hbucker
Inspired
Forgive me if this falls into the "well, duh!" category for most of you. But I recently did a little experiment and it seems to have helped my dial in the sound of my patches a little better.
I was playing factory patches through my full range PA monitor, also with a line out to a power amp and my 212 cab (loaded with WGS Retro 30 and Reaper HP). While I didn't mind the sound coming from my monitor, I found myself much preferring the sound I was getting from my actual guitar cab. This was disappointing to me.
After back and forth and back and forth, I realized that the monitor was giving me a much more hi-fi version of the tone than my cab was giving me, which makes sense. A guitar cab has a very narrow response, by comparison.
From what I can tell, it seems pretty typical for the cab block High and Low cuts to be set around 80 on low, and around 8,000-10,000 on the top end. I know, there are no rules, but that seems to be what I've seen and heard. So I've been defaulting, initially to the 80-8000 setting until further adjustments needed to be made.
With my "hi-fi" observation, I decided to clamp down on the frequencies being cut on my cab block. Changing that default setting to more like 150-6000. This is not a rule, just a starting point. The sound coming from my monitor matches my actual cab more accurately. It sounds less like, "Wow!" but it sounds more (to my ears) like I'm listening to a real guitar cab. And it is less fatiguing to listen to over an extended period of time.
As I go through different presets, both factory and personal, these settings seem to need adjusting from as low as 100 on low and as high as 8500 on high, depending on the model. Low never going above 150 so far, and high generally gravitating more toward 6000 than 8000.
The only reason I'm posting this is that this range seems to be substantially narrower than what I generally see talked about on this forum, or see in other people's presets.
No rules. Set them where it sounds good to you. But removing that "hi-fi" quality in the tone through my monitor is important to me (and something I've usually disliked about some modeling sounds I've heard through the years.). I feel like it sounds more real now.
Your results may vary. And over the long haul, I may change my approach. This is what I'm playing around with right now though.
FWIW
I was playing factory patches through my full range PA monitor, also with a line out to a power amp and my 212 cab (loaded with WGS Retro 30 and Reaper HP). While I didn't mind the sound coming from my monitor, I found myself much preferring the sound I was getting from my actual guitar cab. This was disappointing to me.
After back and forth and back and forth, I realized that the monitor was giving me a much more hi-fi version of the tone than my cab was giving me, which makes sense. A guitar cab has a very narrow response, by comparison.
From what I can tell, it seems pretty typical for the cab block High and Low cuts to be set around 80 on low, and around 8,000-10,000 on the top end. I know, there are no rules, but that seems to be what I've seen and heard. So I've been defaulting, initially to the 80-8000 setting until further adjustments needed to be made.
With my "hi-fi" observation, I decided to clamp down on the frequencies being cut on my cab block. Changing that default setting to more like 150-6000. This is not a rule, just a starting point. The sound coming from my monitor matches my actual cab more accurately. It sounds less like, "Wow!" but it sounds more (to my ears) like I'm listening to a real guitar cab. And it is less fatiguing to listen to over an extended period of time.
As I go through different presets, both factory and personal, these settings seem to need adjusting from as low as 100 on low and as high as 8500 on high, depending on the model. Low never going above 150 so far, and high generally gravitating more toward 6000 than 8000.
The only reason I'm posting this is that this range seems to be substantially narrower than what I generally see talked about on this forum, or see in other people's presets.
No rules. Set them where it sounds good to you. But removing that "hi-fi" quality in the tone through my monitor is important to me (and something I've usually disliked about some modeling sounds I've heard through the years.). I feel like it sounds more real now.
Your results may vary. And over the long haul, I may change my approach. This is what I'm playing around with right now though.
FWIW