Amp Sound

Shanegggg

Any1 how to get that thin lizzy sound out of an amp?
I own a Marshall MG100DFX.

qz

Gain - 2/10
Bass - 5/10
Contour - 5/10
Treble - 7/10


Maybe???

feylya

Best thing to do is start with all the knobs on the distortion channel facing straight up. Then add or remove whatever frequencies you think should be removed. Thin Lizzy didn't have a high gain sound so you don't need rake loads of distortion.

Try more treble, slightly more mids and low bass with not a lot of distortion and see how you get on.

jcoote

yeah thats the best way to do any eq settings start at the middle setting and adjust them according to tone and feedback... your drive should probably only at about 3 or 4 cos they used more of a dirty sound than a power rock sound... if u have the manual off the amp it should have suggested settings in it... that might get your ball rolling

Eoin Madsen

The frequency curve will be unique to your guitar and amp configuration, so the changes to make it more Lizzy-like are going to be relative to what you're beginning with. Feylya has it right there pretty much. Just get as close as you can.

If you were to be puritan about it... the Thin Lizzy kind of distortion tone probably comes from an equally cranked valve power-stage as well as valve preamp, which is a sound you can't really approximate with a solid state amp anyway.

You might get some interesting results by turning your master volume all the way up and just using your gain to control the volume.

juno75

Any1 how to get that thin lizzy sound out of an amp?

Valves and balls :cool:

JacoStanley

I used to be in a Lizzy cover band called "I can't believe it's not lizzy" and whilst I'm a bass player, I found that the most authentic lizzy sound we got was when the guitarists took alot of the distortion out of the guitars and either used a clean sound or just a dirty sound by using the knobs on the guitar. Pat Kilty from Blues up Front uses the same way, just goes straight into the amp and controls the distortion by the volume. But I'm not a guitarist.

JMArr

Didnt lizzy use phaser/flanger on some songs like ...Boys R Back?
try that ...ideally use a humbucker guitar tho I would say and not too much distortion.... Try cuttin out the Mids as well.

McMalley

sorry bout jumpin on ur thread but does anyone know how to get a good lizzy sound out of a GT3?

jcoote

use one of the marshall amp models and a humbucker pickup model and after that its just the eq on your amp bud