Does EQ in guitar amps do the same as EQ in mixing console or hifi? I've plugged my guitar to hifi, put all eq knob in flat, and it sound not as same as it played through guitar amp with flat position eq... Does a guitar amps has flat frequency response? Thanks....
I get sick of hearing these so-called teachers and people in forums saying use your ears to people that are just starting out. They don't know what to listen for they don't know what sounds good yet. A better thing to say is train your ears to know what sounds good then use your ears so basically use your trained ears.
thank you - i hsve an Crush 12 and i thought i made a mistake buying it - the jury is still out but your tips give me encouragement - maybe this orange box and i will get along down the road when i figure it out - PS - I work with horses for a living - an old Cowboy told me a long time ago - " Sometimes - most of the time - less is more - " this has helped me with a young horse more times than i could ever count - and even more with one that has a little age - Have a Geat Day 🐴⚡🎸
Just listen for a minute...the sustain, listen to it... I am not hearing anything. You would though, if it were playing.... ...you can go and have a bite and aaaaaaaaaaaaahhhh you would still be hearing that one
Great video mate! I make music for a living and have always gone off the "if it sounds good, it is good" rule. I always struggled to understand EQing as a musician but this video definitely demystified this perpetual "random knobs situation" for me and helped me view this from a much clearer perspective. Also, (Cut before Boost) Brilliant method! and makes total sense! I'm learning new stuff about music everyday and I love it! Keep up the great work. -Robbie Aaron
As someone who is currently searching for 'my sound' on an orange crush 20 this is extremely helpful. Thanks! The whole cut before boost thing while simple, never crossed my mind. Gonna mess around with it now. And good spinal tap reference! Haha. In a perfect world they would all go up to 11! Lol
This is a damn good point on EQ -i think it might also matter if your eq is passive or active cut/boost.. i have also found through my own experiments that small minor negative adjustments are a good place to start on an eq pedal
Your presentation is clear and logical. The best explanation of practical EQ practices I have yet learned. Explaining EQ in terms of amplifier headroom has made it all click for me. Thanks
Good lesson. Also, I learned this from another youtube video and this is really helpful: if you start with a specific frequency turned all the way down, and then you start turning it up as you're playing (I usually just strum some chords), you'll hear that frequency set (i.e. lows, mids, highs) sort of start to come online at a certain point. Stopping there (i.e. not turning PAST that point) is great because it gives you those frequencies without over-saturating your sound. And then from there, you can always make adjustments if you want, of course. It's a good starting place though.
Well done! I agree: I cut everything and then start adding. Once I reach an unpleasant tone or frequency, I stop and cut back. My Orange Crush 20 is very bassy for some reason. I had to use an external eq to get it to behave.
I have the same Orange practice amp. My main rig is the Orange Rockerverb 50 MKiii Combo. Nothing sounds as good as an Orange amp in my opinion. Thanks for the video.
A few questions about amp EQ. First, some amps have a presence knob in addition to bass, mid, and high. What is the best way to approach the presence knob? Second, with the four EQ knobs, do they generally affect a specific range of frequencies? If so, what are the frequencies? Does it vary by the specific amp?
I have had most basic small practice amps, Fender, Marshal, Orange. Now I have a Blackstar. The Blackstar single knob eq works ok but as with other amps I tend to use on bridge pickup for the extra treble but it's characteristics not always best for what I am playing. So I have just ordered a basic 7 band EQ pedal so I can get the tone I want out of each pickup.
Cool video! Nice tip on going down, before going up! I think you should do a "part 2" where you give tips of what to look for on tone, how to eq an amp feom zero. And also, show the knobs. I can eq an amp and and i think it sounds great 😂. but when someone who knows what is doing change the eq, the sound just go Woooooow. And my previous eq starts sound bad 😅
This is generally true, in the typical amp circuit the EQ knobs are passive and don’t boost anything but cut from 100% which would be the specific tone knob at 10. The reality of the circuit is a lot more complicated and the tone knobs function more like a filter. But the audible effect is pretty much like it’s described in the video. There are amps with active EQ circuits which actually do boost frequencies. For instance a parametric EQ will boost a frequency with a separate adjustment that shapes the curve at that frequency so that the frequencies adjacent either have a gradual or rapid roll off, it’s a much better tone shaping EQ than the standard passive EQ circuit which is on most amps.
