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Post subject: Re: Tell Us About YOUR Fender Tone
Posted: Tue Sep 23, 2014 6:28 am
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Just picked up this little honey yesterday. :shock: We're looking forward to improved tones.

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Post subject: Re: Tell Us About YOUR Fender Tone
Posted: Tue Sep 23, 2014 9:35 am
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Congratulations Ghastly!

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Post subject: Re: Tell Us About YOUR Fender Tone
Posted: Tue Sep 23, 2014 8:18 pm
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Thanks! We're lovin' it already. Nice to have a truly clean signal. We have lots of pedals but the pure sound we're getting now is quite different than what we've been used to and is quite refreshing.


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Post subject: Re: Tell Us About YOUR Fender Tone
Posted: Wed Sep 24, 2014 2:44 am
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After 43 years of playing electric, I made the switch to strictly Acoustic back in March because I just got tired of dealing with the drama and BS involved with bands. I sold all of my Electric Gear and I now have a 1999 Korean made, Fender DG 20S Acoustic and a brand new, Fender CD60CE which I just got last week. I'm now considering getting one of the old Fender Acoustasonic 30 Combo amps , which I see used at Guitar Center for only around the $150.00 range which is well within my budget. I want one to go with my new CD60CE and I figure I might as well keep all of my gear Fender.


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Post subject: Re: Tell Us About YOUR Fender Tone
Posted: Wed Sep 24, 2014 7:41 am
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My tone? Hmmm... Let's start with a layout of the gear first.

Guitar: 1995 Fender Strat, sunburst finish, maple neck. It is a MIM Strat, but it has a hidden rare goof by Fender. The pickguard, pickups, knobs, and wiring are actually USA and from Fender's "Delta Tone" series back in the 90's. I'm not trading it for anything! :D

Amp: 2011 Fender Frontman 65r SS amp. My daughter works at a music store and gets great deals and discounts. She bought me the Frontman 65r for my birthday back then, after I had parted ways with my old amp. The frontman is an okay amp for being SS. It's a chinese import from Fender, but it sounds pretty good on the clean channel. It is insanely loud for being only 65 watts. The amp (perhaps all Frontman's have it) has a very annoying volume "spike" in the overall volume circuitry. The main volume knob does go from 1 - 10, but somewhere in between 1.5 or 1.75 and 2 on the knob, the volume will go from whisper quiet to WICKED LOUD and will almost drive you out of the room! :shock:

Pedals: I'm not a big pedal fan and only use them when absolutely needed for a particular tune or style.
1) Dunlop Cry Baby Wah. "Voodoo Chile'", "White Room", "25 or 6 to 4", etc... Mostly it stays off.
2) BYOC Classic OD (i.e. Ibanez Tube Screamer TS-808 clone). This was a really cool pedal to build from scratch from that kit that BYOC sells. Solder in the resistors, capacitors, etc... follow along with the instructions, etc... and viola! you just built your own pedal! :cool:
3) Not really a pedal, but I also have the original Fender footswitch on the small pedalboard.

Signal: Guitar - wah - OD - amp.
Guitar knobs: Volume: 8, Tone1: 8, Tone2: 7
Fender Frontman 65r knobs (clean):
Volume: 2
Treble: 4
Bass: 6
Fender Frontman 65r knobs (drive):
Drive: 6
Volume: 2
Treble: 4
Mid: 5
"Mid contour button": Not pressed in (i.e. no scooped mids)
Bass: 4
Reverb: 3

Overall guitar style: Versatile. I mainly play on the clean channel because the drive channel is a little harsh (which is why I have my guitar volume and tone backed off a little).
I will bump up the reverb to "4" and start playing clean rockabilly "Mystery Train" or "Honey Don't" or something.
Then, I might screw in the tremolo arm and again on the clean channel, play something like "My Baby Does The Hanky Panky" by Tommy James & The Shondells, and after the last line of the chorus on that bar chord "A", just gently hit the tremolo arm.
I'll kick in the BYOC Classic OD pedal and playing along to Bachman Turner Overdrive "You Ain't Seen Nothin' Yet" and "Takin' Care Of Business".
And finally for laughs and to get completely crazy, I'll kick on Fender footswitch to the drive channel, and also hit the Dunlop wah, and do some "Voodoo Chile' (slight return)" from Hendrix, or whatever, and use the tremolo arm as well, knocking my Strat totally out of tune just like Hendrix did all those decades ago. :lol:


