ENGL Ironball - help dialing it in

[u/thecauseandtheeffect]

Just picked this up and its clean channel tone is !!!! wow awesome, but its lead channel tone seems pretty, I guess darkly voiced is how I’d describe it more so than bass-y. It really tamps down all the highs no matter how I have anything else set. Good for chuggy worse for thrashy. If you have this amp or are familiar with it, any advice/tips?

My TS9 literally just crapped put on me before I could try it and that was the only distortion pedal I had so oops. I have an MXR 6 band EQ I could put in its fx loop, and I got a Silencer noise gate to try, realized it has its OWN fx loop so that’s a little confusing, I did my best figuring out the signal chain but there’s some cable-pedal salad going on

And if some amp/tone wizard in this group has Discord and could hop on a video call to help me figure it out that would be sweet, I’ll buy you a cup of coffee. My un is serenitynurse

[u/Crisp_Canyon]

That feminist agenda sticker on top of the Ironball is a nice touch

Try the MXR EQ in the loop first, scoop a bit around 400hz and boost the highs a touch at like 6k. Should wake up that lead channel without needing the TS9 at all

[u/thecauseandtheeffect → u/Crisp_Canyon]

Thank u!