I Wish I Knew This Amp Setup Trick When I Started - Instantly Improve Your Tone In 10 Minutes
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My friend, Eddie Berman, showed me this incredibly useful trick for getting the best tone out of your amplifier a few years ago. I wish I knew this when I first started. I hope you guys enjoy this simple tip.
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Steps for sculpting your tone.
1. Grab your favorite guitar
2. Put it on the bridge pickup with volume and tone wide open
3. Turn the EQ on your amp all the way down
4. Play the open G power chord to hear it
5. Start with treble. Dial it in until it sounds clear but not too bright or harsh.
6. Add in mids to taste.
7. Add in bass to taste.
8. Add in presence to taste.
9. Flip to your neck pickup and play around a bit. Same with middle or whatever other pickups you have on your guitar.
10. Tweak minor adjustments.
11. HAVE A BLAST! YOUR AMP NOW SOUNDS BETTER THAN IT DID BEFORE.
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Glad to see a demo that isn't drenched in distortion. It is sometimes difficult to determine what a guitar actually sounds like because the clean tones are not demonstrated. In this case the focus is on the amp settings but I still prefer the clean tone demo. Thanks for that.
Thanks for watching and thanks for the comment!
If you know what you're doing, you can get perfect distortion on 1
Distortion robs guitars of colour… progressively. More distortion, less colour.
When it’s all square wave, there’s no colour or richness at all. (Think how a barber’s electric razor sounds…. Or a wasp!)
@@stephensmith799 all depends on what you're playing, or what sound you're trying to achieve...clean, rough, distorted, chorus, reverb, sure, you want to test an amp clean, but, before I buy, I test drive a car in every gear, not just first.
@ I take your point of course. Edge of breakup is nice but truly, unless relying on the whole band mix to create colour, I find distortion driven to the point of a kind of fizzing sound, really not great.
I haven;t given this much thought for years, but this is almost dead on what my music store taught me back in 1974 when I was smart enough to buy my first Fender Twin Reverb. I was lucky enough to have a music store run by musicians that took the time to explain and teach all of their gear when you bought it. I wanted a Kustom stack, but the owner talked me into the Twin because they knew my playing style. Quite a different relationship than most modern guitar outlets. It's all about letting the guitar be the focus, not the amp or pedals.
Man that is awesome! I started at the end of that era...now it's just GC mostly.
@DanielSeriffMusic thankfully the GC in my town has musicians working there and they're really helpful
So, we should use those knob things.
I've always suspected it...
Didn’t know they rotated!
@@christophercole8877 So... CIN, Oleg, and Christopher are smart asses who likely missed the point here. Good to know. Enjoy.
@@jdguitar1040 maybe smart asses having fun with the need to get intimate with your gear.
Someone has no sense of humour. Good one guys. 😬🎸🇨🇦😉✌️
To be fare this guys advice is absolutely right. Take your eyes out of the equation and use your ears, every amp is different but the temptation is to gravitate towards a certain pattern that you are used to seeing on the treble middle and bass.
Agree 100%. I found my spot with my Princeton reverb on vol 3 1/4, treb 4 bass 1 reverb 3. Get lots of complements.
Used to run 4-6-4 and struggled a bit.
So yes adjust with ears not eyes!
Thank you
*fair, but yeah.
In a mix, the more bass you have in your tone the less you will be heard. Your live tone will be different than your bedroom tone. Don’t be afraid to boost the top end so that you can poke out and be heard.
Great tips on tone in this video
Thanks
Can definitely do this on the gig as well
When playing live at high volume, Mr Treble is our enemy.
@@philknight6844tell me about it ... and sometimes it all sounds ok on stage with a 9 piece but the desk can miss some bits ... I recorded our headlining gig at Rudgwick Music Festival in 2005 and stuck a camcorder next to the outboard desk .. interesting that you can hear the comments from the engineers but I wish they had turned down my treble ... if I'd known I would have tried to adjust myself but as somebody said it does cut through the mix but needs to be balanced ... cheers
@@BraveheartOBM Its mainly a rule for live work. See guys like Satch or Hammet etc, Billy Gibbons, Johnson, all massively different tones as guitarists but look at the amps and heads live, higher the master volume, lower the treble. Volume creates it in the listeners ear so have too much on board and its harsh as hell out front. Learned that on the desk as well as the stage. Satch is at about 3 usually. Johnson all the way off.
