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For guitarists and bassists regarding tone. . .

  • 18-08-2008 11:30am
    #1
    Cmc29
    Registered Users Posts: 94 ✭✭


    How do you get your tone? What piece of equipment is the most important in your chain? Also a lot of it is to do with how you set up your equipment/eq setting. Anyone have any tips that they find useful?
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  • #2
    Rigsby
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,452 ✭✭✭Rigsby


    IMO your amp is the single most important component in the tone chain. You can play a top of the range guitar through a low grade amp and it wont sound great. If you play a low grade guitar through a good amp it will (should) sound quite good.

    As for eq settings, that's a matter of personal taste. Most people set the eq at flat and tweak from there 'till they get what (or as near to) what they want.

    With my bass amp, if I want a little more bass I roll off the treble a bit instead of increasing the bass.


  • #3
    -=al=-
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,290 ✭✭✭-=al=-


    i find overdrive pedals are a big thing for my tone, and ur amp of corse... little compression, Little chorus, little delay and a pretty warm eq setting i guess... i love the tone in my video link below ;) ... it rocks

    apart from the whole tone in your fingers jazz


  • #4
    Duff_Man
    Closed Accounts Posts: 414 ✭✭Duff_Man


    ah yeh amps play the biggest role in a rig....especially clean anyway cause you can get some amazing sounds from stomp boxes distortion wise. i like my eq balaned everything at 5 and set the gain to 11 and im all set!


  • #5
    Dord
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,817 ✭✭✭✭Dord


    I prefer to set my amps eq flat and let my basses volume, tone and/or EQ do the rest of the work for tweaking. I use pedals but only to supplement my rig. Such as for extra sounds that it can't provide, like chorus, wah and occasionally fuzz. For pure overdriven/distortion sounds I rely on my amp.

    My tone is the sum of all pieces in the signal chain, myself included. ;)


  • #6
    Malice
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,065 ✭✭✭✭Malice


    Cmc29 wrote: »
    How do you get your tone? What piece of equipment is the most important in your chain? Also a lot of it is to do with how you set up your equipment/eq setting. Anyone have any tips that they find useful?
    The question of whether the amp or the guitar is more important is probably a bit like the chicken and the egg. My personal preference would be to play a good guitar through a bad amp. As regards tone, it depends on the sound I want but usually I'll leave the amp eq flat and use the tone knobs on the guitar. Other times I'll scoop the mids on the amp, whack on some distortion and wail away.

    Along the lines of what Rigsby said, if you want to boost the low end eq, often you're better off reducing the high end or the mids.


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