sorry it took so long to reply...i went through several revision of the preset before i arrived at what i now have (which ain't quite there yet either).
a guy sent me a sample of a new 5150 III direct out with no cabinet sims to work with. please excuse both of our playing, we didn't intend...
so i'm back to using the eleven rack tonight as my wife is watching tv in my bedroom/batcave/studio and i can't turn on the Carvin stack. at first i'm hating my world because it just don't feel right. then i get the idea to challenge myself to a new preset that captures the essence of the...
voicing of the amp would be the biggest contributor of growl. the way your guitar tone hits the tubes after eq is the growl factor. Brian over at BFG helped me revoice a Carvin X100B and turn it into something more Bogner. what we did was change out some components that shaped the highs and...
i'm with you bro. i went back and reread what you said and what i posted and almost slapped myself in the head. duh!
i was attempting to explain it in a way that guitar players could understand and even maybe help them to get more/less of using an eq.
but what you said was correct and...
my opinion is that a sine wave doesn't growl. growl is a function of the low mid frequencies hitting the distortion stage. many amps roll off highs and lows before the gain/distortion stages to give a certain type of tone or feel. depending on how much lows and highs they roll off, and at...
i started another upload and it's going much faster. it's at 57% already (within a couple minutes). hopefully it will finish quickly. the last download was stuck at 53%.
https://youtu.be/r78lgq7FSbg
i just woke up and it says 584 minutes left. i have DSL and it's never slow like this. everything else is fast, but that upload is going slow. i thought it might be youtube having issues. i am uploading an 11 minute HD video though...
i had the rp1000 and used it a few times, and i thought it was better than the line6 pod hd500. one day i'm playing around with the rp1000 into a pa system just testing some of the presets when the worship leader of a church walks in a promptly handed me $399 for the rp1000 on the spot just to...
i did an A/B/C test between the Carvin, Marshall JMD:1 head, and a Blackstar HT-5 head and i'm loving the Carvin. honestly, the Carvin was a boat anchor before i modded it...only the clean channel was good. the Blackstar head was my standard of measurement for distortion, but the clean...
Brian at BFG was extremely helpful with amp mod suggestions, and cooler still....he said i could share the mods here with you guys. i have to say, the mods turned that nasal midrange compressed turd sounding head into something closer to a Bogner Ecstasy 101B crunch channel meets a Marshall...
broken in G12T-75's are nice. i have some from 1986 and they are really warm. i tested mine against a friend's old 1971 greenback loaded cabinet and my speakers sounded similar but had a tad more bass and upper highs, which we both liked better. but i wouldn't call these speakers scooped by...