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Fred,
Here are a couple of starting guidelines to try:
1. Turn off the reverb on your amp. Don't use both reverbs at the same time.
More than one instance of reverb is not good. Just use your external tank
and pretend like your built-in reverb doesn't exist. Hint: You'd never use
two echo or delay pedals inline for more echo.
2. Also, as far as the adjustments on your tank go, IMHO, there's not much
room for adjustment in order to dial-in "that sound".
Try 6-6-6 (DW's Jazzmaster setting), or 7-7-5 (DW's Jaguar setting). The
only knob I ever touch is the mixer and i only turn it all the way off to
harmonically tune with the other fellas in the band.
Oh, and don't forget to disengage the brake on the tank ;)
-Dano
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>From: Fred Pleasant <>
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>Subject: [SurfGuitar101] Reverb Tank Sound
>Date: Wed, 12 Jun 2002 00:31:04 -0700 (PDT)
>
>Hello, I've got some questions about the Fender '63
>Reissue Reverb Tanks.
>
>I have one (stock) and it can pack a lot of spash.
>But one thing that I've noticed is that the reverb
>sounds really metally if I turn it up (especially if I
>play chords). It sounds kind of like distorted metal
>plate reverb (I only know the sound because I have a
>plugin on my computer to emulate it). Is this because
>I'm playing into a solid state amp or because my amp
>really sucks? I can turn down my reverb and it gets
>way less of the metally sound, but then I have less
>splash than the amp's built in reverb provides on its
>own, but without any of the metally highend
>fuzzyness(which defeats the purpose of having the
>outboard unit instead).
>
>When I play a chord normally on my guitar through my
>amp it sounds powerfull and strong (slight hint of
>overdriven town). BUt if I do the same through my
>reverb tank it sounds really thin and fuzzy.
>
>Does anybody here know what I'm talking about?
>
>Would replacing the tubes with NOS tubes or doing the
>cap mod fix this? I would really like to get more
>splash, but with less high end from the guitar. Is
>there any way to go about doing this (a setting on the
>reverb tank perhaps)? Turning down the tone and
>turning the dwell and mix kind of do that,but then I
>get more of that nasty thing fuzzy sound that I don't
>want.
>
>The more I think about it, I don't seem to have this
>problem as much with my half stack, but it's at my
>band's drummer's house so I can't really check right
>now, so it might just be my crappy crate practice amp
>that messes up the reverb.
>
>Anybody know?
>
>
>
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