cragginshred
Fractal Fanatic
JCM 800 sounds a bit muddy with FW 6.0 tips?
Scott Peterson said:LOL.
I do it opposite and love it.
Drive at 3.50. Bass at 0.00. Mid/Treble/Presence all at 10.00. Bright at 0.00. Master Volume at 9.00. I low cut (advanced tab) at 80Hz.
Cab block is H75 (OH) + G12-65 FF (JM) panned center. Motor at 2.25. No mics.
Try that.
Here's what it sounds like here:
Hi-res FLAC format (download): 2012_04 V6 JCM800 Fractal.flac - File Shared from Box - Free Online File Storage
OR crappy MP3 with all the life crushed out but a handy and cool player app ( ):
LOL.
I do it opposite and love it.
Drive at 3.50. Bass at 0.00. Mid/Treble/Presence all at 10.00. Bright at 0.00. Master Volume at 9.00. I low cut (advanced tab) at 80Hz.
Cab block is H75 (OH) + G12-65 FF (JM) panned center. Motor at 2.25. No mics.
Try that.
Here's what it sounds like here:
Hi-res FLAC format (download): 2012_04 V6 JCM800 Fractal.flac - File Shared from Box - Free Online File Storage
OR crappy MP3 with all the life crushed out but a handy and cool player app ( ):
Just turning my bass down was very helpful. Thanks!
Just tried this. I love it. Real solid tone. I never would have brought myself to put the bass at zero and the mid and treb at 10. I gotta start using my ears.
What do you mean bright at zero? Is that the bright boost off?
Where do you typically set the dynamics? I noticed its now defaulted at zero
Hi
There's another thing that puzzles me with the JCM 800 and the JCM 800 MOD.
I always try this one first, because I owned one in the Pre-Axe-times...
Crank the drive and master to about 8.5. Hit a powerchord (5th fret), and hit it hard. Let it ring until the end.
Do you hear that too?
Is that how the poweramp-sim should react or is there something not balanced out in the model?
LOL.
I do it opposite and love it.
Drive at 3.50. Bass at 0.00. Mid/Treble/Presence all at 10.00. Bright at 0.00. Master Volume at 9.00. I low cut (advanced tab) at 80Hz.
Cab block is H75 (OH) + G12-65 FF (JM) panned center. Motor at 2.25. No mics.
Try that.
Here's what it sounds like here:
Hi-res FLAC format (download): 2012_04 V6 JCM800 Fractal.flac - File Shared from Box - Free Online File Storage
OR crappy MP3 with all the life crushed out but a handy and cool player app ( ):
Ive played and worked on dozens of jcm 800's (2204's, I have a permanent schematic diagram imprinted on my brain even though I quit working on them years ago) and I have never seen anybody run the real amp with the bass at zero and treble and presence at 10. Scott, did you run your real jcm 800's like that back in the day? By the way, your preset sounds great.
Please don't misunderstand me, I am not implying anything derogatory. I just find it interesting. In my experience jcm 800's are very bright; many people remove the bright and/or peaking caps in the pre-amp to tame it out a bit. Even with the bright caps out you still typically see the treble at less than 50%. Although the master volumes were supposedly designed so that players could get distortion at lower volume levels, they definitely sound best with the master up and the power tubes sharing the distorting with the pre-amp (IMHO). So basically, my experience ( and years of it) in the realm of real jcm 800's master up, bass up, and watch that treble lest you put someones eye out!
Of course there are no rules; whatever works for you is right.
Scott,
Thanks for the heads up on the 800 settings, this setup is amazing. These settings translated very well through my JBL 4228 monitors
Great job,
Scott