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Post subject: Re: Tell Us About YOUR Fender Tone
Posted: Fri Jun 13, 2014 7:32 am
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Post subject: Re: Tell Us About YOUR Fender Tone
Posted: Fri Jun 13, 2014 12:16 pm
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dunedindragon wrote:
I'm just not a single tone kinda guy, so for me the starting point is my Mustang IV version 2, and my preferred tone depends on the music. Some of my favorites are:

Vintage British Classic Rock: Who defines this better than The Who, so it's the Vox AC-15 model with an American Strat using Lace Hot Gold pups.

Vintage American Classic Rock: Again, the definition by default is Aerosmith, so it's the Hi-Watt model with my Les Paul Standard.

Traditional Nashville Sound: Think Chet Atkins and you end up with the '68 Deluxe Reverb Model with my Gibson ES-335.

Chicken Pickin' Nashville: Gotta have the nice clean tones of the '65 Twin Reverb with the American Strat Split coil bridge humbucker & single coil middle.

Eric Clapton Blues: I downloaded this setup from the YouTube "In The Blues" guy of an emulation of the EC Twinolux, again with the American Strat.

Queen Style Heavy Metal: The Marshall Plexi model with some bias changes and 4-speaker cabinet emulation with the Les Paul standard.

Early Joe Walsh: Think "Funk 49" and you end up with the Fender Champ model, middle gain, lots of mid, lots of volume and the bridge pickup on Les Paul standard.

Most of these examples are not "Fender tone"... :?:

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Post subject: Re: Tell Us About YOUR Fender Tone
Posted: Sat Jun 14, 2014 12:00 am
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Screamin Armadillo wrote:
Most of these examples are not "Fender tone"... :?:


Neither are the tones of many of the great songs of those eras.

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Post subject: Re: Tell Us About YOUR Fender Tone
Posted: Sat Jun 14, 2014 1:40 am
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Hey everyone ! Please go check my new video about Fender G-Dec junior amplifier. It´s a small amp but it can offer great tone in my opinion. I used Blackface and Tweed modes. Thanks! :D

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JY6g5JnaGug


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Post subject: Re: Tell Us About YOUR Fender Tone
Posted: Sat Jun 14, 2014 2:53 am
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Strat or Tele straight into a Fender amp specifically a SuperSonic 112 (60 watt) combo. position 2 (bridge middle) my fave but middle or neck gets some use. I use a bit of reverb and if theres a echo pedal around Ill loop that in for the odd thing but mostly its cleans cleans cleans

P bass in a solid state amp usually pleases.

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Post subject: Re: Tell Us About YOUR Fender Tone
Posted: Mon Jun 16, 2014 1:15 pm
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Hmm well I'd have to say at the moment it's my Fender Strat, basic Highway One into Dunlop Crybaby GCB95 F Classic Wah, then into Fender Super Sonic 60, then back into T-Rex Duck-Tail Delay.
I can get superb cleans that way, using either the Vibrolux or the Bassman mode - depends what kind of clean I am going for. Going into burn area, I've discovered setting both of the gains around 8-ish and the EQs to get a bit more bass and a bit less treble (but all of them depend on the room, of course), gets me a super-cool lead sound. Engage the delay and have just a pinch of reverb and you're in heaven.

Usually I use neck position for those warm, creamy solos. Bridge position gets a lot of use for rhythm.

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Post subject: Re: Tell Us About YOUR Fender Tone
Posted: Thu Jun 19, 2014 8:34 am
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My Fender tone is just that. Often imitated never duplicated. Most Fender guitars and bass guitars are solid body yet they all possess a distinctly unique tone or sound for solid body guitars even when an amplifier is not being used. You can prove this to yourself by comparing other similar styled guitars to Fenders unplugged and notice the differences. Hence, the saying "Leo and George got it right the first time". Call it genius or divine providence or good luck, thankyou Leo and George, make mine Fender!

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Post subject: Re: Tell Us About YOUR Fender Tone
Posted: Sun Jun 22, 2014 12:23 am
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I've been playing electric for over 30yrs, but never had a Fender amp.
I have a partial Fender tone since 1991 when I bought my first Fender Strat Plus Deluxe, and I played that baby as my exclusive guitar until 2005 when I picked up
a Schecter C1 Classic neck through with HB's.
I still have an play my Strat and I'll NEVER give up or sell this guitar.

Finally got my first Fender amp a couple of weeks ago, a Hot Rod DLX3.
Fantastic amp! I have no idea why I stayed away from Fender amps, but I think it's because I love high gain and stayed away from pedals too, until recently.

My Fender Tone right now is my Strat into my HR DLX3.
With are these pedals, Bogner Ecstasy Red, Wampler Triple Wreck, Fulltone Fulldrive 2,
TC Electroinc Hall of Fame reverb, TC Electronic Flashback delay, Dunlop Cry Baby Wah.
I use the HR's awesome clean channel and get all kinds of distortion levels from the pedals listed. The fantastic Fender reverb is great and I add some different verb flavors with the reverb pedal.