Something that many people don't understand about eq'ing, is that you can't boost something that isn't there, which is why your advice about "cut b4 boost" is sound. You can't boost something that may not be there, so (as you said) you cut first.
The way I like to look at it is start the settings at zero and slowly increase until you hear that control just start to bloom. Some amps might only need a knob turned to 3 or 4 before they reach that threshold of sounding good without being too much. I find this especially true for bass and gain. You just want that purr and saturation, but not mud and too much compression.
It's also VERY GEAR AND PLAYER DEPENDENT! For example, one of my amps doesn't like anything below 5 on the EQ without sounding muddy and garbled. Meanwhile, on a different amp I keep the Bass around 2 or 3 otherwise it becomes too prominent. In a word: EXPERIMENT! The electric guitar offers such a a vast soundscape and playing with all sorts of gear is lots of fun (IMO)
This is great information for me. I bought a Fender Player HSS strat about a year ago, and while the clean single coil sound is covered endlessly on RUclips the humbucker not so much. I have been struggling to get what I think is a good sound from the humbucker and will give this a try. Thank you!
My blackstar core 10 amp doesn't have the bass and mid and treble nubs It just has an eq nub. how can i set something like 3/8/8 eq ? I don't have those three nubs to set this :|
I have PRS DGT which is known for warm sound like Gibson. I prefer melodic tone from Strat so I will turn down base and middle and turn up the treble. It is still not bright enough but i think that is how eq needs to be adjusted according to this lesson.
Great video! First time I see your channel. I would add that you shouldn't be afraid to go to seemingly extreme settings. Some amps are really bassy and others very bright and you often need to compensate for that. Also, if you have a multi-effects or an additional EQ in the amp's FX loop, a good high pass bass cut around 100Hz or even higher really cuts the woolly muddy bass. And another low pass high cut at around 10K of lower helps with some fizz and harshness for gainier tones.
Great video! I have a question. I own a Fender Virbolux Reissue. It's one of those amps that only has bass and treble. You mentioned that you prefer the ones that include mids, but do you have any tips about amps that don't? I'm kind of EQ stupid and usually just twist knows without knowing what I'm doing.
Depending on where the EQ sits in the signal flow, yes. If its before the gain or volume, maybe not so much. Afterward gain or volume, definitely. Not twice as loud, though definitely louder. Though maybe "louder" isn't the correct way to think about it... maybe more "immediate"? "Present"?
To test your amp, turn all of your EQ knobs to 0. Then set your volume at whatever level you want (I did 5 on my amps). Then strum your guitar and turn all of the knobs up at once. On all of my amps, the sound got noticeably louder and more present. Thank you for watching and commenting!
This is just what I need. thank you! I played a gig yesterday and it didn't sound just like what I wanted. I tried to adjust every knob and it got harsh, ran out of time before the show started, a little bit dissapointed with the tone I created myself.
But if your in a band context. No matter how you set your tone, you have to tweak it so it doesn't conflict with other instrument's freq. That's my problem. I can cut through the mix. As a solo, it's good. But with the band, I sound nowhere. You also consider the room.
Good video. Question...I understand amp principles. My Yamaha FGX800C guitar has its own eq. I'm not sure how I should have it set up in relation to my amp. I've been keeping the guitar eq at 12 o'clock and tweeking my accoustasonic 40 amp. Please help. Thanks !
Unless it's a baxandall-style tone stack, amp EQ knobs are (most often) NOT volume knobs. They cannot ADD volume to a frequency range; they can only subtract.
For this video I had the tone and volume knobs on 10 and I did not change them during the video. I just wanted to focus on the amp’s EQ. Thank you for watching and commenting!
Thanks for you tip on cut before boost! Interested in opinion on adjusting tone with gain. I've noticed that for best sound it's not the same. Link me your video if you have it, or if you make it. Most people don't realize there's a tone on you overdrive or distortion pedal and what it's for! God bless!
Is each EQ knob at 0 when it's all the way down, or at the 12 o'clock position? I tend to start at 12 o'clock and adjust, but I'm not sure if that's right.
