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What does everyone use to make guitersound phatter?

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6/8/2000 3:03 AM
Eug	What does everyone use to make guitersound phatter? hi I've been searching around for this type pedals, but now I'm in confusion. I guess there are several types that muchs what i mean phat and this made me confused... I am not looking for a very over the top overdrive, but now,I don't under stand. Please respond. Eug

6/8/2000 7:58 AM

As I understand you, you wonder what these effects sound like. I have only built one myself so I cannot give you much first-hand information.

If you go to Arons main page and click on "featured" (left menu) or "scematics" (top menu) you get pages with descriptions of the effects. The Soundclips there seems to have dissappeared however.

Also visit Jim Radmers page at www.radmer.dk. He has built some effects and posted soundclips.

Third, make a forum search for "sample", that will probably bring up old posts of the type "...I have put up a sound sample on my page..."

Hope this helps you a bit.

Jens

6/8/2000 2:49 PM
Gus	Some of that phatt type sound is a ringing high pass filter set 70 to 150hz? like the techno electric stuff. Marshall 4x12's ring at about 120hz I think.

6/8/2000 4:25 PM

Sorry, i didn't mean that way.

Hi,
First,please excuse my English.

Second,guiter supposed to be GUITAR.
What i was trying to say is...
O.k.,i think a lot of people uses
booster to overdrive the tube preamps,
or overdrive pedal to boost.But the
booster could be used to put in front
of distortion and have more gain.Which
i think they are mostly same thing.
What if i don't want to distort but
to have more existed sound?
Would MXR microamp do? Clean boost?
Is clean booster= LPB1,2?
Vari tone? Hot tube? Tubeman? Budda?
That's what i was getting confused
about.

Thanks

eug

6/8/2000 4:36 PM
JD	eug, Clean boosters like you are asking about are: LPB1,2 MXR Microamp AMZ Mini Booster - preferred by most, but currently not available for free Also most Graphic Equilizer Pedals will give you a boost. Some of the other "Overdrive" pedals _might_ give you clean boost on certain settings, but not all of them will do that. JD

6/9/2000 1:31 AM

Thanks JD,

I always thought that boosters should be the
first of the effects chain and it shouldn't be
on all the time. So, if I wanna boost all the time by not boosting my fuzzes, I should place it at the end of my pedals?
Well, i know it's free to do anything i want
to,but i just wannted to know the nice way to
obtain the existed guitar sounds. I have the
LPB-2, Sans Amps,Graphic EQ but i've only used them as it is. So to have fatter sounds with not much distortion,it depends on the input volume to the amp? Are there more ways?

Thanks

Eug

6/9/2000 10:07 AM

quote:
" I should place it at the end of my pedals?"

Even if you're going to leave it on all the time, try it in front of the effects chain. Might work well there too.

quote:
" I have the LPB-2, Sans Amps,Graphic EQ"

IMHO none of these, or any others, are going to give you a "fatter" sound. You need to practice your "fat sound" guitar technic or buy a new amp or guitar or all of the above

quote:
"So to have fatter sounds with not much distortion,it depends on the input volume to the amp? Are there more ways?"

There are infinite number of ways. The number one way: your technic of playing the guitar itself. Your soul through your hands is going to take you farther than ANY equipment. Others ways: A new guitar, tweaking the EQ, just about any pedal at certain settings, a Rangemaster, a sonic maximizer (e.g. BBE 462), etc., etc.
Maybe a little off subject:
A common mistake for beginner guitarists (and some not-so-beginner) is to get a new effect and immediately start using and gigging with it constantly with out _really_ paying much attention to it...this can be especially annoying with wah-wahs! You need to practice your effects just like you practice guitar. Work with it, listen to it, tweak it, play all sorts of different things through it at all different sorts of settings. _Then_ use it effectively and blow your audience away with it. IMHO, the reason why so many folks around here these days seem disatisfied with stock wah-wahs, is because they simply haven't figured out how to make it work. (OK, now I'm ranting and I just got myself in trouble)

I know you're just fishing for some hints here, Eug. I guess I've given my share of hints

anyone else?

JD

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