![]() ![]() ![]() So the floor is fine there and thats how i usually use it. Only problem is at home i really like the amp up high because i tweak and play with it a lot unlike at a jam where i generally just play. In any case, i had to re tweak my patches to compensate for this huge difference and once i did the amp sounded even better. Maybe it's this place the acoustics, tho my GT never seemed so different. I do realize this is typical of any amp, but not to THIS degree. My jcm 800 patches that i thought were a bit bass shy i had to lower the bass now. Had to put the global EQ to flat and lower the bass on all my patches cept for the blues Jr. Totally different amp and i'm not exaggerating. No longer do i need the bright cut on, and now i know why stilwel was so insistent that a friedman setting i shared was way too bassy ! On the floor it literally has double if not more low end and the highs are much less even when standing far enough away to get a more straight earshot or when tilting it back. Well sir, i'll be damned but this amp sounds so much different on the floor than on the ext cab i had it sitting on (not using it, just using as amp stand) that everything has changed radically. the Mustang GTX 100 is a better amp choice today IMHO Mustang GT/GTX rules in the lower stage volume environment, and can play loud as well, but know a genuine Vox AC 30 Top Boost Tube Amp on "10" will be substantially louder than a Mustang GT, while a Katana 100 Head into a Katana 2x12 closed back cab can easily compete Decibel level with a Marshall 50 4x12 cab, and both will be louder than a Mustang GTX 100.īring the right tool for the job, but know today playing at lower decibel levels with a great tone gets your band rehired and able to play a wider variety of venues - if you hit it big and play with a giant PA, the FOH mixer will have a much better time getting your band a great sound out frontĪnd If you never leave home. If you must play Loud, I give the edge to a Katanaīut in my case playing at those ear bleed SPL levels are a thing of the past -and many bands have migrated to in Ear Monitors, or use gear that gets a good sound like a recording at a much lower volume, where the drummer is often behind plexiglass screens, not to overwhelm the singer. Its all about what volume level you must playĪnd Are you in a band competing with another guitarist with a genuine Tube Amp, with a heavy hitting metal drummer? Just one man's opinion, but if you can't get tone thats good enough for you from the GTX by itself, i'd bet you never will without dropping the modeling dream and going back to tubes, and probably expensive ones at that. Your call, but i'd look to the GTX as a all in one amp and give it a chance to see if it will do that for u w/o all that outboard crap. But what i do need it has, and all of it and with tone that does the #1 thing and really only thing tone needs to do.allow u to just play w/o ever thinking about what knob you need to twist to make things feel and sound right throughout the nite. Personally, 95% of what the mustang does i don't even need. So I certainly don't wanna start pumping floor modelers thru the GTX and looking for all sorts of ways to accomplish what the GTX does by itself with nothing more then a guitar and cable and footwswitch. Simple as a single channel tube amp may seem, to get them to do exactly what i need was a royal PITA with all the pedals and power supplies and numerous cables and torubleshooting the crap every other time out. I DO want the ability to deep edit just so i can really nail the tones i want well enough, but the last thing i need is all the BS i used to go thru with tube amps. ![]()
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