Catalyst
First Lieutenant  Posts: 1 Registered: 10/14/2009 Status: Offline
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posted on 10/14/2009 at 04:38  |
Hi guys!,
I was wondering if anybody could help.... I'm trying to get the cleanist
tone out of my amp and I don't feel that its at its best. I'm encountering
several problems.
First of all heres my rig in order of Input -
- Fender Highway One 2006 American Stratocaster (With Seymour Hot Rail in
the bridge) Tuned to DGCFAD (Step down)
- BOSS BCB-60 EFFECTS BOARD containing :
- Cry Baby Wah Wah (pretty old knackered thing)
- Korg Chromatic pedal Tuner
- BOSS Chorus
- BOSS DD - 3 Delay
- BOSS RV - 5 Reverb
- Hughes and Kettner Trilogy Head (4 channel Clean, OD, Dist1,Dist2)
- Marshall MF4 4x12 Cab
Running my amplifer dry sounds great, the MF4 cab and the trilogy sound
incredibly Beefy. But once I hit the Dist1 or Dist2 Channels I start to
notice an unpleasent muddy, vumph (Good sound descr  ) low end sound
that appears if I palm mute and then mute the strings quickly. Something
doesnt seem to respond very well to the really low frequencies. Now I've
tried fiddling with E.Q and had no luck. I've come to the conclusion that
it may actually be my guitar causing the problem as I've tried it in a few
other high gain amps and had the same unpleasent problem. It only seems to
occur on the lower strings and chords when palm muted but as you can
imagine its incredibly fruhstrating and probably a nightmare for the
engineer at gigs when my amps miced up.
I spoke to somebody the other day and they told me to lower my pickups as
this could be the cause. I've taken them as far down as they'll go and
there doesnt seem to be much improvement.
I haven't really noticed this before playing in D standard which has only
been the past few months. One thing I haven't done since tuning down is
replace the strings (I'm abit skint  ).
Secondly I've changed the valves recently to some russian ones I picked up
from where I used to practice. I can't remember the brand... but I've
noticed when I turn the amp on between 1-5minutes after either the first or
first and 2nd valve (from the left) glow bright red for about 5 seconds
then fade out to glow at the same brightness as the others. This hasnt
seemed to have affected the overall tone but has left me worrying.
Thirdly and finally, I have never been convinced that the effects sound
great through this amp. The boss effects seem to be muddy when I crank them
up. Delay is the hardist to cope with because I used alot of it but it just
seems to sound abit shoddy and unpleasent. I've tried running them in line,
in the FX LOOP Parrerl (Signals too week), In FX LOOP Serial (Amp loses
about 50% volume but effect is clear but sounds muddy again).
If anybody has any suggestions or knows how to deal with any of these
issues I would be extremely grateful for your help.
James
[Edited on 10/14/2009 by Catalyst]
[Edited on 10/14/2009 by Catalyst]
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brian
Moderator   Posts: 1075 Registered: 12/22/2003 Status: Offline |
posted on 10/15/2009 at 12:00, Reply 1 |
are you using batteries in the pedals or power supplies? If the pickups are
to high you will get alot of magnet pull which will cause all kinds of
weird things.
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