Loud Amp Or Quiet Amp For Recording? [100 Vs 5 Watts, Can You Feel It?]

Fours sounds recorded loud and quiet – what are we feeling? Life too short for long YouTube videos? Please see the ‘Interesting bits and go-to sections’ information below. Welcome to the show! You can great great tones loud. And you can great tones quiet. But we’re not here to argue any of that. We’re here to expand the discussion around feel and connection to your sound that may motivate or indeed repress your playing. Thusly, we play four similar tones at high volume and at low volume and discuss the results. What do you enjoy most and what’s most appropriate for your situation? And, inevitably, where is the compromise? Enjoy the show! Questions arising – Mick here, hello. I feel compelled to write this. This video is potentially very confusing and little bit frustrating to watch. The temptation is to focus on the tone of the two amps, and of course while the Bugera sounds really blimmin’ good, it’s hardly surprising that a top-flight boutique amp like the Two-Rock is going to light us up a bit more. Or indeed you may much prefer the Bugera, which is equally valid. However… This video is not about the subjectivity of tone. It’s about comparing the feel and response of volume and what might be most appropriate for recording. And that’s the frustrating part, because there is literally no way of conveying that fully in a YouTube video. In any YouTube video. That last sentence is massively important and we’d be doing you a disservice to not spell it out. We can discuss the reactions and try to explain the concepts but with this gear and any other gear, you HAVE to be in the room to really understand whether it’s going to work for you or not. And that’s not some kind of cop-out for this video’s shortcomings. It’s plea to anyone who thinks a YouTube demo tells you what something sounds and – more importantly – feels like. It really does not. It's only a small part of the story and we’ve always been open about that. Please get in a room and experience this stuff! Room mics? We said we were going to get into that, but didn’t. We felt it would add more confusion. Let the record show we adjust the gain on the room mics in keeping with the close mics for each of the loud and quiet sounds. Enjoy the show! Pedals and stuff in today’s video • Custom pedalboard by Alder & Ash https://www.alderandashpedalboards.com/ • TheGigRig Three2One https://www.thegigrig.com/three2one • Sonic Research ST-200 Turbo Tuner Australia: http://bit.ly/2mR1s8c • Origin Effects Cali 76 Compact Deluxe UK & Europe: https://bit.ly/3zaTX5Z Australia: http://bit.ly/2ZA9MfE • Jim Dunlop JHF1 Jimi Hendrix Fuzz Face Distortion UK & Europe: https://bit.ly/3zaTX5Z • Mythos Olympus Overdrive UK & Europe: https://bit.ly/3zaTX5Z Australia: https://bit.ly/3JRfSQV • Vahlbruch Kaluna Valve Overdrive https://www.vahlbruch-fx.com/en/ • Jam Pedals Waterfall Chorus UK & Europe: https://bit.ly/3zaTX5Z Australia: https://bit.ly/3nb8JzN • Walrus Audio ARP-87 Delay UK & Europe: https://bit.ly/3zaTX5Z Australia: http://bit.ly/2xXMsvF • Catalinbread Topanga Reverb UK & Europe: https://bit.ly/3zaTX5Z Australia: http://bit.ly/2qVOTyJ • The Gigrig G3 https://www.thegigrig.com/g3 Interesting Bits & Go-To Sections 0:00 Intro playing 2:00 What are we doing today? 4:02 Our loudest & quietest amps 5:30 Volume & our recording chain 7:48 Two-Rock & Bugera basic tones 9:06 Bugera at 1 and 0.1 watts 10:03 L&Q Sound 1 - Dan’s Happy Place 12:52 Reaction to Sound 1 13:46 Try more volume in headphones? 15:13 Play in the control room? 16:47 Live vs recording? 17:45 L&Q Sound 2 - Low Gain Rhythm 21:09 Reaction to Sound 2 22:30 Setting up sounds quietly? 23:13 L&Q Sound 3 - Higher Gain Riff 24:52 Reaction To Sound 3 26:18 More Sound 3 – more feedback 29:17 More Sound 3 reaction 33:50 L&Q Sound 4 – Stratty Fuzzy 36:45 Reaction to Sound 4 38:11 Sound vs Tone vs Volume 40:45 Closing thoughts Guitars • Fender Custom Shop ’63 Telecaster - Dan’s video here    • That Pedal Show – Our Guitars & Gear: Dani...   • Gibson Custom True Historic ’57 Les Paul Goldtop, Murphy Aged - no video yet • Epiphone Casino - Mick’s video here    • Epiphone Casino Pickup Swap: Average To Aw...   • Gretsch G6228 Player’s Edition Jet BT w/V Stoptail - video here    • What About Gretsch Guitars? That Pedal Show   • 1961 Fender Stratocaster - video here    • Three New Strats For Mick?! [1961, 1970, F...   Amps • Two-Rock Classic Reverb Signature & 212 cab with TR1265B speakers • Bugera T5 Infinium & 1x12 Tone King cab with custom Celestion 1660 speaker We hope you enjoy this episode. Please subscribe. You can buy TPS merch to support our efforts https://www.thatpedalshowstore.com We are on Patreon – crowdfunding for creatives   / thatpedalshow   Please visit our preferred retailers! UK & Europe: Andertons Music https://bit.ly/3zaTX5Z Australia: Pedal Empire http://bit.ly/2mWmJQf