What Is The Difference Between Pre amp and Power Amp Overdrive? Boss Katana
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- Опубликовано: 26 авг 2024
- There are always Questions about how to use the Volume and gain knobs on the amp! This gives you some idea of the different sounds that come from each side of your master volume amp. Thank You so much for watching Dylan Talks Tone!!! Please consider subscribing
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Five year old video but still very relevant today. Fantastic explanation and very much appreciated. Thank you Dylan
Definitely prefer the driven power amp sound.
Great video Dylan
Thanks for the explanation on how to drive the Katana pre-amp and the power amp separately to get different sounds. It wasn't 100% clear to me from the visuals as several times you turned your back to adjust the settings but didn't show the controls you were adjusting, but I assume that the Gain and Volume dials in the Amplifier section apply to the pre-amp, and the Master dial in the unnamed section on the far right appliies to the power amp.
I have a Boss Katana Artist. My default setting is crunch with master on full (cranked all the way up), presence at about 10 o'clock, channel gain at 3 o'clock and channel volume to taste. I then add a boost (along with a wee bit of reverb and delay) and walk away from the amp - set and forget. I use my guitar volume knob to control clean/dirt etc. With the cabinet resonance on vintage, this set up gives me a very dynamic old-school sound and feel.
So keep my master cranked, and use the amp volume in the amp section? I think this retains the clarity at a lower volume. Your information was very helpful. Thank you 🙏
Best explanation and demonstration of differences I've seen yet. Thanks Dylan.
You need your own tv show dude..so informative. I use an Mesa F100. Gain preamp is minimal. Even after owning this baby for over 15 years, still experimenting looking for that perfect tone.
Jeff Funk wow thank you so much. Please keep sharing what we do. It is what keeps us going.
Awesome demo... suppose my Vox tube amp doesn't give me the option between pre and power amp... where does the signal go? I have to use a BOSS OD-3 pedal to get a bit of natural grit at lower volumes. Thx!
Great video. This was very helpful.
Thanks! Really helpful video - I've a blues junior and am struggling to find it's sweet spot!
Hey Dylan. Love the explanations and how practical they are. Great stuff!
Sorry when you say preamp do you mean the gain or volume knob on that section?
Also how about the power control how does it affect both preamp and power amp
Spot on 👌
If I got a solid state power amp and a tube pre amp will it’s give it that warm kinda Marshall tube amp sound?
Hey Dylan, thank you for a great explanation... very grateful for all the information you provided
very nice, i prefer the power amp distotion!!!
can i use a volume pedal before te tube amp to reduces the loud and can play the power amp distortion in my home without my ears bleed? ( my tube amp has only: gain, tone, and volume, no master).
in other video o told that if a signal becomes distorced, it never go back... so if ai use a distortion pedal, what is the proposal of the power amp? since the signal is alredy clipped?
thank very much!!! sory my english
Hi, Dylan (great channel BTW). I watched this video, and watched your other videos that explain the differences between gain and volume, but I'm still confused by something:
On the Katana in the video there are 3 knobs -- Gain, Volume AND Master Volume. I always thought that the Gain controlled the pre-amp, and the Volume controlled the power amp, but what does the Master Volume do?
I have a Marshall DSL5 practice amp. It has a "Classic Gain" channel with a single knob that I assume raises the output from the pre- and power-amp simultaneously...but it also has a "Ultra Gain" channel with a gain knob AND a volume knob which I always assumed let you control the pre- and power-amp independently.
But with the Katana (and other tube amps), they ALSO have a MASTER Volume, and I can't understand what that does in the circuit. Is it like an attenuator or something?
From what it sounds like (in reference to his amp in the video) the "Volume" is like an attenuator. You can control both amp stages for tone separately with the regular two knobs, and then an attenuator would suck the power from the amp so that exact tone you dialed in can be brought down in volume. Anyways l think that's what that third volume is.
Hey Dylan, when I'm using the preamp knobs, which one do I use? Volume or gain?
One question: what about when I'm using an amp emulator pedal, like a Joyo British Sound?
I’m one of the shred guys. I use a Marshall DSL at 3 on the volume , & an ADA MP1 on 7(it goes to 11). I’m gonna mess around a bit & see what happens now. Keep up the great work.
hi, you forgot to mention that to achieve this slightly crunchiness in the power amp in a Gig you barely can use an amp that have 12 to 15 watt. Over this range no sound tech will you allow to crank your amp. Forget 30 to 100 wattt. .... or you get an attenuator....
Which option is less noisy?
Is that a Dylan V?
A Semi-hollow V? Never been a fan of V guitars but that one is grabbing my attention!!
David Gendreau this is a custom One-off semi hollow. One of my favorite guitars
Very cool! Being a modder/builder you've got me quite inspired my friend! I may have found myself quite the project for this winter! Thanksfor everything,your videos are just full of extremely useful knowledge,been subscribed for a while now and each video you release is VERY high quality, video,audio, and content! Never let down!👍
Lots of headroom is what I do ,you can always dirty up a clean amp with a pedal.(, But you can't Always clean up a dirty amp).Is that a Dylan Vee?
How can I have the same sound volume on all the tones or patches from studio central? Pls help
Great video, Dylan. Really shows the difference. However, there's one really confusing thing that happens. Throughout most of the video it's clear you're talking about raising and lowering the gain and channel volume as the pre-amp and power amp respectively, however at 2:10 or so I think you might have misspoken and called the channel volume the "master volume". I think that's throwing some viewers here. Am I right that what you're talking about is: "Gain" as pre-amp gain, "Volume" as power amp gain, and "Master" as just adjusting to what overall volume you want in the room (with little effect on tone other than perhaps driving the speaker at high volumes) that you refer to as a "Universal" volume?
Would this even matter since this is a solid state amp and not a tube?
Solid state amp power sections will react the same way a tube amps' does perhaps only boxier-sounding. That IMO is the main reason why tube amp guys swear by tubes is because of a tube amps musicality when pushing the power amp.
I'm a Metal guy and pushing the power amp on any amp is the best solution and I prefer solid state if not for just their ease-of-use.
So this method will get you all the tail around town?
Just put them all up to 11 and super glue them there! That will stop you from giving in to the wretched temptation to turn anything down - ever!
Wow. Man I want to hear that Fender amp. You still have it, Dylan?
Would this same basic thing apply to a Fender Mustang series amp that uses a separate master volume and regular volume? knob?
Dylan, I love your guitar. Is it a custom (one-off) type of guitar??
and thank you for explaining the pre vs power amp difference. You seem to have a natural knack for instruction/teaching.
It is a custom.yes sir. Thanks so much
You asked for setting preference...depends on amp. On my blues jr, volume 6 master 3. Carvin v16 soak 9 master 2.
I use a DRRI.. so no master, you get what you get. I wish it had a master volume.
put in a less efficient Speaker
His voice sounds like Patrick Stump’s 😳
That guitar is so cool looking, like something out of Flash Gordon.
I gotta be the only person on earth that hate this amp I bought one played it twice and now I can't sell it. total waste of money
Just gotta get it dialed in and play with it.
That is the ugliest guitar in the world. What is it? It is so so ugly!
A digital or solid state is useless in this comparison, to hear the preamp and power TUBES you should’ve used a TUBE amp
Read up on the Katana specs....
Tube or not, this vid clearly shows the differences
Just forget all these explanation. Buy an amplifier and a distortion pedal. Then spend quality time to tweak all knobs and determine what each knob does. There are really not many things to experiment since treble/mid/bass are knobs we are all know what they do.