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Re: What clone the best to build?

5/31/2000 11:53 AM

BWilliamson

Re: What clone the best to build? quote: "I want a amp to build that has a great clean sound and a very sweet distortion channel that has a sweet singing distortion that isnt metal sounding but warm with lotsa harmonic content and sustain."     The conclusions I've come to is this...     One Amp, One Optimal Tone....You can work in little mods that can be switched in and out to make it more versitile to a point. But that's it IMHO.     Two channel amps=Compromises somewhere. Seperate preamps into a single power-amp, it's really hard to optimize the ouput section for both if each channel is to be at it's best performance. I really like my Clumble clone, and it gets better with each tweak for the most part. Sure there are other amps that are also out there that are really good. But it seems the amps everybody raves about are tweaked for one GOD-TONE.     I hear all the time about X-amp that has a great clean channel. But the distortion is lacking. Or the opposite with great OD but no decent clean. Compromises are made with the intention of what the designers really wanted out of the amp. The rest is just fluff. Mostly for poeple who wouldn't consider a single channel amp.     quote: "To me the Soldano is a nice hi gain amp but I miss having a great clean sound as I get in my Fender twin reverb."     To me this says--A/B Box is the solution. Not as practical but hey.     And I had the best time with a Pod over the weekend--what does that tell you about my opinions.     bw

 

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Steve Ahola BW:6/1/2000 4:39 AM