guys,
I know this will be quite difficult for you to consider but I've been running into this rather unclear problem. My point is that I've been swapping pickups like mad just to find a match, but somehow I came to a conclusion that something may be off the hook with my amp.
The thing is that I've got a sevenstring guitar where I've changed several pickups - BKP painkiller, then holydiver, nailbomb and now emerald 7 and god nows what else but i'm somehow getting lost.. I keep telling myself that it's not because of the amp..
My main concern is that even with my pre-EQ bass on 0 and the first two sliders on the GEQ fairly low (like on the middle line and sometimes lower) I get too much round bass and an unhealthy spiky/flubby sound. If i raise bass even by a tiny bit higher i get flub, shitloads of it... it doesn't sound nowhere as good as I've heard other players/vids and stuff with more bass heavy/mid heavy and less trebly settings
the reason why i think someting is not all right is that even with the crunch channel set to max trebles/gain mids on 10o'cl, and bass on 0 i still get too much rounded bass and a weaker sound which is just working against m while i play.. if i set ch2 to lower treble/gain setting i lose so much juice that it becomes unplayable and is like a weird flubby radio.. it sounds as if it was choked or i dunno.. the same applies for mk1 channel2 with similar settings and presence on 2o'clock it sounds unhealthy until i set the channle master to something like 2o'clock.. from what i know it should be chunkier and almost as heavy as ch3 but..its as if it got choked and was covered with a blanket and in general with all channels it sounds as if it sounded ok only on one certain setting.. all the other make it nasty/scratchy/wiry/flubby
for instance, my sound is totally weird if I put channel 3 trebles to a lesser position than 1 o'clock being on mark 4, it plays like crap and i am no soft picker..its got wiry tones, same applies to gain if i put less than 1-2o'c i get some flubby sound that is no where near tight/searing/full.. i run all my bass knobs on all channels on 0 and yet, with bright pickups like the emerald is I still fight some weird low end frequencies that sound like a subbass flub which are somehow working against my rhytm work..
the reason why i mention this is that usually my guitar sounds uppermidrange-y/trebly and tight with most amps..
for instance this guy has a serious problem with his ch2 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KhS-P_8052Q but yet his ch3 on 0:44 sounds so great when he switches over, that i'd be happy if i get it out of my amp..
the weird thing i noticed it that somehow i like the loop activated sound better than the hard bypass mode which should be the other way around..
what i noticed is that when i popped in a fresh set of winged =C=s it got mushier and bassier, like, i could not get any articulation out of it and it got worse..so i putthe old mesa 6L6 back
i know that the only way is to try a different guitar/cab/head to identify where the catch is but have any of you came accross such problem that you would be fighting low frequencies on mark 1 normal (even with 0 bass,EQdisengaged), crunch and ch3mk4? ch1 as well does not sound chimey, its usually either piercing/bright or flubby/wiry oh and by too much bass i don't mean a nice full tone, but something that is overbearing and i can't just accept the fact that an amp like this would sound ok on only one setting out of more..this is not like finding sweet spots between a great sound and a good one, but trying to make it sound at least ok and bearable..
the problem is that I've had it for 9months, i bought it brand new, it's a 3600serial runm i know how to tweak it, at the beginning it sounded great but it somehow degraded?! and i dunno if this is something i could use as an argument when dealing with the shop/warranty/tech check..
i dunno it's either tubes/internal problem/guitar/cab or me getting crazy
I know this will be quite difficult for you to consider but I've been running into this rather unclear problem. My point is that I've been swapping pickups like mad just to find a match, but somehow I came to a conclusion that something may be off the hook with my amp.
The thing is that I've got a sevenstring guitar where I've changed several pickups - BKP painkiller, then holydiver, nailbomb and now emerald 7 and god nows what else but i'm somehow getting lost.. I keep telling myself that it's not because of the amp..
My main concern is that even with my pre-EQ bass on 0 and the first two sliders on the GEQ fairly low (like on the middle line and sometimes lower) I get too much round bass and an unhealthy spiky/flubby sound. If i raise bass even by a tiny bit higher i get flub, shitloads of it... it doesn't sound nowhere as good as I've heard other players/vids and stuff with more bass heavy/mid heavy and less trebly settings
the reason why i think someting is not all right is that even with the crunch channel set to max trebles/gain mids on 10o'cl, and bass on 0 i still get too much rounded bass and a weaker sound which is just working against m while i play.. if i set ch2 to lower treble/gain setting i lose so much juice that it becomes unplayable and is like a weird flubby radio.. it sounds as if it was choked or i dunno.. the same applies for mk1 channel2 with similar settings and presence on 2o'clock it sounds unhealthy until i set the channle master to something like 2o'clock.. from what i know it should be chunkier and almost as heavy as ch3 but..its as if it got choked and was covered with a blanket and in general with all channels it sounds as if it sounded ok only on one certain setting.. all the other make it nasty/scratchy/wiry/flubby
for instance, my sound is totally weird if I put channel 3 trebles to a lesser position than 1 o'clock being on mark 4, it plays like crap and i am no soft picker..its got wiry tones, same applies to gain if i put less than 1-2o'c i get some flubby sound that is no where near tight/searing/full.. i run all my bass knobs on all channels on 0 and yet, with bright pickups like the emerald is I still fight some weird low end frequencies that sound like a subbass flub which are somehow working against my rhytm work..
the reason why i mention this is that usually my guitar sounds uppermidrange-y/trebly and tight with most amps..
for instance this guy has a serious problem with his ch2 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KhS-P_8052Q but yet his ch3 on 0:44 sounds so great when he switches over, that i'd be happy if i get it out of my amp..
the weird thing i noticed it that somehow i like the loop activated sound better than the hard bypass mode which should be the other way around..
what i noticed is that when i popped in a fresh set of winged =C=s it got mushier and bassier, like, i could not get any articulation out of it and it got worse..so i putthe old mesa 6L6 back
i know that the only way is to try a different guitar/cab/head to identify where the catch is but have any of you came accross such problem that you would be fighting low frequencies on mark 1 normal (even with 0 bass,EQdisengaged), crunch and ch3mk4? ch1 as well does not sound chimey, its usually either piercing/bright or flubby/wiry oh and by too much bass i don't mean a nice full tone, but something that is overbearing and i can't just accept the fact that an amp like this would sound ok on only one setting out of more..this is not like finding sweet spots between a great sound and a good one, but trying to make it sound at least ok and bearable..
the problem is that I've had it for 9months, i bought it brand new, it's a 3600serial runm i know how to tweak it, at the beginning it sounded great but it somehow degraded?! and i dunno if this is something i could use as an argument when dealing with the shop/warranty/tech check..
i dunno it's either tubes/internal problem/guitar/cab or me getting crazy
