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Post by snappinnecks on Aug 8, 2008 21:51:27 GMT -5
I haven't messed with the EQ on it too much and have been happy with everything at noon on OD1. I decided to mess around with different settings today. I dimed the mids and turned the bass up to about 2 O clock. Kept the treble at noon. The tone is punchier and projects better. It didn't really add more mids really. It actually makes it have the feel and touch as if I put a clean boost in front of it. Reminds me a lot of my Quick Rod on OD2 with the gain up pretty high. I'm going to record some riffs with this setting to see how it sounds. I thought turning the mids up would make the tone really honky and lose clarity. It did just the opposite. The Nitro is a weird beast and the ultimate amp for modern tone.
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Post by fastredponycar on Aug 11, 2008 20:50:59 GMT -5
yeah it really is a wierd amp EQ wise. I really wish scott had put in the manual the frequencies that the knobs control.
I've found lots of success doing extra tweaking (at home) with my mxr 10 band. At practice and gigs, the eq doesn't make as much of a difference as the amp is really pumping hard.
The resonance at zero really tightens up the low end tremendously and raising the bass knob up to 3 olclock or all the way up even brings in all the amp's low end thunder.
IMO, this amp really defines a tone that a lot of the heavy rock guys don't want to admit that they love. The die hard recto/5150/etc nu metal players that think they're too metal for an old marshall and to my ears, the nitro captures the best of both worlds.
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Post by snappinnecks on Aug 12, 2008 16:33:47 GMT -5
Yup even playing nu metal or whatever you want to call it you still need clarity and tightness.
I had a MXR 10 band and had to let it go. The gain slider was a pain in my rear. It fizzed up the tone too much even at the zero middle setting. I was thinking about getting the 7 band eq that doesn't have the volume or gain sliders.
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