Thursday 27 March 2014

The Basic 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 as stated above, this type of genre has a very soft sound that only certain amplifier tubes can let out. So now in order to be able to play these kinds of things, then the very first thing that he should do would be to do his homework on what kinds of amplifiers are good. After getting these pieces of equipment, then he just has to adjust the settings later on.

Settings are of utmost importance because it would be the settings that would be able to produce the tone. Now one has to make sure that he knows how to adjust the settings of his amplifier so he can get a good tone. Now when dealing with this, one of the important things that he has to know of would be the distortion setting.

Unlike rock and roll or metal wherein both use a lot of distorted sounds, jazz or blues do not make use of such sounds. So the key to handling this is to make sure that there is only a little bit of distortion that is present. What one would want is to make sure that he has the smooth tone.

Now if one would want to add a little bit of distortion in order to add variety, then he may actually do so. However, he has to be conscious to make sure that the distortion is only very little and very subtle. There are actually some jazz bands that use the distortion effect but only on a very minimal level.

Now in order to give it a really good tone, then one has to also think about the other settings as well. Now one noteworthy thing to notice about the settings of blues music would be that the bass level would be much higher than the treble. The reason behind this is simply because if the treble is at a high level, the sound is painful to the ears.

In order to get that setting, one has to set the bass level at a certain number and so as the treble. Now the bass level should be at least at seven or maybe even higher. The treble, on the other hand should be at least a five or maybe even at a lower level but never below three.

So if one is a musician who plays this kind of music, then here are some ways to use the amp to get the sound that he wants. Now he would of course have to experiment with the sounds a little to get the correct tone. However, these settings are the basic ones that guitar players in this genre would take note of.




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