K-Roll
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Guys, let me wish you a happy new year.
I have this curious situation where we have two orange PPC412s with v30s in our rehearsal space. One is mine, the other belongs to the other guy in my band.
I've been tweaking my tone for like months up to a point where i just tried his cab and it's very different. So much that it sound like a different cab really.
In his case, it has a lot lot bigger low end rumble, balanced smooth mids and treble, nothing that would be sharp or piercing. When you hit a single note it has a nice smooth tone, nothing that would quack or fizzle or be hard hitting/cutting.
In my case there's this weird clack or metallic pluck each time i hit the strings even on drop B. It's like this sharp pick attack or glass under each note. My cab sounds louder, though, but loudness is not something that speaks of tone quality.
It's driving me a bit nuts lately cause I've spent $ trying to swap pickups, use different cables, try different amps...
))) It's as if the mids and treble were overpowering the sound and each note rather than having some weight sounds rather sharp and hard cutting. Even leads would not 'sing' but 'click' if it makes any sense.
When i turn the treble and mids down to compensate for it, the sound becomes a bit clouded because it impacts overall tone.
I bought it off a guy who did not play it much and it probably had a couple months of very vague use. it still had the new labels on one of the handles even.
After i picked it up, I probably spent some 50 hours with it since August (2 hours a week with band) which made me think i should try one experiment.
I've tried playing 8 constant days playing bass DIs at louder volumes (with a 50w class D amp/laptop) and different types of music into my cab with the intent to break it in a bit more, if there was any improvement i'd say it was maybe 2%.
Is there something else that i'm overlooking here? Should i try polyfill inside the cab? Adjust speaker tightness? Or is this just another case where i should accept it, try and look for a cab that I like and let this thing go?
thanks for any ideas, i bet some of you must have been there too.
I have this curious situation where we have two orange PPC412s with v30s in our rehearsal space. One is mine, the other belongs to the other guy in my band.
I've been tweaking my tone for like months up to a point where i just tried his cab and it's very different. So much that it sound like a different cab really.
In his case, it has a lot lot bigger low end rumble, balanced smooth mids and treble, nothing that would be sharp or piercing. When you hit a single note it has a nice smooth tone, nothing that would quack or fizzle or be hard hitting/cutting.
In my case there's this weird clack or metallic pluck each time i hit the strings even on drop B. It's like this sharp pick attack or glass under each note. My cab sounds louder, though, but loudness is not something that speaks of tone quality.
It's driving me a bit nuts lately cause I've spent $ trying to swap pickups, use different cables, try different amps...
))) It's as if the mids and treble were overpowering the sound and each note rather than having some weight sounds rather sharp and hard cutting. Even leads would not 'sing' but 'click' if it makes any sense. When i turn the treble and mids down to compensate for it, the sound becomes a bit clouded because it impacts overall tone.
I bought it off a guy who did not play it much and it probably had a couple months of very vague use. it still had the new labels on one of the handles even.
After i picked it up, I probably spent some 50 hours with it since August (2 hours a week with band) which made me think i should try one experiment.
I've tried playing 8 constant days playing bass DIs at louder volumes (with a 50w class D amp/laptop) and different types of music into my cab with the intent to break it in a bit more, if there was any improvement i'd say it was maybe 2%.
Is there something else that i'm overlooking here? Should i try polyfill inside the cab? Adjust speaker tightness? Or is this just another case where i should accept it, try and look for a cab that I like and let this thing go?
thanks for any ideas, i bet some of you must have been there too
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