Jarick
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Second one is way too bright and harsh.
I think there's a hard thing with modelers in getting high gain right. It's way too easy to get an overly harsh and bright tone. In the real world, you can absolutely get a terrible bright thin tone, but if you have the basics right, physics kind of keeps you from doing anything horribly stupid.
Like if you had a 5150 amp with a matching cab, and if you took a 57 and put it on a speaker a few inches off center, it probably will sound decent and probably won't be super harsh and terrible.
Ears are really sensitive in the high mids, and a lot of people can't differentiate high mids (say the 3-4k range) from high end (say 7-8k on up). Especially if your monitors are bad or you have significant hearing damage.
I think there's a hard thing with modelers in getting high gain right. It's way too easy to get an overly harsh and bright tone. In the real world, you can absolutely get a terrible bright thin tone, but if you have the basics right, physics kind of keeps you from doing anything horribly stupid.
Like if you had a 5150 amp with a matching cab, and if you took a 57 and put it on a speaker a few inches off center, it probably will sound decent and probably won't be super harsh and terrible.
Ears are really sensitive in the high mids, and a lot of people can't differentiate high mids (say the 3-4k range) from high end (say 7-8k on up). Especially if your monitors are bad or you have significant hearing damage.