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Post by shreder75 on Nov 1, 2005 8:23:44 GMT -5
ya know, it's funny..maybe it's just cause I haven't spent that much time tweaking a tube amp in recent years....yeah, my b-52 was tube (and sold!, along with my gflex), but once I found a sound I liked I stopped right there..that amp definetly had a sweet spot..and if you moved away from it, you had a mess, IMO..
anywho, I just started messin' around with knobs on my QR last night...which I normally wouldn't do, but I'm not afraid to do that on this thing because it's very ahrd to get a 'bad' sound out of it...you can get different or more/less preferrable sounds, but not really a 'bad' tone, as long as you don't dime EVERYTHING..lol..
but it amazed me how much turning just one knob (treble) in this instance could affect the amp soooo much..sure I was expecting it to sound different, but it totally changed the dynamics of the amp..my settings now are quite different than when i made those clips a week ago (this is all half power cause I still haven't gotten my replacement mullards yet)...
anywho, just blabbing =D
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Post by scottdh on Nov 1, 2005 10:27:39 GMT -5
I do the same thing - and used to be the same way about setting it and not deviating...
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Post by shreder75 on Nov 1, 2005 10:31:21 GMT -5
it's really weird..
at first I had the mids at about 230, treble at around noon and bass at around 1 with the presence at about 11..now I have the presence, bass and treble higher, the mids a little lower and it seems to cut alot better...and it's easier to play...
at first I wouldn't use second gear at all..now I find with the new settings second gear sounds all the better...
the fact that messing with knobs doesn't yield a sh!tty sound is fantastic....
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Post by morecowbell on Nov 1, 2005 11:12:02 GMT -5
Yeah that's pretty much my experience too, I've been all over the place with my eq and gain settings mainly because I always find something cool I didn't expect with the QR. It can also be a bit frustrating, like I can't commit to one tone and be done with it.
Also, things always sound so different playing live than in my spare room in my house where I do my tweaking. Not even close. My spare room makes everything sound like it's got HUGE bass, walls are rattling, etc, often have to turnt he bass down. Then onstage it's much more even, and it's like starting over sometimes. Took me awhile to figure that out.
I also find the low end comes out alot more as I turn up; by 9:00 on the master I'm usually dialing back the bass a bit.
Right now my settings are bass between 10:00 and 1:00 (depending on master volume), mid at 11:00, treb at 10:00, at 1:00. I run the gain at about 10:00, 2nd gear OD1.
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Post by shreder75 on Nov 1, 2005 11:16:12 GMT -5
the bass definetly does come back in when you turn the amp up..what I do like is that it doesn't get farty even when you have it higher!
what's great though is that you don't have to tweak for hours upon hours upon hours to get a great tone..you can tweak and get a different tone, but they're all good!
and you can go from high gain to insane gain with just the flip of the mode knob =D
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Post by murky69nz on Nov 1, 2005 18:22:12 GMT -5
its a physics priniciple (i forget what its called) that when an amp is turned up the bass frequencies become louder relative to the other frequencies.
With this in mind, I came to the conclusion that if you are fiddling with your tone, you should do so at gig level, otherwise your amp will sound completely different when you get to a gig.
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Post by shreder75 on Nov 2, 2005 8:17:33 GMT -5
its a physics priniciple (i forget what its called) that when an amp is turned up the bass frequencies become louder relative to the other frequencies. With this in mind, I came to the conclusion that if you are fiddling with your tone, you should do so at gig level, otherwise your amp will sound completely different when you get to a gig. yep..always be prepared to tweak things differently for gigs..no doubt about that... |
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