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the kind of tone that the Bassman® can deliver at higher gain settings, you had to crank it up loud
enough to do some serious damage to anyone who might be standing close by. Now you can get that
kind of tone at a bedroom or studio level — or even through your headphones! Try a Drive setting of
about 4 or 5 — it’s guaranteed to dredge up the best R & B licks you know.
* FENDER® and BASSMAN® are registered trademarks of Fender Musical Instruments Corporation
and are in no way associated or affiliated with Line 6. These product names, descriptions and images are
provided for the sole purpose of identifying the specific products that were studied during Line 6’s sound model
development.
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1964 Blackface ‘Lux
The Holy Grail for many blues, country, and “roots” players has
been a blackface Fender® Deluxe Reverb®. After listening to
quite a few candidates back when we were seeking the ultimate
Deluxe Reverb® for our 1964 Blackface ‘Lux model to be
based on*, we stumbled upon an extremely cool ‘64 Deluxe
Reverb®. We still haven’t found one better.
Most players love a Deluxe Reverb® when it’s turned up
to about 7 for a nice gritty sound that cleans up when you
back off your guitar’s volume knob just a little. Notice how
the tone control response changes as this Amp Model’s Drive
is changed: clean settings are crisp and present, while more
driven settings will mellow the high end. This is typical of
what you get from a Deluxe Reverb® and is nicely captured here. The Deluxe Reverb® itself has only
Bass and Treble controls, leaving us, once again, with the prospect of a couple knobs with nothing to
say for themselves. But fear not; in this case, we’ve set up the model’s Middle knob so you can add some
post-Amp Model Midrange contouring for a little more flexibility, while Presence adds, well, Presence.
Once again, set the Middle knob to its “neutral” 12 o’clock position and the Presence knob to 0 for the
classic Deluxe sound. Tweaked up right, this tone will cut through and sing. We jacked into Input 1 of
the Vibrato Channel to get this model cooked up.
* FENDER® and DELUXE REVERB® are registered trademarks of Fender Musical Instruments
Corporation and are in no way associated or affiliated with Line 6. These product names, descriptions and
images are provided for the sole purpose of identifying the specific products that were studied during Line 6’s
sound model development.
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1967 Class A-30 Top Boost
The 1967 Class A-30 Top Boost model is based on* a Vox®
AC 30. Music was changing in the early ‘60s and guitarists
were asking for more brilliance & twang. So the Jennings
Company, makers of Vox® amps, decided to add Treble and
Bass controls (and an extra 12AX7 gain stage, incidentally)
in addition to the Treble Cut knob it already had (which in
actuality was a sliding bandpass filter that always seemed like
it was working backwards); this additional circuit became
known as Top Boost.