Hagström HL550 VS VOX AC30cc2 + Wampler pedals

Just some more sounds for the guys curious about the Hag HL550 jazzbox, but this time running it through my proper guitar rig.
The pickup on the Hag isn't as hot wired as for instance the humbuckers on my ES335, so it's a bit less ballsy sounding, but it has a sweet tone, particulary through that crunchy overdrive on the AC30.
So here's that tone first slightly destroyed by video compression, and then re-destroyed by youtube compressing it again.

:)

The guitar here passes through a Wampler clean buffer, ego compressor, and faux tape delay (and a boss loopstation that I didn't feel like using here)
Oh, and I took off the flatwounds and put .012 elixirs on there. So roundwounds again, just heavier gauge.

Category:

Music

Tags:

• jazz
• jamming
• improvisation
• solo
• solo guitar
• electric guitar
• guitar
• guitarist
• fingerpicking
• instrumental
• Hagström
• HL550
• VOX
• AC30
• Wampler
• Toneport
• UX2

[CarvinTone]

Nice tones. I am a big fan of Wampler pedals, the compressor is the best and I love my Ecstasy overdrive. I like jazz guitar but I tend to push more into a heavier fusion sound. I am assuming here you have the Compressor pedal. Chorus would be great on that guitar as well but I can understand keeping the purity. I like using pedals to enhance not color they can really add to the fullness and body of the tone without screwing it up. Wampler is especially transparent to this end.

[edudzzaj]

@CarvinTone Hi, thanks for commenting. You hit spot on about transparency. Bad pedals made me a tube amp purist for years, until trying these on a whim. A good amp goes far, but my AC30 will never sparkle this particular way without the pedals. The comp. is big part of that yes - it's so flexible. It doubles for me as gain/treble booster going into clean channel on the AC30. Twist gain, and it goes from sparkle to creamy distortion. Brian May trick with a twist. Preamp is subtle, but it's there.

[StoweTexas]

very cool . . .

[edudzzaj]

@StoweTexas Hey thx

[Praclik22]

Great to see a new vid coming from you. Seems like the strings made the guitar a bit more "agressive" in tone. I would like to hear some standard on this baby. Thanks for the music.

B.

[edudzzaj]

@Praclik22 On previous vids I have just plugged it straight into a transistor amp which gives a very clean tone and no overdrive anywhere, which is great sometimes. Here the .012 roundwounds give some more "bite" than flatwounds for starters, then I have a tiny bit compressor on, but volume on this pedal cranked up to make it act like a booster into the AC30. Rolled back a little on volume and tone here most the way. Just to demo a different combination. Will try put up some more stuff soon thx.

[edudzzaj]

@Kapteinar Thanks, it has some help from the Wampler units also :)

[Kapteinar]

Man, that AC is sweet sounding.