Not policing anyone's GEQ settings here.
I just find the conversation super interesting, and like to add in some thoughts
and experiences from an outliers point of view, and not the typical things we
tend to assume/believe about Mark amps and GEQs.
There is a lot of confusion about how scooped the mids were/are on a lot of the
iconic useage of Markseries amps over the years. I\'d even contend it borders on
a sort of mythology at this point. That the mids were totally cratered and Bass and
Treble where maxed on the GEQ.
Yet, look at the judicious use of the GEQ here, where the GEQ is used mostly (and very
little at that) to cut frequencies. Very much a professional mixing/engineering approach.
There's literally not a single slider boosting the preamp in a post-EQ manner. Hell,
even the Mids are mostly flat.
Mids are zeroed out on the tonestack/preamp side, though.
James was pretty much using more Bass in the preamp and less post/GEQ than is
popularly assumed. It's like people took what they thought he did and went way
farther. Nothing wrong with that. If it sounds good it is good.
A few years later and even Papa Het took the drugs.
I may need to try these settings.
I wonder if he was using the MP-1
to reintroduce some midrange?? Because there is literally none coming
from the Mesas.
