James Murphy
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silly, eh? well pardon me for voicing an opinion based on 19 years of touring and recording experience and 11 years of engineering.Carrier Flux said:saying a mid-scooped sound is more processed is kind of silly. different amps, in fact the SAME amp in different settings can give you vastly different levels of midranged sound. take my rectifier recording pre for instance...in "vintage voicing" there's a huge midboost over the "modern" voicing. if I record in "modern" I don't need to scoop the mids at all, if in fact that's the sound I'm going for.
my point was quite simply that scooping a guitar sound with EQ is, in fact, processing... eq is processing , period. i understand implicity that different amps have different mid range characteristics... as i may have mentioned, i wasn't born yesterday. any amp that has a signifcantly scooped mid range inherently is utterly useless unless it has other modes that don't exhibit that characteristic. i also don't believe that mid range only contributes to clarity if the player is good, as you stated in your post.... that was a silly statement, if you ask me.
So, for the record, i am not a fan of "scooped" guitar tones. i like my midreange, thank you very much.
for purposes of clarity, as i've learned people love to think they are internet empaths on here, i am not upset.... just somewhat taken aback.