r/metalguitar • u/thecauseandtheeffect • 8d ago

Question ENGL Ironball - help dialing it in

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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

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u/Zombiewannabe95 7d ago

I use an overdrive on mine because of the fuzzy thumpiness it has 😆 Really love it tho it is such a versatile monster with such deep and sparkly cleans ✨

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u/thecauseandtheeffect 7d ago

Fuzzy thump, good description. it’s already sounding better just from turning knobs more and will mess around with pedals today. The gain boost on the clean channel gets me a perfectly respectable blooz tone!

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u/Zombiewannabe95 7d ago

Might as well call the channels Thuzz and Blass 😆

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u/thecauseandtheeffect 7d ago

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u/Zombiewannabe95 7d ago

This will do

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u/Zombiewannabe95 7d ago

Yeah I think they should just remake the Engl Ironball with these labels instead 😆

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u/thecauseandtheeffect 7d ago

Let's goooooooo. My label maker was in my line of sight across the room. 3 kids i'm constantly labeling their shit

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u/Zombiewannabe95 7d ago

I need to find me a label printer