Nueral Amp Modeler should work for this also, is open source, works as a plugin or standalone, and all the captures are free. Pedals are starting to hit the market with built in NAM support now as well if you would rather use those in a live setting.
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Here’s an interesting article on guitar speakers if you’re a nerd:
Those pedals help, but real high-gain comes from amp gain stages and guitar speakers. A bass amp will still stay mostly clean without an amp sim.
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The freqout specifically is intended to give you feedback at any volume / gain level. It’s pretty high up on my christmas wishlist this year for my guitar pedalboard.
Use the DigiTech FreqOut pedal to coax natural-sounding feedback from your guitar amplifier at any volume, with or without distortion. You even have control over the harmonics that are highlighted, leading to amazingly musical results. The sound is full and huge, just like a howling guitar amplifier. The footswitch can be set for momentary or latching operation, and you can choose whether your dry signal is mixed with the effect.
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Feedback is not the same as distortion though.
I think this is a big part of Nova twins sound though and I hadn’t figured that out on my own!
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Amps are much more important as a tonal component to guitars than bass. Each of the different amps has its own tonal character and also its own way of overdriving and breaking up. Pedals can also model this (with capture modelers like ToneX, Kemper, and Quad Cortex) but really I kinda get why guitarists love their amps.
Amp sims and captures running in the computer do more than fine too but don’t help John, who asked for a hardware solution.
Kinda off topic and not sure where to post but here’s a weird one: Three strings Bass and three strings guitar…and multiscale.
A hybrid 6 string instrument, tuned
G C F-C F B flat
It is both a bass and a guitar, multiscale from 28" to 25". Current strings are 100-80-65 flatwounds for the bass side, and 36-26-17 for the guitar end.
from: https://www.projectguitar.com/guitar_of_the_month/august-2025-r164/#
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Weird! My take is it would replace neither guitar nor bass but would be kind of a unique thing on its own. I dig it, but not as a standalone instrument.
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That sounds like the instruments that the Presidents of the USA used to use. The guitarist and bassist played instruments strung like this.
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Very weird to go with that tuning there though. I can think of a couple small variations I would prefer. Apparently it’s an homage to Charlie Hunter; no idea who he is.
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Far too rainy this weekend to attempt paint on my Gretsch bass to baritone conversion project so I spent some time getting these two projects wrapped up. The Strat is for a friend and the Pacifica stays, for now.
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Rolled both fretboards pretty heavily. Extensive fretwork on both. Pacifica kept the stock hardware but the strat got locking tuners and a Wilkinson bridge with a block big enough to require some routing. Strat pickguard was a loaded unit and sounds pretty good. Pacifica I wired up from spare bits. Aftermarket guard, added a Squire CV humbucker leftover from another build. Leftover lipstick pickups. Wired the 5 way to autosplit. Made for a productive rainy day weekend and learned a lot. Hopefully next weekend I can get the baritone in paint so it can cure before I ship it to the new owner.
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Have you posted the Baritone?
I like a finish with a bit of texture
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@Gloucester Hopefully some more updates this weekend.
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This is quite possibly the best review that I’ve ever watched on Youtube. This guy is incredible. 
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Lovely 
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I lost the auction for the G&L Doheny, so my search continues. I’m looking for a jazzmaster, but I’m not overwhelmed by the Fender / Squire versions (bridge sucks, trems suck, they tend to have some QC issues).
I can buy a brand new Doheny but pickings are slim and it seems to be a sellers market for them. I’m guessing because the Doheny’s are kinda niche and because sellers are taking advantage of G&L going out of business. I’m debating either choking it and buying a brand new one for $800 or going with a Reverend with p90s (not super jazzmaster-y). It’s kind of a coin flip for me atm so I would appreciate some opinions.
Doheny:
Jetstream 390:
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The reverend double agent with a bridge humbucker and neck P90 caught my eye.
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I just watched a video on the double agent W. I really dig that HS config. You should take a look at the Warhawk, you can get that in an HSS and its a really pretty guitar imo. I think after spending a few hours watching these, I kinda have my heart set on the jazzmaster (Doheny). I’m going to end up just paying more for a brand new one than I had planned on spending for a used.
https://reverb.com/item/93078047-reverend-warhawk-390-w-bigsby-and-hardshell-case
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