Tone knobs mean shit!

[professorlamp]

So back when i was noobish at guitar tones I would just mic up and play and one of the tones recorded happened to be really good and i've found it later and recently been struggling with my tone , so i tried to figure out what the settings were (im using a hybrid laney lv300 twin). And after about an hour worth of tweaking i think i pretty much got it but i couldnt believe what they were dialled on

Treble -0 thats right NONE
Mid- 4
and bass - 9

Now this may sound extreme (and i thought it was) but then it is the tone i wanted, i tried the same settings on a different amp and it SUCKED. So be wary of guidelines when you have a very 'flexible' amp like mine, because settings for one amp will probably not sound the same on another it just shows variable they are really.
Anyway mini blog over....

 

[raybrochill]

clips?!

 

[Wolfeman]

Download the Duncan tone stack calculator, and you will see why those settings sound good.

There are a lot of people out there that really have no idea about what the tone knobs are doing to the signal. Too many people go by numbers and not by ear.

 

[professorlamp]

oki dok hang on

 

[professorlamp]

Im still tweaking the tone
its a tiny bit fizzy still but loads better than before
no doubt i'll be getting stuff like REMOVE DA BAS FR0ooM UR TONEZZZ!

and without further a do

Before: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/2872916/Before.mp3

and



After: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/2872916/After.mp3



to me it sounds a bit like pennywise tone on alot of there albums

p.s. uber poor playing due to rush

 

[professorlamp]

Clips!?
are up

 

[Erik Monsonis]

I agree with OP:

In my Framus Cobra (modded, ok) i use the following settings:
(out of 10)
Bass: 5
Mids: 10
Treble: 8
Presence: 8
Depth: 5

The sound is middy, ok, but not that middy as you would expect from a middy amp with the mids maxed. Also it's not so trebbly. It's more low-middy even with bass settings put on half of it's potential.

So, tone knobs are unique for each amp, of course, but in some amps they're just ridiculous.

 

[Mago]

So, tone knobs are unique for each amp, of course, but in some amps they're just ridiculous.

yeah, like the mid knob on the 6505+...pure decoration:Smug: