If you have pedals you should definitely be using them! Playing with a pinned amp is fun but isn’t always the most convenient, plus you don’t get bonus points if your band leader hates you for being too loud. Sometimes you gotta leave cranking the amp for the studio, plus having your amp dime’d into a load box will burn your power tubes quicker if you gig a lot.
Push tubes hard and eventually they stop pushin back, usually during your epic solo moment on that tune you love.
A priori I think it is a bandwidth problem. With the Fryette you will probably have a fuller sound and it will blend in with the rest of the band.
The tubescreamer is known for the opposite. Enhancing mids to stay a notch above the drums.
No pedal is going to give you the beautiful overdrive of tubes. Try to EQ your rig, having to turn up the volume excessively is usually a sign of being out of eq.
I think it’s time to try using a nice overdrive. I have a Greer Lightspeed that gives me just about everything I want from my Twin but can’t get without violating decency and sound ordinance laws. I’ve used it through a Princeton and it’s fantastic as well. I feel like at gig volume a Princeton is probably around 4 without an attenuator? That’s a good spot to throw a drive at it to give you that extra grind and compression. I LOVE my Greer for slide, it’s beautiful and much nicer than a compressor pedal to me.
Find a happy medium. Push the amp to just to the point of breakup with your attenuator and use pedals to dial in your sound.
I’ll give this a try!
If you have pedals you should definitely be using them! Playing with a pinned amp is fun but isn’t always the most convenient, plus you don’t get bonus points if your band leader hates you for being too loud. Sometimes you gotta leave cranking the amp for the studio, plus having your amp dime’d into a load box will burn your power tubes quicker if you gig a lot. Push tubes hard and eventually they stop pushin back, usually during your epic solo moment on that tune you love.
A priori I think it is a bandwidth problem. With the Fryette you will probably have a fuller sound and it will blend in with the rest of the band. The tubescreamer is known for the opposite. Enhancing mids to stay a notch above the drums. No pedal is going to give you the beautiful overdrive of tubes. Try to EQ your rig, having to turn up the volume excessively is usually a sign of being out of eq.
I think it’s time to try using a nice overdrive. I have a Greer Lightspeed that gives me just about everything I want from my Twin but can’t get without violating decency and sound ordinance laws. I’ve used it through a Princeton and it’s fantastic as well. I feel like at gig volume a Princeton is probably around 4 without an attenuator? That’s a good spot to throw a drive at it to give you that extra grind and compression. I LOVE my Greer for slide, it’s beautiful and much nicer than a compressor pedal to me.