how can i get my amp to get a jazz sound im joining a little jazz/rock band after school and i need to know how i can "tune" my amp to sound jazzy I'm pretty sure you want the settings for your eq and such so here they are...
(I'm refering to everything on a scale of 1-12)
Bass should be high, at about 9-11
Mids should be low, at about 3-5
Treble should be high, at about 8-10
Try to make as clean of a sound as you can, which means if you have a gain and volume switches, try to keep gain as low as possible and make volume do the work. Unless of course your going for a down to earth bluesy distorted sound, then you can mess around with the gain and volume. Reverb, unless on about 1-2 tastefully, should be generally avoided. On your guitar, never set the pickups to a humbucker/treble pickup, generally a single coil or rhythm humbucker gives you a gentle smooth sound as opposed to the attack and unpleasentness in a jazz context of humbuckers/rhythm pickups. Hope this helped. I think its more in the playing, than the amp tuning
??? Flat, with no reverb. Put your guitars pickup on the bridge completely- try not to have too much treble, go for a more natural sound.
Check out these tones for good reference
Pat Metheny- very warm tone
Wes Montgomery- Very Natural big sound with definite clarity
Joe Pass- Very defined edgy sound, not brittle though
And so on, I'm sure I'll forget some, but find someone you like and mimic their sound try using the tone control on your guitar and actually what I do is the opposite of what guys have been saying. Put it on the neck pickup and dial out some of the tone control, should sound very mellow. I good test would be how octaves sound.
But then again if your really looking for a classic jazz sound, nothing is going to sound like a gibson es-335. It's THE sound. What that semi hollow body does is just quite unimaginable. Good luck.
-cliff |
