CactusTone
Inspired
I'm looking for help taming the bass bloom when palm muting on the JS410 Lead Or. This amp in particular seems to emphasize bass when palm muting, and pushed the Output Level significantly.
Side Note: when I use the Friedman HBE V1 the bass pushes the output level way less, and it's an overall boomier tone, too!
The JS410 can push the output level close to 5dB on certain notes (like D on string 5). I'm using very little gain, no EQ (aside from Tone Stack), and am not using extreme settings across the board.
Input Drive is set at 1.5.
MV is at 2.5.
Ruckus Drive set at 0.5 with the level at 10.
Tone stack is Bass at 6, Mid at 6.8, Treble at 4.25, Presence at 1, and Depth at 3.
Bright switch is on.
On the speaker page I lowered the Low Res Freq from 6.5 to 5.
Stereo UltraRes Cab Block: Cab Left is OH_412_MAR-CB_T75-RI_Studio-Vintage, and Cab Right is the same, but Studio-Modern.
Low Cut on Cabs is 100Hz.
High Cut is 6500Hz.
The tone is phenomenal, but when I use a Filter Block to boost +4dB for solos, and play tight palm mutes on lower strings I'm clipping the Output on the XL+. I have my Output settings, for all presets, set to -9dB (set using meters in Logic Pro X) to allow for plenty of headroom. It does the trick for all presets except the JS410, and even on this amp it's only when Palm Muting. Regular chording is right in line with the others at -9dB, even on 4 and 5 string open chords like G5 and Cadd9 (you know, those classic AC/DC type open chords).
Again, I want to stress that the Friedman is way more bass heavy, but palm mutes don't push the level as much as the JS410. I really don't want to dial back what is currently a phenomenal tone, and I don't want to systematical go through every one of my presets to further reduce their output level just to accommodate one problematic preset.
Does anybody have any tricks they use for such instances?
Thanks in advance!
Side Note: when I use the Friedman HBE V1 the bass pushes the output level way less, and it's an overall boomier tone, too!
The JS410 can push the output level close to 5dB on certain notes (like D on string 5). I'm using very little gain, no EQ (aside from Tone Stack), and am not using extreme settings across the board.
Input Drive is set at 1.5.
MV is at 2.5.
Ruckus Drive set at 0.5 with the level at 10.
Tone stack is Bass at 6, Mid at 6.8, Treble at 4.25, Presence at 1, and Depth at 3.
Bright switch is on.
On the speaker page I lowered the Low Res Freq from 6.5 to 5.
Stereo UltraRes Cab Block: Cab Left is OH_412_MAR-CB_T75-RI_Studio-Vintage, and Cab Right is the same, but Studio-Modern.
Low Cut on Cabs is 100Hz.
High Cut is 6500Hz.
The tone is phenomenal, but when I use a Filter Block to boost +4dB for solos, and play tight palm mutes on lower strings I'm clipping the Output on the XL+. I have my Output settings, for all presets, set to -9dB (set using meters in Logic Pro X) to allow for plenty of headroom. It does the trick for all presets except the JS410, and even on this amp it's only when Palm Muting. Regular chording is right in line with the others at -9dB, even on 4 and 5 string open chords like G5 and Cadd9 (you know, those classic AC/DC type open chords).
Again, I want to stress that the Friedman is way more bass heavy, but palm mutes don't push the level as much as the JS410. I really don't want to dial back what is currently a phenomenal tone, and I don't want to systematical go through every one of my presets to further reduce their output level just to accommodate one problematic preset.
Does anybody have any tricks they use for such instances?
Thanks in advance!