Southern Belle

'50s tone with an American voice

The neck is a humbucker sized single coil that is voiced for jazz in the neck of an LP kit from www.diyguitarshop.com  I'm plugged into the second input of the normal channel and the amp's settings are bass 6, treble 6, Negative feedback off, cathode bias on.

SB1x15 HBS Neck pickup crymeariver.mp3

same settings as before except the volume is cranked

SB1x15 HBS Neck pickup overdrive.mp3

Same as above but in the bridge position.

SB1x15 HBS brdige pickup overdrive.mp3

Same amp settings again but switched to the bridge pickup.

SB1x15 Vintage Original Gorilla Fist Bridge clean and distorted.mp3

Southern Belle 2x12 40watt

The amp is set with volume on 12 and the guitar’s volume is turned way way WAY down. The Bass and treble on the amp are sitting at around 4 and the presence is at 1 or 2. Notice how there is absolutely no hum even with the amp on 12. The pickup is a blackback PAF in the neck of an LP.

SB2x12 Blackback Gorilla Fist Neck pickup clean.mp3

Blackback Amps

'60s tone with an American voice

Blackback Amp  1x10 15watt

For the start of this soundclip I've got the amp with normal "blackface" settings.  At about 1:12 I turn on cathode bias and flip on the fat switch for some warmer tones.   The pickup is a blackback PAF in the neck of an LP kit from www.diyguitarshop.com

BB1x10 Blackback Gorilla Fist Neck pickup clean.mp3

The amps set up for normal blackface tone with a hint of reverb.  Pickup is a 69 special in a strat knock off that I found in a ditch.

BB1x10 69 special Gorilla Groove neck pickup clean.mp3

Same settings as above but switched to a warm gorilla groove middle pickup on the same strat.

BB1x10 Warm Gorilla Groove middle pickup clean.mp3

Same amp settings as above except with the cathode bias on.  It's a knock off strat with a smooth groove 62 neck pickup.

BB1x10 smooth groove 62 neck pickup clean.mp3

I'm not sure of the amp settings with this one but it's another one through my 1x10 with a warm gorilla groove bridge pickup.

GG-CEWbridgecleandirty.mp3

Dirty BOx of Fun Amps

Vintage British voice and tone

Dirty Box of Fun 1x12 18watt

There is a lot in this soundclip so please read the explanation

18watt dirty box of fun with blackback neck and bridge pickups and 26K SOB Neobucker bridge pickup.mp3

To start I'm using the normal channel set as clean as it can be and I'm using a bridge PAF.  After a short pause I turn the volume up to 5 on the amp and give it some crunch.
 
After another short pause I switch to the neck pickup tremolo channel which is much cleaner.

Then I move back into the normal channel again with the volume low and tone at 5.  Then there is another pause and I turn the volume to 5 for some bluesy overdrive.
 
Next things get really interesting and switch to my RG with a 26K neodymium pickup in the bridge.  I give a quick clip where I'm playing with the tremolo and toggling between the low and high speed with the pedal (more speed controls are available on the amp it's self) and then I jump the 2nd input of the vibrato into the 1st input of the normal.  Plugging into the vibrato channel and then linking the vibrato to normal gives you all the bright tones of the tremolo Channel and all the dark tones of the normal and ultimately you end up with something that acts like a 2 band parametric EQ.  At this point I give you a short sound clip using a pedal for overdrive (it's the only part of the sound clip where I am using any FX) and then I switch the pedal back off put the volume of both channels at 10 and the tone on both channels at 5 for the maximum gain this amp can get.
 
I know that's a lot of explanation for one clip but as you listen to the clip it'll all make sense I promise.

18watt dirty box of fun.mp3