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An amp to practice at home or to start-up
I got this amp after I sold out a 120 watts transistor amp, just to practice with proper volume at home. The original idea was to buy a tube-amp but since this was on discount, I bought it. Sounds little boxy, the knobs tend to crisp now after three years of usage, is a transistor amp so sometimes is hard to push any feeling through it without much dynamics, but is good to practice and pushing hard to get a nice blues technique.
I also should mention, I was used to my big amp with reverb, then this one is without effect, just a drive channel. So, at the first time you have to tweak the knobs a little until you find your tone.
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I have been using some effects through the clean channels and it sounds fine. It helped to do a kind-of wet/dry with the AC15.
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Great and affordable guitar, in a versatil sound
Before getting this guitar, I was expecting an Epiphone Pro Electric guitar, due its capability to split coils and get more versality during my playing. Then I went to the store and the clerk told me to try this one. After this, I loved the tone and how easy was to play this guitar through the maple neck.
Now, three years later, maybe I would change the bridge pick-up, because it is not bringing my derised output (unpaired with the neck pickup). It is still in great shape and looking, recently I did some tweaks to the coils and it sounds with more natural compression.
For single coils lovers, I must admit that the single coil sound is about a 60-65% compared to a ceramic single coil. As humbucker, it has its full sound.
Update: Recently I did a modification to the pickups' iron bars, having middle strings with the max height and the rest in a ladder way. It made to drastically change the sound which I was finding, so it feels and sounds more natural and acoustic. In this way, the split coils sounds more like a legit single coil. However, would be good trying some pickups from the market.
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The explanation to modify the pickups iron bars is based on the magnetic induction.
The iron bars help the windings of the pickups to transport more electrical current, so them let to catch more acoustic waves from the sound generated by the strings. The height of the pickups amplifies the acoustic waves produced by the sound.
Those two factors determine how much natural or electrical sounds your guitar, aside the windings, the type of pickup and the iron bars between the windings.
If the iron bars are within the windings, more current is allowed, and the guitar will sound more electric. Also, if the pickups are close to the strings, a natural clipping will occurs, due to the amplifying effect also it will up the volume. So, my suggest is to test how much affects these factors in your guitars pickups but first measure the actual height, if something doesn't like you want, you can step back.
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This guitar has a noticiable change on volume when a split-coil to humbucker change occurs. There are may comments about this on internet, in my opinion, I think the bridge humbucker has a lower output compared to the neck humbucker.
By adjusting the heights to have balanced outputs between both humbuckers, the output when is switched to split coil result affected having less characteristic sound (as intended as a single coil).
However, one purpose that I do with this guitar and due the unbalanced outputs because the different features between the split coils and the humbuckers, is to use the bridge humbucker for overdrive and distortions, the split coils for semi-acoustic sounds, both humbuckers for overdriven rhythms and the neck humbucker for soloing and riffs.
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Somewhere, somebody said about to use a compressor to balance the humbuckers-single coils outputs. I have a Dyna Comp and yes, it works well to balance the volumes. Maybe a rack compressor could do a better job.
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I have this guitar in Red Candy Apple color.
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Feel your sound on Blues and Rock with BD-2
This is my first stomp pedal ever, and previously I used just multieffects and emulators like Amplitube or Bias FX. About the BD-2, is a formidable overdrive thought can be used as booster sometimes and depending how it is tweaked, probably can be used also with other pedals to stack gain stages and get awesome sounds. I tried to nail the woman tone by putting the drive between 1 and 3 o'clock and the tone knob before 12 o'clock. I like it due the fat tone that it produces and the overdrive is really grain and mostly transparent.