From: Jerry Shay Date: Wed, 27 May 1998 18:40:43 -0700 Subject: Re: All this tube talk
Hi all I'm new to the list. My name is Jerry Shay some call me Sky you may call me anything you like (in response to all this nick name talk) I've been playing steady about 4 years about 15 years ago I played for a few years along with guitar and took a 15 year break.
Now that that's over with. I'll have to agree with the person (sorry can't remember which post I seen it in) On the tubes I have an old fender and a peavey classic both tube. I've found, that keeping the pre amp down below 2 and the master cranked you lots of clean responsive volume. Just up the pre a little say 3 and back off the master to reduce feed back and it gets nice an dirty. And I leave that stupid boost button alone (found it confused things). If you want real down and dirty crank that pre all the way turn the master up till you get feed back which won't be far and mic the amp through a big amp for volume.
I've come to this conclusion after trying about a grand in trick tubes and other gizmo's although a small 6 band Eq can be helpful in some cases. And I do have a good understanding of tubes, curves, bias, transistors and so forth. However after all that what it boiled down to was experimenting with the stock (for the most part) amp, and tuning my style of play.
