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Not necessarily helpful as that approach seems to be generally agreed to be a bad way to approach a Boogie.
Have you looked in to any of the various anti-beaming gizmos on the market? I'm not sure how effective they are...
Don't talk politics and don't throw stones. Your royal highnesses.
Actually on many amps I do have the bass up full and the mid low, but it's really dialled in more carefully than that.
I do it from relatively in front of the speaker, but not right in line with the centre, if that makes sense - I wouldn't mic the speaker there, and that extreme focused bright/harsh sound doesn't carry out into the room anyway (or not if you've positioned your amp properly).
The one you want is the Mitchell Donut - it's the only one that works correctly and isn't a gimmick based on a misunderstanding of what causes the 'beam'… it's isn't the centre cap of the speaker.
I don't think it's available commercially but it's fairly easy to make yourself.
http://www.stratopastor.org.uk/strato/amps/prii/speaker/foamdonut/foamdonut.html
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Home practice is mids around 2:00, treble 3:00 and bass 2:00. Voice setting is somewhere around the middle.
For band practice/gigs, nearly everything is turned up max.
Then I adjust EQ settings for fuzz/distortion on top of that. Thinking about getting an EQ pedal as well for more control.
Even more so that it's a DIY solution that'll cost less than a tenner and an hour or two of your time!
Don't talk politics and don't throw stones. Your royal highnesses.
Oh and gain upto full!
Though I have an amp on order which doesn't have a mids knob, so that'll be a challenge!
If I'm gigging using mostly my amp to provide the out front sound I'll wander out the front during soundcheck and tweak so it sounds good out front and not worry about what it sounds like to me on stage (pub floor)
If I'm going through the PA I'll tweak so it sounds good to me and leave the rest to our sound engineer (me)
EQ settings themselves are amp dependent and therefore completely ambiguous, I was more concerned with the physical point at which you measure your adjustments from. Makes sense to judge off axis given that's the de facto placement for microphones, I just worry for whoever ends up in the beam of the speaker
Is this mainly a combo thing (or a Boogie thing), walk up to the amp, EQ to taste, walk away from the amp by even an inch and hello muffled tone?
Interesting enough I don't get this affect with my old Vibro Champ, could it be the MC90 speaker? I know most if not all frequencies above 500Hz are directional but do speakers have their own dispersion characteristics irrespective of cabinet design? (which is after all only an open back box)
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They no longer beam, the sound is now very similar both on and off access, whereas the transition before was woolly blanket/laser cutter.
Oooh, you devil....!
On a common or garden HRD it might be Bass 3+, Mid 8, Treble 7, Presence 8, (alll out of 12) clean chan vol 4. Combo raised on hard case lid about 20" All pedals before the low gain input. I get plenty of compliments on my tone from other guitarists at Jams and the like.
Its pretty easy to set up your eq when you only have one knob for it. It's surprising how much the gain interacts with the eq on this amp though, lower gain is brighter and the eq seems to get darker as you ramp the gain up.
low input
gain full
volume 12oclock
treble 9 oclock
mid 12 oclock
bass full
presence 12 oclock
works well enough, just tweak a little here and there when doing the sound check.