For your typical gigging situations, here the cardinal rules for great guitar tone: 1. Forget stacks! Use a combo amp. 12" speakers sound the best. 2. Don't aim it at your ass! You hear forward, not backward. Put it on the floor in front of you aimed up like a vocal monitor. Put a mic on it. You will _hear_ your tone even at lower wattage. 3. Don't dime out the guitar! Those volume/tone controls go up AND down. Learn to use them. 4. Corollary to #3: Turn your amp all the way up. That's right. Master volume all the way, but input volume at half (probably). Also all tone controls at half (definitely).
This isn't how EQ works in all occasions. It's a good explanation for 75% of the amps out of there but it isn't correct. Old designs like Fender and Marshall have passive EQ that is subtractive so as you say this is correct. The EQ knob is a volume control for that frequency. However for old amps with a presence control it isn't quite true as the presence is in the output section and uses a positive response to boost/cut frequencies. Modern design amp circuits have bandaxall EQ that boosts and cuts the frequency range through power control (boss katana). Therefore the best way to EQ an old amp is to run everything flat out and then reduce frequencies. The best way to EQ a modern design is to put everything in the goldilocks position and manipulate from there. One thing I find very important is to actually shut out most of the frequency range and then apply one of the portions only - so focus on the treble let's say, with the mid and bass and presence completely off. Have a listen to the timbre of the treble range and adjust so there is nothing annoying present. I remember the position of the knob and then apply the same system for the bass control making sure I play low notes a lot. Then I put the treble and bass back in together where I remember they were and I start manipulating mid and presence into the mix. With the mid and the presence I actually feed them in with a thought as to how much mid 'punch' and presence 'air' I need for the job in doing / room or space I'm in. Also, don't forget digital EQ is totally different and quite shit., the output stage of a digital bus equalisers a broad spectrum of the sound and doesnt really attack it at the source like a preamp on a tube amp (fender/marshall) or solid state (Roland jazz/blues or boss katana) does.
What if i have a preamp pedal such as a marshall in a box or vox in a box type of pedals, like Joyo British or Joyo ac tone, & I put an eq pedal before or after the pedals. Does this rules still applied ?
This is not the right way to think about tone controls. Turning up a treble control does not turn the treble up. It turns it down less. You are not boosting anything ever. Tone controls are only subtractive.
Not all tone stacks work like that - check out amps that use a James or Bandaxall tone stack. At noon the Treble and Bass knobs attenuate the for a flat eq curve in the tone circuit. Back those knobs off from noon and they cut their respective frequencies and turn them past noon they boost their respective frequencies. A quirk with this tone stack is the lack of midrange knob but it is very easy to dial in a mid hump by dialing back the bass and treble knobs - mid scoop is the opposite (crank the bass and treble to 11) These are found in HiFi amplifiers but in guitar/bass amps old Ampegs, old Orange and Matamp amps used this tone circuit and it contributes to their versatility they have as "better tone control"
Question of the Day: What else would you like to know about EQ?
If you get a cheaper amp will it effect the tone as much?
The tone probably won’t be as good overall. Thank you for watching and commenting!
Does EQ in guitar amps do the same as EQ in mixing console or hifi? I've plugged my guitar to hifi, put all eq knob in flat, and it sound not as same as it played through guitar amp with flat position eq... Does a guitar amps has flat frequency response? Thanks....
comparing amp tones that use presence vs amps that do not
Per my comment, like to hear about gain, distortion, or overdrive and tone (EQ) adjustments!
I get sick of hearing these so-called teachers and people in forums saying use your ears to people that are just starting out. They don't know what to listen for they don't know what sounds good yet. A better thing to say is train your ears to know what sounds good then use your ears so basically use your trained ears.
That is a fair point! thank you for watching and commenting!
@5MinuteMusic sorry didn't mean to come off that way
@@danmagee5i accept your apology.
I do think you made a great point. You gave me something to think about!
At the end of the day, you still need to use your ears regardless what stage of playing you are at.
as a newbie, I've struggled with EQing, so appreciate the lesson!!
Outstanding vid. I am 73 years ancient and this makes so much sense to my generation. Something as simple as head room is so enlightening
Thank you! I am so glad the video was helpful! Thank you for watching and commenting!
