How and why to cut mids

That was a cool video. It probably would have been a lot of extra work, but it would have been cool for him to provide some audio examples. But, it was informative and useful.
 
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Bocc69 said:
That was a very cool vid. Narrator does a good job. I just said in a recent post, that I lower the mids. Now I know why.
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I also found it interesting for him to point out that even when the tone controls on Marshalls and Fenders are dimed, the amp still exhibits slightly scooped mids.
 
smitty_p said:
I also found it interesting for him to point out that even when the tone controls on Marshalls and Fenders are dimed, the amp still exhibits slightly scooped mids.
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Exactly. I thought the vid was interesting and then he said Marshall, and I found it even more interesting. Lol, yea im a Marshall guy.
 
I owned 1 Marshall amplifier in my life.
I sold it 3 days after I bought it.
I'm not a Marshall guy.

I'm pretty sure it's me though, not the amplifiers.
I like the way they sound when other people play through them.
I only don't like them when I play through them.

Maybe I just don't like the way I play...

Gonna stop typing now. This seems to be going downhill fast...
 
The guy in the video makes sense.
Especially the part about playing with others in a band.

When I play out and I know the other guitar player
(if there is one) I call them beforehand to find out
which guitar and amplifier they are bringing.
If they say LP and Marshall, I bring an SG and a Fender.
If they say an SG and a Fender, I bring an ES and
maybe a Peavey Classic 30. This puts us ahead of
the game in staying out of each others way.
 
Randy Smith figured it out 40 years ago and added the graphic EQ for these reasons. This is more or less how I have the Graphic EQ set on my Mark 5:25:

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and close on all of the knobs except bass on the red channel. I run way less bass than this on the red channel as it gets too muddy too fast.

Gain knob at 1:00 on the Mk IIC+ or Mk IV mode is more gain than most other amps have maxed out.
 
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gball said:
Randy Smith figured it out 40 years ago and added the graphic EQ for these reasons. This is more or less how I have the Graphic EQ set on my Mark 5:25:

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and close on all of the knobs except bass on the red channel. I run way less bass than this on the red channel as it gets too muddy too fast.
1:00 on the Mk IIC+ or Mk IV mode is more gain than most amps have maxed out.
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YES!!!!
 
Tony M. said:
The guy in the video makes sense.
Especially the part about playing with others in a band.

When I play out and I know the other guitar player
(if there is one) I call them beforehand to find out
which guitar and amplifier they are bringing.
If they say LP and Marshall, I bring an SG and a Fender.
If they say an SG and a Fender, I bring an ES and
maybe a Peavey Classic 30. This puts us ahead of
the game in staying out of each others way.
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I call guitar player beforehand too. If he says he's bring one amplifier, I bring two... :-)
 
My view is leave the mids in the amp, and cut at the console if necessary.
Subtractive eq is easier, and less noisy than trying to add something that’s just not there when recording.(or in a live mic’ed gig)
 
...but by all means, if you want to emulate the guitar sound of a favorite album, and you’re not going to be mic’ed for recording, or live PA...cut those mids right down to whatever makes it sound good.
 
I found it interesting that he used the Duncan Tone Stack calculator for part of his demo. I have used that a lot in the past fine tuning peoples amps for them.
 
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