Lookin for da blues sound

halsam00

halsam00

Les Paulverizer
I have a Line 6 Spider III and I am having trouble dialing in a blues sound, anybody have any suggestions? Its a great little practice amp and I can get all kind of metal sounds out of it just can't seem to get da blues!

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halsam00 said:
I have a Line 6 Spider III and I am having trouble dialing in a blues sound, anybody have any suggestions? Its a great little practice amp and I can get all kind of metal sounds out of it just can't seem to get da blues!

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The hardest thing with those amps is to get a nice bluesy clean tone...not TOO clean but not metal, either...if they have a 1959 Bassman model that might be a good place to start...just work the amp model until it sounds good with no effects and then add a touch of reverb.
 
Yeah, that's always been my biggest beef with modelling is that slight breakup blues tone. I've been able to get some great cleans and some great high gain out of modellers, but the mild bluesy overdrive has always left me underwhelmed.
 
Try the neck pickup and rolling the volume down on the guitar to 6-7 to take off some of the grit.
 
Now I don't know anything about the line 6 stuff, but the vox stuff (ad100vth) has an ac15 model that sounds great. This is the head, direct into my computer over some backing tracks. I don't think the other models sound good at all though, but the ac15 is great. Does the line 6 have something similar, patch wise?

http://hc.bloodyvelvet.com/files/129/Blind Oyster Blues.mp3

http://hc.bloodyvelvet.com/files/129/Saturday Funk tele911.mp3

Oh, I used it for My Daddy was a Milkman guitar. Same patch.

And I used the vox for the bass, boutique clean patch with comp.
 
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