Is it possible to get a great searing lead tone and a great rhythm tone without making adjustments for each?

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Hehehe! I've just laughed the whole video/song thru.

I have a few profiles that will do it, Mister May from rig exchange is a great example.

Set it to max gain on the KPA, this is your lead tone, roll back the guitar volume and you got a great crunch.

Pedal gain is another fantastic option :

best option is a morph profile with volume compensation

here is a pre-morph method that works well :

the function is right here in your KPA, I use it a lot :

setup your exp pedal in system menu like you do with the wah

setup your gain at max desired gain level ( set up at lead level for me)

choose this fx : wah pedal booster ( type knob)

set the pedal range to MINUS 100

now adjust the gain by foot clean , dirty , lead ... with just one rig

one drawback = there is no volume compensation

How is the modulation helping?

I would have no problem doing this with the GB - Mars VM OD2 profile from the Guido factory pack. The rest is in the fingers.

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Hehehe! I've just laughed the whole video/song thru.

I've never seen this before and had to chuckle myself watching it.

BayouTexan To me the solo sound on the vid is a different sound and so whilst he's not physically switching himself, to me points to a different sound that you will struggle to get purely from the guitar volume. Personally I'm against using the guitar volume as its too fiddly, returning back tot the right position etc. I prefer single click, instant sound change.

We gigged on Sat and our previous guitarist was in the audience - he previously used to switch slots whilst I was crowd "pleasuring", so a slightly comedic moment when he came to the stage when I was in the crowd to do the honours :).

Alternatively I switch before I disappear and then race back. If I don't make it, I pick very gently until I switch - TBH I'm more worried at that point on navigating my way back without tripped over and looking a prat

Hope you get it sorted!

Definitely had a tech handling his changes:

https://styxworld.com/blogs/news/rip-jimmy-johnson

Good luck! I really think the examples you've given have a guitar tech doing things and the FOH engineer is probably nudging the volume up a bit. 🙂

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It looks that way after some more research on the guitarist. However, I am about 95% their with my all-in-one tone. I'm only having trouble with the low E string being a bit too muddy for me. I'm trying to use very light modulation to correct it. I'm even thinking about yanking that string out and going with a hybrid size for the low E. I can hear my wife now bitching about all those wasted string packs.

If the pickup in question has adjustable polepieces, you could just try to lower the low e one one or two turns

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I'm using a SD Custom TB5 trembucker. The lower coil has screws. Isn't higher to strings brighter and further away more bass (which I equate to muddiness)? I know too high gets you into warbly territory.

I believe it is more complex than that and that what happens also depends on the pickup. It's a very easy thing to try and since there is no soldering etc. involved you can compare the results pretty much in real-time. It *might* do something you like.

Pole piece adjustments are for fine-tuning the relative power of each string. If the E's pole is not raised already then you should try lowering the bass side of the pickup a bit first. The farther away the less power, which doesn't exactly translate into more/less bass but lowering the power of the E string in relation to the others would probably help.