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Any decent bass rig will smother your bass frequencies. Boosting the low end of the guitar isn’t going to help you win in terms of clarity over the bass. So when a typical band that includes a bassist and a drummer and perhaps keyboards gets into the equation, you’ve got a primarily mid-range instrument that is at the same time now trying to "compete" with those instruments when you do mid-scooping. Boosting the 20Hz and 50Hz bass frequencies on an e.q. Taken in the context as a musical instrument, the guitar is primarily a producer of mid-range frequencies and is really a mid-range instrument. For years, I refused to make changes to my "perfect setup" and thought that the problem was with the other player’s equipment, style, volume – whatever. This works great at low volume, but one of the big struggles I had personally was using this type of sound in context with a band. This is known as a mid-scoop setting and when looking at a graphic equalizer is represented by a "U" shape of the various frequencies. Most rock guitarists that play through practice amps at low volume love the sound of a distorted guitar that is "full and smooth" – meaning there are deep lows and present highs that get emphasized while much of the "honking" mids are cut. ![]() I hope you find this information useful! Equalization and Volume Considerations Even all these years later, I continue to learn from various people, mostly on the Internet these days, and of course I still experiment. ![]() ![]() Much of this information comes from my own years of trial and error as well as from the valued insight of others. In fact, this "how should I set things?" question is the number one question we get here.Īs a result, I thought the time was right to discuss equalization in general and offer some EQ tips. We do get quite a lot of e-mails from folks asking about how they should set their tone controls on their amps and/or pedals.
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