![]() ![]() I’m a believer in that you can get great tones from almost any type of equipment. ![]() This can’t be achieved on low volume alone so we need to compensate and simulate it. This makes my guitars and pedals sound fatter, warmer and more compressed but it also makes my ears adjust, trying to even out those transients and focusing on to the mids. I want the sound of glowing hot tubes on the very edge of breakup and speakers pushing air. So what is a big tone? What do we want to achieve on a smaller amp? Well, personally I want the same full bodied character I get when I drive my Reeves Custom 50w really hard. I’ve experimented a lot over the years and found ways to achieve a big tone on low wattage and volume. ![]() I have a couple of smaller tube amps that serve the purpose of both practice and recording (although most of my live guitars are recorded in our rehearsal studio). My home recording studio is a typically bedroom-sized room equipped with a few low wattage amps. In this feature I’ll share some of my tricks for getting great tones at bedroom levels. Still, we all want a big and fat tone that has all the qualities of playing on a loud stack. Limited space, grumpy neighbours and a patient family makes it hard to really crank that amp. I was hoping it would be Gilmour in a Box too - it isn't.Most of us spend a great deal of time playing guitar in either a bedroom or a small home recording studio. I just find the TubeDriver really isn't too useful. And yes, I'm running a strat through a vintage Hiwatt. I know it's going to sound wrong, but I use a FullDrive 2 for all the lower gain stuff, and a ToneBone Hot British for the high gain stuff. Your money is better served getting a very nice Muff or a different tasty od. ![]() I guess what I'm saying here is it is, in my mind, in no way essential at all. In other words, it's on for perhaps 5% of the total show. Personally, Money and the intro to Time are the only songs I even use it on. I find that the pedal sounds _EXACTLY_ like the solo from Money - so if that's the only sound you want, it's a great way to spend three hundred bucks I find it's a bit of a one trick pony - I can never lower the gain quite as much as I'd like (I even emailed them at Chandler or wherever, they said use a 12AT7 - I did, no dice). Once you get it dialed in, though, it's pretty nice. Let me try to explain.īasically, it's like everyone says - it is very hard to get the right sound out of it. It's kind of good and not good all rolled into one. I have an original Chandler Tube Driver (duh, I'm in a Floyd tribute act ). ![]()
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