![]() Higher gain tones cover up a lot of things and can be easier to duplicate, but loud and clean is a bit like taking the stage naked. One problem with replicating someone’s Fender clean tone is it is a very revealing signal chain, so your guitar, hand technique, and even pick selections are going to be fairly audible. Don’t ignore the tone and volume knobs on the guitar either. You might consider a mid boost, like a Tube screamer pedal or patch with gain set low, or use EQ, to fatten things up a bit. The BB sound and many others (SRV Freddy King etc.) are Fender blackface or silverface amps that are fairly clean, maybe pushed to the edge of breakup. A lot of blues Strat players use the neck pickup, but the middle is also frequently used for a more cutting solo. That said, you can still get a “good” tone. There is no patch, pedal or magic settings that will make a Strat into a katana sound like Lucille into a cranked Fender. Building on the enormous success of its predecessor, the Boss Katana 50 MKII is a 50W modelling amp, packed with a wide range of high-quality sounds and effects, as well as super useful everyday features, like USB and headphone out for recording and silent practice, one-touch reset recall, power amp input for using with modellers and profilers. If you want to find new sounds that are the closest Ive ever gotten to tube feel Ive heard and dont really care for the onboard effects, go with the blackstar id60tvp. If you want to plug your laptop into your amp to get that you want, but without the fun of those amps youre modelling, then get the katana. The guitar plays a significant role, as do both your right and left hands. The katana is a very versatile characterless amp. Sorry, but the amp and pedals are only a small portion of the overall tone. I am losing my settings every time I power down the amp so I am leaving it on all the time! Perhaps because the 50 is more of a beginner's amp (under $300) there aren't a lot of owners here? But wow, it's powerful, it can even emulate tube amp vibes. ![]() I just thought I'd post my question here on BGU figuring there'd be ppl who own the 50, but I will post it on FB (I hate FB) and look on Reddit. Of course I don't have BB's strong, big fingers for vibrato.Here's examples: In fact there's a Facebook group, and another one on Reddit, where famous guitar geeks offer for free or cheap "patches" to download to your 50 (and I'm still figuring out how to do it where it's saved) and that's how you get the sound you want of any style or famous guitarist. So in theory, and it's way over my head tech wise, you can buy a cheap guitar at a pawn shop and if you know how to tweak the settings in Tone Central, you can create the sound coming out of a Lucille, or any sound you want. So this line of amps simulates their various pedals, one model allows a foot switch to be connected to it. Knowing what I do about marketing, I bet that Boss saw the writing on the wall, worried about the future of their pedal sales. played 8's? But the thing about the Boss Katana 50 amp is that you connect it to your laptop and using the Boss Tone Central, you can tweak the hell out of all the settings, many of the settings I never heard of (and I just retired from 44 years in the film/video/TV business), it's more in the realm of an audio studio engineer:
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