Street Rod settings?

[jaywo]

Hi,

First time poster, just got myself a street rod 1x12 combo over in the UK. I love the sound but on the overdrive channel I'm struggling to hear the amp in the band mix. Does anyone have any settings suggestions which would help this? I'm using it for relatively low gain stuff so got the gain at 9 o'clock currently.

Thanks for any help

Jaymi

[elmariachi]

Hi Jaymi,

I set my EQ at 666..
Bass- 1 o'clock
Mid - 1 o'clock
Treble - 1 o'clock

I also set the presence around the same. I usually run 3rd gear (because I like the extra thump) and gain at 6 as well..
I also boost it in the front with either a Maxon OD808 set with the gain all the way down, output all the way up, and tone at noon. I also just started messing around with a Suhr Koko boost.

I always slice right through the mix without a problem. I've played this setup with other guitarists using Soldano Decatone, EVH 5153, Marshall JVM, Peavey 5150. Never had any trouble cutting through the band mix.

Make sure you're running at full power. Open the loop volume all the way up. I run my master around 9 0'clock (depending on how loud the band is).

Hope that helps!


Enrique

[jaywo]

Thanks for the suggestions. Was originally running on half power as was just practicing in a small room but noticed a big difference by turning to full power. Will check settings on effects loop too. Will try the 666 next practice.

[elmariachi]

Awesome! Yes, the amp sounds WAY better at full power. It seems to lose some of it's punch and growl at half power. There's really no need to use it because you can scale back the overall volume with the loop master. That allows you to keep the grunt of the amp and play at lower volumes.

HOPE YOU ENJOY IT!

[elmariachi]

Quick update. I was fiddling with my amp today and discovered I really like 1st gear with the gain almost all the way up. Around 4:30 - 5 o'clock. Everything else remains the same.
Great saturation and a little less "modern" sounding. Gonna try it on my QR 50 watter at next rehearsal too!

[cvogue]

Hey Street Rodders... I've heard there's interplay between the EQ controls, kinda like a Mesa apparently. If you modify one it changes how the others behave.

Have you found this to be true? Just wondering.

Also, what do you usually have your OD channel volume set to? As mentioned here full power is where it's at. I was getting complaints from the lead singer in the band that he can't hear himself. I don't want to attenuate things too much using the loop volume since it does sap the tone a bit. I have the volume probably at about 10:30, maybe that's too high? Others have had it at 9. This thing is freaking loud! Also... I've seen that the solo boost looses it's effectiveness if you have the channel volume up.

[gtrjunior]

I run m volume around 11 and use the loop volume to attenuate. Funny though, I don't notice any tone suck. Certainly nothing a presence control tweak can't fix. IMO of course. At rehearsal volume I've got the loop vol more than halfway attenuated and gig level is somewhere around noon-ish. Depending of course, on how loud the drummer is!!

[cvogue]

Update on dialing in my Street Rod at band practice today. It's getting better all the time... a few adjustments:

1. Cut the OD channel volume back to 9:00. Of course this makes the solo boost REALLY effective, it's also about 9-9:30 and sounds great.

2. Got the gain about 1:00, maybe more... will play with the gain more but this was a quick test and sounded good

3. Redid the EQ completely... started with all controls at zero and ended up with treble and presence pretty high, 2:00ish, bass low, 8:00 and mids cut a bit, about 10:00.

4. Adjusted the loop volume up a little bit and hit a chord... yeah!

Other guitarist said "Remember that tone!!!" it was awesome. All gear 1, used OD2 for solos along with the boost. Man it sounded great.

Used my MXR 10 band EQ pedal in the loop, helped a bit to increase the treble. Interesting that when the amp is louder this wasn't really needed. Needed to keep volume at a reasonable level.

