This above. I have those speakers and struggled until I switched them to the minus 4db setting. Clears up the tone. Don't recommend high cut, leave that on zero, go back to the amp block and re set it. Now just nudge the bass and treble slightly. Do the cuts in the IRs bass to around 80kh and try to get the treble down as much as you can, ideally around 9kh, and turn the volume up a bit!
Thanks mate, will give it a try, yes they are in a small bedroom, moved them away from the wall. Other audio sounds fine through them.
Thank you mate for your advice and sharing a preset.
Thank you mate, yes I have played around with the setting on the HS7, I have moved them further away from the wall. The cleans are amazing, if I could get the high gain as good as the cleans I would be stoked.
Same here.. music play back always sounded good before I used the room controls, so it was counter intuitive to me to change them, but what I've realised is that you can't set the speakers up for music, you have to set them up for the fractal.
Yeah for sure mate, I am just jamming now with the -4 db and trying the dyna cabs again (which someone else suggested), I think it is sounding a bit better. I notice a lot of people have very produced presets, I tend to have amp, cab and sometimes a little reverb. I am going for a tone that is just enough gain and then preamp boost at 12 to get note definition.
Thanks for that, it was an interesting read.
Thank you so much for this detailed helpful response. It is a bit late here now, I dial in tones with some decent volume but I will try your suggestions for sure. The input EQ of the amp (200hz ) coupled with an 800hz peaking boost with a wide Q was something I saw on a Leon Todd video. I have since reset everything and started from scratch using some of the suggestions in the thread including using dyna cabs, below is the preset if you get a chance to have a look. Also I cut the room control on my Yamaha HS7 -4db.
You are too new to understand.
Sounds much better here. The bright cab sounds appropriate now. I like the shimmer boost with amp/cab combo. PEQ setting would be dependent on the rest of the mix. It cuts a lot of the sizzle here, but that is going to iffer by guitar and what else if going on in the song. I did like kicking the variac setting to 105-110%, it jus gave it a little extra spice IMO. BTW, Shaping the input eq is not a bad thing at all, but if you cut or boost too much , you may wind up making things worse in the end. I like Leon's analogy of spices. A little salt adds to the flavor, dump the whole box in and you have something else.
No I am not, like I already said before, been using Fractal since the Ultra. Please do not patronise me, I am just a guitar player and spent my money like the rest of you, I do not feel I need to belong to some exclusive club and defend its honour. I thought music was meant to be fun and inclusive not elitist. Its fine if you feel loyal and protective, just don't put me or others down for having an issue and suggesting that the Fractal may not be god's gift to the world.
No not really, thanks mate.
Thanks mate, yeah I usually use the TS 808 but tried the shimmer and liked it. I didn't feel the need to use the input eq when I was dialling it in. The PEQ is there more for the room for just playing not recording. I saw a clip of engineer and guitarist Kurt Ballou say something similar to Leon, spices are nice but you wouldn't sit down and eat a whole bowl of spices. Thanks again javajunkie for your advice.
