Hey guys,
I hope you are all doing well and that things are going fine in your lives.
I might have a couple of questions/concerns that perhaps some of you may know how to solve.
Recently, I've been gigging with my mark 5 and although I am completely pleased with the sound I get in the rehearsal room where we play, ever since we started playing live people usually describe my tone as narrow/wiry or harsh sounding (let's simply call it thin).
This is quite weird as in the rehearsal room everything sits well in the mix, but somehow it seems that once we get the mark 5 running through the PA, it's not performing that well.
Is this something that perhaps a better mic placement might help get rid of?
I mostly use my settings/rig as follows:
7string guitar (mahogany with BKP black dog which is rather medium low output)- mark 5- 4X12 traditional cab. No boosts, no further EQs only a couple of things like phaser, wah and tuner.
my settings for live gigs are as follow (always only on hard bypass loop)
- I play 50-60% of my main rhytms using channel 2 crunch
90w,
gain: little less than max
treble- 3-4 oclock
mids- 9:30
bass- around 11 o'clock
presence - 9 o'clock
channel master- 9 o clock
no EQ in
For faster tracking, harder rhytms and solo fills I use the mark 4 setting on channel 3
90w,
gain: 1 oclock
treble- 1 oclock
mids- 10 oclock
bass- around 9 oclock
presence - 9 o'clock
channel master- 9 oclock
pentode
EQ in representing a mild 'M' shape..
1st slide : middle line (if set more then the sound gets mushy and not clear)
2nd slide : a small notch above middle line (if set more then the sound gets mushy and not clear)
3rd slide : halfway between middle line and the lower un
4th slide : between middle line and the upper one (closer to the middle line)
5th slide : middle line
I noticed that if I lower treble on both channels I lose the amount of gain I want which of course is normal but not wanted, as well as the clarity of chords that are played on the sevenstring.
do you see some drastic settings here which might cause the sound to be rather anemic and thin when miced onstage?
I know it's kinda hard to tell over the internet but any ideas might be helpful thanks
I hope you are all doing well and that things are going fine in your lives.
I might have a couple of questions/concerns that perhaps some of you may know how to solve.
Recently, I've been gigging with my mark 5 and although I am completely pleased with the sound I get in the rehearsal room where we play, ever since we started playing live people usually describe my tone as narrow/wiry or harsh sounding (let's simply call it thin).
This is quite weird as in the rehearsal room everything sits well in the mix, but somehow it seems that once we get the mark 5 running through the PA, it's not performing that well.
Is this something that perhaps a better mic placement might help get rid of?
I mostly use my settings/rig as follows:
7string guitar (mahogany with BKP black dog which is rather medium low output)- mark 5- 4X12 traditional cab. No boosts, no further EQs only a couple of things like phaser, wah and tuner.
my settings for live gigs are as follow (always only on hard bypass loop)
- I play 50-60% of my main rhytms using channel 2 crunch
90w,
gain: little less than max
treble- 3-4 oclock
mids- 9:30
bass- around 11 o'clock
presence - 9 o'clock
channel master- 9 o clock
no EQ in
For faster tracking, harder rhytms and solo fills I use the mark 4 setting on channel 3
90w,
gain: 1 oclock
treble- 1 oclock
mids- 10 oclock
bass- around 9 oclock
presence - 9 o'clock
channel master- 9 oclock
pentode
EQ in representing a mild 'M' shape..
1st slide : middle line (if set more then the sound gets mushy and not clear)
2nd slide : a small notch above middle line (if set more then the sound gets mushy and not clear)
3rd slide : halfway between middle line and the lower un
4th slide : between middle line and the upper one (closer to the middle line)
5th slide : middle line
I noticed that if I lower treble on both channels I lose the amount of gain I want which of course is normal but not wanted, as well as the clarity of chords that are played on the sevenstring.
do you see some drastic settings here which might cause the sound to be rather anemic and thin when miced onstage?
I know it's kinda hard to tell over the internet but any ideas might be helpful thanks