Dialing out the bark. 🐶

[HomespunEffects]

You will have to wear sunglasses even in the evening. Those are some really bright LEDs. I thought an UFO had landed near your pedalboard.

You should see it next to the Hughes & Kettner. Everything is lit.

 

[GuitarBilly74]

An EQ in the loop (or after the main drive pedal if you run your amp clean) can be a powerful tool indeed. Easy way to shape your tone for different situations. I currently don't use one because my amps fit what I'm currently doing, but I always have an EQ pedal in my effects drawer just in case. It's an important pedal that everyone should own.

 

[Eagle]

You should see it next to the Hughes & Kettner. Everything is lit.

They overheat enough to melt the solder .

 

[laxu]

Well, the issue seems to be the Mids and cutting them pulls it out. I’ll do a video next time I’m home. Thanks.

The speakers are Vintage 30s, G12-75T and G12-K85.

With a high output pickup this bark effect is lessened. I’m thinking that I just don’t like headroom.

Never tried the K85, but the others are not what I'd call "the best thing ever for cleans".

Put a compressor in front and if it has a blend knob, turn it high. If you like it better now, you most likely don't like high headroom.

I run the clean channel on my Mark V with the tube rectified 45W setting specifically because it removes a bit of that spikiness and the tube rectifier adds a bit of sag to it.

 

[newpedals]

You should see it next to the Hughes & Kettner. Everything is lit.

They make some gorgeous looking and sounding amps.

 

[laxu]

You will have to wear sunglasses even in the evening. Those are some really bright LEDs. I thought an UFO had landed near your pedalboard.

Footage of (former) MXR designers.

 

[newpedals]

Footage of (former) MXR designers.

There is nothing wrong in wearing Sunglasses to protect your eyes irrespective of the time of the day.

I had read that performers used to do it to shield their eyes from pyrotechnics in the 1990s. Even late at night.

 

[newpedals]

I am fascinated by people who use EQ pedals. Not only is it technically challenging, but sliders are dirt magnets.

Specially if you jam frequently at different places/ gig, it is a huge task to keep these always squeaky clean.

Forgive me, I have a slight germophobia.

 

[laxu]

There is nothing wrong in wearing Sunglasses to protect your eyes irrespective of the time of the day.

I had read that peformers used to do it to shield their eyes from pyrotechnics in the 1990s. Even late at night.

See that's a different thing from deliberately designing pedals that have LEDs bright enough to light an entire arena. It takes literally one resistor of the right value to dim a LED to a practical level.

 

[James Freeman]

I think it is probably the speakers more than anything else.
Celestions naturally push the 2k-3k, range so that's what you hear with distorted signal which is similar to all-frequency noise that reveals the character of a speaker far more than a clean signal.

 

[FuzzyAce]

I had read that performers used to do it to shield their eyes from pyrotechnics in the 1990s. Even late at night.

And because they were stoned as hell.

 

[HomespunEffects]

I think it is probably the speakers more than anything else.
Celestions naturally push the 2k-3k, range so that's what you hear with distorted signal which is similar to all-frequency noise that reveals the character of a speaker far more than a clean signal.

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I have a set of Jensen C12Rs in a combo that I can try.

 

[HomespunEffects]

You will have to wear sunglasses even in the evening. Those are some really bright LEDs. I thought an UFO had landed near your pedalboard.

 

[Fishbulb]

See that's a different thing from deliberately designing pedals that have LEDs bright enough to light an entire arena. It takes literally one resistor of the right value to dim a LED to a practical level.

I sure don't miss making little sunshields out of tape and cardboard to be able to see my tuner on an outdoor gig - some masking tape over the super bright LEDs knocks the brightness down for indoors pretty nicely. It can be like staring into the sun in a dark venue!