64 for the cleans, LS for the lead tone. Both great, and yet another great video. Your QC vids are easily my fave QC content on YT, not least because you generally live in a similar tonal and stylistic space to me. The videos where you try the most popular captures / amps / presets on the Q Cloud are fab as well. Thanks for your efforts.
Couldn't agree more. Clean and edge = Deluxe. More overdriven stuff: I did like your Lonestar. At least on my Adam monitors. Definitely will check out that patch from the cloud. I'm also interested in that IR combo. Have not tried that before. I will say that that free package of IR's from Amalgam has come in mighty handy with the Fenders, Voxes and Marshalls that I'm using. And thanks for keeping the delay subtle. Too many folks comparing amp models have them so full of goo as to be distracting lol...
Thanks for the comparison. I haven't spent much time with the 64 model yet. The Fender sounds a bit more dynamic to me so works better clean. Pushing very dynamic amps can make them too boisterous which your comparison shows. Still, it's encouraging that NDSP's models can behave like real amps.
Once again, great video, and extremely helpful to hear the comparison. I recently swapped out the lone Star and replaced it with the 64 for my clean tones, and i really love it. I am playing with humbuckers, and to be honest, my clean tone has slightly more grit than yours. I do not like flubby low end, so I need to go back and check to see how I have the bass set on mine. Like you say, they are both good and usable in different situations for different players. I had nothing against the Lone Star when I swapped it out, I just wanted to try the Fender to see how I liked it. I might go back and try my Lone Star patch now and see if my opinion has changed! I also find your comment interesting about how Neural DSP seem to be adding new models that take up a bit more DSP. I obviously love improved tones when unavailable, but some of my complex scenes might start running out of power! 😱 Thanks again for all you do!
The presence on the Lone Star is a high cut (not a traditional presence control in the power amp feedback loop). So turn it all the way up to get a closer match to the 64.
You might want to try the Vibrato Channel with no bright cap and the treble back up a little - it's in the drop down menu there. Many pro real life users remove the bright cap - it helps the drive with the channel volume is below 5.
I still prefer the LS. The 64 to me has higher mids popping through . I think single coils/ humbuckers will define the ultimate preference . I could hear at times that both amps have benefits. So perhaps a dual amp setup would be good?
Only the cleanest of settings of the new amp sounded usable for me. And that said, a super clean sound like that is not something I find I reach for within a band or recording process, because it has no life , sparkle and struggles to cut live or in a mix. My clean sound is often the Lone Star dirty channel set with the gain very low, almost off. Then I can play light and get clean with character, dig in and get the sound of the amp starting to push or stack a drive and it REALLY sounds like an amp starting to run hot instead of just an overdrive pedal in front of an amp, a tone I find unsatisfying.
Please would you be so kind as to create the exact preset tone of the song: the best of times Dream Theater the solo thanks I wish you could I would love it
64 for the cleans, LS for the lead tone. Both great, and yet another great video.
Your QC vids are easily my fave QC content on YT, not least because you generally live in a similar tonal and stylistic space to me. The videos where you try the most popular captures / amps / presets on the Q Cloud are fab as well. Thanks for your efforts.
Thanks, I really appreciate that.
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I love your videos. I'm always learning multiple things. Thanks.
Agree, this is my favorite channel for QC content. It has been really helpful to learn how to build effective presets.
Thanks Dav! ❤
Couldn't agree more. Clean and edge = Deluxe. More overdriven stuff: I did like your Lonestar. At least on my Adam monitors. Definitely will check out that patch from the cloud. I'm also interested in that IR combo. Have not tried that before. I will say that that free package of IR's from Amalgam has come in mighty handy with the Fenders, Voxes and Marshalls that I'm using. And thanks for keeping the delay subtle. Too many folks comparing amp models have them so full of goo as to be distracting lol...
The 64 has became my go to amp for blues rock stuff
Thanks for the comparison. I haven't spent much time with the 64 model yet.
The Fender sounds a bit more dynamic to me so works better clean. Pushing very dynamic amps can make them too boisterous which your comparison shows.
Still, it's encouraging that NDSP's models can behave like real amps.
Once again, great video, and extremely helpful to hear the comparison.
I recently swapped out the lone Star and replaced it with the 64 for my clean tones, and i really love it. I am playing with humbuckers, and to be honest, my clean tone has slightly more grit than yours. I do not like flubby low end, so I need to go back and check to see how I have the bass set on mine.
Like you say, they are both good and usable in different situations for different players. I had nothing against the Lone Star when I swapped it out, I just wanted to try the Fender to see how I liked it. I might go back and try my Lone Star patch now and see if my opinion has changed!
I also find your comment interesting about how Neural DSP seem to be adding new models that take up a bit more DSP. I obviously love improved tones when unavailable, but some of my complex scenes might start running out of power! 😱
Thanks again for all you do!
The presence on the Lone Star is a high cut (not a traditional presence control in the power amp feedback loop). So turn it all the way up to get a closer match to the 64.
The Lone Stars are the Fenders of the Mesa/Boogie family
You might want to try the Vibrato Channel with no bright cap and the treble back up a little - it's in the drop down menu there. Many pro real life users remove the bright cap - it helps the drive with the channel volume is below 5.
I still prefer the LS. The 64 to me has higher mids popping through . I think single coils/ humbuckers will define the ultimate preference . I could hear at times that both amps have benefits. So perhaps a dual amp setup would be good?
Only the cleanest of settings of the new amp sounded usable for me. And that said, a super clean sound like that is not something I find I reach for within a band or recording process, because it has no life , sparkle and struggles to cut live or in a mix. My clean sound is often the Lone Star dirty channel set with the gain very low, almost off. Then I can play light and get clean with character, dig in and get the sound of the amp starting to push or stack a drive and it REALLY sounds like an amp starting to run hot instead of just an overdrive pedal in front of an amp, a tone I find unsatisfying.
How do you like to set the EQ dial? Normal, Think, or Thicker?
Please would you be so kind as to create the exact preset tone of the song: the best of times Dream Theater the solo thanks I wish you could I would love it