How to get this nasal mid-scooped tone? (Carvin Belair 2x12)

[Piing]

A Belair Combo with a SM57 and at the edge (0 dB attenuation) and a a Behringer B2 at the center (10dB attenuation)

There is added delay, but I want to believe that there is no additional EQ or post-processing. Otherwise that would spoil the purpose and the validity of the demo.

Carvin controls:
Channel 2
Soak 6.5
Volume 3
Bass 7
Mid 5
Treble 7
Reverb 3

It is a 50W all-tube combo with 2x12 GT12 Speakers (Celestion Vintage 30 at the video)
Four 12AX7 + Four EL84
The schematic is available here

The guitar is a Suhr Pro Series M1 with Aldrich. I have a RG550LTD with the same Aldrich pickup. Part of that punch at the mids is characteristic of the Aldrich, but that is just a small part of the equation.



I've been trying the Wrecks, CarolAnn Tucana Lead, Vox and JS410. But, as usual, the juice must be on the IR. I already have ear fatigue of browsing 2x12 cabs

 

[Piing]

I am starting to get a good base that already sounds great. A JS410 Lead Red with the Ownhammer CAB OH112 DLXVRB C30+C12 120-02

I selected that IR from my user CABS randomly while playing with the JS410 and it rang a bell. Then I tried several AMPS with that IR, but the JS410 is so far the best match

Tomorrow I will leave the JS as a fixed part of the equation and experiment with similar IRs

 

[AndrewJay]

Maybe the Suhr Badger 18 model would work. The tone reminds me of Guthrie Govan's while he was still with Suhr. I can't really offer any IR suggestions for that, but there are plenty of V30 loaded ones.

 

[AndrewJay]

I took a quick stab at it, nothing close enough to post though. Through my Sony MDR 7510s, the guitar tone in the video is pretty dark. Maybe a Suhr Badger 18 with the mids cranked and the bass and treble lowered. I'd check out some of the 1x12 Allesandro IRs from Factory 1. It's a cool tone. I'll have to check out the JS410. My setup is quite different though. Fun experiment.

 

[Maddface]

Very cool tone! Seems complex… higher notes have sparkle and high end with the middle to lower registries being dark, nasally and nice bass.

 

[Roland]

IIRC The BelAir uses diode clipping for some of its distortion. Maybe you’re hearing that. I’ve got one.

The first thing I did when I got an Ultra was try to model the BelAir. I gave up because I thought the Ultra sounded better.

If you’re looking for nasal tones then try a TS9 and/or EQ

 

[JoKeR III]

Here's a quick stab at it. Class-A 30W Hot with Factory cabs 769 and 834. Used a Schecter C1 Classic with Suhr SSH in the bridge when creating it.

 

[Piing]

Thank you for sharing the preset!

Here is my current preset. A work in progress. It is using Ownhammer CAB OH112 DLXVRB C30+C12 120-02 at User#1 79. But since that is a user CAB, I have quasi-randomly selected Factory#2 633 Cali RNR E

The DLXVRB Ownhammer package is no longer available at their site or at any distributor. I am wondering if that would make it legit to share that IR, since there is no way to purchase that pack (except from a "repository" site named rutracker.org )