Other guitarist also had a great idea, he'd like to hear some reverb since Splawns don't have any built in. I dialed in some spring reverb (just because I'm used to that from other amps) after everyone left and it sounded good, subtle but made a difference, will help give a bit more edge too, I was used to the built in reverb with my Blackstar, but now I have all the tone of the Splawn without the rasp/harshness of the HT-40. Again the Blackstar isn't a bad amp at all, quite good actually but it's still a $600 hybrid versus a $1900 all tube hand wired.

[cvogue]

Putting this one over here too!

OK, did some redialing in of the amp, was thinking there may be some tone suck going on from my pedals:

First took out everything, pulled the cables out of the loop (send/return) no cable even hooked up. Plugged directly into the front bypassing all the up front stuff.

The Splawn magic was back! Other guitarist helped me dial things in, he knows tone and likes to tinker so I played and he adjusted things, basically we found that it's more important to have the channel volume up than the loop less attenuated, the Street Rod likes the channel volume up around 10 or better. He also bumped up the gain to 2-3:00 I had it on 1:00 before.

Sounded great... OK, so what up with the pedals. First step was to bring back in the loop. I put the whole chain in and it really didn't affect the tone much (I have an MXR EQ, Zoom G3 multi effect and a TC Spark boost) so I left everything in. I did find that setting the G3 to "passive" sounded a bit louder and better, makes sense, I have the Splawn loop set on -10dB for instrument level effects.

I realized then that I needed my tuner, so I put only the tuner in the chain in front of the amp, sounded good. I took out the wah and put everything else back in and it still sounded good. Didn't get a chance to put the wah back in the chain, didn't want to really since at this point we were practicing and they were getting a bit tired of my tonal experiments!

So, brought the wah home and tried it out with my little practice amp and also through my Boss Micro BR with headphones. There is tone suck there, subtle depending on the amp and tones involved, but sometimes it was very noticable. I've heard (I think from gtrjunior and others) that Splawns are pretty picky about buffered pedals, especially wah pedals.

Anyway I may get to practice early on Saturday (didn't bring my amp home, too damn heavy!) and bring the wah and see what it does given the new settings etc... Or, just forget about the wah and enjoy my new tone!

[zionstrat]

Jun 22, 2017 22:56:54 GMT -5 cvogue said:

Putting this one over here too!

OK, did some redialing in of the amp, was thinking there may be some tone suck going on from my pedals:

First took out everything, pulled the cables out of the loop (send/return) no cable even hooked up. Plugged directly into the front bypassing all the up front stuff.

The Splawn magic was back! Other guitarist helped me dial things in, he knows tone and likes to tinker so I played and he adjusted things, basically we found that it's more important to have the channel volume up than the loop less attenuated, the Street Rod likes the channel volume up around 10 or better. He also bumped up the gain to 2-3:00 I had it on 1:00 before.

Sounded great... OK, so what up with the pedals. First step was to bring back in the loop. I put the whole chain in and it really didn't affect the tone much (I have an MXR EQ, Zoom G3 multi effect and a TC Spark boost) so I left everything in. I did find that setting the G3 to "passive" sounded a bit louder and better, makes sense, I have the Splawn loop set on -10dB for instrument level effects.

I realized then that I needed my tuner, so I put only the tuner in the chain in front of the amp, sounded good. I took out the wah and put everything else back in and it still sounded good. Didn't get a chance to put the wah back in the chain, didn't want to really since at this point we were practicing and they were getting a bit tired of my tonal experiments!

So, brought the wah home and tried it out with my little practice amp and also through my Boss Micro BR with headphones. There is tone suck there, subtle depending on the amp and tones involved, but sometimes it was very noticable. I've heard (I think from gtrjunior and others) that Splawns are pretty picky about buffered pedals, especially wah pedals.

Anyway I may get to practice early on Saturday (didn't bring my amp home, too damn heavy!) and bring the wah and see what it does given the new settings etc... Or, just forget about the wah and enjoy my new tone!

This is old thread, but new street rod owner and this is very helpful!

[cvogue]

Feb 14, 2018 18:03:33 GMT -5 zionstrat said:

Jun 22, 2017 22:56:54 GMT -5 cvogue said:

Putting this one over here too!