@@philknight6844 bear in mind, their amps are equalized to compensate for the signal chain and shitty headroom on the power stage (or excellent headroom depending on who you ask). Satch also uses moded JVMs so his capped on both channels (balanced 3 instead of the orthodox 5), with the dirty channel scooped.
The great thing about playing jazz is the volumes are low enough to enjoy the natural tone of all instruments. A valve amp clean set right is beautiful.
I really really love that approach as well.
Awesome video.
Watch for the voltage dropping resistors getting hot and burning your pcb. I picked up a hot Rod deluxe for 275 knowing it had an issue suspected a heat issue. It took a little work for me to repair by replacing those resistors ( also hard wire one broken trace) and standing them off the board. Also replaced the filter caps and it never cut out. I checked the bias ( still had the original Fender tubes) first version of the amp made in USA Couldn’t get the bias up to where it was supposed to be so changed out the power tubes and no problem getting the ma where it should be but sounded ice picky sharp. Turned the bias down a ways and mellowed right out. Still have other caps to change out to bring it up to date. Plugged a Monoprice cab with Celestion V30 and wow. Sounds even better.
Nice. Thanks for the tip!
Great advise on setting up your amp tone! I would also add that tone settings are also volume dependent, so start with the volume at the level you will actually be playing. Your settings at bedroom volume and gig volume can be very different, as a quiet amp and a loud amp will respond very differently to your tone tweaks.
Great point.
Another great tip! Thanks, Daniel!
Thanks Rob! Have a great one.
Using this method since the end of 70’s, a huge thank for showing it. Just great. Listen closely what he explains and open your ears, you will be surprised. Cheers from Brittany ✌️👏
Hey!! Thanks so much. Appreciate the kind comment.
Man! Simply amazing! I hav a Randall RT100 since 2022 and I never achieved "that sound" till today! Thanks so much!
Thanks so much for watching!
Thanks a lot! I’ve been playing for 80 years, but only now i’ve achieved good sound. My settings are all 12 o’clock with slight rolloff on highs. Cool!
Neato!
Found this helpful and useful, and I’ve been playing off and on over 50 years. Thanks for sharing, Dan!
Excellent! Glad to have you here.
Turn everything up to ELEVEN! Job done!
ALWAYS AND TYPE IN CAPS ONLY
@ Ha Ha! WILL DO! TINNITUS BAD TODAY! Lol!
What I did with my Hotrod was to replace the 12ax7 with a 12ay7 in V1 and a 12au7 in V3, so now I have an amp that doesn't put me in jail when playing at home.
Great way to get the good tones. Thanks.
Excellent! Nothing like a great tube upgrade to make it fit your needs.
I've been considering the 12au7 to replace at least 1 of the 12ax7s in my Deluxe Hot Rod III. I replaced the main tubes with some paired Russian made JJs - great sound @ a reasonable price. Best upgrade so far was replacing the speaker with a Greenback
THANK YOU!!! Thank you for this video. I think you just freed up hours of time for me. I've needed this video for 40 years.
Sean! Thanks for the comment. So glad it was helpful!!
I’ve been trying to dial in amp sounds for 45 years and I never thought of this trick. I sure wish I saw this video years ago. Thank you 🙏
Incredibly kind. Thanks for the comment!
Good idea also is to move away from the amp as far as your cable allows and double check your sound because as you do the tone can change considerably, and that’s the sound your audience is going to hear.
Excellent point
Great demonstration and as someone else said, nice clean tone so the nuances and details can be distinguished. I have always setup my tones starting on the neck pickup and I never seemed to get it quite right and and am constantly tweaking to improve. I just used this method and I was able to setup up two different guitars and amps in minutes and only following with minor adjustments to tone and volume thru the guitar to get what I need. Your video - Unbelievably helpful. Thank you.
Wow!! Such great feedback. Thanks so much.
Was debating selling my fender deluxe. This made me have a change of heart 😁
Hahaha. Thanks so much Mitchell!! You’re the man.
I gleaned that same process from Eddie Berman (great player) when buying a Carr Hammerhead in 2008/9! Cool to see it shared here!!! 👊🙏
The best!! So cool.
I had a Hot Rod Deluxe at a gig this weekend and used primarily an ASAT Classic. It was outdoors in the cold with a light/intermittent breeze, and used my Shure wireless for the very first time at a gig. I was going nuts trying to dial in that amp! (I have a couple HRDs BTW but may start using my Katana given the weight factor in my advanced years!)
