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Jan 28, 2009 5:28:37 GMT -7
Post by wildman on Jan 28, 2009 5:28:37 GMT -7
Think´n buying a mazerati gt head, but can i play semi clean at all? im playing many different styles of music, all from rock n roll to country?
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Jan 28, 2009 7:13:01 GMT -7
Post by zdogma on Jan 28, 2009 7:13:01 GMT -7
Think´n buying a mazerati gt head, but can i play semi clean at all? im playing many different styles of music, all from rock n roll to country? This amp has no "clean headroom" on its own, its high volume/high gain as soon as its on, but, if you're a "volume control" player, and using a tele, then yes, you can get a useful clean sound out of this amp. With the amp volume at noon, my tele cleans up at about 4-5 on the volume. I was at a music store last weekend with another forum member and we tried a Gibson Historic R8 thought the GT and with the amp volume on 10 oclock, the amp cleans up at 1 to 2 on the bridge volume, so you really have to roll it back with humbuckers. Even then it will have a little dirt if you really dig in. Brad Paisley uses one, but I think he only uses it for high gain sounds, and uses the Stangray/AC30/Bruno UG30 for cleaner sounds. This amp is amazing. Aggressive and articulate at the same time. It is certainly the best high gain amp I have ever owned or heard. From a pure tone standpoint think this amp, the Ghia, the Route 66 and Stangray are the doc's finest amps, but the Maz 18/38 still sound superb and have a much broader range of uses.
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Jan 28, 2009 11:45:52 GMT -7
Post by wilhelm on Jan 28, 2009 11:45:52 GMT -7
My experience with Tele´s and Strats is to put the volume at 9 for the sound you described. At this level you have a nice clean and crunch sound but you have to use the guitar´s volume knob. I use the GT always with the Airbrake otherwise it´s way too loud especially at home. You can´t go wrong with the GT, as zdogma mentioned it´s a high volume/high gain amp but you can use it for country, blues, rockn´roll and heavy rock. Very simple to dial in "your own sound".
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Jan 31, 2009 17:27:37 GMT -7
Post by jackshite on Jan 31, 2009 17:27:37 GMT -7
i've recently been playing my gt again since i got an airbrake.
i've found i can get a GREAT 'cleanish' tone with my tele, setting the amp's volume around 10 o'clock, the tone at around 1:30, rolling off both my guitar's volume and tone knobs to suit.
it's not a pristine fender twin tone, but it's clean with sustain when you ease off the attack, purrs when you dig in.
really amazingly good...yet another voice the gt is capable of.
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Feb 4, 2009 21:02:14 GMT -7
Post by brad737 on Feb 4, 2009 21:02:14 GMT -7
Someone posted a clip of a clean GT on Youtube. It sounded nice.
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Feb 5, 2009 6:44:42 GMT -7
Post by mmillernc on Feb 5, 2009 6:44:42 GMT -7
Someone posted a clip of a clean GT on Youtube. It sounded nice. you might be thinking of this one, first showed up on TGP. mike
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Feb 6, 2009 10:15:10 GMT -7
Post by jackshite on Feb 6, 2009 10:15:10 GMT -7
Someone posted a clip of a clean GT on Youtube. It sounded nice. you might be thinking of this one, first showed up on TGP. mike that's my clip. i had the amp set so that it's really overdriven with my humbucker-equipped les paul. rolling back the volumes and tones gets *that* clean.
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Feb 7, 2009 21:26:39 GMT -7
Post by brad737 on Feb 7, 2009 21:26:39 GMT -7
Sounded great, Jack.
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Feb 17, 2009 21:20:28 GMT -7
Post by carmin on Feb 17, 2009 21:20:28 GMT -7
I've had people tell me the gt is very one dimensional & not versatile. I love the high gain aspect, but I'd like to play blues and/or clean articulate pieces. I also have single coil & bucker guitars. I noticed here that more experienced players than I mate their axe to an amp. I'm interested in the Gt but would need to use multiple guitars and varied tones.
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Feb 18, 2009 8:12:05 GMT -7
Post by jackshite on Feb 18, 2009 8:12:05 GMT -7
I've had people tell me the gt is very one dimensional & not versatile. I love the high gain aspect, but I'd like to play blues and/or clean articulate pieces. I also have single coil & bucker guitars. I noticed here that more experienced players than I mate their axe to an amp. I'm interested in the Gt but would need to use multiple guitars and varied tones. the amp is all about short signal path, very little between your hands and the speakers... i've gigged the gt with my goldtop les paul with humbuckers, my les paul junior with a p-90, have played the amp at gig volumes with my tele with barden pickups... with each guitar, the amp really lets the individual voice shine through. my goldtop has lots of 'woof', low mids that drive the amp moreso than my other guitars. the junior has a lot of upper mid 'snarl' through the amp with the same settings. doesn't clean up as well as my goldtop when i roll back the volume, but it's got a great microphonic, billy gibbons vibe, you can hear every noise and nuance of your playing, etc... the tele doesn't drive the amp quite as hard as the junior, and has less bass in the tone, although the low end is solid and there, it just doesn't have the 'thunk' the junior does. the bardens are pretty hot, but they still have a very hifi tone. they clean up great! i need to do some better recordings to demonstrate this, but the bottom line about this amp...if you PLAY it, if you work your touch and don't set it flat out for 'stun'...you'll dig it.
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Feb 18, 2009 9:14:32 GMT -7
Post by mmillernc on Feb 18, 2009 9:14:32 GMT -7
I've had people tell me the gt is very one dimensional & not versatile. I love the high gain aspect, but I'd like to play blues and/or clean articulate pieces. I also have single coil & bucker guitars. I noticed here that more experienced players than I mate their axe to an amp. I'm interested in the Gt but would need to use multiple guitars and varied tones. i suppose some might think of it as one-dimensional, but to me it is the most responsive, dynamic amp i have every played and that more than makes up for the suggested lack of versatility. if you work it right, you can get both beautiful cleans (listen to Jack's clip) and, of course, heavy gain sounds. the only thing i can't speak to is adjusting to different gtrs - i use only one. mike
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Feb 18, 2009 10:14:14 GMT -7
Post by brad737 on Feb 18, 2009 10:14:14 GMT -7
I sure wouldn't call a GT one-dimensional either. Now that I'm getting pretty familiar with it, I'd say it's a pretty good mix between the Trainwreck Rocket and the Trainwreck Liverpool. It really does have a pretty clean tone. It's not as clean and jangly as the Rocket, but is cleaner than the Liverpool. It doesn't have as much gain as the Liverpool, but gets quite a bit more gainy than the Rocket. And like Mike says, the GT is a very touch-dynamic amp.
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Feb 18, 2009 11:11:05 GMT -7
Post by jackshite on Feb 18, 2009 11:11:05 GMT -7
actually, from what i've read, the amp has more in common with the komet constellation (not a copy, but a similar approach?), and not any of the original trainwreck models ken offered. i've played (and owned) a couple very nice express types, a liverpool, a rocket, and have some pals who've built them. basically (the way i heard the gt described by an amp tech who owned one) think fender tweed champ preamp mated to the output section of a vox ac30. add the doc's magic tweaking to seamlessly integrate stability AND touch sensitivity, and give it a voice of it's own.
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Feb 25, 2009 7:38:57 GMT -7
Post by jackshite on Feb 25, 2009 7:38:57 GMT -7
here's a quick clip i threw together to demonstrate how clean this amp can get (when set to a heavy overdrive tone)...
gt's controls are around noon, with the tele's volume around 3, mid position.
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