Post by benttop (Steve) on Mar 5, 2006 12:19:53 GMT -7
I've gigged my Mazerati about six times now, and each time I've got closer to what I bought it for. Last night definitely was the best, and I think I have found the sweet spot with the Mazerati.
I've been hauling out two amps and using an A/B/Y switch to route between the two. My other amp is a THD Flexi-50 with the THD 2x12. The Flexi has been my main gigging amp for a couple years, and I've been pretty pleased with it. But I wanted a nice tight and loud clean to go with it - enter the Mazerati.
I think I've discovered a few things about my preferences, my guitars, and my amps. It turns out I like the Strat into the Flexi, but the Tele into the Mazerati. It turns out I like to play the Strat more with the blues band, but the Tele with the cover band. So it ends up I'm using the Mazerati about 10% of the time with the blues band, but 90% of the time with the covers band.
Last night was the covers band, and I have to say, the Mazerati was totally doing it for me. I found that with the tone knob at about 10 o'clock, it is near perfect. I had the volume right at noon, so it was still pretty clean, and I had the Airbrake set to "thru."
I decided to run that channel of my A/B/Y through a compressor and a Boss EQ pedal before hitting the front of the amp, and I pushed up the 6.4K slider on the EQ about 3 to 6 db (hard to estimate the actual amount) for some chime on the top. OH MAN! That thing sounded SO GOOD all night. Our bass player commented on it about eight times - he likes the Tele, but through the Mazerati he LOVES it.
For that band, there is no question that I could throw down a good distortion pedal and go back to one amp - and a distortion pedal is a hell of a lot lighter than a Flexi-50! But my pedal board is full, so I'll have to either lose something off there, or switch to the bigger board. Tradeoffs!
Anyway, when I get a free spell here, I'm planning on doing some Mazerati recording to show what it's really doing here. I have some new backing tracks that will be useful for that. Up until last night, I was a little frustrated that I hadn't found the sweet spot yet. Now I'm quite sure the Mazerati has a permanent home here. Cool!
I've been hauling out two amps and using an A/B/Y switch to route between the two. My other amp is a THD Flexi-50 with the THD 2x12. The Flexi has been my main gigging amp for a couple years, and I've been pretty pleased with it. But I wanted a nice tight and loud clean to go with it - enter the Mazerati.
I think I've discovered a few things about my preferences, my guitars, and my amps. It turns out I like the Strat into the Flexi, but the Tele into the Mazerati. It turns out I like to play the Strat more with the blues band, but the Tele with the cover band. So it ends up I'm using the Mazerati about 10% of the time with the blues band, but 90% of the time with the covers band.
Last night was the covers band, and I have to say, the Mazerati was totally doing it for me. I found that with the tone knob at about 10 o'clock, it is near perfect. I had the volume right at noon, so it was still pretty clean, and I had the Airbrake set to "thru."
I decided to run that channel of my A/B/Y through a compressor and a Boss EQ pedal before hitting the front of the amp, and I pushed up the 6.4K slider on the EQ about 3 to 6 db (hard to estimate the actual amount) for some chime on the top. OH MAN! That thing sounded SO GOOD all night. Our bass player commented on it about eight times - he likes the Tele, but through the Mazerati he LOVES it.
For that band, there is no question that I could throw down a good distortion pedal and go back to one amp - and a distortion pedal is a hell of a lot lighter than a Flexi-50! But my pedal board is full, so I'll have to either lose something off there, or switch to the bigger board. Tradeoffs!
Anyway, when I get a free spell here, I'm planning on doing some Mazerati recording to show what it's really doing here. I have some new backing tracks that will be useful for that. Up until last night, I was a little frustrated that I hadn't found the sweet spot yet. Now I'm quite sure the Mazerati has a permanent home here. Cool!