older I get, the more disappointed in myself I become.

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My Jet City head has a Mojave Power Reduction circuit built in from McPherson Stompboxes. It essentially lowers the voltage going through the power tubes yet you can still get a wonderful compressed thick sound as though it was cranked. Different to a attenuator apparently, easier on the tubes from what I understand. As the Mojave dial gets turned up, the volume drops and more gain and compression enters.

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griff7628 wrote:My Jet City head has a Mojave Power Reduction circuit built in from McPherson Stompboxes. It essentially lowers the voltage going through the power valves yet you can still get a wonderful compressed thick sound as though it was cranked. Different to a attenuator apparently, easier on the valves from what I understand. As the Mojave dial gets turned up, the volume drops and more gain and compression enters.
that sounds like a great mod, would love to hear it in action
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Tube amp and guitar tones straight from 1958… amazing how believable the sounds were back then, even without the modellers...

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Speaking as an old git who has played through most permutations of amps, cabs and speakers and after seeking the elusive big tone through small amps solution in recent years I can say unequivocaly that it is in no way the same experience and consequently am back to a quad box and cranked heads. Fortunately I live in the wop wops so there's no one to complain, however my ears prefer to be in a different room to the cab. Fryette Power Station incoming :thumbup:
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Dharmajester wrote:Speaking as an old git who has played through most permutations of amps, cabs and speakers and after seeking the elusive big tone through small amps solution in recent years I can say unequivocaly that it is in no way the same experience and consequently am back to a quad box and cranked heads. Fortunately I live in the wop wops so there's no one to complain, however my ears prefer to be in a different room to the cab. Fryette Power Station incoming :thumbup:
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Running amp sims seems to be the way to go for low volume practice. Small amps running at a fraction of a watt sound like exactly that, where as a good amp and cab sim running thru a DAW into monitors can get pretty convincing at sounding like a big amp miked up and mixed.

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