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“Lead” Voicing
“Lead” Voicing“Lead” Voicing
“Lead” Voicing
The "lead" voicing is intended exclusively for overdriven and distorted tones. It is not
intended for clean tones. This is why it has more gain than the other settings, and why it
begins to break up at low volume control settings. It may take some experimenting to
find the sweet spots that give you the best tones with a particular guitar. Here are a few
sample settings to get you started. First a nice chunky grind –
Input Volume Tone Voicing
HI
3 6
Lead
Next, a more saturated distortion:
Input Volume Tone Voicing
HI
7 7
Lead
The Falcon gets almost all of its overdrive and distortion from the output tubes (6V6s).
When you are pushing it hard in the lead setting, it reaches maximum output early on,
and simply becomes more saturated as you turn up the volume control. This is how any
non-master design works - tweed amps, etc. The Falcon is designed for rootsy, old-
school vintage tone, and this kind of tone is all about power tubes being driven hard and
generating their own kind of distortion and compression.
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