where can i find settings to use on an amp to achieve a specific sound (ie. SRV)?

Question

i have a crate amp and i want to get some good beefy tones out of it but i don't know how to set it up.

Answer 1

Hey Punk Roc,

Check out this site, this guy knows amps:

"STEVIE RAY VAUGHAN'S STEEL STRING SINGER.
On this picture you see SRV in front of his 1983 Dumble Steel String Singer that stands on his Dumble 4x12" cabinet with 4 EV 12-L speakers (SRV used EV speakers in all his Fender amps, too!).
SRV first came to know Dumble amps when he recorded "Texas Flood" in Jackson Browne's Studio. For the guitar tracks on "Texas Flood" he used Jackson Browne's "Dumbleland" that he found in this studio. He was so impressed by this "Dumbleland" that he contacted Dumble to order an amp. So Dumble made for him a "Steel String Singer" with a preamp that is a bit different than the preamp of a usual Steel String Singer. Let's hear what Dumble says about Stevie's Steel String Singer in a interview for "Guitar Player"/September 1985:
"There are some different things about Stevie's. His is set up more like a bass amp, modified to accommodate the guitar range. It's not the usual lead guitar 'singer' approach. One thing he liked was that he could turn the volume control all the way up, and it didn't distort - it just got louder. He does make it distort sometimes because he has about 50 megatons of pressure when he attacks the strings (laughs). He gets an incredible amount of signal out his guitar, and most amplifiers can't take it. He did his first album with a bass amp I'd made for Jackson Browne."