OK, OK, OK, I Get It!!!! Tweed Twin!!!!!
Jul 19, 2014 9:22:18 GMT -7
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Post by gotmojo on Jul 19, 2014 9:22:18 GMT -7
Oh.
Yes.
Needed time. But I'm getting there on this really fun learning curve of getting some much needed Therapy every day.
I'm not the brightest bulb in the bunch and it's hard to break old habits. That habit being to turn an amp's gain up until it gives me Reelin' In The Years kinda nazz and then going from there. So I've turned the (gain) volume down from the nazzy 2:30-3:00 spot which is quite sweetly gainy, down to about 12:00 to 1:00. 12:00 is very nice, and 1:00 allows for a bit more nazz at full guitar volume (GV), with loads of solos done at just under max GV to not max out your nazz and this is a sweet spot to live at for nearly every tune that doesn't call for hair-of-the-dog nazz like the intro to Reelin' likes to have. 3:00 will give you that hair-of-the-dog.
BUT ...... my point is, and this is the part where I explain "I get it", last eve and this morn I've hit the A-B comparison hard between this Therapy and my 1953 low (read 25 watts) powered wide panel Twin (tweed). With the Volume 12:00-1:00 on my therapist, and adjusting the MV to match up volume wise with the Twin set at where she sings which is about 5-6 on her volume knob, these amps are quite similar and it's kinda hard to remember which one you're playing through and so I see just what the good Doctor means when he says "the flavor of a low powered Twin". He's absolutely right, it is a lot like a low powered Twin, especially played through the Wreck cab (I have come full circle on this cab in the last 5 days, especially with the speaker discussion of late by Phil and Steve in the Therapy thread "You chose .... wisely". Thanks brothers!). The beauty is, that the Twin at that singing volume is pretty loud for home/studio use, whereas my therapist can turn down and still retain that beautiful singing tone! In addition, the therapist set at this gain level has a smoother, creamier overdrive when you max out the GV and it's pretty much to die for and nearly impossible to stop playing. This is with the bass at 2:00, mid (read "cream") at 3:00, treble at 2:00. The Twins overdrive is nice, but a little grainier, grittier than the therapy, hardly noticeably different if I weren't actually switching back and forth from one to the other.
So there's a tweed Twin in here fer sure, and yet, when you jack that volume knob up to 2:30-3:00, there's a hot-rodded Twin in there that's got some grand degree of Z'ness to it (Dumbleness or Trainwreckness? - I don't know, never owned one! - so I'm saying there's a buncha amps in here). A very versatile amp she is, and will do anything I ask her to do for gigging, studio, whatever. And I'm loving it. Gonna put her in the bed with me tonight and sleep with my arm around her. (After checking with SWMBO - taking votes now on how you think that'll go over.)
The Doc has done it again, home run of an amp. Other amps are gonna suffer 'cause of this one. They're gonna be lonely.
jj
Yes.
Needed time. But I'm getting there on this really fun learning curve of getting some much needed Therapy every day.
I'm not the brightest bulb in the bunch and it's hard to break old habits. That habit being to turn an amp's gain up until it gives me Reelin' In The Years kinda nazz and then going from there. So I've turned the (gain) volume down from the nazzy 2:30-3:00 spot which is quite sweetly gainy, down to about 12:00 to 1:00. 12:00 is very nice, and 1:00 allows for a bit more nazz at full guitar volume (GV), with loads of solos done at just under max GV to not max out your nazz and this is a sweet spot to live at for nearly every tune that doesn't call for hair-of-the-dog nazz like the intro to Reelin' likes to have. 3:00 will give you that hair-of-the-dog.
BUT ...... my point is, and this is the part where I explain "I get it", last eve and this morn I've hit the A-B comparison hard between this Therapy and my 1953 low (read 25 watts) powered wide panel Twin (tweed). With the Volume 12:00-1:00 on my therapist, and adjusting the MV to match up volume wise with the Twin set at where she sings which is about 5-6 on her volume knob, these amps are quite similar and it's kinda hard to remember which one you're playing through and so I see just what the good Doctor means when he says "the flavor of a low powered Twin". He's absolutely right, it is a lot like a low powered Twin, especially played through the Wreck cab (I have come full circle on this cab in the last 5 days, especially with the speaker discussion of late by Phil and Steve in the Therapy thread "You chose .... wisely". Thanks brothers!). The beauty is, that the Twin at that singing volume is pretty loud for home/studio use, whereas my therapist can turn down and still retain that beautiful singing tone! In addition, the therapist set at this gain level has a smoother, creamier overdrive when you max out the GV and it's pretty much to die for and nearly impossible to stop playing. This is with the bass at 2:00, mid (read "cream") at 3:00, treble at 2:00. The Twins overdrive is nice, but a little grainier, grittier than the therapy, hardly noticeably different if I weren't actually switching back and forth from one to the other.
So there's a tweed Twin in here fer sure, and yet, when you jack that volume knob up to 2:30-3:00, there's a hot-rodded Twin in there that's got some grand degree of Z'ness to it (Dumbleness or Trainwreckness? - I don't know, never owned one! - so I'm saying there's a buncha amps in here). A very versatile amp she is, and will do anything I ask her to do for gigging, studio, whatever. And I'm loving it. Gonna put her in the bed with me tonight and sleep with my arm around her. (After checking with SWMBO - taking votes now on how you think that'll go over.)
The Doc has done it again, home run of an amp. Other amps are gonna suffer 'cause of this one. They're gonna be lonely.
jj