GuitarAddict
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I thought I’d share my recent frustrating experience regarding my tone problems.
After hearing the fantastic tone of the silver sky on a TP Utube vid, and being unable to try one out due to lockdown I ordered a maple neck model on click and collect. I paired it with a Gremlin amp (ToneKing) and a red/orange coloured ABY switching box from a well known American manufacturer.
After a while the tone seemed not as good, lacking brightness and clarity. I renewed the valves in the amp and convinced myself this had solved it. It still didn’t sound quite right and was turning guitar playing time into a nightmare. I dismissed the passive ABY switch as causing the problem as it’s passive. Finally yesterday after going back to my old DGStomp and moving the amp to the back of the room I decided to compare the sound of the stomp to the amp, and didn’t bother with the switcher, and the amp sounded brilliant, surely it couldn’t be that simple? Plugged the ABY back in and the tone was gone again. So very happy that I found the problem, more by luck than anything, but very surprised that a passive switch can affect tone so much. Thought I’d share.
After hearing the fantastic tone of the silver sky on a TP Utube vid, and being unable to try one out due to lockdown I ordered a maple neck model on click and collect. I paired it with a Gremlin amp (ToneKing) and a red/orange coloured ABY switching box from a well known American manufacturer.
After a while the tone seemed not as good, lacking brightness and clarity. I renewed the valves in the amp and convinced myself this had solved it. It still didn’t sound quite right and was turning guitar playing time into a nightmare. I dismissed the passive ABY switch as causing the problem as it’s passive. Finally yesterday after going back to my old DGStomp and moving the amp to the back of the room I decided to compare the sound of the stomp to the amp, and didn’t bother with the switcher, and the amp sounded brilliant, surely it couldn’t be that simple? Plugged the ABY back in and the tone was gone again. So very happy that I found the problem, more by luck than anything, but very surprised that a passive switch can affect tone so much. Thought I’d share.