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Post subject: Re: Tell Us About YOUR Fender Tone
Posted: Wed Sep 24, 2014 12:00 pm
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I am pretty simple,
Fender Telecaster either my 2009 HWY1 or my 2012 Cabronita

Amp: Deluxe VM
Clean Settings: Volume at 6, Treble at 7, Bass at 5
Drive Channel Settings: Gain 6, Volume 8, Treble at 7, Mid at 6, Bass at 6
Effects: Reverb 3, Chorus 2

18' Fender Custom Shop Tweed chord

Pretty simple as a guitar player.

When I am playing Bass: Classic 60s Lacquer Jazz with a mix of neck 6, bridge 4, tone at 3

Amp: Fender Rumble 150 Combo
Volume at 6, Bass, 7, Low Mid 5, Mid 5, Treble 4 Horn off.


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Post subject: Re: Tell Us About YOUR Fender Tone
Posted: Fri Sep 26, 2014 2:43 am
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How do you play with the volume at 6 (or 8 on the gain channel) and not get blown out of the room you're in? If I ever put my Frontman 65r at 3 or above, the neighbors would wig out and call the cops! :shock: How many watts is your amp?


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Post subject: Re: Tell Us About YOUR Fender Tone
Posted: Fri Sep 26, 2014 4:09 am
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Butch,
Those levels are when I play out...LOL At rehearsal I use a Fender SCXD..much more room/ear friendly!
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Post subject: Re: Tell Us About YOUR Fender Tone
Posted: Thu Oct 02, 2014 1:31 pm
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I don't know if this qualifies or not. The guitar is a 1985 or so Squier Bullet HST with Lace Alumatone pickups and a P-rail humbucker. I play it through an ancient (1948 or 1949) Gibson BR-9 lap steel amp. The sound goes from sparkly clean to just a little overdrive. I'm not a big fan of a lot of crunch, so the fact that the amp still sounds creamy when it breaks up is perfect for me.

Fender bass tone is a Road Worn Precision through an Acoustic 360 amp. You can't get much more old-school than that. The P wears flats and sometimes I stuff a piece of foam under the bridge ashtray to make it even thumpier. It manages to be sweet and bark urgently at the same time.


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Post subject: Re: Tell Us About YOUR Fender Tone
Posted: Fri Oct 03, 2014 8:15 am
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Well, there's not just one Fender tone, is there? Sure, there's the basic DNA of warm, clean, three dimensional, swirly tube tone.

For this, it's my DRRI. I'll use a small pedalboard that includes an MXR dyna comp, and an MI Audio Crunch Box.

For hangin' round the house, there's nothing that beats my Mustang Mini. Just so much fun! I love the battery enabled portability too.

I have a bunch of guitars but the Tele is the desert island instrument. Having said that, I play my Strat just as much if not more.


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Post subject: Re: Tell Us About YOUR Fender Tone
Posted: Sat Oct 04, 2014 7:43 am
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Unmodified 2009 Fender Pro Jr. Tone on 4, volume on what ever fits the situation. Boss RV-5 on modulate. Natural Ash Fender Stratocaster, Custom Birdseye Maple neck with Ebony Fretboard, Fender Custom Shop 57/62 pickups set low. Absolutly perfect for me.


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Post subject: Re: Tell Us About YOUR Fender Tone
Posted: Sat Oct 11, 2014 10:30 am
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After 5 decades of unbridled enthusiasm for all things making noise (and mixing metaphors) it boils down to this: any guitar with a magnetic pickup, cable, and a 1965 Tremolux that runs quiet as a church mouse with the voice of an angel. Bright switch, bass, treble to taste.
Sometime, just for fun, a wee application of some pedal will create a bit of ambience, but I find I usually end up hitting the bypass.


