I need some advice badly.
What I'm going for is a nice, crispy rhythm tone, with enough drive to give a little depth and bite to the tone (not for lead-type drive, I'm a rhythm player) but not so much that it limits my options with chords (in other words, allows me to play any 3 note chord I want with clarity and separation to the sound
What I'm getting is a LOT of muddy tone without ever getting the crisp "bite" that I want.
My setup is an Ibanez Artstar Hollow Body, run through a Boss CS-3 Compression Pedal, into a 7-Band EQ, into my imput on my amp (a Fender Blues Jr.) After two long nights of tweaking settings, the best I've gotten is when I almost bottom out my lowest two bars on the 7-band, with the third one very low, the next 3 making a sad face slightly above +0, and the top bar mostly cut. It gets a lot of the muddiness out of the tone. The EQ on the amp has bass at 2 or 3 (out of 12), mids at 6 and treble at 8. Volume at 2 and Master at 10. I don't drive the preamp very hard because it just getts really muddy no matter how much bass I cut. (Maybe I just don't ever run my amp hard enough to get to the sweet spot where the power tubes and speakers start to distort?) I wish I had an effects loop so I could run another EQ through it, I'm sure that would help a lot.
So I can get rid of a lot of the "muddiness" by cutting a lot of the bass, but I think at the same time that takes away the depth I want and the high notes tend to sound shrill. Is there a secret to getting a good solid rhythm tone that is not muddy but at the same time has richness? Does it have to do with the fact that I'm not running my amp hard enough to fully get to the sweet spot?
Any helpful advice is appreciated, I need it! Thanks
What I'm going for is a nice, crispy rhythm tone, with enough drive to give a little depth and bite to the tone (not for lead-type drive, I'm a rhythm player) but not so much that it limits my options with chords (in other words, allows me to play any 3 note chord I want with clarity and separation to the sound
What I'm getting is a LOT of muddy tone without ever getting the crisp "bite" that I want.
My setup is an Ibanez Artstar Hollow Body, run through a Boss CS-3 Compression Pedal, into a 7-Band EQ, into my imput on my amp (a Fender Blues Jr.) After two long nights of tweaking settings, the best I've gotten is when I almost bottom out my lowest two bars on the 7-band, with the third one very low, the next 3 making a sad face slightly above +0, and the top bar mostly cut. It gets a lot of the muddiness out of the tone. The EQ on the amp has bass at 2 or 3 (out of 12), mids at 6 and treble at 8. Volume at 2 and Master at 10. I don't drive the preamp very hard because it just getts really muddy no matter how much bass I cut. (Maybe I just don't ever run my amp hard enough to get to the sweet spot where the power tubes and speakers start to distort?) I wish I had an effects loop so I could run another EQ through it, I'm sure that would help a lot.
So I can get rid of a lot of the "muddiness" by cutting a lot of the bass, but I think at the same time that takes away the depth I want and the high notes tend to sound shrill. Is there a secret to getting a good solid rhythm tone that is not muddy but at the same time has richness? Does it have to do with the fact that I'm not running my amp hard enough to fully get to the sweet spot?
Any helpful advice is appreciated, I need it! Thanks