Along with that setup I also have a Fender tone flavor with my HB guitars,
Schecter C1 Classic, ESP E2 Eclipse w/passive pup's, and a PRS copy semi hollow w/HB's.

What I would like from Fender are a couple of things.
Variable power settings on the amps. 40 watts may not seem like a lot, but you know 40 watts of tube power can be very loud.
I'm sure the majority of Fender amp customers are not live gigging musicians, so most of us are playing at home. Being able to adjust or switch to a 1 watt and/or 5 watt setting would let us get and enjoy that wonderful power tube distortion at much lower home, family, and neighbor levels.
A variable power control would be the best, but even a lower cost 1 and 5 and max switchable would be great. I've had a few amps with switchable and variable power and it's a VERY useful feature, when done CORRECTLY.

I looked at the lower power combos, DLX Reverb and Supersonic 22, but even 22 watts can be loud, and most of us still can't crank up 22 watts to get some power tube break up, or just good tone at low volume.
The Princeton would have been ideal at 15 watts and a simple design, great clean amp and great platform for pedals. But it's a 10", and it's quite pricey for such a simple amp. The Super Champ X2 would be great without the digital effects and a 12" speaker option.

A 65 DLX Reverb with a 1 and 5 watt setting would be THE amp for me.
I'd be all over that.


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Post subject: Re: Tell Us About YOUR Fender Tone
Posted: Thu Jun 26, 2014 5:09 am
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Blues Deluxe reissue w/jenson ck12
b9, t9, m9, r3, p10, v3.5, input2 clean channel
squire start with clapton midboost, tex mex pups, volume box
74' vibro champ to play with quietly


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Post subject: Re: Tell Us About YOUR Fender Tone
Posted: Thu Jun 26, 2014 6:14 pm
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Clapton Signature Strat directly into a Hot Rod Deville. No pedals necessary!

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http://youtu.be/ItDuabpRmHA

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Post subject: Re: Tell Us About YOUR Fender Tone
Posted: Mon Jun 30, 2014 2:56 pm
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Post subject: Re: Tell Us About YOUR Fender Tone
Posted: Mon Jun 30, 2014 7:56 pm
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Hello,

I'm sorry if this is a little off the subject but the words "Fender Tone" are about as close as I've seen that have anything to do with my question.

When I was a teenager in the 1960's, I had a brand new '65 Fender Mustang guitar and '65 Fender Princeton Reverb amp. Last month, 05/2014, I bought a new Squier Affinity Strat. Which of these guitars, if both were plugged into that '65 Princeton Amp, would sound the best? And which one would play the best and be the higher quality instrument - the Mustang or the Squier Affinity Strat?

It might be pretty difficult to find someone (besides myself) who played both of these guitars when they were brand new.

Thanks.


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Post subject: Re: Tell Us About YOUR Fender Tone
Posted: Wed Jul 02, 2014 2:38 pm
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Here's my rig.
It's great for blues and rock.
I'm surprised that no one has discussed tubes before this. :shock:

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Fender Blues Deluxe Reissue with Celestion Vintage 30 speaker and the matching tweed cab.
Throw away the original cab speaker which is junk and replace it with the original Fender Blues Deluxe Reissue speaker, or replace it with a Vintage 30 and leave the amp speaker stock.
Remove the back of the cab!!!
Why Fender doesn't put a big hole in the back of these cabs is beyond comprehension.

TUBES
JAN-Philips 6L6WGB Matched power tubes biased between 65-70 mv for both tubes at the Fender bias point on the chassis circuit.
This is good for about 30 watts.
Keep the bias a little low for these tubes as they are not 6L6GC power tubes, but will work just fine and have a big fat sound with early break-up!!
Preamp tubes (V1-V2-V3): V1- Jan Philips 5751, V2- Jan Philips 5751, V3 - Tungsol 12AT7.

SETTINGS
Bass 8 - Mid 4 - Treble 8 - Presence 10

GUITAR
2009 Fender American Vintage '52 Telecaster

PEDALS
Visual Sound V2 Route 808 Overdrive
Visual Sound V2TT Clean Boost
Visual Sound V3DTD Dual Tap Delay


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Post subject: Re: Tell Us About YOUR Fender Tone
Posted: Wed Jul 02, 2014 3:07 pm
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I have a Princeton 65 solid state amp. I crank up the bass full, treble and midrange all the way down, pre-drive up full and main volume at a reasonable level. I play with the bridge pickup only with my Schecter Diamond guitar. This gives an amazing Claptonesque tube sound...a la Outside Woman Blues. People tell me they can't believe it's a solid state amp!

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Post subject: Re: Tell Us About YOUR Fender Tone
Posted: Sun Jul 06, 2014 2:42 am
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Just got a Fender G-DEC 30 to go with my strat. loving jammimng to backing tracks, would love any advice for getting vocals and guitar out of my audio files for use on the GDEC. Thanks!


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