There are some things you learn early on in the Jerry tone quest, all of which seem to revolve around treble/brightness:
-Super 2's—a really bright humbucker... split so it's even brighter.
-Buffer so you don't lose any treble.
-Amp settings are bass 0, mid 0, treble 10.
The rest of the rig might not necessarily be treble-heavy, but I'd say neither the JBL's, the McIntosh, nor the MD421 are gonna do much to tame the treble. I've seen JBL's described as "warm" on this forum, and McIntosh amps as "sweet", but I have both and, well, they sound great, but I'd say they sound more neutral than anything. In any case, they don't really tame the treble in any way I can tell when compared to other other speakers and power amps.
I don't know about you all, but with this rig, I get some pretty ice picky, shrill tones, which frankly sound pretty bad. Then I listen to something like the 6/17/91 Eyes of the World performance, for example (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kuSJ0djewQU), and I hear nothing shrill, no pick noise, no ice pick, no fret noise... if anything, it's kind of a dark tone.
The closest I can get to a tone like that is if I roll my tone pot back pretty far, like 50% (with a log pot), and that helps quite a bit, and I'm pretty happy with the tone. Of course, I get the "if it sounds good, who cares?" opinion, but I'm still curious if anyone else also rolls their tone pot back a little bit, even for clean tones? Otherwise, what gives... anyone else have trouble with ice pick highs?
-Super 2's—a really bright humbucker... split so it's even brighter.
-Buffer so you don't lose any treble.
-Amp settings are bass 0, mid 0, treble 10.
The rest of the rig might not necessarily be treble-heavy, but I'd say neither the JBL's, the McIntosh, nor the MD421 are gonna do much to tame the treble. I've seen JBL's described as "warm" on this forum, and McIntosh amps as "sweet", but I have both and, well, they sound great, but I'd say they sound more neutral than anything. In any case, they don't really tame the treble in any way I can tell when compared to other other speakers and power amps.
I don't know about you all, but with this rig, I get some pretty ice picky, shrill tones, which frankly sound pretty bad. Then I listen to something like the 6/17/91 Eyes of the World performance, for example (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kuSJ0djewQU), and I hear nothing shrill, no pick noise, no ice pick, no fret noise... if anything, it's kind of a dark tone.
The closest I can get to a tone like that is if I roll my tone pot back pretty far, like 50% (with a log pot), and that helps quite a bit, and I'm pretty happy with the tone. Of course, I get the "if it sounds good, who cares?" opinion, but I'm still curious if anyone else also rolls their tone pot back a little bit, even for clean tones? Otherwise, what gives... anyone else have trouble with ice pick highs?