Une présentation des 6 canaux trouvés sur Harmonycentral (je savais bien qu'il y en avait plus que 4!)
Channel Ratings:
1a: Very vintage. No master volume here, so crank it, and play with your guitar volume. Responds like a champ to your guitar level...just like your vintage 50's amp. Up and you are doing vintage (hear semi-cranked VOX AC-30 or older Marshall), down and you can get Fender mid crispy (see the manual for the button that emulates a combo feel).
1b: Vintage Plexi, you can get mean bluesy, (hear AC/DC - Marshall again), or turn the master up and the gain down, and you can get the other version of Fender you were looking for. Very Country channel; very easy to dial in.
2a: Vintage amp too. Starts out with mild crunch that responds to picking, ends up with VERY punchy Marshall sounds...when cranked, too distorted for country, but see Richie Blackmore and Deep Purple in the early days (only if you stress the EL-34's), also a Pearl Jam thing going there (more EQ). Can get that chunky Kinks feel to if you EQ and adjust the gain.
2b: Pure 80's stuff here. From Slash to Whitesnake to Firehouse. You can lean on it, and get more modern stuff, but stick to easy on the gain, and use a half open backed cabinet, and shred away. I get more Van Halen/Nuno Bettencourt here than anywhere else, but others may disagree...I tend to keep the gain down, and let the personality of the tubes, guitar, and my playing to speak.
3a: This is my Default (the band) channel. Turn your guitar down a notch, stay on neck pickup (many different sounds here if you use a Les Paul and play with the neck/bridge mix!), and you get a nice smooth rhythm, up volume, and bump to your bridge pickup, and you solo. Very saturated, forgiving. If you're sloppy, here's where you'll live. Add a bit of reverb and delay, and knock yourself out. Strong, meaty distortion, with good clarity. I've even used this as the 'boost' channel for solos coming off of channel 2b. You can get less distorted Mesa off of this, but pump the presence, and the bass, and you can get that early Mesa tone.
3b: Here's where you can get Mesa action. You want a deep, heavily distorted feel, this is it. You aren't playing with 6L6's, so it won't sound the same as the Mesa. I personally do not like 6L6's, because they sound sterile to me, so if you do, then disregard all my opinions, because I like a warmer sound...more personality of the EL's. But in this channel, it is EXTREMELY crisp and toneful crunch. If you play Mesa, and want to slop around, then spend less money and get less amp with a Double/Triple rect. If you want people to hear EXACTLY what you're playing, then get this amp. I never knew how good a guitarist I was until I purchased this amp. Sidenote: I sometimes get lazy, and don't bring down my rig to practice, and use my singer's Mark IV, and regret every second of practice.
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