Wow probably the best Guitar EQ video that I have come across. Straight forward and easy to understand :) Well Done.
thank you - i hsve an Crush 12 and i thought i made a mistake buying it - the jury is still out but your tips give me encouragement - maybe this orange box and i will get along down the road when i figure it out -
PS - I work with horses for a living - an old Cowboy told me a long time ago -
" Sometimes - most of the time - less is more - "
this has helped me with a young horse more times than i could ever count - and even more with one that has a little age -
Have a Geat Day 🐴⚡🎸
Nigel solved that mix challenge long ago, mate. I can still hear the sustain.
Just listen for a minute...the sustain, listen to it...
I am not hearing anything.
You would though, if it were playing....
...you can go and have a bite and aaaaaaaaaaaaahhhh you would still be hearing that one
Thank you for watching and commenting!
Great video mate! I make music for a living and have always gone off the "if it sounds good, it is good" rule. I always struggled to understand EQing as a musician but this video definitely demystified this perpetual "random knobs situation" for me and helped me view this from a much clearer perspective. Also, (Cut before Boost) Brilliant method! and makes total sense! I'm learning new stuff about music everyday and I love it! Keep up the great work. -Robbie Aaron
I am so glad this video was helpful! Thank you for watching and commenting!
You couldn't have explained it better!! Thx a lot
As someone who is currently searching for 'my sound' on an orange crush 20 this is extremely helpful. Thanks! The whole cut before boost thing while simple, never crossed my mind. Gonna mess around with it now. And good spinal tap reference! Haha. In a perfect world they would all go up to 11! Lol
Glad you enjoyed the video and found it helpful! Thank you for watching and commenting!
This is a damn good point on EQ -i think it might also matter if your eq is passive or active cut/boost.. i have also found through my own experiments that small minor negative adjustments are a good place to start on an eq pedal
Thank you for watching and commenting!
Your presentation is clear and logical. The best explanation of practical EQ practices I have yet learned. Explaining EQ in terms of amplifier headroom has made it all click for me. Thanks
My pleasure! Thank you for watching and commenting!
I have an orange crush 20. This just proves I need to learn my amp
I have one as well and yes, I have alot to learn as well to get mine to sound as good as his. Ha, good luck with it!
Good lesson. Also, I learned this from another youtube video and this is really helpful: if you start with a specific frequency turned all the way down, and then you start turning it up as you're playing (I usually just strum some chords), you'll hear that frequency set (i.e. lows, mids, highs) sort of start to come online at a certain point. Stopping there (i.e. not turning PAST that point) is great because it gives you those frequencies without over-saturating your sound. And then from there, you can always make adjustments if you want, of course. It's a good starting place though.
Thanks Derik Love the videos!
My pleasure! Thank you for watching and commenting!
Well done! I agree: I cut everything and then start adding. Once I reach an unpleasant tone or frequency, I stop and cut back. My Orange Crush 20 is very bassy for some reason. I had to use an external eq to get it to behave.
I have the same Orange practice amp. My main rig is the Orange Rockerverb 50 MKiii Combo. Nothing sounds as good as an Orange amp in my opinion. Thanks for the video.
Thanks a lot, its very helpful info!!
Thank you for watching and commenting! I am glad you found the video was helpful!
The frequency adjustment hand gestures made this video for me.
Thnks for info, cut before boost. I'll remember that for sure
My pleasure! Thank you for watching and commenting!
Awesome info thank you
brilliant explanation. So simple and easy to understand. Thanks for making the video.
Thank you for watching and commenting! I am glad it helped!
Helpful! This is stuff that a lot of folks don't even realize they're missing.
Great stuff! Thank you, sir.
A few questions about amp EQ. First, some amps have a presence knob in addition to bass, mid, and high. What is the best way to approach the presence knob? Second, with the four EQ knobs, do they generally affect a specific range of frequencies? If so, what are the frequencies? Does it vary by the specific amp?
I have had most basic small practice amps, Fender, Marshal, Orange. Now I have a Blackstar. The Blackstar single knob eq works ok but as with other amps I tend to use on bridge pickup for the extra treble but it's characteristics not always best for what I am playing. So I have just ordered a basic 7 band EQ pedal so I can get the tone I want out of each pickup.