OK, did some redialing in of the amp, was thinking there may be some tone suck going on from my pedals:

First took out everything, pulled the cables out of the loop (send/return) no cable even hooked up. Plugged directly into the front bypassing all the up front stuff.

The Splawn magic was back! Other guitarist helped me dial things in, he knows tone and likes to tinker so I played and he adjusted things, basically we found that it's more important to have the channel volume up than the loop less attenuated, the Street Rod likes the channel volume up around 10 or better. He also bumped up the gain to 2-3:00 I had it on 1:00 before.

Sounded great... OK, so what up with the pedals. First step was to bring back in the loop. I put the whole chain in and it really didn't affect the tone much (I have an MXR EQ, Zoom G3 multi effect and a TC Spark boost) so I left everything in. I did find that setting the G3 to "passive" sounded a bit louder and better, makes sense, I have the Splawn loop set on -10dB for instrument level effects.

I realized then that I needed my tuner, so I put only the tuner in the chain in front of the amp, sounded good. I took out the wah and put everything else back in and it still sounded good. Didn't get a chance to put the wah back in the chain, didn't want to really since at this point we were practicing and they were getting a bit tired of my tonal experiments!

So, brought the wah home and tried it out with my little practice amp and also through my Boss Micro BR with headphones. There is tone suck there, subtle depending on the amp and tones involved, but sometimes it was very noticable. I've heard (I think from gtrjunior and others) that Splawns are pretty picky about buffered pedals, especially wah pedals.

Anyway I may get to practice early on Saturday (didn't bring my amp home, too damn heavy!) and bring the wah and see what it does given the new settings etc... Or, just forget about the wah and enjoy my new tone!

This is old thread, but new street rod owner and this is very helpful!

Hey zionstrat, welcome to the Splawn family!  Congrats on the SR. 

Forums can be a bit slow but there's lots of good info on here and feel free to ask questions.  All else fails email Scott, he's very good about responding.

[gtrjunior]

Feb 14, 2018 18:03:33 GMT -5 zionstrat said:

Jun 22, 2017 22:56:54 GMT -5 cvogue said:

Putting this one over here too!

OK, did some redialing in of the amp, was thinking there may be some tone suck going on from my pedals:

First took out everything, pulled the cables out of the loop (send/return) no cable even hooked up. Plugged directly into the front bypassing all the up front stuff.

The Splawn magic was back! Other guitarist helped me dial things in, he knows tone and likes to tinker so I played and he adjusted things, basically we found that it's more important to have the channel volume up than the loop less attenuated, the Street Rod likes the channel volume up around 10 or better. He also bumped up the gain to 2-3:00 I had it on 1:00 before.

Sounded great... OK, so what up with the pedals. First step was to bring back in the loop. I put the whole chain in and it really didn't affect the tone much (I have an MXR EQ, Zoom G3 multi effect and a TC Spark boost) so I left everything in. I did find that setting the G3 to "passive" sounded a bit louder and better, makes sense, I have the Splawn loop set on -10dB for instrument level effects.

I realized then that I needed my tuner, so I put only the tuner in the chain in front of the amp, sounded good. I took out the wah and put everything else back in and it still sounded good. Didn't get a chance to put the wah back in the chain, didn't want to really since at this point we were practicing and they were getting a bit tired of my tonal experiments!

So, brought the wah home and tried it out with my little practice amp and also through my Boss Micro BR with headphones. There is tone suck there, subtle depending on the amp and tones involved, but sometimes it was very noticable. I've heard (I think from gtrjunior and others) that Splawns are pretty picky about buffered pedals, especially wah pedals.

Anyway I may get to practice early on Saturday (didn't bring my amp home, too damn heavy!) and bring the wah and see what it does given the new settings etc... Or, just forget about the wah and enjoy my new tone!

This is old thread, but new street rod owner and this is very helpful!

Put Up a new thread with pics!!!!

[splawndude]

PLEASE





but yeah...welcome!