Tone chasing...

I am hunting a tone in the 11R and not having much luck, perhaps those better at this than I (Which is pretty much everyone here) can help with or point me in the right direction.

I have a Voodoo Labs Sparkle Drive that I dearly love for it's ability to mix distorted and clean signals. I use it to add just the faintest hint of dirt to a tone. I can crank the gain to get a hugely distorted tone and then blend that at say 80% wet to 20% dry signal out to the amp. Is there a way to achieve a similar effect with just the 11R? Or am I just nuts and gonna hafta stick with yet another pedal to do this?

Thanks all!

The '89 SL100 Clean amp is a great one for the kind of sound you're going for I think. Maybe try playing around with the White Boost also and turn the gain & volume down. '93 MS-30 is underrated for it's "just right" slight tube breakup sound too I think. Just threw together a quick patch with the white boost, SLO Clean, 4x12 Green 25/DYN 7 off axis and liking that alot without any EQs or anything, but a graphic EQ before the amp boosting the mids & highs kinda opens up the gain a bit more for my tastes.

With the MS-30, the 4x10 Super Reverb sounds great, again for my taste and feel. I like to put the True Z on 1Mohm too rather than auto.

Thanks man, I'll give that a spin.



Do you set the True-Z this way in general?

Depends, some work better with 230k 0hm, usually more gainy amps (and they will default to that, but some default to it and I don't like it).

I either use auto or change it to 1M 0hm and see if I like it better that way and then decide.

So, like everything in music, "It depends"....

yea pyt the dx loop at the beginning od the chain,put the sparkle in the loop then mix the loop 80 percent wet 20 dry

That's pretty much what I am doing now but I was just wondering if there's a way to replicate the overall effect of the Sparkle Drive and free up the loop for other things.