im going to record a song that ive been practicing but i havent tried to find a nice tone i like. ive got a blue voodoo. Does anyone have some suggestions on some setting for a nice sounding clean

The guitar is the most important aspect of a good clean tone, not the amp.

If you can, borrow a buddy's fender stratocaster and switch it to the neck pickup. Awesome clean tone to be found there.

having a nice neck humbucker is also an option.

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Can only agree.


My Schecter C-7 sounds godly clean. Probably the metal/jazz design and the Seymour Duncan pickups.

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I have a blue voodoo. Although its probably not the one you have. What i do generally is obviously besides putting it on a neck setting, i put the highs probably at 12 oclock, mids like 2 oclock and bass about 1oclock or 2 oclock. Depends on the guitar too. If i'm using my charvel the bass is probably more like 3 but with my les paul no more than say.. 1 oclock.

What i like about my clean tone is its more of a thicker richer sound, instead of a ... perfectly clean crystal clear strat thin sound. I'm not the biggest fan of the thin sound with clean, so i beef up some of the mids lower the highs and raise the bass a little.

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id say an amp is most imporant. i use a vintage bogen/tweed 1x12 with a greenback for clean... i can use my rg321 (otherwise fucking disgraceful tone) with the bogen and it still has a good clean tone. but obviously the guitar makes a huge difference too

best simple solution for clean tone is EQ to get something halfway decent in my opinion.

though it does depend alot on the guitar, it also really depends on the amp, lets face it, there is no comparison between the cleans of a blue voodoo and an orange or a fender. Blue voodoos are designed to be high gain, and therefore have some sacrafice in clean tone. This doesnt make it impossible to get cleans out of it, just a bit more difficult. It means your guitar MUST have a low gain pickup for cleans, preferably in the neck (keeps it from sounding thin). I, personally, would not be able to achieve cleanliness with a blue voodoo because my neck pickups are an EMG 85, and a dimarzio super 2, both fairly hot pikups. But hey, throw a jazz, '59, or any kind of PAF in there, and you'll be in business.

another more expensive option is this little buddy
http://www.mesaboogie.com/Product_I...win/v-twin.html
they dont make them anymore, but im sure you can find one used. they will sexy up your clean tones with ANY amp, including fender champs (which i find distort when you put the volume past 4)

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Well in response to this you're probably right. But i guess the question is less of wanting a clean tone, as what KIND of clean tone, because there is all sorts. If crystal clear and zero thickness in sound is what you're striving for, probably a fender amp with some form of a strat is what you would want.

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my blue voodoo sounds freakin great for cleans. like i've said..i think its broken, but...out a single coil through that thing and it sounds awsome. any kind of clean you want.

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you are a lucky bitch...

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ACtually my bvh300 i guess prides itself in being the one of the loudest cleanest clean out there. I've got this thing rediculously loud and never heard an ounch of distortion. But thats what 300 watts of head room allows.

I can't speak for other blue voodoos though.

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i love blue voodoo's.
my blue voodoo has some nice cleans when i go on the neck pickup. i've never turned it up too loud so i cant say how much clean head room it has, but i dont play clean enough to care that much. All i know is its an all around good amp.

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hey found a new thing about cleansssssss...

add a TOUCH of chorus, or bass chorus for that matter, to your guitar. and when i say touch, i mean keep it as slow as you can, and as quiet as you can. bass chorus is better because it doesnt sound so much like a chorus effect as it does a fat clean sound... keeps it from sounding too thin.

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Hmm interesting idea. I'll have to try that

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on mine you have to turn the reverb up. the more i turn the reverb nob the better sound i get. but the reverb makes it sound shitty. confused yet? me too. the amp sounds better as the nob is turned but the reverb gets in the way of the sound. thats what kinda fucked up my BV is

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my amp does that too...
more reverb more noise more his.
but from what i know about my amp already it needs a new input jack cuz sound cuts when i hit the strings hard, then i got to push in the jack and twist it around

I use my strat for cleans

How do you guys eq your clean channels? I forget how mine is set right now

The eq isnt as important in the cleans as in the distortion

I give mine maybe a bit above noon on the highs and mids and since i use my neck pickup exclusively for cleans i need to roll off the bass a bit more

EQ your guitar is more important for cleans,volume knob,tone,pickups,ect.I tend to coil tap neck pickup,roll down the volume a tab,as with the tone knobs.