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What speakers are you using? If you're using the 1960a with G12-75s you certainly won't have the gain structure you're looking for, in fact go to the Vintage Modern Discussion forum here and go to the thread JVM vs VM and you'll see all of us who are complaining about G12-75sHellhound wrote:Thanks for that![]()
I used the basic settings that you listed. I plugged into Input One, bridge pickup on full.
The tone is spot on. But it is still lacking gain and saturation. The closest sound that I can compare it to is Rocket Queen, original AFD version. That last chunky rhythm part is closest for gain and tone to my ears.
As close to the strings without touching them? That can't be right at all.Slashwannabe1 wrote:What speakers are you using? If you're using the 1960a with G12-75s you certainly won't have the gain structure you're looking for, in fact go to the Vintage Modern Discussion forum here and go to the thread JVM vs VM and you'll see all of us who are complaining about G12-75sHellhound wrote:Thanks for that![]()
I used the basic settings that you listed. I plugged into Input One, bridge pickup on full.
The tone is spot on. But it is still lacking gain and saturation. The closest sound that I can compare it to is Rocket Queen, original AFD version. That last chunky rhythm part is closest for gain and tone to my ears..
Switch to Vintage 30 speakers and your gain problem will be solved. G12-75s make even the VM sound too tame. It sounds like it cuts almost 25% of your gain when you use the G12-75 speakers. Use Vintage 30s or try to find a H&K Vortex cab for cheap lol. Hell or some Greenbacks!
Also set your pick up height as Seymour Duncan recommends, which is basically as close to the strings as possible without touching them...now there is a formula go to their website they have the exact measurement, Slash uses Seymours reccommended height for his pick ups as do I.
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Heres a link to his leather jacket. Ive had the same one for 6 or 7 years, very nice!
That may be the case now days where he's going for a cleaner tone in the early tour last year, but back during the Use Your Illusions Era to Early VR his pick ups were set to Seymours settings, so my info was not totally updated. Oh and theres nothing wrong with setting pick ups at any height, tone is subjective, but if you want the power closer is better.Richard_H wrote: As close to the strings without touching them? That can't be right at all.
Slash's pickups are rarely higher than the mounting ring itself....
The pickups aren't that high in these pictures.
Slashwannabe1 wrote:That may be the case now days where he's going for a cleaner tone in the early tour last year, but back during the Use Your Illusions Era to Early VR his pick ups were set to Seymours settings, so my info was not totally updated. Oh and theres nothing wrong with setting pick ups at any height, tone is subjective, but if you want the power closer is better.Richard_H wrote: As close to the strings without touching them? That can't be right at all.
Slash's pickups are rarely higher than the mounting ring itself....
The pickups aren't that high in these pictures.
That first picture, you can tell his Rhythm Pick up looks to be set pretty low, but on the rest its anyones guess. Not all guitars are created equally with pick up rings especially Les Pauls & their copy variants, whos to say he's not close to the Seymore measurements? unless someone is physically there with a measuring device its redundant to try to say how high they are from a picture point of view.
And yes he's a bit cleaner these days...He used to set his Jubilees at 7 for gain then at the start of this tour before the AFD100 he had them at 5. Now with the AFD100 he's going back to that more agressive sound.
Actually I don't know exactly, I always heard they were custom made.Richard_H wrote: You wouldn't by any chance know where he got his guitarstraps from back then?
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