Dear all,
To summarize, I have a hard time getting a good tone out of my FM3, firmware version 4.01. I have two general setups, either FM3 -> solid state power amp -> 2x12 Marshall cab with G12 vintage speakers or FM3 -> headphones. In the first setup, I e.g. use only an amp block (power amp sim enabled), in the second setup I use an amp block and a cab block, e.g. with the LT TV mix 2 IR from Leon Todd he uses in his videos, downloaded from axechange.
I run a Gibson SG standard or an Ibanez Jem 777 into the FM3, usually both with humbucker in bridge position.
I tried e.g. the 1959 SLP Jumped model and the Brit 800 Model. For the first, I used among others the same settings as in Leon Todd's "Pimp my Plexi video" so treble drive 3.8, normal drive 1.7, bass 1.8, mid 8.0, treble 8.9, presence 8.2. For the latter I also tried among other settings the same as in one of his videos, drive 6.2, bass 3.5, mid 7.3, treble 6.9, presence 6.7, master 4.6, some input boost.
The thing is, the tones I get, even though the settings are practically the same as in the videos, are so far away from being usable with both headphones and cabinet setup, I cannot imagine how I can even come close to them. The sound is totally thin and hollow with lots of bass and mids missing.
I am wondering how this sound can result. Is it a result of the pickup characteristics in the guitars? I cannot really imagine this, since I played e.g. with a graphic EQ added before the amp, with lots of bass and mids added, but still the sound is really bad. When I switch off the amp block, I hear a bass heavy sound, but as soon as I switch on the amp block, I get the same crappy sound again. For example for the Brit 800, when I turn off power amp sim, the preamp sound is also very thin, I cannot imagine how the power amp could fatten up things to an extent that would fix this.
I tried a lot of settings in amp and cab block but I cannot get this to work reasonably. In the above example with the 1959 SLP Jumped, If I turn down the bright cap value from the default setting to a very low level, the sound gets much more balanced from bass/mid/treble point of view, but I lose much of the distortion and the amp does not feel the same anymore. I played around with lots of values in different settings (presence, depth, input trim, speaker impedance curve, ...) but I cannot get this thing to have good sound...
...to be correct: for many amp models but not all! Interestingly, for some amp models the sound is very good, e.g. for 5F1 Tweed I get nice sounding bass and mids, but for lots of amp models I am interested in, like Brit 800, JM45 and 1959 SLP Jumped, I failed.
Any hints would be greatly appreciated.
To summarize, I have a hard time getting a good tone out of my FM3, firmware version 4.01. I have two general setups, either FM3 -> solid state power amp -> 2x12 Marshall cab with G12 vintage speakers or FM3 -> headphones. In the first setup, I e.g. use only an amp block (power amp sim enabled), in the second setup I use an amp block and a cab block, e.g. with the LT TV mix 2 IR from Leon Todd he uses in his videos, downloaded from axechange.
I run a Gibson SG standard or an Ibanez Jem 777 into the FM3, usually both with humbucker in bridge position.
I tried e.g. the 1959 SLP Jumped model and the Brit 800 Model. For the first, I used among others the same settings as in Leon Todd's "Pimp my Plexi video" so treble drive 3.8, normal drive 1.7, bass 1.8, mid 8.0, treble 8.9, presence 8.2. For the latter I also tried among other settings the same as in one of his videos, drive 6.2, bass 3.5, mid 7.3, treble 6.9, presence 6.7, master 4.6, some input boost.
The thing is, the tones I get, even though the settings are practically the same as in the videos, are so far away from being usable with both headphones and cabinet setup, I cannot imagine how I can even come close to them. The sound is totally thin and hollow with lots of bass and mids missing.
I am wondering how this sound can result. Is it a result of the pickup characteristics in the guitars? I cannot really imagine this, since I played e.g. with a graphic EQ added before the amp, with lots of bass and mids added, but still the sound is really bad. When I switch off the amp block, I hear a bass heavy sound, but as soon as I switch on the amp block, I get the same crappy sound again. For example for the Brit 800, when I turn off power amp sim, the preamp sound is also very thin, I cannot imagine how the power amp could fatten up things to an extent that would fix this.
I tried a lot of settings in amp and cab block but I cannot get this to work reasonably. In the above example with the 1959 SLP Jumped, If I turn down the bright cap value from the default setting to a very low level, the sound gets much more balanced from bass/mid/treble point of view, but I lose much of the distortion and the amp does not feel the same anymore. I played around with lots of values in different settings (presence, depth, input trim, speaker impedance curve, ...) but I cannot get this thing to have good sound...
...to be correct: for many amp models but not all! Interestingly, for some amp models the sound is very good, e.g. for 5F1 Tweed I get nice sounding bass and mids, but for lots of amp models I am interested in, like Brit 800, JM45 and 1959 SLP Jumped, I failed.
Any hints would be greatly appreciated.
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