MODELED AMPS: WHICH AMPS ARE MODELED?
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POD Drive - Our version of the modern, super-saturated, high gain, lead
amp; smooth, yet biting. All the tone controls here are post-Tubetone for
maximum control with minimum muddiness. Again, this unique overdrive tone
was created by merging different tone-shaping elements from different high-gain
amps. It’s like playing through a collection of amps simultaneously – a studio
technique that has made possible some of the greatest guitar tones of modern
recordings (POD Layer builds on this idea with even more versatility). With POD,
you can get this same kind of rich, multi-amp tone out of one combo, a feat that
wouldn’t be possible with traditional guitar amps.
POD Layer - POD Clean meets POD Drive. As we’ve already mentioned,
many guitarists and producers have experimented with running multiple amps
simultaneously, with each amp making a contribution to the overall tone. Stevie
Ray Vaughn, for example, would split his guitar signal to drive a Marshall, Fender
Vibroflex, and Dumble Steel String Singer simultaneously to get some of the great
sounds on his records. This Amp Model was produced by superimposing a
“traditional” clean guitar tone and a particularly tweaked-up variant of the POD
Drive. The Drive knob acts as a blender control – fully left you’ve got big bottom
21st Century Clean, and fully right you’ve got paint-peeling Ultra-drive. Set it
anywhere in between, and you get to have your cake and smear it all over your
audience, too.
Small Tweed - Modeled after a 1952 “wide panel” Fender Tweed Deluxe, this
Amp Model will snarl with the best of them. The original amp had only a single
tone control, essentially a Treble roll off. We set up the Treble knob to give you
this Treble roll off when using this Amp Model. Which left us with the Bass and
Mid knobs just sitting there. That just didn’t seem right, so we figured out a way to
put those knobs to work without mucking about with the authenticity of this Amp
Model’s Treble tone control. We set up the Bass and Mid as post-TubeTone
controls, which essentially lets you EQ up your tone as you would do on a mixing
console after recording your amp. Set the Bass and Mid knobs at halfway to put
them in “neutral,” and try the Treble knob somewhere above halfway for a classic
Tweed sound.
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