Hi, people,
I speak french "un petit peu" but I have a rather limited vocabulary of guitar amplification terms so I will go on in english, if you don't mind
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I am a 2-Tone user since October 2009 and I couldn't be happier!
I was always a floor-preamp-into-a-powered-speaker-cabinet kind of guy and the 2-Tone is the best I could ever find (going from various Boss OD/distortions to SansAmp stuff and ending with this one).
My current basic rig is as follows:
Guitars -> various booster/ODs -> 2-Tone -> time based FX -> dbx 215s graphic EQ -> Fryette 2902 power amp -> Mesa Boogie Standard Rectifier 4x12 cabinet.
I play classic rock stuff and I use the 2-Tone in the following configurations:
1. Channel 1 - clean stuff, no break-up at all and with a little help from two other effects prior to it in my signal chain (a FMR Audio RNP compressor, set on a very mild compression and a Fulltone Fat-Boost set on a very mild clean boost; these two effects are, actually, always on in my rig no matter what channel the 2-Tone is on. They don't seem to add much when you engage them, but you will feel something is missing, as soon as you turn any of them off!!!)
This clean tone is used on split humbuckers or P-90 pickup in my guitars; it's very good, the single tone control on the 2-Tone is plenty enough and it's quite transparent: all guitars sound with their own voice.
2. Channel 2 - dirty rhythm, with gain at noon, master at noon and tone stack set for a typical V-shape (Bass on 10:30, Treble on 1:30).
This channel excels for dirty stuff played with the guitar volume either on 10 or backed-off, on all type of pickup-combinations. A myriad of tones can be obtained, from saturated metal stuff (on a guitar with a high output bridge humbucker), to semi dirty, almost clean stuff on split humbuckers, P-90s, single coils, etc., etc. Extremely versatile!
I actually prefer this channel with the guitar volume backed-off when I need semi-dirty stuff, rather than engaging an OD on channel 1!
3. Channel 2- pushed with a TS-9 (set as clean boost), for even more gain, for solos and super dirty stuff. Beautiful sustain, harmonics, etc.
For those of you requiring samples, here are three samples which I recorded some time ago, with another set-up (inferior to what I use now), but pretty good, however; the respective chain was the following:
Guitars (Reverend Double Agent or Ibanez RG470L with a Seymour Duncan Distortion in the bridge) -> Keeley TS-9 -> Fulltone Fat-Boost (always on) -> 2-Tone -> iSP Decimator -> Eventide TimeFactor -> Peavey 31 band graphic EQ -> Tech 21 Power Engine 60 (solid state powered 1x12" cabinet, with 60W and a Celestion Seventy80) -> mic'ed with a Sennheiser e906 -> Universal Audio LA 610 MKII mic preamp -> Protools LE (no EQ or compression added, these are the raw tracks).
Clean
(Reverend Double Agent with P-90 in the neck -> Fat Boost -> 2-Tone on channel 1 -> Eventide TimeFactor):
http://tonefinder.com/files/51(...)7.mp3
Dirty
(Ibanez RG470L -> Keeley TS-9 -> Fat-Boost -> 2-Tone on Channel 2):
http://tonefinder.com/files/29(...)5.mp3
Solo
(Reverend Double Agent on bridge humbucker -> Keeley TS-9 -> Fat Boost -> 2-Tone on Channel 2 -> Eventide TimeFactor):
http://tonefinder.com/files/31(...)6.mp3
Thanks and please feel free to ask anything about the 2-Tone, I will share my experience with it.