Thanks for the clear informative information.
Great vid mate
actually the best tutorial for EQ....thank you
Underated channel
Good job!
Cool video! Nice tip on going down, before going up!
I think you should do a "part 2" where you give tips of what to look for on tone, how to eq an amp feom zero. And also, show the knobs. I can eq an amp and and i think it sounds great 😂. but when someone who knows what is doing change the eq, the sound just go Woooooow. And my previous eq starts sound bad 😅
really good video bro.. very good
thx
Thank you.
Thanks, that was clear and to the point.
Glad it was helpful! Thank you for watching and commenting!
I thought I understood most bass, mid and treb knobs are passive and only take away not turn up?
Not true across all amps. Depends on the manufacturer, or the amp design, or both.
This is generally true, in the typical amp circuit the EQ knobs are passive and don’t boost anything but cut from 100% which would be the specific tone knob at 10. The reality of the circuit is a lot more complicated and the tone knobs function more like a filter. But the audible effect is pretty much like it’s described in the video.
There are amps with active EQ circuits which actually do boost frequencies. For instance a parametric EQ will boost a frequency with a separate adjustment that shapes the curve at that frequency so that the frequencies adjacent either have a gradual or rapid roll off, it’s a much better tone shaping EQ than the standard passive EQ circuit which is on most amps.
Good job, keep it up. I will be be working with the EQ that came with GT 8
great video man!
Thank you for watching and commenting!
Thanks, Derek! Just good common sense advice I would never have thought-of. God bless you.
Fr. Dave
My pleasure Fr. Dave! Thank you for watching and commenting!
Cut before boost, cool advice.
Love this video but I have questions about the difference between passive and active EQ circuits. Fender=passive. So how do these work?
This is great advice. Thanks.
Thank you for posting 👍🏻
Thank u. Finally understand cut and boost
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Thanks for the vid I was confused because my amp doesn’t say bass or treb it just says high low and mid and I didn’t know what they ment
5:25 HILARIOUS we love a great sense of humor man haha
Thanks! And thank you for watching and commenting!
Something that many people don't understand about eq'ing, is that you can't boost something that isn't there, which is why your advice about "cut b4 boost" is sound. You can't boost something that may not be there, so (as you said) you cut first.
Great tips! Thank you
My pleasure! Thank you for watching and commenting!
The way I like to look at it is start the settings at zero and slowly increase until you hear that control just start to bloom. Some amps might only need a knob turned to 3 or 4 before they reach that threshold of sounding good without being too much. I find this especially true for bass and gain. You just want that purr and saturation, but not mud and too much compression.
Great point about listening for the tone to start blooming! Thank you for watching and commenting!
Hi, great video, whats the difference between mids and prescence??
It's also VERY GEAR AND PLAYER DEPENDENT!
For example, one of my amps doesn't like anything below 5 on the EQ without sounding muddy and garbled. Meanwhile, on a different amp I keep the Bass around 2 or 3 otherwise it becomes too prominent.
In a word: EXPERIMENT! The electric guitar offers such a a vast soundscape and playing with all sorts of gear is lots of fun (IMO)
This is great information for me. I bought a Fender Player HSS strat about a year ago, and while the clean single coil sound is covered endlessly on RUclips the humbucker not so much. I have been struggling to get what I think is a good sound from the humbucker and will give this a try. Thank you!
What setting is best for reggae?
My blackstar core 10 amp doesn't have the bass and mid and treble nubs
It just has an eq nub. how can i set something like 3/8/8 eq ?
I don't have those three nubs to set this :|
I have PRS DGT which is known for warm sound like Gibson. I prefer melodic tone from Strat so I will turn down base and middle and turn up the treble. It is still not bright enough but i think that is how eq needs to be adjusted according to this lesson.
Great video! First time I see your channel.
I would add that you shouldn't be afraid to go to seemingly extreme settings. Some amps are really bassy and others very bright and you often need to compensate for that.
Also, if you have a multi-effects or an additional EQ in the amp's FX loop, a good high pass bass cut around 100Hz or even higher really cuts the woolly muddy bass. And another low pass high cut at around 10K of lower helps with some fizz and harshness for gainier tones.
