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Post by John on Sept 27, 2006 12:01:50 GMT -7
After years of using only a Marshall Powerbrake attenuator, I switched to a Weber Mass. You can read about the differences in the Airbrake section of this forum.
But the point being how the Marshall sucked mids and I never knew it.
Now that I have hooked up the Weber with the Route 66, it's like a whole new amp. This may sound strange, but it's as if the amp has TOO much midrange and it gets in the way of the treble. I have the treble cranked, I had to back off the bass, and I even had to back off the volume because it was getting too saturated. If you can believe that! When the guitar volume is up over 7, the amp really goes into saturation mode. It's a strange concept to describe. As if the amp is truly overloading and can't handle the signal. It's not a bad sound and the amp is performing the way it should, but I used that to describe what I'm hearing.
Because of all these new complex mids, it's like a while new amp and I'm having to learn how to adapt and handle/use them.
One nice thing, the increased mids allow my 335 to feed back at incredibly low volumes.....really cool in the basement, perhaps it won't be the best at a full volume gig.
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Post by taswegian on Sept 27, 2006 22:44:52 GMT -7
Don't forget that the tone controls begin saturating those frequencies after 12 oclock, 12 oclock kind of being the max, so if you have the treble cranked, you're not neccesarily getting more treble than at 12 oclock but you're getting alot more saturation. If you want less saturation keep the tone controls around 12 oclock or less.
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