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Thursday, March 20, 2014

How To Use Jazz Tube Amps

By Gwen Lowe


Jazz music is a very popular genre that many have enjoyed playing and listening to at the same time. This genre would make use of the smooth guitar sounds that this genre is actually very famous for. Now if one would want to play this type of music, then it is very important that he would make use of some really good jazz tube amps so that he could actually play this kind of music.

Now as stated above, this type of genre has a very soft sound that only certain amplifier tubes can let out. So now in order to be able to play these kinds of things, then the very first thing that he should do would be to do his homework on what kinds of amplifiers are good. After getting these pieces of equipment, then he just has to adjust the settings later on.

Settings are of utmost importance because it would be the settings that would be able to produce the tone. Now one has to make sure that he knows how to adjust the settings of his amplifier so he can get a good tone. Now when dealing with this, one of the important things that he has to know of would be the distortion setting.

Now mainly, this kind of soft music does not make use of distortions like rock and heavy metal do because this type of music is slow and calm. So in order to get that blues sound, one has to make sure that there is very minimal distortion or none at all. What he would want is a smooth sound with not much effects.

Now if one would want to add a little bit of distortion in order to add variety, then he may actually do so. However, he has to be conscious to make sure that the distortion is only very little and very subtle. There are actually some jazz bands that use the distortion effect but only on a very minimal level.

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 as one can see, one has to make sure that his amp has to have the correct settings before he gets the tone he wants. Of course he has to make sure that he experiments a little bit and play around before he gets the hang of it. Now by making use of these basic settings, he would at least have an idea of how to go about.




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