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Conference napalm::guitar

Title:	GUITARnotes - Where Every Note has Emotion
Notice:	Discussion of the finer stringed instruments
Moderator:	KDX200::COOPER

Created:	Thu Aug 14 1986
Last Modified:	Fri Jun 06 1997
Last Successful Update:	Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:	3280
Total number of notes:	61432

2977.0. "Looking for some advice ..." by KUZZY::PELKEY (Life, It aint for the sqeamish!) Thu Sep 15 1994 08:49

O.k.  Help Pelkey out here.....

I'm looking for a sloution to a volume control problem..

here's the stint...

I've got a stereo set up, each amp has 2 channels, which wouldn't
be a problem, except that one channel on each has a master volume, 
the other don't...  clean only!  one amp is a 100wat Yamaha G100212
and the other is a Yamaha 50 wat, G50112..

my 'meat-n-potato' axe (Ibanez Mc400) has an on board pre-amp that fattens
things up a little for me, but in some situtations, it's still not quite
enough....  I also use a DSP 128+ and a small 7 band graphic to augment the
parametrics each amp has...  that's about it,, I'm pretty happy
with the sound, but I could use a little more boost on leads....

There's gotta be something I can use on them clean channels to
get more use out of them,,,,


What I'd like to do is find a decent pre-amp or 'what-ever' to use
in the clean channel to crunch it up so I can either use it
for rythm,, or as a lead channel, (depending on how each channel
sounded would determine which one I'd use for leads...)

I don't wanna spend huge dollars, but I figured some where in the 
$150/200 range would be cool...

any ideas ?????

T.R	Title	User	Personal Name	Date	Lines
2977.1		GOES11::HOUSE	How could I have been so blind?	`Thu Sep 15 1994 09:53`	4
	The RealTube or BlueTube from TubeWorks might do the trick for you. I like the sound of them. Greg
2977.2		KUZZY::PELKEY	Life, It aint for the sqeamish!	`Thu Sep 15 1994 10:08`	11
	Thanks Greg,, Never heard of it, (no surprise,,, I don't toy shop that oftenn.) tell me more,,, what is it ?? a stomp box (That'd be okay..) a rack,, (better, but more price usually..)
2977.3		GOES11::HOUSE	How could I have been so blind?	`Thu Sep 15 1994 11:01`	6
	They're tube (12AX7) overdrive boxes/preamps. You can get 'em in either rackmount or floor box configuration. The rackmount offers more controls and flexability at a little higher price. I believe either fits into the price range you listed, if I remember correctly. gh
2977.4	Tube screamer(s)	SPESHR::WAIBLE		`Mon Sep 19 1994 10:39`	25
	Ibenez has a pretty good set of really cheap stomp boxes. They are actually plastic but pretty rugged. If you look around you can get oneof the crunch boxes called a tube screamer for around 20 bucks normal proce in daddy's is around 40 bucks. Now they re-issued a tube screamer with the old analog cicuitry in the old metal chassis stomp box and they supposedly really give a nice sound. they should for 140 bucks at daddys. I havent tried that one yet. I'm using the cheap version along with different amp setups ( i have a marchall jcm 900 that really sounds good all by itself but I add boost occasionally so that i can make 4 channels out of 2 (kind of) and since i'm playing a lot lately in the dive cicuit with a noisy little classic rock outfit called Time Capsule I use my Peavy Stereo Chorus 212 amp which is flexible (has 3 built in channels and a ton of effects) along with my Tube screamer (I also have a digitech digital delay and ibenez chorus). i havent put as much into my sound as you have but it still sounds pretty decent. I still am looking for quite a few sounds that i may have to spend more money to get such as a really creamy steve morse type sound and just a plain old eddie van halen super fat brown sound. i can sort of approximate them but I will probably need some more digital stuff or something. I really like the sound of tubes however. anyway good luck and let us know what you come up with. Fred
2977.5		KUZZY::PELKEY	Life, It aint for the sqeamish!	`Thu Sep 29 1994 13:04`	12
	Thanks for the discussions,, I've been out of the conf. for a while... Anyway, I tried a compressor, (real cheap one... I think it may have been a Dod or an Ibanez) and that seemed to give me a bit of what I was yearnin for.... so I'll probably pick one up as soon as I see one come across for the right price.... It's not a major issue,, I just need a little bit here and there,, and primarily it's for rehersal,... Our soundman is Johnny on the Spot, so it's not like a completely critical situation for me... thanks again...
2977.6	Closing the discussion...	KUZZY::PELKEY	Life, It aint for the sqeamish!	`Thu Nov 17 1994 09:42`	35
	Hey, I think I fixed the problem! It was easy... Oh I checked out all kinds -o- stuff... (Even got fond of the Marshall Super Shred-but I didn't buy one! What I finally came back to was the age old idiom... was the more a 'thang' added, the more it took away from something else. So I pushed back my expectations, and that's when the answer came... What I wound with was an Ibanez Tube Screamer II That offered enough increase in gain from the natural distortion from the amps, so that I could then use the EQ for the 'boot' when I needed it... The compressors I tried just didn't quite get the effect I was gunning for.... Anyway, it seems to have worked great..... I got the crunch I need on rythm with the T-screamer, and the boost I want for leads with the graphic EQ... The setup requires care though to much of one or the other can get ya into trouble (goes without saying.).... but man-a-live, some AWESOME controllable feedback and oddles of boost when I need it! (Tube screamer was 43.00 bucks, new WITH an adpater.. ($38 screamer $5 for adapter... Special run at a local store!) Things were going great, till my old Boss DE-2 delay chocked.... So back to the store,, and well there it was,, Ibanez DL-2 delay..... had to do it.. $69.....