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K-150-8 [message #10133] Wed, 24 December 2008 10:46 Go to next message
zombiewolf is currently offline  zombiewolf
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Registered: January 2008
Location: New England
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happy holidays to all,
Hi, just a few questions,comments from a relativley unschooled, amp user. I hope someone could make a few suggestions and comments. i have a charcoal k-150 combo that I am using for jam practice. the sound is really sweet, to me anyhow, and was just wondering if I am using my effects to their best capabilities. I am running a cheap fender dist. box, soon to be replaced, into an Electro-harmonix english muffin tube pre amp pedal, then into the left side lower input jack on the amp.This set up lets me get a warmer tube sound but also a smoother driven sound with out too much squeal that a SS amp emulating a valve amp can make.A few questions, am I best off turning the Muffin up all the way and adjust the volume on the amp to the desired level or would it be better to lower the volume on the pedals and turn the amp up? Is anyone else us using a tube pedal to "warm" up their Kustom? Any recommendations on a dist. pedal that works best with a Kustom amp? Any info appreciated for sure. Thanks, Rick
Re: K-150-8 [message #10136 is a reply to message #10133] Wed, 24 December 2008 16:09 Go to previous messageGo to next message
stevem is currently offline  stevem
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Registered: June 2004
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Hi.
Over driving a SS amps preamps sounds like crap when they start going into clipping, this is why when distortion became a very popular guitar sound, kustom added distortion circuits to the K200/150 and 250 serise amps so they could make it sound good.Good at least for back then.
To make good use of a stomp box in front of your amp you just need to make sure that your distortion setting is not much louder than the guitars setting when striaght into the amp.
This means you will have to back down to your clean playing volume with the volume on the guitar or a volume pedal.
Re: K-150-8 [message #10201 is a reply to message #10133] Mon, 05 January 2009 12:59 Go to previous messageGo to next message
pleat is currently offline  pleat
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I run a Digitech RP1 with input and output settings at 10 O'Clock. I use a kustom K50 and with the volume setting at 9 if you were looking at the volume control as the face of a clock, and it is enough gain for any medium size club. I back off the volume control on the guitar for rythms and leads the volume is on 10 on the guitar. My band covers everthing from AC/DC to Gretchen Wilson and the Kustoms are great sounding amps with a extra boost of effects the pedals provide.
pleat
Re: K-150-8 [message #10204 is a reply to message #10201] Mon, 05 January 2009 23:07 Go to previous messageGo to next message
BC
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I have heard Pleat play.....he speaks the truth. He can make the guitar "cry and sing". Kustoms work great with your favorite pedal(s) as they do not seem to color the sound like tube amps do. I have also heard ET and Roy use pedals with vintage Kustoms and have tone most guys wish they could get! Cool BC
Re: K-150-8 [message #10214 is a reply to message #10204] Tue, 06 January 2009 16:31 Go to previous message
pleat is currently offline  pleat
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BC, your much too kind, but I think you put it best that the Kustoms don't color the sound, just lets the true sound come through. Your right again, ET and Roy do use pedal boards and quite well at that.
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