I had one, seems like it sounds okay when playing by yourself, but needs a lot of work in a band setting
The Katanas are great!
Gotta work for it.
@@DanielSeriffMusic Before the gig I did my woodshedding at home on my Heritage 555 so I noticed your Heritage right away. They sound great and soooo easy to play. But, I didn't want to risk putting a ding in it!
Been doing this for 30+years now. Great tip for all players.Thanks
Thanks man!
I followed your advice & got the most wonderful tone out of my amp! Thanks!
Too cool! Thanks
I’m a busker and using battery powered amps leaves a lot to be desired. I’ll try this technique. As with most guitarists, I am always chasing tone. Thank you for posting this.
Excellent and hope it helps!
I had a Fender Hot Rod Deluxe. Nice amp, a little heavy. I’ve actually had every amp in that series but I moved on the a Princeton Reverb and a Deluxe Reverb. These are awesome amps and not terribly heavy. I also play (and love the shit out of) a Fender Bass Breaker 007. 7W! All you need. It’s small, relatively light and essentially the same controls as the Hot Rod but the tone is awesome and I think I’ll try this method on this amp with my Tele and my Reverend Sensai!
Awesome! Thanks!
Hot rod deluxe is a perfect touring amp. I’ve never been happier using one.
Very solid overall
I’m a 156 year old guitarist, and I tell you this guy is totally right….
Thanks!
🤣🤣🤣🤣
Why would we take advice from someone so young ? You gotta be at least 250 before I listen
I love my hotrod deluxe including the distortion channel
It's a great amp! Glad you enjoy it! I love pedals through it.
Eddie, Eddie, Eddie...if Eddie said it, its gospel. Had privilege of listening Eddie 50 years ago around Va Beach
The truth!
This is a great, GREAT video. Absolutely gold. Thank you, sir.
Thanks so much
That was incredibly useful. Thank you! I'll be back!
Excellent!
Very good approach to achieve tone. If it sounds good clean it will sound good with distortion. If you are playing with a band you may need a little adjustment so you can cut through and if 2nd guitar depending on goals it may require some even more dramatic change.
Totally agree. And you can get used to changing it quick in a band or recording context.
Some really nice informative info to get your amp sounding like you like!!
Thanks David!
2 years later, still great advice!!!
Yessir!
I think a lot of us have had a hot rod deluxe, mine had the green back Jensen and I have always wanted another one since
Upgraded speaker is huge.
I have been looking for this video for a long time. Not this exact video but something this good on the topic. I might even hate the hotrod a little less now. LOL Thank you! You have a new subscriber!
Haha!! It’s a solid workhorse. Thanks so much for watching!
Here's a cool way to play with your tone alot of players don't do. Throw on your favorite guitar sound. Take you guitar and dial in as closely as you can that tone. When you turn off the music you'll find that your ear hears something very different than the sound you THOUGHT you dialed in. Most will attempt dialing in the sound in they're head. This is the sound you want the most. But the tone you dialed in with the music isn't as far from that tone in your head.
Nice tip
Great tip, I often crank the amp way up and go from there and love the drive but hate the clean so maybe this will help me find that sound I have been looking for!
Can totally crank the amp and use this approach as well. But I'm a clean pedal platform kinda guy.
@ yes I mean maybe I should try this approach for the clean first and then try the drive on the top two clean amps.
Very helpfull Daniel! I play a Hot Rod Deluxe and will use more Presence now. But for humbuckers the bass is rather strong so 2-3 for the bass knob is more than enough.
Excellent!
This is excellent. And I don’t see any reason it wouldn’t work just as well on a solid state amp.
Thanks Josh! It's worked on nearly every amp I've ever tried. Didn't work on amps that have bass in the circuit first.
I dial in my amps the same way. I tend to stay away from the bass. I Love the way 6V6s Brake up over 6L6s However the magic Happens when I find a good preamp Tube/Tubes. On my Guitar 7 1/2 on the volume is were the sound starts to brake up. tone always on 10. For me if the Volume is on ten I feel like thats the wall. Then again I am talking just between guitar and amp no pedals.Thanks Daniel you know I kinda forgot how much thought goes into dialing in a amp. Great advice. 👍
Thanks so much for the thoughtful comment! Have a great one
@@DanielSeriffMusic Same from this side my friend. c]8-) 👍
Great video!!! I love a warm tone, but as guitarists, especially lead guitarists, we have to cut through the mix!!! NO MUD!!!
Thank you for another great video!!!
Thanks for watching. Using this method you could totally dial in a cutting sound if you want. On the gig. At home. Either way.
I feel like I just discovered fire, remember Tom Hanks on the beach? Yeah, that. This is an approach I never thought to try and it worked amazingly. I never thought to roll into the eq like that in steps. Nice playing btw, I liked it.
Great!! Thanks so much.
A man after my own heart tones 👌
There we go!
This is a great approach. First time I heard about it was by Matt Schofield at The pedal show. I believe though, that presence should be adjusted first because the EQ will behave differently with different values. In other words, if you change presence setting at the end, then the optimum settings for bass, mid and treble will be different.
Ahh very cool
Thank you Daniel! I just happened to come across your video and was curious to see the method you are presenting. Makes a lot of sense. Some years ago I read that if Clapton is asked to play ... and it's not his guitar or amp, he would go to the amp, turn a few tone controls, and it would sound as good as his own amp. Possibly he used this same method. I also read that he had his tech mod his tone controls so that when they are all at 7, that is the ideal setting.
Very cool. Thanks for watching!
Thanks Daniel will try and re-set up my amp , been looking and tweeking this and keeping an index card with setting notes for each guitar/ amp. Cheers
That’s great! Have an awesome day.
Great amp and guitar to start with imho ! Good info, thanks!!
Thanks!
Fact check true. Works like a charm.
Woot woot!!
Good tips. Had to figure it out myself back then... This would have been helpful some time ago. All good.
Excellent. Thanks!
Listen to the bumps in volume as you turn on the knobs, dont look into the numbers. Great tips
Yes!
I do something similar to this, but there are some differences. I think I'll try this out.
Let me know how it works out!
I just thought of a good way to describe it...if you know how eq pedals act,,,,pre gain eq is like driving your amp with an eq pedal (fender /mesa) and post gain eq's are like putting the eq pedal in the loop (Marshall and almost all other amps)
Nice
The overdrive and more drive sound great on the Hot Rod Deluxe if you change the V2 tube to a 12DW7
Oh wow! That’s an awesome tip.
12DW7?
Do you mean a 12au7? That can be an improvement of better low volume at the cost of some top end.
This was really useful. Excellent video.
Glad it was helpful!
Very good practical approach!
Thanks for watching!
Great, thanks so much. Simple and it works. Thumbs up
Excellent!
So turn the eq knobs til you like the sound? Great. Thanks
👍👍
Lol
After years of “experimenting”, I settled on 2 Silverface Fenders. I also discovered a F.R.E.D. rectifier (fast-recovery epitaxial diodes).
Nice!
That was very informative. Thank you
Thanks so much for watching
Played a Hot Rod at the studio a few times. Pretty fun and loud amp. Definitely worth 450 in working order.
GREAT amp for 450
Thank you, this was so helpful
So glad!!
Nice sound and playing.
Thanks so much for watching
Last but not least, a clean boost right after the guitar, pushed to just before clipping, will make an unbelievable difference in the noise floor - especially if you use a pedal chain - and in any overdrive you choose to dial in.
I do love a clean boost. Don't always use it that way, I like it after the drives as well.
Good stuff Daniel!
Thanks!
Thanks so much!
Very nice, and ur playing is lovely!!
Thanks so much for watching!!
So helpful! Thank you! 😊
Thanks so much!
Beautiful playing 🙂
Thank you :)
Would love to see (hear) you walk through the same process with an overdriven/crunchy/distorted amp setting. Seems like the gain & eq would be interactive such that it would be hard to dial in a good gain level without having the eq dialed in ... and it'd be likewise hard to dial in the eq without the gain setting being tweaked "just right."
I definitely think it’s worth dialing in differently. I really like this approach with pedals
Excellent tone on the heritage
Great guitar. Thank you
I do basically the same thing when setting up an amp but I do it on the neck pickup as I use the neck for 90% of my playing.
Nice. I love neck pickup but have gravitated to using all these days.
Well, the Hot Rod Deluxe is one of the few Fender amps I have any respect for... but. Your pups are the first thing to fix. I struggled with my Jackson SL1 (USA) until I finally realized that the pups that come in it, and in most nice guitars (Seymour Duncan SH-4 JB), suck to high heaven, and have no usable mids, "particularly" low mids:) However I realize some like that thin tone. But if the tone is there, you can tweak it out, if it isn't there, you can not EQ it in:)
Great suggestions! Many thanks...
