Hagen Settings?

[base341]

Just wondering how you guys with Hagens have been dialing in your sound.
I play mostly metal. I have had my Hagen for about 10 months and I'm pretty much a plug and play guy.
I have been running the channel volume at about noon and the eq's at 12-1:00.
Lately I've been trying to dial back the channel volume and crank the master more.
any input would be appreciated.

 

[Ventura]

It's all personal preference man.... I found my Ch.3 to be most suited to aggressive metal styles of playing. Master at noon is ample, channel at 2 or 3 o'clock is more than enough to rattle the teeth. Depth and Presence at 11 o'clock, maybe a hair less for depth; mids at 2 to 3 o'clock, treble at noon to 1 o'clock, bass at 11 o'clock to noon. The variety in the tone for me comes in moving the mids from 10 o'clock (scooped metal) to 3 o'clock (grindy in-yer-face metal).

Having said this, Ch.4 is a crazy ride as a main channel too. Try it out when you have some time!! I was blown away with this channel in the sense that I thought it was JUST a lead channel (heh, bad call), and I managed to get some super tasty tones out of it with low gain, high volume, lower treble, moderate mids, and using the 2nd master volume.

Peace,
mojo

 

[Reiep]

Actually all my channels are set kind of the same way :

- Gain around 12 for ch. 1 & 4, 2 for ch. 2, 1 for ch. 3
- Volume around 10
- Treble around 1 (except ch. 1 - 12)
- Middle around 1 (except ch. 3 - 11)
- Bass around 1

Presence and Depth around 1 too when I'm playing low volume, around 11 when I crank the master.

For now I'm using it in a conventionnal way (clean-crunch-rhythm-lead), but as Ventura said that's not such an evidence : ch. 2 can be a very heavy metal rhythm channel or lead channel, ch. 4 a fantastic heavy crunch channel, ch. 3 is just a perfect all around channel.