PGCeaBEQ sandwich

[rockeroo]

I have heard it before, but last night was certainly the most clear. The PGCeaBLUE sandwich is a sonic-dream.

I was at church rehearsal playing my strat through a 71' Deluxe as I always do. We were chugging along through our set, and I decided to sit down on my amp (which was blasting down a hallway). I cranked it up just a little bit more (which is really not "cranking", about 2.4). I decided to run my SBEQ at 12V -- a new thing for me. I was also using my PGC, KLON and a Memory Man.

Strat > PGC > Klon > DMM > SBEQ > Deluxe

Sitting there on my amp, I was hearing warm, tight, responsive, gainy dirt layered in more harmonic overtones than I could count. I would lay into chords and riffs and still have complete clarity and the desired grit, and I could also sit back and play sweetly and tenderly when needed, with sustain for days. Rhythm work was pretty massive, and even though my amp was facing down a hallway, the team leader was saying, from the other side of the room, it was a biggest overdrive sound he had ever heard. I run my Klon pretty much as a clean boost (volume 11:00, tone 1:00 and gain 8:30), and he was swearing (not literally) that I had a distortion or heavy overdrive box hitting the amp. It was funny seeing his expression when I said, "No, that's the amp with compression, boost and EQ hitting the front-end." I guess he did not think it was possible to get dirt, heavy dirt, that way (a.k.a. that is killing my DS-1).

I can honestly say that my rig had never sounded better. I really think running the SBEQ above 9V does wonders for the harmonic resonance of a guitar and amp. I had never really tried to run it higher than 9V before, but that was the only difference to my normal rig last night. Everyone (in this forum) has beat it into my head: PGC + SBEQ + good amp = better tone than you are worth. I guess I never took it to heart until now. I am glad I finally did!

Cheers.

[Your name here]

I totally agree... I've run them at 18v since shortly after getting them both. They're the foundation of my clean (and sometimes dirty) sound. Even with my new AC20 Deluxe. I thought maybe I wouldn't use them as much with this amp, but they can even make it sound even more amazing at times... I might as well epoxy them both to my board at this point...