Thursday, March 13, 2014

Adjust The Settings Of Jazz Tube Amps

By Gwen Lowe


Blues or jazz music is a very interesting genre that would make use of very clean sounds or tones that do not have the grungy and heavy guitar sounds that rock or heavy metal would make use. Of course in order to get that smooth tone, one would have to make some adjustments to the amp to get it. Now if one plays this kind of genre, then he should probably know how to use jazz tube amps.

Now one has to get certain amps for this because only certain sound tubes will be able to give the perfect sound. So if one would want to play this genre, then he should make sure that he gets a really good amplifier that is specifically made for only this type of purpose. Of course in order to do this, he has to do some research on the specific types of amplifiers.

The main thing that would produce the sound that would be coming from the guitar would actually be the settings on the amp. One has to make sure that he sets up the settings right so that he can get a very clean tone that jazz players use. Now the first thing that he has to think about would be the distortion.

Now mainly, this kind of soft music does not make use of distortions like rock and heavy metal do because this type of music is slow and calm. So in order to get that blues sound, one has to make sure that there is very minimal distortion or none at all. What he would want is a smooth sound with not much effects.

Now over the years, there have actually been some bands in this genre that would actually put some distortion. Now the difference is that their type of distortion is very subtle and is only very minimal. So if one would want to add just a little bit of flavor to his songs, then he may add just a bit of distortion.

Now distortion is one thing but there are actually the other settings that one must actually take note of too. In this type of music, one has to make sure to adjust the bass and the treble levels. He has to make sure that the bass is more and the treble is less.

Now the technique here is to put as little treble as possible and a lot of bass. So up the bass level quite high probably level seven and above. Now the treble should be put either at number five or a little bit less but never less than three otherwise there will be sounds that will be missing.

So by following these settings, then one will be able to get that jazzy sound that he would want. Now these settings are only standard settings that a lot of jazz players would follow. However, one can tweak the settings a bit and adjust the sound so that one will be able to get his own flavor when he plays the guitar.




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