Using Fender amp with a Tonex

[Brad Sarno]

I've been having great luck with my little Tonex One pedal to go between guitar and pedal steel thru one amp.

For pedal steel I've been using Joe Rogers capture of the Octal Revelation tube preamp, and for guitar I've had good luck with a number of the stock tube amp models.

I turn OFF the speaker cabinet modeling in the Tonex.

Then I send it to my old Princeton Reverb or larger Fender amps for louder gigs. My main gigs are pretty quiet, so the Princeton is plenty powerful.

To get your traditional Fender tube amp to have a FLAT EQ response to go with the Tonex simply turn the treble completely OFF and the Bass off or maybe up just above minimum (1 on a Fender knob) to about 1.2 but WELL below 2. This makes the frequency response of a Fender tone stack type amp extremely flat which is what you want with a Tonex amp model.

If your Fender amp has a midrange control, set it to max, 10.

Fender tube amps set this way make great powered speakers for Tonex and other modelers.


Brad

[Tim Rose]

Yep. I run 2 of them with a Y splitter- (2 Tonexones into one amp input) for simultaneous guitar and steel. Modded the cable with resistors however.

[Brad Sarno]

Yep. I run 2 of them with a Y splitter- (2 Tonexones into one amp input) for simultaneous guitar and steel. Modded the cable with resistors however.

Mix resistors! Smart!


B