[piranha]

I bought a Legacy half stack recently. I'm starting to be honest with myself. I'm kinda discouraged. My purpose in writing this is to get some ideas.

First of all the clean channel is deadly clean. Best I've played on.
However the Lead channel, well, I was hoping for Steve Vai tone. That's not what I'm hearing. Sounds quite mild to me. Not Vai'ish at all.... to me at least.

I put a dod EQ in the loop and have improved it alot. Only issue with that is the mild hum I hear.

I did some research and bought a Keeley SEM DS-1... Still bummed. It sounds compressed and bass'y when used with the amps Lead channel. Got the gain set at 6 on the amp and no distortion on the pedal.

I'm going to continue to tinker. I'm guessing that the tone I want is likely only found at higher volume. In all honesty I've only really tinkered with the tone at louder bedroom levels which is still hardly registering on the amp volume knob.

The guitar I play is an RG 560 with an SD blackout in the bridge
Really looking forward to your replies.

 

[piranha]

I've re-canted my disappointment.

I finally spent some time the last two days with it and I've got some great tone coming out of it. I think it is the DS-1 that I'm more disappointed with. Not so much with the pedal itself but more the combination of the pedal through the Legacy.

I just got the amp a few weeks ago and didn't really tinker too much as I really wasn't considering the set-up complete until my Ds1 Keeley Ultra came in. I can get some great bluesy, classic tone, from it, but don't much care for it as a "Boost".

I'm officially using my EQ to color the tone and I've got it right where I want it. I was also thinking that to get Vai'ish tone I would need to play through an Evolution pup not an SD Blackout. In all honesty I didn't buy the amp to sound like Steve Vai. I just expected it to sound like his tone. At the moment I've got some killer sound coming out. Now I can't wait for my EVH phaser and flanger pedals to arrive!

Thanks for the comments guys. Really appreciated.
Pat