DJselfdestruct Posted January 6, 2010 Share Posted January 6, 2010 hi guys, right i was wondering if u chaps could help me with a problem. I bought a blackstar ht 5w combo amp to use with my casino after much persuasion from the salesman, who to be honest was a massive prick and it became obvious he was trying to slog me off with anything. I told him i wanted to get an oasis kinda tone, i'm into bands like queens of the stoneage, arctic monkeys, the strokes, bowie, the stones, dylan etc... and im a massive beatles fan and had my heart set on the casino from day one really. im wondering if i got the right amp for the job realy, distorting it and giving it that clean overdriven oasis sound is provin difficult. my setup sounds to dirty and theres to much feedback at louder levels. is there anyway i can combat this. i want a nice overdriven tone with more sustain. ive asked guys in guitar shops round my way and the nicer more helpfull peeps think a tube screamer would help. i wanna know if a big muff would match well for fuzz tones and i've had my eye on the rat pro co 2 pedal as well. any advice wud be much apreciated as i plan to purhase this weekend. cheers :) and sorry for the long rant lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Swoop Posted January 6, 2010 Share Posted January 6, 2010 I don't have any experience with the HT-5, but the best way, I find, to get that kind of fuzzy, biting, but still kind of clean sound from any guitar is to, on the dirty channel, set your gain relatively low, but turn the channel volume up. This will give you that warm. tube overdrive sound. If the amp has a master volume, you can use that to modulate the overall volume, so you can still have that overdriven sound at a volume that is more acceptable to your parents, neighbours, etc. I think a lot of it has to do with your pick attack too. I myself am pretty heavy handed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ricochet Posted January 6, 2010 Share Posted January 6, 2010 As much as I like my Blackstar HT5 I would never recommend it for an Oasis sound. It does an admirable impression of a blazing Marshalltype stack at bedroom volume level, which is why I bought it, but beyond that... Not sure a pedal is gonna help either. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
peeper Posted January 7, 2010 Share Posted January 7, 2010 not to mention a casino is not the least feedback prone design out there by far. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bender 4 Life Posted January 7, 2010 Share Posted January 7, 2010 you can either......... turn the gain down to below 2.5, the ISF to 1 mark towards U.K. tone, and position yourself to combat the feedback.......... OR using the clean channel, turn the volume and mids wayyyy up, ISF 1 mark towards U.S. tone, and " " " combat the feedback...... Mine is a head/cab unit........but I LOVE IT !!!! P.S. you can stuff either handtowels, or pre-manufactured, shaped fillers into that Casino to eliminate the feedback. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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