Telecaster + AER alpha = awesome!

**christianm77** · 04-11-2016, 06:41 PM

Originally Posted by Hep To The Jive

Paradriver DI

Ah yes - similar price to the TwoNote.... Hmmm, wonder which sounds better...

**Hep To The Jive** · 04-11-2016, 09:00 PM

Originally Posted by christianm77

Ah yes - similar price to the TwoNote.... Hmmm, wonder which sounds better...

Me too. But Im sure not gonna be the one to find out

i mean my budget is only for one, and i got the Para already.

**christianm77** · 04-12-2016, 09:43 AM

Originally Posted by Hep To The Jive

Me too. But Im sure not gonna be the one to find out

i mean my budget is only for one, and i got the Para already.

How do you find the Para?

**kris** · 04-12-2016, 12:05 PM

I did two recordings with my AER combo.
One is on tele and another on strat.
Personally I prefer Stratocaster.
Best
Kris
ps.
Maybe my Strat is better instrument than my Tele.

**christianm77** · 04-12-2016, 12:09 PM

I'll do a vid tomorrow using my tele + AER setup...

**christianm77** · 04-12-2016, 12:10 PM

Originally Posted by kris

I did two recordings with my AER combo.
One is on tele and another on strat.
Personally I prefer Stratocaster.
Best
Kris
ps.
Maybe my Strat is better instrument than my Tele.

Yeah they are actually pretty close... That's the kind of sound I like.

What Tele have you got?

**kris** · 04-12-2016, 01:38 PM

Originally Posted by christianm77

Yeah they are actually pretty close... That's the kind of sound I like.

What Tele have you got?

Santander Tele with chambered mahogany body.
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**Hep To The Jive** · 04-12-2016, 01:54 PM

Originally Posted by christianm77

How do you find the Para?

It's usually on my desk

Ok, Para is a great tool, I can go direct to PA and dial in a good sound. Also use it for home recording. It should be useful for playing electric guitar through an acoustic amp I imagine, but I cant confirm that, never had an acoustic amp. But with my Beringer mini PA it works great!

**Little Jay** · 04-12-2016, 04:15 PM

I enjoyed last Sunday night's gig with my Alpha very much! I decided to take the ES-333 with humbuckers, since I had to sit very close to the amp and the P90s in my tele can be noisy then. I do use a small array of effects: wah, OD, phaser, delay and an EQ-pedal. With the Alpha, I cut off the highest frequencies when I use my OD (Joyo TS-clone) and that sounds great as long as you don't use too much drive.

I have a Joyo American sound too and that pedal saved the night many times! When I have to share the Alpha with a vocalist I need the American sound, 'cause the amp has only 1 shared eq-section and the American Sound gives a lot more flexibility in guitar tones then.

**christianm77** · 04-12-2016, 07:23 PM

Originally Posted by Little Jay

I enjoyed last Sunday night's gig with my Alpha very much! I decided to take the ES-333 with humbuckers, since I had to sit very close to the amp and the P90s in my tele can be noisy then. I do use a small array of effects: wah, OD, phaser, delay and an EQ-pedal. With the Alpha, I cut off the highest frequencies when I use my OD (Joyo TS-clone) and that sounds great as long as you don't use too much drive.

I have a Joyo American sound too and that pedal saved the night many times! When I have to share the Alpha with a vocalist I need the American sound, 'cause the amp has only 1 shared eq-section and the American Sound gives a lot more flexibility in guitar tones then.

Yeah that is a problem with the Alpha....

**kris** · 04-13-2016, 03:04 AM

I do not recomend AER with Tele.
It is amp for acoustic instruments.
I/ve tried it on gig.
My small tube 8 watt combo is much better with Tele.

**Little Jay** · 04-13-2016, 07:47 AM

Sorry Kris, but I love my AER with all my guitars :-)

(But only in quiet rooms/small stages/low volume situations.)

**kris** · 04-13-2016, 08:21 AM

Originally Posted by Little Jay

Sorry Kris, but I love my AER with all my guitars :-)

(But only in quiet rooms/small stages/low volume situations.)

I 've used AER's amps over 15 years with acoustic guitars.
but for Tele and Strats no...AERs are not for them I am sure for 100%...:-)
Best
Kris

**Frank67** · 04-13-2016, 08:41 AM

I'm with Kris (but no offense intended to anyone else). I find solid body guitars sound bad through the AER, acoustic guitars and to some extent archtops with magnetic pickups sound great!

**HighSpeedSpoon** · 04-20-2016, 02:58 AM

Originally Posted by christianm77

I'm quite interested to know what this sounds like with the AER...

I'm interested in the Le Clean too, but I found the website and manual both confusing, and it took some time for me to sort things out.

The Le Clean onboard CAB sim is a single, hardwired analog sim - completely unlike the tweakable and extensible sims that can be loaded into the Torpedo CAB. The software included with the Le Clean is a plugin: Unless you are running a computer, the software and cab models are not accessible to you. The single, fixed onboard analog sim may be nice, but all you can do is turn it on or off. You cannot download, select, and retrieve different sims the way you can with other Two-Notes products, such as the Torpedo CAB. In fact you cannot download any sims. In addition to the plugin "tether", two other things made me view the Le Clean as better suited to studio use: It draws 500ma at 12 volts, and it has about a 5" x 7.5" footprint.

The Le Clean is part of Two-Notes Le Preamp series of pedals, and it is apparently meant to play in a coordinated way with other MIDI gear (at least with other Two-Notes gear). Several things about the rationale of the MIDI implementation weren't clear to me:

Why or how MIDI messages would be emitted by pressing footswitches, unless perhaps pressing a footswitch always triggers a MIDI message.
Why anyone running a plugin would not want to coordinate devices from the computer
Why every MIDI IN message is sent through the preamp's MIDI OUT.

I do like the Two-Notes Torpedo CAB and in fact, I recently bought one, but it is a very different design IMO - not just because the CAB addresses different parts of the signal chain but because - unlike the Le Preamps - all of the Torpedo CAB's functionality can be accessed standalone. The Torpedo CAB can download and store multiple "patches" which can be scrolled through and retrieved. (You can also control the CAB by sending MIDI messages to it.) The Torpedo CAB occupies roughly the same square inches of board space and draws 300ma at 12 volts, but you get a hell of a lot of functionality for that, including multiple "patches" of amp/cab/mic simulations, and an equalizer.

In any case, I would really appreciate a clearer explanation of the Le Clean's capabilities and of its MIDI implementation and the rationale behind the implementation. (Same for all the Le Preamp series.) The Two-Notes folks mention having a vision at least of how their gear items can play with each other, but that vision was, and still is, vague to me.

I confess to being put off by the Two-Notes pitch for the Le Clean. It "sounds like a Blackface" and "sounds like a Tweed" and has a tube and an LED. Is it worth $300? Quite possibly it is, but I think some of its abilities and limitations are annoyingly obscured.