Musician Gear & Tech Discussion

Thanks everyone for your advise.
Yes Pete I believe the e.q. settings are very similar, I was setting my e.q. as follows, treble at 10, mid at 5, bass at 5, my ear hears the bass very large, but I changed the settings to, treble at 9, mids at 6, bass at 8, split my signal at the mixer into stereo, panned hard left and hard right with left side dry and right side somewhere between 10 and 20 milli second delay, the delay is a flavor to taste kind of thing. Now it has that 10 foot bulldog sound, similar to a marshall stack. I use my clean channel probably a little more than most rockers as we play a lot of variety in our music, even the clean channel has the same big sound this way.

Well, what is the best thing about adding a second guitar? The second guitar sounds has a different tone than yours, and even when playing the same parts or even different part with similar rhythm, it sounds fuller cause it is two different sounds.
you can reproduce that.
Just get a splitter make the second AMP sound different by getting a different tone out of your preamp, make it delayed with no direct sound, use a chorus, or very light flange, or just make it a different chorus setting thaan you use on your first amp.
I use two Roland GT6 and a stereo guitar. You can hear this on Bostons records. This gives you a real kickass stereo sound.
This is just my example but you can use any effects variations you like. but try this and experiment with the two sounds, get the delay and chorus variation that you like and you can play at low volumes and you will be in heaven.

I'd say short of using supplemental PA tricks try using the Metal Zone distortion pedal, its different from most of its counterparts because it has sweepable mids which basically allow you to achieve a very chunky tube like tone, at around $100 brand new its a hard act to follow.
This pedal can make even the most sterile sounding small solid state practice amps sound very powerful -when used with 30 or more watts driving a typical 4x12 cab it can be mistaken for a very expensive tube head.
Of course the simple act of using the typical 4x12 cab (based on the average Marshall 1960a dimensions) will add considerable low end chunk, add a second cab in the side by side configuaration and you'll be in "wall of sound" nirvana.

My Metal Zone sets in a drawer waiting to be sold. Though I was quite happy with it. And it is quite versitile. To me it sounds artificial in comparison to the pure tube overdrive tones of a nasty little amp.
My intent is to set up a sister cab to my combo amp, mic both right and left into the PA, then thicken it up from there.
The little differnt PA effect on one of those channels sounds like a good idea. I will have to play with that some as well. Though it would give me a little differnt sound from the mains and monitors as I would get from my amp setup.