Gretsch G6122 '58 reissue: Using volume controls question
Posted: Tue Nov 19, 2019 6:00 pm
I've had a G6122 '58 reissue for about 10 years and play it regularly. I'm strictly a "bedroom player" and intermediate
fingerstyle player. I play the Gretsch through an LR Baggs Acoustic Reference Amp (*great* amp but no longer made) and when playing the Gretsch I use a Tech 21 SansAmp GT2 (classic/clean/tweed mode) and an MXR Carbon Copy Delay. The net result is a pretty descent sound trying to emulate the sound I hear on Chet, Yandell, Dobbins, Moseley, Hudson, Pennington, Kiser etc. recordings.
But, I am constantly "fooling around" with the three volume controls on the 6122. The master volume and individual volume controls for the two pickups. I go from putting the two p/u controls on full up and then the Master volume from off to a low setting, or I do the opposite, by putting the p/u controls on low and using master volume almost full up. And this is with the 3 position Master Tone switches in the center.
Question: I'm curious as to how other Chet Board members use their volume controls using guitars like the Gretsch or others that have a master volume and individual p/u volume controls. Is there any consensus as to which sounds best as described above, aka. Master full up and p/u controls low or Master down low and p/u controls up high. ????
Any thoughts on such would be greatly appreciated! Thanks!
Jim Jarrell
DeLand, FL
http://www.tabpigs.org
fingerstyle player. I play the Gretsch through an LR Baggs Acoustic Reference Amp (*great* amp but no longer made) and when playing the Gretsch I use a Tech 21 SansAmp GT2 (classic/clean/tweed mode) and an MXR Carbon Copy Delay. The net result is a pretty descent sound trying to emulate the sound I hear on Chet, Yandell, Dobbins, Moseley, Hudson, Pennington, Kiser etc. recordings.
But, I am constantly "fooling around" with the three volume controls on the 6122. The master volume and individual volume controls for the two pickups. I go from putting the two p/u controls on full up and then the Master volume from off to a low setting, or I do the opposite, by putting the p/u controls on low and using master volume almost full up. And this is with the 3 position Master Tone switches in the center.
Question: I'm curious as to how other Chet Board members use their volume controls using guitars like the Gretsch or others that have a master volume and individual p/u volume controls. Is there any consensus as to which sounds best as described above, aka. Master full up and p/u controls low or Master down low and p/u controls up high. ????
Any thoughts on such would be greatly appreciated! Thanks!
Jim Jarrell
DeLand, FL
http://www.tabpigs.org