ASATKat
Poster Extraordinaire
I have a Katana 100 M2, it has around 10 user slots, I have never used them.
No need, I have memorized my favorite mode settings, all written down just to have it. No deep editing.
Mode 1, my favorite setting is what I call Two Rock, clean warm full chime, based on Steve Kimock and John Mayer's Two Rock Slow Dancing tone. Close enough but it's not a 6k dollar amp.
Mode 2, is my classic blues rock, I have a tone I copped from a youtube video called Awesome Blues Tone. It is a nice Fenderish blues tone that articulately handles complex chords without any mush or out of phase crop.
Mode 3 wonderfully provides me with a variety of SRV sounding tones. This shows off how the bass mid treble and gain knobs are voiced to really dial in these sounds. Less gain and a tone knobs twist provides the best Peter Green tone I heard out of an amp without any pedals, turn down the gain and get Albatross, turn it up 1/2 way and get throaty Oh Well tone. Killer. I could go on.
Mode 4 provides me with a killer Gary Moore Still Got The Blues tone, and a small tweak away I have two very nice Santana tones, one old school Evil Ways tone, the other one new school Smooth tone.
I don't need to save these tones, they're easy enough to remember. PLUS, it's fun and cool to turn knobs on an amp when playing, unless you're lost. Call it old school, I call it cool school. My main guitar is my '96 G&L ASAT Special three bolt neck. What more do I need?
A tuner, the Kat has no tuner,
No need, I have memorized my favorite mode settings, all written down just to have it. No deep editing.
Mode 1, my favorite setting is what I call Two Rock, clean warm full chime, based on Steve Kimock and John Mayer's Two Rock Slow Dancing tone. Close enough but it's not a 6k dollar amp.
Mode 2, is my classic blues rock, I have a tone I copped from a youtube video called Awesome Blues Tone. It is a nice Fenderish blues tone that articulately handles complex chords without any mush or out of phase crop.
Mode 3 wonderfully provides me with a variety of SRV sounding tones. This shows off how the bass mid treble and gain knobs are voiced to really dial in these sounds. Less gain and a tone knobs twist provides the best Peter Green tone I heard out of an amp without any pedals, turn down the gain and get Albatross, turn it up 1/2 way and get throaty Oh Well tone. Killer. I could go on.
Mode 4 provides me with a killer Gary Moore Still Got The Blues tone, and a small tweak away I have two very nice Santana tones, one old school Evil Ways tone, the other one new school Smooth tone.
I don't need to save these tones, they're easy enough to remember. PLUS, it's fun and cool to turn knobs on an amp when playing, unless you're lost. Call it old school, I call it cool school. My main guitar is my '96 G&L ASAT Special three bolt neck. What more do I need?
A tuner, the Kat has no tuner,