john mayer two rock tone

[paisley_tele]

can a d lite 22 capture that tone here gets. i know he boosts his signal with pedal and i dont have his tone but aint it mostly a dumble-ish dlite tone ? check this out here intro and lead parts . mostly the intro http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4KWCKaSJbrQ

[ayan]

can a d lite 22 capture that tone here gets. i know he boosts his signal with pedal and i dont have his tone but aint it mostly a dumble-ish dlite tone ? check this out here intro and lead parts . mostly the intro http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4KWCKaSJbrQ

Sounds great, the intro reminded me a lot of contemporary Clapton!

Gil

[JimiB]

yes dlite on clean with 6L6's and a tubescreamer will deffinetly get you there.

[paisley_tele]

the dilte 22 uses 6v6 can i use the 6l6 with weber 5e3 transformers

[JimiB]

probably not - either way those probably arent the transformers you want.

[paisley_tele]

someone siad that the first d lite was built using those transformers.

[jaysg]

Do we think that's the OD channel with no PAB, non-HRM?

[paisley_tele]

huh?

[jaysg]

huh?

Those songs are fairly recent, so it's a Two Rock or a Dumble.

[paisley_tele]

oh ok ! from what i gather , he is using the regular channel and a ts808 for the leads. but my question would be is it in the dumble tone of can a fender 6l6 get there better. is it better to build the 22 lite or a 6l6 fender

[JimiB]

if you build a clean channel only dlite with 6l6's it will be like a really nice refined fender. I would suggest using a decent size OT meant for 6l6's - say a multi-tap bf bassman OT or similar, and a PT that will put 450V or so on the plates.

[JimiB]

Jay,
I've been told he only uses the clean channel of the dumbles. His signature two rock only has one channel, so its probably clean channel and an OD pedal.

[paisley_tele]

what would the differance be if i used the 6v6's .

[brownnote]

someone siad that the first d lite was built using those transformers.

I said that they'd work OK, but not much low end and not optimal for 6L6.
Use bigger iron...the 6V6 OT we use is heftier than the 5e3 OT and I think it's needed.

If you run 6L6 with the bluesmaster PI on an otherwise stock d'lite build you can get a great 'texas strat' tone, 100K/1.5K/10-25uf plates on V1 makes the cleans really juicy, you may need to lean out the OD a little though.

[Buschman]

My Dlite with 6l6s when cranked to gig volume is very similar to the intro tone on the clean channel. It cleans up like the second part of the song with a twist of the volume knob. I am using hot rod deluxe OT.