I am trying to get a kind of Flea sound out of my xs400 head. I am sure most of you know what I am talking about, but it is the sound you get so that it sounds slightly distorted, but I am pretty sure it is just a really rich full bass sound. What settings would you guys suggest? It is the sound he gets in the song By The Way, Throw away your television, etc.
I know exactly what your talking about. To be honest.. .you can probably get that kind of a tone with a bass distortion pedal, with the distortion super low on it, so that you just get that growl. As for me.. i use a Mesa 400+, and i've got that tone just from the tubes. I bet you can get that tone from any all tube amp, if you feel like droppin the bones and the back.
Well I just bought a yorkville xs400. I am trying out the suggested settings from the user manual (duh, i know, but i didn't get one, so i needed to print it). I guess the closest setting is the one labelled Funkadelic, but the distortion from the overdrive just doesn't sound the same. Do you think maybe I got a bad tube?
Hay Circus, if funkadelic is close, try to move hi-mid to 9:00 and parametric mid to same and the freq to full ccw position, reduce bass and treble to 12:00, take out the compression and add full scoop. Put both gain and overdrive to 12:00..And adjust the blend back and forth. also try setting the gain to full and the overdrive to half way.
