Machine Sounds

Jangle — twelve-string into an AC30

A RAT set almost clean into a jumpered AC30. Deliberately short: the amp is most of the sound.

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Guitar rig · @quietamp · 21 Sept 2026

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    Twelve-string, both pickups

    Source

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    ProCo RAT 2, distortion at 9 o'clock

    Drive

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    Vox AC30/6 Top Boost, jumpered

    Amp

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    2x12 alnico blues, SM57 off-axis

    Cab

Minimal on purpose. The RAT is barely on — distortion at 9 o'clock — and is there to push the front of the amp rather than to distort anything. The AC30 compresses hard when the volume is up, and that compression is the jangle. If you capture the amp quiet and then try to get this with a plugin compressor afterwards, it does not arrive.
  • "Vox AC30 Twin" by Karl Jonsson, via Wikimedia Commons, licensed under CC BY 2.0 — https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/
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