How To Use Jazz Tube Amps

By Gwen Lowe


Blues or jazz music is a very interesting genre that would make use of very clean sounds or tones that do not have the grungy and heavy guitar sounds that rock or heavy metal would make use. Of course in order to get that smooth tone, one would have to make some adjustments to the amp to get it. Now if one plays this kind of genre, then he should probably know how to use jazz tube amps.

Now when one would want to play jazz music, he has to make sure that he has an amplifier that has tubes that can let out a sound specifically for this. So before he would play anything, he should first research on the amplifiers that are good for this type of music. Once he has bought it, then he can make some adjustments to get a nice tone.

Now the settings are extremely important simply because the settings are what would make the sounds. So the key here is to make sure that everything has the right settings so that it is possible to have the right type of tone. Now one of the important things that he should take note of would be distortions.

Now mainly, this kind of soft music does not make use of distortions like rock and heavy metal do because this type of music is slow and calm. So in order to get that blues sound, one has to make sure that there is very minimal distortion or none at all. What he would want is a smooth sound with not much effects.

Now if one would want to add a little bit of distortion in order to add variety, then he may actually do so. However, he has to be conscious to make sure that the distortion is only very little and very subtle. There are actually some jazz bands that use the distortion effect but only on a very minimal level.

Now distortion is one thing but there are actually the other settings that one must actually take note of too. In this type of music, one has to make sure to adjust the bass and the treble levels. He has to make sure that the bass is more and the treble is less.

Now the technique here is to put as little treble as possible and a lot of bass. So up the bass level quite high probably level seven and above. Now the treble should be put either at number five or a little bit less but never less than three otherwise there will be sounds that will be missing.

So as one can see, one has to make sure that his amp has to have the correct settings before he gets the tone he wants. Of course he has to make sure that he experiments a little bit and play around before he gets the hang of it. Now by making use of these basic settings, he would at least have an idea of how to go about.




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