Amp Settings Help Please

So I've tried and tried and can't figure it out what settings to use for Trebel Mid and Bass to get the bright 50s sound to do songs like Earth Angel and Mr. Sandman justice. Help please!

Hi Dan,

your profile says you are using a Squier tele and a Bassman. So turn down the mids on your amp, some reverb, use the bridge pickup. The rest is in your fingers :roll:

Andreas

Thank you Blackbeer, so don't worry about the trebel and the bass? Leave them like halfway up?

Thank you Blackbeer, so don't worry about the trebel and the bass? Leave them like halfway up?

Hi Dan. For the songs you mentioned, I'd probably want more of a 'rounder' sound. By that, I mean i'd probably choose the 'both' pickup switch position, or the neck pickup.

I nice clean tone as well. start with your amp volume on about 3 or so. Then use the old tried and true method of setting all your amps tone controls on 5, and adding or subtracting from each control as your ears tell you.

Remember: set your amp with your ears, not your eyes!!

Can, ime, the tweed Bassman is a different amp from a BF Fender. ON a BF Fender, I do subscribe to the theory that '5' on the tone controls is a good starting place; and the volume setting will dictate what adjustment to those settings might need to be made with consideration of the player's guitar, style and the music being played.
The '59 Bassman has the tone controls in a different place along the series of gain stages. Where the BF amps have the tone stack in between the first two gain stages and therefor the tone adjustment have a great effect on the gain in the preamp, the BAssman tone stack is after the second gain stage and thereby doesn't do such radical things as the BF controls do. This along with the tendency to be a 'middier' amp than the BF Fenders allows a twed Bassman user to use a wider range of the tone controls at any volume setting. So, experiment with them....along with that presence.
I am goign to think that running the mids down lower is advisable, and you can try running the treble up rather high. The Bass helps define the whole spectrum, so you will want that to be set higher than the Mids, also, I think. T he presence will affect what goes on, so experiment with that control also. Getting to know your amp will allow you to get everything that is available there.
That said, that BAssman will never yield the sparkle of a later FEnder amp. The 5F6A Bassman, along with the tweed twins, wa moving in the direction of a cleaner and more powerful amp with the accompanying higher headroom; but that preamp is still a 'hot' preamp compared to the BF circuit. This preamp gain also demands more finesse in the pick attack because it yields a more dynamically responsive signal....at a certain setting, a heavy attack will yield distorion while a lighter pick attack will yield a clean signal.
side note: I don't remember the guitar being overly bright in that old music...broken joe might have a good suggestion.

On tweed amps (I know they all sound different), but I tend to just max everything on them except the presence and use the guitar's controls to get the right tone.

It's totally different from what I do on Blackface and Silverface amps, but it seems to work.

It also means you aren't always bending over your amp twindling knobs. You can just use pickup choice, the volume and tone pots, pick attack and how close to the bridge you play to get the tone you want. It's really fun to go from playing some twangy rockabilly lead to slap bass, just from swapping pickups rolling the tone back and switching to using the thumb instead of the pick.

Thanks everyone for all the advice it helps. I definitely found the neck only or both pups sounds a lot better than the bridge only.

Also, I've only had my bassman for a few weeks now so still learning the amp

The Tweed reissue is a bright amp. I run a 12AY7 in the V1 and like a tube rectifier (5U4GB) for more dynamics. I have to turn down the treble and presence and boost the mids with bass added to taste. I love my Tele through my Bassman. Very expressive! The tweed will not sound like a BF Twin. It is much more woolier in sound but can still sparkle depending on your pickups. Play with the controls to get desired brightness. I love my Tweed Bassman. Have fun, Wayne