discordance_axis
Well-known member
To quote a paragraph from the Mark V owners manual:
This is perhaps the best statement I have ever read in regard to amps, EQ and the weirdness of the human ear. I know it's referring to the Mark V EQ sliders and preset but I think it's relevant to everything we hear throughout the day once we come back to our amps.
I think this is the reason why many people get an amp sounding just the way they like it and have a whale of a time playing one evening, and then the next day come back to their rig with the same settings only to find themselves tweaking again. "It seems thinner now compared to when I was playing it last night".
What I've been doing when I pick up my guitar recently is always playing on the clean channel for a short while before perhaps moving onto a mid gain sound, that way when I kick into my lead and high gain sounds it's always thick, creamy and very pleasing to play, rather than diving right into the high gain sounds and not giving my ears time to adjust. I've found that since I have been doing this I've been playing a lot more and tweaking a lot less!
Perhaps i'm mentally ill but hey.. it works for me!
Because this EQ is capable of such extreme notching and boosting, when you turn it off and listen to the un-EQ’d sounds they will likely
sound flat and honky to you. This is normal and to be expected… you have a good case of “EQ hangover”. Like any over-indulgence
you need to give your body – in this case your ears – time to recover. Waiting a few minutes will help your ears return to “normal” and
the unaltered sounds will sound much more right again.
This is perhaps the best statement I have ever read in regard to amps, EQ and the weirdness of the human ear. I know it's referring to the Mark V EQ sliders and preset but I think it's relevant to everything we hear throughout the day once we come back to our amps.
I think this is the reason why many people get an amp sounding just the way they like it and have a whale of a time playing one evening, and then the next day come back to their rig with the same settings only to find themselves tweaking again. "It seems thinner now compared to when I was playing it last night".
What I've been doing when I pick up my guitar recently is always playing on the clean channel for a short while before perhaps moving onto a mid gain sound, that way when I kick into my lead and high gain sounds it's always thick, creamy and very pleasing to play, rather than diving right into the high gain sounds and not giving my ears time to adjust. I've found that since I have been doing this I've been playing a lot more and tweaking a lot less!
Perhaps i'm mentally ill but hey.. it works for me!