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Post subject: What is a clean sound anyway
Posted: Thu Mar 31, 2011 3:22 pm
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I got my first electric guitar and then thanks to feedback here got a mustang I amp. I have searched and found a little on finding a clean sound on this amp. I know we have no real clean channel, and I saw a couple of suggestions about a country clean setting. However I am completely new to the electric world and am not even sure what a true clean sound is. I have played around with all my presets and obviously some have a lot of distortion and some sound pretty clean. But which setting would be the closest to a clean channel on a typical tube amp? Thanks for the help and sorry to be so clueless about this stuff.


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Post subject: Re: What is a clean sound anyway
Posted: Thu Mar 31, 2011 5:26 pm
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Depending on the amp....but here is a general rule for clean sounds...

Set your gain knob to 1 or as low as possible...... then set your volume Knob to 5 or 6....
( usually next to the gain knob ) adjust your master volume knob to the loudness you like.. Then depending on your guitar... turn your volume knob on the guitar to about 7.. (mine distorts more with anything higher than seven)... then play it by ear... A fender Twin amp selection would probably be a good place to start....

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Post subject: Re: What is a clean sound anyway
Posted: Fri Apr 01, 2011 7:37 am
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[color=#40FF00]Maybe you can change one of the presets. If you take the distortion and delay off that might make a clean sound. Turn the gain down as well. If you want a "pretty", clean sound you could keep some reverb on.
My guitar doesn't distort at all, it's the amp. I put my volume knobs all the way to ten. Judging by the fact that you have your first electric guitar, you probably have a Squier Strat (or tele), or an Epiphone Les Paul junior or some other inexpensive guitar. I started out with a Squier Strat and I don't remember that problem, but now I use a Gibson Les Paul. :D
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Post subject: Re: What is a clean sound anyway
Posted: Fri Apr 01, 2011 12:06 pm
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"Clean" depends on the player. What Zakk Wylde calls clean isn't all that clean to my ears...still somewhat crunchy. My idea of clean is more like Eric Johnson's idea of clean...very pristine and shimmery.

There are a couple of models that will provide clean tones pretty easily on the Mustang. The '65 Twin Reverb is probably at the top of the list. You shouldn't have to try to hard to get a clean tone here...I can turn gain up to around 7 on this one and still keep my tone pretty clean with a fairly hot humbucker, even with my guitar volume maxed. (And I generally keep my guitar volume maxed...don't like the treble roll off you get when you turn guitar volume down). It sounds especially nice with single coils!!

In fact, I will say that the presets for the '65 Twin Reverb that come loaded on the Mustangs are really very good as they are...I did very little tweaking of them. They should give you a good place to start...in fact, you may find you don't need to tweak them at all.

But you can also get very clean tones with the '65 Deluxe Reverb and '59 Bassman models at lower gain settings. Even the '57 Tweed. The Bassman and Tweed are notably different in tone than the Twin and Deluxe.

The 70s British (Marshall Plexi) will clean up at very low gain settings, though not as much as I'd like.

My biggest disappointment so far has been the 60's British (Vox AC30). These are known for their chimey clean tones, but I have not been able to coax anything out of my Mustang I that I like for this one yet. But I'm not a huge Vox fan, so it's not that big of a deal.


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Post subject: Re: What is a clean sound anyway
Posted: Fri Apr 01, 2011 12:17 pm
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Muleya wrote:
"Clean" depends on the player. What Zakk Wylde calls clean isn't all that clean to my ears...still somewhat crunchy. My idea of clean is more like Eric Johnson's idea of clean...very pristine and shimmery.

There are a couple of models that will provide clean tones pretty easily on the Mustang. The '65 Twin Reverb is probably at the top of the list. You shouldn't have to try to hard to get a clean tone here...I can turn gain up to around 7 on this one and still keep my tone pretty clean with a fairly hot humbucker, even with my guitar volume maxed. (And I generally keep my guitar volume maxed...don't like the treble roll off you get when you turn guitar volume down). It sounds especially nice with single coils!!

In fact, I will say that the presets for the '65 Twin Reverb that come loaded on the Mustangs are really very good as they are...I did very little tweaking of them. They should give you a good place to start...in fact, you may find you don't need to tweak them at all.

But you can also get very clean tones with the '65 Deluxe Reverb and '59 Bassman models at lower gain settings. Even the '57 Tweed. The Bassman and Tweed are notably different in tone than the Twin and Deluxe.

The 70s British (Marshall Plexi) will clean up at very low gain settings, though not as much as I'd like.

My biggest disappointment so far has been the 60's British (Vox AC30). These are known for their chimey clean tones, but I have not been able to coax anything out of my Mustang I that I like for this one yet. But I'm not a huge Vox fan, so it's not that big of a deal.


I have my own guestion. What is the British 90s preset? in other words what amp am I seeing in fuse?same with Metal 2000. :| I know the 80s is a Marshall but what model?

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Post subject: Re: What is a clean sound anyway
Posted: Fri Apr 01, 2011 4:44 pm
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American 90s is a Mesa Dual Rec.

Metal 2000 a 5150, but I'm not sure which one...whether a Peavey 5150 II or the latest EVH 5150 III (made by Fender).

British 80s would be a JCM800.


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Post subject: Re: What is a clean sound anyway
Posted: Sun Apr 03, 2011 7:04 pm
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Try starting with the 65' Twin or the '57 Deluxe settings. Turn down the gain, turn up the volume a bit to your liking and you should be good to go. With the gain down around 1 or 2, you should find what most folks think of as a good clean tone.
If you have begun to fool around with the Fuse software, you can go online and grab some presets that folks have come up with. Look for a Twin preset called "Beauty Clean". That'll get you where you need to be.


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