It looks like you're new here. If you want to get involved, click one of these buttons!
Subscribe to our Patreon, and get image uploads with no ads on the site!
Base theme by DesignModo & ported to Powered by Vanilla by Chris Ireland, modified by the "theFB" team.
Comments
Studio: https://www.voltperoctave.com
Music: https://www.euclideancircuits.com
Me: https://www.jamesrichmond.com
If you use more than one pickup it’s a balancing decision, helped by having the guitar set up for the ideal source tones from each position (be that heights, or even pickup models) being key factors in what can be achieved
Even more of a balancing act is trying to get the amp set up to cope with my LP, Strat and Tele, on the same settings and sound good between both neck and bridge pickup on all 3 guitars...not something I can say I have achieved fully satisfactorarily yet.
One of the advantages of modelllers is that you can set up patches using the same amp model but with the tone controls adjusted correctly for each pickup, and each guitar, but it is a faff. I prefer to try and get the amp set once and use the guitar controls for dialling in.
I often wonder how The Edge manages this when he changes guitar for each aong.
The method of setting the amp at the point where the controls seem to have the most effect over the smallest range also really seems to help with finding that just-right spot. Some people mock this as ‘internet wisdom’ I know, but it actually seems to work.
The whole point of someone like The Edge using different guitars is to use their different sounds. If you don’t, why bother?
"Take these three items, some WD-40, a vise grip, and a roll of duct tape. Any man worth his salt can fix almost any problem with this stuff alone." - Walt Kowalski
"Only two things are infinite - the universe, and human stupidity. And I'm not sure about the universe." - Albert Einstein
Scoop the mids
I’m assuming that @hootsmon’s referring to a Les Paul, or similar?
When I owned a vintage 335, the bridge pick-up was quite spiky - and the neck pick-up was very rounded in the high end. The most effective set up was to use both pick-ups together and use to volumes to blend a bit of neck in to fatten up the bridge, or a bit of bridge to brighten up the neck.
Modern two humbucker guitars often have hotter-wound bridge pick-ups which are more balanced when you switch between them.
@ICBM that too.
Make the amp sound good for the purpose you need (be that bedroom/studio/stage whatever) using the most sensitive instruments available (your ears). Then accept the resulting sound on the guitar(s) in thier selected configurations. Mastering a guitars rotary controls and thier interaction with proper amps is a talent many take years to recognise and master (guilty your honor). Not being a digital amp player I can't tell you if they work as well with the current crop of emulators, with the early ones they certainly didn't in the short time I could tolerate before the sound gave me hearing fatigue.
Always remember to listen IN CONTEXT and not in isolation, if you invade the space of the keys/bass/trombone player and vocalists your sound needs review!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=shAtnDUXGlQ&t=1563s
I do that and then tweak to taste and go from there!
Still it's a basic tone so it works with every pickup setting.