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Percival Blues Shredder
11-06-2001, 06:05 PM
When you play with a clean tone what are the settings of bass and treble on the amp?
i set the bass at 6 and treble at 7.5

stratman42
11-07-2001, 01:54 PM
Yeh, mine are the same. If you want really good tone get a planet waves cable too.

Bardsley
11-07-2001, 06:52 PM
Due to my squier's fairly crap bass output, and my amp's similar problem, I have my bass set to about 8 and my treble set to about 7, my mids set to about 7.5.

ekstasis16
11-08-2001, 12:12 PM
when i use the clean channel, i have the highs set to 8, mids at 5, lows at 3. but some clean channels, including mine, are a little too powerful to play at loud volumes, so i often use my overdrive channel, turn the drive down to like 2 or 3, really low, and bring up the volume. there's no noticible distortion, so it sounds like a clean channel, and because the signal goes through the drive channel, it adds a bit of natural compression so the volumes are balanced whether you play in the low or high registers at really high volumes.

PonyOne
11-08-2001, 04:55 PM
I usually have my bass at 9 or 10, treble at 6 or 7 and my mid at 0 or 1. I'm a big fan of the low end, and do a lot of high pitched solos, so i tend to leave the mids to my rythm guitarist whose seetings are usually at 6 bass, 7 mid, 6 high.

I generally feed my guitar through a Dano compressor and a Boss MT2 metal zone; the compressor gives it a nice amount of chunk, and even with the MT2's distortion down low or off, it gives a good boost for lows and highs.

When I use my 12-string i usually just cut out my mid altogether, it seems to sound nicer with the bass and high cranked higher.

Bardsley
11-08-2001, 06:22 PM
I find myself using my OD-3 Overdrive pedal simply as a tone pedal more than a distorion pedal. I often have the drive right down, with the level cranked up, so that I control tone and overdrive levels by using the volume control on my guitar much more effectively than going through the amp alone; it really allows you to get a "cranked" sound at lower volumes. I am a big fan of powerful mid-range frequencies, I guess I am a jazz man at heart; I love the tone of archtops, and as I only have a squier strat, I work quite a bit on my tone, lol!