different guitars means diff. amp settings

[kars0747]

My two favorite guitars are telecaster and a les paul. However - it is like two different worlds. The thing that works with humbuckers regarding your amp does not necessarily work with singlecoils. How do you guys go about it. Do you just turn the knobs on the amp or do you do it with pedals. I mean - it is quite a lot of tweaking as one thing is different voicings from guitar to guitar and another is different output

[bclaire]

I don't change anything. I switch at will between Teles, Les Paul, Johnny A,. Duesenbergs, Epi Supernova, etc.

I stopped playing my Strats because it just wasn't cutting it switching but when I used an EP Booster with a Strat it was all back.

[Boy_Narf]

On occasion if my Tele is "sounding/feeling" a bit thin I'll just bump up the gain to the next notch. Aside from that, I don't touch anything. Most of the time I just leave it as is.

[fiveightandten]

IMO, that's part of the allure of playing different guitars; they sound different from one another. With most of my amps, I don't adjust the EQ when I switch guitars. Though with my Vox stuff, I turn the treble knob down when I'm using single coil guitars and turn it back up for humbuckers. It's one knob, no big deal.

Does this mean you tried a Tele with your AD50?

[Ronnie Robinson]

No change, although I balance the pickup's so they have the same volume output, apart from that i play certain songs on certain guitars which I feel are best suited.

[kars0747]

IMO, that's part of the allure of playing different guitars; they sound different from one another. With most of my amps, I don't adjust the EQ when I switch guitars. Though with my Vox stuff, I turn the treble knob down when I'm using single coil guitars and turn it back up for humbuckers. It's one knob, no big deal.

Does this mean you tried a Tele with your AD50?

Yeah, sort of - a squier Tele, the cheap version. Hopefully I will borrow a real Tele to play all summer. It does sound nice though, and very, very different. No dark amp feeling for sure. I feel I have optimized my sound for the Les Paul, I feel like adding a little gain and bass when playing the Tele and shifting the palmer attenuator from 25% to only 35% attenuation.

[Les Paul Lover]

IMO, that's part of the allure of playing different guitars; they sound different from one another. With most of my amps, I don't adjust the EQ when I switch guitars. Though with my Vox stuff, I turn the treble knob down when I'm using single coil guitars and turn it back up for humbuckers. It's one knob, no big deal.

Does this mean you tried a Tele with your AD50?

Yeah, sort of - a squier Tele, the cheap version. Hopefully I will borrow a real Tele to play all summer. It does sound nice though, and very, very different. No dark amp feeling for sure. I feel I have optimized my sound for the Les Paul, I feel like adding a little gain and bass when playing the Tele and shifting the palmer attenuator from 25% to only 35% attenuation.

I've had some fantastic squiers in my hands, sone I would quite happily have kept, and gigged. They do a great job of offering high quality low price instruments.

I've been particularly find of the vintage modified telecasters. Great axes.

[guinefort]

AS far as settings are concerned, I always stick to the same setting whatever guitar I used. However, when I occasionally plays some early Sabbath tunes, I set the mid to zero.

I mostly use Gibson guitars. My main one is a Gibson LP 60 Tribute with 2 P90 and a SG 70 Tribute with 2 mini-humbuckers. I also recently bought second hand an ESP LTD EC-256 in excellent condition. I wonder if other members here have this particular guitar which can be bought second hand for quite a small price. Compared to the higher end Epiphone LP the store had in stock, this LTD sounded much better and was much cheaper. Also, it felt in hand much more like a well built guitar. I have been playing since 1968 on electrics and in my humble opinion, these are a very good alternative if one is short on cash. BTW, the first song I learned was Gloria by The Shadows of Knights way back in 1966 LOL!!! I wonder if anyone here remember that one.

[Dark Helmet]

Depends on the day and my mood...

Back when I actually played shows/gigs, I would have things pretty much dialed in so when I swapped guitars/amps, volumes were the same and I could accomplish any changes needed throughout the set with the guitars' controls or just bouncing between channels (I usually had 4 available AD30TC & TV50).

I also have a virtually non-existent pedalboard... wah, delay, and switches for the amps... so I have to create whatever sounds I want almost exclusively with instrument and amp.

since I don't really play out anymore, I do a lot more fiddling with the amps...

[Les Paul Lover]

It's normal to adjust settings for some guitars.

It just depends in what use you make of the guitar in your particular setting.

But adjusting for low end, brightness, volume and gain is all good. It only depends on what you want to achieve - gwtti g a similar tone, and playing on the different guitar tonality with minimum adjustments.

[Mystic38]

the biggest thing for me is the relative output of my pickups.. and seeing the way it interacts with the gain control (which really is an input level control)..
in my case if i am planning on switching guitars between strat and lp, i use a clean boost solely with a strat to up the output to parity with the level of the lp ..so amount of gain/volume is similar, but of course tonal character is still all strat.