Tape Echo

What do these amplifier settings, effects, and tones mean?

Knobs: Drive, Bass, Mid, Treble

Tones: Crunch, Twang, Class A

Effects: Tape Echo, Chorus, Phaser, Sweep Echo, Tremolo

Drive: 'Drives' the amp more to give a more 'rough' tone.

Bass: This is the low end, bottom frequency sound. If you turn if off, you won't heard the low notes very loudly. If you turn it right up you will have a very bassy sound.

Middle: This controls the mid frequencies, same as bass but the middle frequencies rather than bottom.

Treble: Same as the two above, but the high frequencies are controlled with this knob.

Crunch: A less harsh version of distortion. Gives the tone a more 'rock' sound.

Twang: Probably reverb. This is a sort of echo, that fades out. You can control the length of the reverb.

Class A: This is a type of valve amp. Class A valve amplifiers allow you to hear the "silence" between the notes.

Tape Echo: Tape echo differs from its modern day equivalent the digital delay in that a real tape loop is used to record the original signal and play it back a moment later. Modern tape echo units often only emulate a tape loop, but the effect is the same – a slightly warped sound where each echo seems to ‘decay’ in quality.

Chorus: This duplicates your guitar sound and makes it sound like there is more than one guitarist playing. It repeats the signal at very close intervals, milliseconds.

Sweep Echo: It sweeps the volume in, its good for ambient type stuff, and it can almost give a bowed like effect.

Tremelo: This is a quick up and down of the volume, giving a trembling effect to the sound.

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