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Post subject: Re: Tell Us About YOUR Fender Tone
Posted: Sat Oct 11, 2014 5:57 pm
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Location: In the Land of "Stratocaster"
I find the best tones for me are either a Princeton, Deluxe Reverb or Marshall amp set at apprx:
Teble - 8
Mid - 6
Bass - 4
gain - 7
Presence (Marshall) - 6
* High Gain amps (like say a 5150 or Dual Rectifier) same basic configuration except the gain gets lowered to around 5 1/2

These settings will be tweaked a bit in either direction depending on the sound of the room... but basically... this is it.

Stomps:
Overdrive - tone in the midway area... not too bright... not to much bass (no OD w/ High Gain amps.. just boost for leads).
Wah Wah
Dyna-Comp
Delay

I have two Strats... one's straight up old school ('62 RI) SSS Strat... the other's a Blacktop HSH I recently acquired... which I really have been diggin' on. Very versatile and the tones from it are superb... and it plays great too! I don't have any issues going between them... even though the '62 RI has a super slim C shape neck... the chunkier Blacktop's C profile is very comfrotable as well.

Regardless of whether I'm on Single Coils or Buckers... These settings deliver awesome, punchy tone that cuts through in live performance settings. For bedroom/living room playing I'll bring the mids down a bit because it can sound somewhat "Muddy".. but the decrease isn't too drastic... about 1-1/2 degrees lower than my play out settings mentioned above.

The amp I'm currently using is a Mustang III... which is a serious piece of awesomeness... it's great to be able to go between different amp simulations (that all sound like the real deal tube piggie it's emulating) without having to cart around several different amps. But before that.. I was using the Fender, Music Man and Marshall equivalents of above mentioned amps... of which I would simply bring only one of to the Gig... and wrangle between cleaner or more distorted tones via stomps in a chain.

Thank You Fender for bringing in the Mustang series of amplifiers! Miles above and beyond the rest of the SS modeler's out there. If you want to go w/ a modelling amplifier that actually sounds like the real amps it's modelling... The Mustangs are where it's at 8)

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Post subject: Re: Tell Us About YOUR Fender Tone
Posted: Tue Oct 21, 2014 1:07 am
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Strat Straight up in a tube amp (V30 in this case at this time) with tiny bit of reverb and a slapback echo not too loud adjust tones for the room. Both my Strats are American Fender equipped for pickups (Am Spec and Deluxe) but many other Alnico designs are toneful from the classic vibe Squiers to the aftermarket stuff I've tried.

And I've tried some guitars and basses
Gibson EB0 bass 70's
Aria Pro II bass
Japanese black Les Paul
Fender F-05 acoustic
12 string acoustic
Fender 69 precision bass natural/rosewood
BC Rico Mocking bird bass
Unknown acoustic from 94-95
Green bass gold hardware.
Bullet (Old) bass precision style sunburst long scale American made
Epiphone EB0 bass
Fender precision American 96
Fender precision Wine Mexican
Chinese bass musicman copy 5 string
Chinese bass fender copy #1 5 string
Chinese bass fender copy #2 5 string
American Deluxe 5 string
Black Mexican Precision
Sunburst mexican precision
White jazz squier fender bass
G&L strat red burst
Epiphone Dot black
Mex Tele 1 black 3 pu
Mex Tele 2 cream
Mex Tele 3 sunburst
U build strat Dave Hull has now
Sparrow bass hollow body 335 style
Jack Daniels acoustic
American sunburst strat
Squier 51 black
Red Washburn Floyd
Squier 5 string jazz
Squier 50's p bass
Cheap $@! Walden acoustic
Yamaha APX500 acoustic
Cheap $@! acoustic
Deluxe Players Strat
Stick bass
Ibanez red 5 string bass
VG Strat
Les Paul Traditional faded
White affinity strat
White electric double cut I think it was a washburn too. shorter scale
Squier sunburst Jagmaster
Standup bass
Black tele new from LM $395
White Mex Strat tortoise
Black strat Lawrence rails
White Squier series strat Korea
Hello Kitty strat
Carlson neck tele
Black $3 Mexican Squier series Precision
Gibson BluesHawk
Bullet Tele
American P bass maple board
Logan Tele
American Special Strat
Deluxe Super Strat

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