Loran Bou'
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Vast subject.To me initial post, can of you, especially the user that said "my ears are bleeding" tell me where I went wrong originally. I didn't think I did anything vastly different from what I've seen Leon do, particularly with his videos about dialing in Rectos. I didn't think I went overboard with gain, treble or presence. For the drive block I though that was the pretty standard gain and tone all the way down and level all the way up?
Is it possible that my monitors tend to run darker and I overcompensated? I'm using Adam Audio T5Vs. I want to get better and dialing in my own tones, so I'd like to know where I went wrong.
It all depends on your perception, your taste, and the context.
For example, the Axe factory presets are very generous in bass.
Cooper Carter made the Petrucci rig, he uses it as it is in a demo but he applies a 160Hz filter to it when he uses the same sound in a song context.
Leon has settings that emphasize the midrange and work perfectly at very high volume. Fremen does too, but with a bit more bass. (He says he like low end ;-) )
You need a good reference (a real amp, or a recording) and to build your sound on it.
Knowing that, nothing is immutable, depending on the volume, the context, you will remove or add more or less low pass/high pass filter. And sometime more extrem that you think.
This way the 'identity' of your sound will always be more or less preserved.