That is a great point about using high and low pass filters. Thank you for watching and commenting!
Great video! I have a question. I own a Fender Virbolux Reissue. It's one of those amps that only has bass and treble. You mentioned that you prefer the ones that include mids, but do you have any tips about amps that don't? I'm kind of EQ stupid and usually just
twist knows without knowing what I'm doing.
Great video!
Thank you for watching!
So, turning your bass, mids, and treble up actually increases your overall volume?
Mids definitely increases volume.
Depending on where the EQ sits in the signal flow, yes. If its before the gain or volume, maybe not so much. Afterward gain or volume, definitely. Not twice as loud, though definitely louder. Though maybe "louder" isn't the correct way to think about it... maybe more "immediate"? "Present"?
To test your amp, turn all of your EQ knobs to 0. Then set your volume at whatever level you want (I did 5 on my amps). Then strum your guitar and turn all of the knobs up at once. On all of my amps, the sound got noticeably louder and more present. Thank you for watching and commenting!
Great advice!
My pleasure!
This is just what I need. thank you!
I played a gig yesterday and it didn't sound just like what I wanted.
I tried to adjust every knob and it got harsh, ran out of time before the show started, a little bit dissapointed with the tone I created myself.
I hope this helps you next time around. Please let me know how it goes!
Thxs
Thats a cool tip....
I do the same on my Vox PF15R except the fact that it just has 2-band EQ (Vox-style). Thanks man, a good advice!
My pleasure! Thank you for watching and commenting!
But if your in a band context. No matter how you set your tone, you have to tweak it so it doesn't conflict with other instrument's freq. That's my problem. I can cut through the mix. As a solo, it's good. But with the band, I sound nowhere. You also consider the room.
What if the amp has just a Tone knob instead the BMT EQ?
5 minute music. Looks at video length. Hey wait a second!
wat amp required 15W,30W,40W ? wats the electricity consumption for such Amp/thx
is a dark sound the same thing as a muddy sound?
Good video. Question...I understand amp principles. My Yamaha FGX800C guitar has its own eq. I'm not sure how I should have it set up in relation to my amp. I've been keeping the guitar eq at 12 o'clock and tweeking my accoustasonic 40 amp. Please help. Thanks !
Should add...I'm a semi pro drummer who picked up guitar last year. Should've done it years ago. Thanks for the videos.
Unless it's a baxandall-style tone stack, amp EQ knobs are (most often) NOT volume knobs. They cannot ADD volume to a frequency range; they can only subtract.
Great Video. How much to the tone controls on the guitar play into this? Im always trying to balance that out.
For this video I had the tone and volume knobs on 10 and I did not change them during the video. I just wanted to focus on the amp’s EQ. Thank you for watching and commenting!
Thanks for you tip on cut before boost! Interested in opinion on adjusting tone with gain. I've noticed that for best sound it's not the same. Link me your video if you have it, or if you make it. Most people don't realize there's a tone on you overdrive or distortion pedal and what it's for! God bless!
I want to have smooth distortion sound but my guitar is buzzing on playing any note. Please suggest
Can you do a video on what it actually means to put instruments in their ideal frequency range when mixing. I don’t understand it.
Turn the bass down to zero the mids at 4 and the treb at 6 and volume at 11
Very simplistic but it's true.
Is each EQ knob at 0 when it's all the way down, or at the 12 o'clock position?
I tend to start at 12 o'clock and adjust, but I'm not sure if that's right.
For your typical gigging situations, here the cardinal rules for great guitar tone:
1. Forget stacks! Use a combo amp. 12" speakers sound the best.
2. Don't aim it at your ass! You hear forward, not backward. Put it on the floor in front of you aimed up like a vocal monitor. Put a mic on it. You will _hear_ your tone even at lower wattage.
3. Don't dime out the guitar! Those volume/tone controls go up AND down. Learn to use them.
4. Corollary to #3: Turn your amp all the way up. That's right. Master volume all the way, but input volume at half (probably). Also all tone controls at half (definitely).
@@IshredGuitar Thanks. I learned from my mistakes, and I made them all throughout my years of playing night after night.
