Selecting the Amp Type
Use the AMP SELECT knob to choose among the following options.
Emulates a tube type combo amp developed in the sixties by an American company
known for its single-coil pickup guitars. This famous amplifier had a clean, bright
American Cleansound and beautiful sounding spring reverb. The setting emulates the typical clean
channel sound of this amplifier. Depending on the guitar in use, the sound may be
distorted at certain settings of the GAIN control.
Emulates the drive channel sound of the above type of amp. Although this is a drive
Twin Drive
channel, distortion is smooth and subdued, and the top end is bright and extended.
Emulates a small tube type combo amp built in the nineteen-fifties by the same
company as the amp described above. Originally developed as a practice amplifier for
Blues Tweedbeginners, many rock and blues artists in the sixties used it for recording because of
its superb distortion sound at low levels. This setting works best at fairly low settings
of the GAIN control, using the picking intensity to vary the distortion amount.
Emulates the British-built tube amp that became the hallmark of the Liverpool sound
in the sixties. Famous for some unique circuit design aspects, such as the tube-based
Class A Combo
rectifier and class A amplifier topology. The clean sound and crunch sound are
typical, but raising the GAIN control will result in harder distortion.
Emulates the crunch sound of a tube stack amp from a British manufacturer who
ruled the eighties scene. This setting is based on the 800 line of amplifiers with
British Crunch
master volume control. A slight crunch sound is obtained even with the GAIN control
turned down.
Emulates the full drive sound of the 900 line that succeeded the above type of amp.
SelectingtheAmpType
By adjusting the GAIN control and MASTER LEVEL control, you can vary the
British Drive
sound from crunch to deep distortion. Very well suited for hard rock or heavy metal
lead guitar.
In the late sixties, a manufacturer in San Francisco led the move towards high output
power, with a hand-built tube combo amp. The setting emulates the sound of this
Combo 335
amplifier, which was famous for its detailed overdrive and long sustain. Great for
fusion style lead guitar.
Emulates the sound of a tube type stack amp with intense distortion, designed by
the same manufacturer for the metal bands of the nineties. These amplifiers
Metal Panelallowed switching between diode and tube based rectifiers, resulting in a
drastically different sound character. Suited especially for marking the rhythm
with distortion sound.
Emulates a famous tube stack amp developed by an American amp manufacturer in
the nineteen-eighties in cooperation with a hard rock superstar. The original amplifier
Black Bottom
which even was used as the title of an album has a gutsy low end and high-gain,
detailed distortion.
Emulates a head amplifier made in America by a custom manufacturer in the eighties,
Modern Leadbut used extensively in the nineties on the road and in the studio by a guitarist famous
for his "woman tone". Great for lead guitar playing.
Creates a dynamic sixties style stack amp sound with fuzz distortion. Suitable for
Fuzz Stack
single-note leads and riffs.
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