Eric
September 15th, 2010, 08:27 PM
Hi everyone.
Within the last month or so, I've finally come to realize that some tones just don't sound good until you turn them up. In my experience, the classic Marshall gain is a good example of that. At normal-to-low volumes, it just sounds kind of fizzy and inarticulate to my ears. However, turn up the volume, and the same tone suddenly sounds a bit more muscular and rockin'. I should mention that this is coming primarily from my experience with modelers, as I've never owned a Marshall tube amp.
Is this something other people have noticed? Where an otherwise nice guitar tone can sound kind of pathetic when turned down to low volumes? I'm not talking about low gain; I'm talking about turning the actual volume to about speaking levels.
If you have found this, now comes part 2: how do you overcome it? I ask because at the church where I play, a lot of the songs merit a healthy dose of gain, but I've come to realize I'm usually not real hot in the house mix. Accordingly, I'm concerned that what sounds good to me on stage will come off as kind of weak and fizzy to everyone not on stage. Any good advice for how to overcome that? Play clean all of the time? Real real low amounts of gain?
Just looking for anyone with some advice or experience dealing with this. If I'm way off base with this, feel free to ignore me.
Within the last month or so, I've finally come to realize that some tones just don't sound good until you turn them up. In my experience, the classic Marshall gain is a good example of that. At normal-to-low volumes, it just sounds kind of fizzy and inarticulate to my ears. However, turn up the volume, and the same tone suddenly sounds a bit more muscular and rockin'. I should mention that this is coming primarily from my experience with modelers, as I've never owned a Marshall tube amp.
Is this something other people have noticed? Where an otherwise nice guitar tone can sound kind of pathetic when turned down to low volumes? I'm not talking about low gain; I'm talking about turning the actual volume to about speaking levels.
If you have found this, now comes part 2: how do you overcome it? I ask because at the church where I play, a lot of the songs merit a healthy dose of gain, but I've come to realize I'm usually not real hot in the house mix. Accordingly, I'm concerned that what sounds good to me on stage will come off as kind of weak and fizzy to everyone not on stage. Any good advice for how to overcome that? Play clean all of the time? Real real low amounts of gain?
Just looking for anyone with some advice or experience dealing with this. If I'm way off base with this, feel free to ignore me.