Ampeg

Ampeg VT-40

Name: Ampeg VT-40
Brand: Ampeg

A 60-watt guitar combo from Ampeg, originally designed as a guitar amplifier with 4x10 speakers. Josh Homme runs his guitar through Ampeg bass-oriented amps for the thick, woolly low-end and compressed midrange that define the Queens of the Stone Age sound. The VT-40 delivers massive, earth-shaking fundamentals.

On your modeler

Helix:Ampeg B-15NF (or SV Beast Nrm)

Quad Cortex:Ampeg VT-40

Fractal:Ampeg SVT

Kemper:Ampeg

Boss Katana:Brown Channel

Where to buy

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Controls

Volume0 – 10

Treble0 – 10

Bass0 – 10

Ultra Hi/Looff / hi / lo

Recipes using the Ampeg VT-40

See exactly how this gear is dialed in across different songs and styles.

Josh Homme

desert-rock

No One Knows (2002)

Josh Homme's No One Knows Detuned Desert Tone

No One Knows features Josh Homme's signature desert rock tone: an Ovation GP guitar detuned to C-standard through an Ampeg bass amp for a thick, woolly wall of low-end. The unconventional use of a bass amp gives the guitar an enormous, earth-shaking fundamental that no guitar amp can replicate. The tone is heavy but not conventionally distorted -- it's more of a massive, compressed crunch.

HelixQuad CortexBoss Katana

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