You got it! Thanks for watching.
Sounds logical. Thanks for this info. I have never really thought about it that way , but it works! Great video.
Thanks for watching!
@ you’re welcome.
Yes sir. Very good, clean sound 👍
Thanks for watching
Any videos on adding pedals into the mix once the amp is ‘right’?
Great suggestion!
THAT's why I've been looking for!
Wow, great playing, great tone.. Alohoho from cold forest Hualalai Kona!
Hey thanks for being here!
Awesome tutorial! Thank you very much Daniel…🤩🎉🤘
Thank you so much!!
Very nice tip. Thanks!
Thanks for watching!
I tend to EQ to how it sounds in the mix wirh drums and bass. I could dial a nice sound like you did. Sounds great if I'm recording only guitar.
EQing for the mix is so important. I play bass and what works for the mix can sound pretty bad in solo which is better than the other way round. I've mixed tracks where they recorded a beautiful full acoustic guitar but what they needed for the song was just a thin jangle for ear candy!
Yep. You can still use this technique to dial in with a band.
Great in concept, but it can be a little hard to pull off in practice. You can get most of the way there in advance if you just record your own backing track and play against that. Then you won’t need nearly as much time when setting up with the band. Every space is different so it’s a never-ending challenge.
@@iamgumbydammit2217 especially bass - every room is different and the room changes depending on the people.
@unclemick-synths the only reason I posted is because I hate my sound when I play my guitar by itself. In the mix sounds great. Wish could find a good balance. Time to play with my tone some more. I get good comments on my tone but for reason it's time to move on. Find the perfect tone.
Very nice informative video. I'm very curious whether this technique will also work on my Axe FX III...and will find out... I have always struggled getting good clean tones and this may help.
I would highly recommend it.
I play through a pa system, it kills it, trust me. Its plugged into an ME-50. She rocks.
Good work!
That HRD is one of my best
Nice
One thing I notice with amps irl (usually marshall style) is that the more I turn up the volume the more I want to turn down the presence and vice versa.
I believe that is called “Fletcher Munson.”
I was given one of these. I didn’t like the drive/more drive sound either. I had both the transformers & choke replaced with Mercury Magnetics iron and now they sound great.
Mercury is awesome!
Yeah, it made all the difference with the HRD. I picked up an upgrade/mod package for it, and then splurged for the 3 MM iron. I play tested after swapping out just the iron and was shocked at how better the amp sounded, especially the boost/more settings.
Put a volume pedal in the effects loop for a master volume helps too 🤙
Some amps are more subtractive in the EQ and everything on 10 and rolling it back might get you there quicker. Especially some old Marshalls.
Thanks for the thoughts
Nice video, many thanks for your time 😊
Apprecaite you!
Thanks for using the Fender for this, instead of what a lot of other UA-camrs do- "Today I'm going to show you how to get great tone out of this $5,000 amplifier."
Although it would have been nice to see this trick with you playing a Squire or even an Epi.
Maybe a future video! Thanks for watching
That's a Neat Guitar. A Beauty
It was a good one.
As I know. Clasic Fender amps are made with "Roll Of" EQ knobs. That meand that their starting point is 12 and than you roll of frequencies you dont like. The same thing you do with your tone knob on guitar. So it is useles to star shaping tone from 0. Try to start with Eq knobs on 12.
Also effective
Hi Daniel. Thanks for that. What kind of guitar are you playing? Sounds wonderful.
Thank you. It’s a Haritage 535
Eddie is the man!!
The best!
1) don’t listen to individuals that dismiss the drive channels of this amp. Especially if. The player is playing a genre that would ordinarily dismiss drive tones. To say “no go” , See for yourself. 2) seemed a bit backwards. If you live on the neck pickup; seems would be easier to dial in tone on the pickup you primarily use 3) funny ended up being mostly noon settings- that’s how I was taught, put all on noon and cut or add to taste. 4) i don’t live on one pickup on a guitar- so I will definitely try his approach!
I love drive tones. Just not the ones on the hot rod.
Great info Thanks
Thanks so much for watching
New follower here... great info and insights. - 45 yr. semi-pro
Awesome!! Thank you.
Great video 🙌🏻
Thank you!!
Nice tone
Thanks!
Would you do anything differently using a guitar with 3 pickups and a 5 position selector, and just one vol and tone knob.
Nope. I’d set it the same way. Bridge pickup wide open tone and volume. Then just confirm you like the sound with the other pups.