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Post by adam on Apr 17, 2022 13:23:17 GMT -7
Kind of a follow up to something I did previously as a short, but I think it's pretty cool.
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Post by wraparound (Steve) on Apr 17, 2022 17:47:25 GMT -7
Enjoyed it. Love the forgotten Zep tones you’ll never hear at the local GC.
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Post by Jaguarguy (Mike) on Apr 17, 2022 18:23:22 GMT -7
I watched it when it went live - great playing and tone! Loved your choice of songs. Thanks for sharing it Adam!
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Post by adam on Apr 18, 2022 4:07:18 GMT -7
I watched it when it went live - great playing and tone! Loved your choice of songs. Thanks for sharing it Adam! Thanks. I was wondering who the other person watching was. The ems is really a cool amp and capable of a ton of tones. When I first stumbled on the low gain 800 thing, it dawned on me that it sounds like a really cranked old Marshall, but not at punishing volume (like the live Rain Song sample). Sounds fantastic that way with a strat too. Think old Hendrix or Aerosmith stuff. All the amps are truly special in their own unique way.
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Post by premiumplus (Dave) on Apr 18, 2022 4:38:50 GMT -7
Adam, great touch and tone as always. I grinned when you did as you dug in at the end of The Rain Song. I can copy the amp settings but I don't think I've got enough years left here to copy your touch, brother. Fine stuff, thank you!
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Post by adam on Apr 18, 2022 6:21:44 GMT -7
Dave, thanks. Whatever touch I have is just me trying to copy stuff and make it sound like whatever the recording was. I'd play stuff over and over and over and try to get the right notes, the right feel, the right tone, and do the best I could with whatever gear I had. I still do that, even if I'm practicing on some modeling thing. The Z's in general react more to what I put in, like the little changes makes a huge sonic difference, and I think that's a lot of what makes them fun to play. Others might say it makes it hard to play because it's less homogenized in some way. I break out the other amps once in a while and some of them sound great, but after a little while I feel left flat or unsatisfied somehow. So they go back in the pile.
BTW, that "dig in" part of the rain song, I always thought it was cool how page did that, like it sounded like a different amp. The EMS struck that same nerve for me.
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Post by premiumplus (Dave) on Apr 18, 2022 13:23:40 GMT -7
Z amps are unique, I think they're less compressed and way more open and responsive than the Mesa stuff, for example. They make me feel connected to the guitar like no other amp.
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Post by The Bad Poodle Experience on Apr 18, 2022 14:14:39 GMT -7
The EMS sounds fantastic. I'm sure Jimmy would be happy with one.
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Post by adam on Apr 18, 2022 16:01:38 GMT -7
Z amps are unique, I think they're less compressed and way more open and responsive than the Mesa stuff, for example. They make me feel connected to the guitar like no other amp. Ditto. Not to rag on Mesa, but I had some Mesa combo in the 90's and I thought it sounded pretty good. Took it out with a band I played 100+ gigs with and it sounded like absolute crap and I returned it. It was horrific. Someone once told me they put all those switches and option on those amps because they had no idea what a good guitar sound was to begin with, and "maybe" some can find their tone in there somewhere. I can relate to that.
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Post by premiumplus (Dave) on Apr 20, 2022 15:51:01 GMT -7
Z amps are unique, I think they're less compressed and way more open and responsive than the Mesa stuff, for example. They make me feel connected to the guitar like no other amp. Ditto. Not to rag on Mesa, but I had some Mesa combo in the 90's and I thought it sounded pretty good. Took it out with a band I played 100+ gigs with and it sounded like absolute crap and I returned it. It was horrific. Someone once told me they put all those switches and option on those amps because they had no idea what a good guitar sound was to begin with, and "maybe" some can find their tone in there somewhere. I can relate to that. In the late 90s I was in a music store and was trying out Mesas. I plugged into a DC-3 and thought it sounded really good. Took it home and couldn't get that sound again. I went round and round with that amp, it had a pretty nice clean tone but I couldn't get a satisfying lead tone to save my life. I'd work with it for an hour or two, and get what I thought was a good tone, then the next day I'd plug in and it sounded like crap. I ended up trading it for a USA made G&L Legacy plus $200 to me, so I got out of it in good shape.
But I've never had a piece of gear that had so many switches and EQ possibilities. It was hard to get a good tone and easy to get a bad one. That's been my experience with Mesas...and I find Z amps are the exact opposite. They're easy to get a good tone and it's hard to make them sound bad.
The simpler the signal path, the more the amp can breathe and open up to all the sweet harmonics. All those switches and EQs only serve to clutter the tone. In my opinion...
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Post by carrjimi on Apr 27, 2022 7:18:19 GMT -7
Great Stuff as always! The clean sounds on the EMS really surprised me. Great amp, I've gotta get one.
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