This isn't how EQ works in all occasions. It's a good explanation for 75% of the amps out of there but it isn't correct.
Old designs like Fender and Marshall have passive EQ that is subtractive so as you say this is correct. The EQ knob is a volume control for that frequency.
However for old amps with a presence control it isn't quite true as the presence is in the output section and uses a positive response to boost/cut frequencies.
Modern design amp circuits have bandaxall EQ that boosts and cuts the frequency range through power control (boss katana).
Therefore the best way to EQ an old amp is to run everything flat out and then reduce frequencies.
The best way to EQ a modern design is to put everything in the goldilocks position and manipulate from there.
One thing I find very important is to actually shut out most of the frequency range and then apply one of the portions only - so focus on the treble let's say, with the mid and bass and presence completely off. Have a listen to the timbre of the treble range and adjust so there is nothing annoying present. I remember the position of the knob and then apply the same system for the bass control making sure I play low notes a lot. Then I put the treble and bass back in together where I remember they were and I start manipulating mid and presence into the mix. With the mid and the presence I actually feed them in with a thought as to how much mid 'punch' and presence 'air' I need for the job in doing / room or space I'm in.
Also, don't forget digital EQ is totally different and quite shit., the output stage of a digital bus equalisers a broad spectrum of the sound and doesnt really attack it at the source like a preamp on a tube amp (fender/marshall) or solid state (Roland jazz/blues or boss katana) does.
Thank you for taking the time with such a detailed explanation!
A lot of amps have a presence control which you omitted to address.
Can you do how to get the guitar tone for 1985 by bowling for soup on the fender champ 20??
If you didn't make that Spinal Tap reference you know someone would... probably me 😅
HA! Absolutely! Thank you for watching and commenting!
It doesn't have Chorus or Reverb effects 😢
i don't bother cutting before boosting because my amp goes to 11
What if i have a preamp pedal such as a marshall in a box or vox in a box type of pedals, like Joyo British or Joyo ac tone, & I put an eq pedal before or after the pedals. Does this rules still applied ?
I would still want to try cutting before boosting with an EQ pedal. Thank you for watching and commenting!
Guitar amps use subtractive Eq. Which means that with the bass, mid, and treble knobs at 10 the amps Eq is flat.
I have trouble describing sounds.
Hi Derik! Do you know if the Fender Champion 20 works well with acoustic-electric guitars?
I have heard that it does from other players, but I have never tried that. Thank you for watching and commenting!
Boost before cut good tip thank you
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Can you do a Jimi Hendrix sound (not voodoo Child) on the Fender Champion 20. Like a stereotypical Jimi Hendrix like a fuzz face Jimi Sound
I have the same guitar you're using there. Just over 10,000 miles away... 😔
Very cool! It is a fun guitar to play! Thank you for watching and commenting!
Everything to 10
Just fyi, the headrush pedalboard and frfrs go to 11… (the company is eleven..😉)
That is fantastic!
Mine goes to 11 😂
This is not the right way to think about tone controls. Turning up a treble control does not turn the treble up. It turns it down less. You are not boosting anything ever. Tone controls are only subtractive.
This doesn't make much sense mate. You may be on to something, but your explanations are unfathomable
I think he’s describing it for the layperson
Have to cut Bass ALWAYS on these modern gainy amps
Tone knobs don't "boost" anything. They only short your signal to ground. Dime your guitar and amp a turn down what frequency is too loud.
Not all tone stacks work like that - check out amps that use a James or Bandaxall tone stack.
At noon the Treble and Bass knobs attenuate the for a flat eq curve in the tone circuit.
Back those knobs off from noon and they cut their respective frequencies and turn them past noon they boost their respective frequencies.
A quirk with this tone stack is the lack of midrange knob but it is very easy to dial in a mid hump by dialing back the bass and treble knobs - mid scoop is the opposite (crank the bass and treble to 11)
These are found in HiFi amplifiers but in guitar/bass amps old Ampegs, old Orange and Matamp amps used this tone circuit and it contributes to their versatility they have as "better tone control"
Not true across all amps. Depends on the manufacturer, or the amp design, or both.
Essentially not a amp for jazz guitar
Now i now even less...
Thank you.