blackface or tweed!?

[jordan8865]

In the past i've liked a brighter sound, but i'm afraid with the blackface it may not have quite enough gain that i'm looking for. And I don't dig the differen't voicing of the DLX, not a country fan in the least. I want a nice bluesy bite. The only sound clips of the tweed I can find are on this site and they leave a lot to be heard. I'm guessing the bright switch isn't turned on with these clips but who knows. Haha sorry for the jumbled mess!

 

[Jaded Faith]

The Tweed is good, similar to the Deluxe. But it isn't bright at all. I play mine with the treble maxed out and bright on and it still need a little more top end.

 

[NCdan]

The blackface is more for clean sounds; maybe with a set of hot humbuckers and the gain cranked you could get a bit of distortion. For brightness you might try a Top Boost, but the tubes will probably need to be changed for cleaner tubes. Also, i'm liking the plexi quite a bit for low distortion sounds, and it is much brighter than I expected it to be.

 

[SacredGroove]

Blackface + boost (Tubescreamer). You've gotta add some gain to the boost. The Tweed, I think, is stellar. It can be a slightly darker version of the Blackface TS combo.
The Plexi will probably get you close to what you want.

 

[Caine]

Just the clarify something about the Deluxe, while it?s true that the Fender Deluxe is popular for country, the Deluxe module should not be pegged as a ?country? only module by any means. The first three modules that I ever had were the blackface, tweed and sl+. I got the tweed in hopes of using it for blues, cleans and classic rock tones. I thought it was ?ok? but when I later acquired a dlx module, I sold the tweed and blkface because I actually like the deluxe better for SRV blues tones more than the tweed and I like the clean tone as well. IMO, the deluxe is a very versatile module, has that great vintage warm fendery vibe that?s kick *** for blues and classic rock tones, with or without a pedal in front of it (I sometimes use a BB pedal). For cleans, it?s great also, but not so much if you?re looking for a bright module. The deluxe is one of my fav. modules!