REC too loose? or haters are playing 2 low?

[Heritage Softail]

I have been working with the tone of my REC. Changing from a hard core scooped sound to a bit less bass, more mids, and fairly strong treble/presence. In many posts I have heard comments about flubby low end. When scooped with lots of bass, almost to point of wanting a guitar to sound the way a guitar and a bass sound playing together live, it does get too loose.

Just my opinion here, but being away from a band for a few years, I started to want that bass and Guitar thickness when practicing at home. Jamming with others again quickly got me back covering MY frequency spread. Bottom line, slagging the REC for not covering a bass guitar is not a reasonable criticism. I bought a REC just for chugging riffs, which it does world class. Getting out of the 'scooped tone' only has shown me the amp is really very versatile. But it isn't a bass amp. Someone else posted that a guitar is essentially a mid-range instrument. All of the comments do make me wonder what a 7 string would would like thru a Hartke cab and a REC. I detect g.a.s. coming on. :lol:

 

[fluff191]

+1

I have recently had the very same experience. I used to scoop my sound, but now that I am doing the band thing again, I have cut the bass WAY down, and boosted my mids. And to tell ya the truth, the guitar sound alone when the band isn't playing is not what I would dial in normally, but in the band setting it sounds great.

 

[YellowJacket]

+10

Been there, done that.
The trouble with dialing in a huge bottom end is that you interfere with the bass player. We're so used to hearing a bass on for the ride that we often forget what guitars sound like on their own. Bass down, mids up. Best advice EVER!

 

[bryan_kilco]

messing around with recording some drums the other day, and was using my buddies Dual Recto. I always sorta complained about how much bass it had, even with the bass level wayyyy down. well, I didnt really set it up for recording. I had it mic'd up in a different room than the drums, with headphones on the drummer. SM57 right up in the grill, sounded good but I did have to EQ a shitload of bass out.