Tuesday, March 25, 2014

How To Use Jazz Tube Amps

By Gwen Lowe


Blues or jazz music is a very interesting genre that would make use of very clean sounds or tones that do not have the grungy and heavy guitar sounds that rock or heavy metal would make use. Of course in order to get that smooth tone, one would have to make some adjustments to the amp to get it. Now if one plays this kind of genre, then he should probably know how to use jazz tube amps.

Now when one would want to play jazz music, he has to make sure that he has an amplifier that has tubes that can let out a sound specifically for this. So before he would play anything, he should first research on the amplifiers that are good for this type of music. Once he has bought it, then he can make some adjustments to get a nice tone.

Now the settings are extremely important simply because the settings are what would make the sounds. So the key here is to make sure that everything has the right settings so that it is possible to have the right type of tone. Now one of the important things that he should take note of would be distortions.

Now the level of distortion is one of the significant differences between jazz and rock and roll as the former does not use as much of it. So when it comes to the settings, one has to make sure that he does not put much distortion. By minimizing the distortion level, he will be able to get the jazzy tone that would want.

Although it is a general rule that guitar players in this genre would not use distortion, there are quite a bit of bands who would actually use it. The difference here is that they know how to set it at a minimal level. So basically, their distortion sound is very subtle and only can be heard a little bit.

Now in order to give it a really good tone, then one has to also think about the other settings as well. Now one noteworthy thing to notice about the settings of blues music would be that the bass level would be much higher than the treble. The reason behind this is simply because if the treble is at a high level, the sound is painful to the ears.

Now if one does not know how to adjust the bass and the treble, then he may follow this standard setting. Basically, he can set the bass level at level seven or higher. After that, he should set the treble to a level of four or five but should never put it at a level below level three.

So by following these settings, then one will be able to get that jazzy sound that he would want. Now these settings are only standard settings that a lot of jazz players would follow. However, one can tweak the settings a bit and adjust the sound so that one will be able to get his own flavor when he plays the guitar.




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