25 Mar
2011
25 Mar
'11
5:55 p.m.
Jeremy Jongepier wrote:
I'd seen the AC30 gain stage mentioned, but none of the tubes listed
seem to be appropriate for the Vox from what I can see.
Q
The pick-up of the Jackson Fusion Std (a Jackson J-85) seems to be quite
an ok pick-up. No way you could split the humbucker pick-up? that would
give you a single coil in bridge position and that might enable you to
get closer to May's sound. May also uses treble boosters.
According to Wikipedia (I know, I know!), the Burns Tri-Sonic pickups
have a richer sound than normal single coils, so perhaps the 'bucker
will be fine untapped. It didn't seem like Cedric was having any
problems with too little treble, but yes, I've read that the uses treble
boosters.
Also, are you
using an appropriate amp model? For May, you want a Vox
AC30. I don't know anything about amps and tubes, but I don't think
GX_head has the right models for the AC30's valves.
Guitarix/gx_head has an AC-30 gain stage.
Best,
Jeremy