Guitar tone hell

[metropolis_4]

You basically described my first rig here. Obviously the GX-15 was set with mids on zero, "because that's how Metallica gets their sound." Later on I learned it would do a pretty decent Santana tone by turning the mids up.

I really should have listened to my gut when I didn't quite like the Zoom 505-II in a store, but just thought that maybe I didn't know how to use it.

Ah, how nice it would be to go back and be young and stupid again. Now I can just be stupid!

Haha, same here. I’m pretty sure my default settings were gain, bass, treble all the way up and mids on zero.

 

[Stratzrus]

... all we had was some dinky little combo with a shit tier speaker and a rectangular button that says "overdrive" or "distortion".

My dinky little combo with a shit tier speaker didn't even have the overdrive or distortion button.

 

[Alex Kenivel]

You haven't lived until you've run the RP with mids down into the front end of a with the mids cranked. Now that's equalized!

 

[FuzzyAce]

I'm so glad I didn't suffer through the old modelers' hell.
I held out as long as I could til Helix.