Remember scooping your mids for the first time???

VESmedic said:
Agreed. More ridiculous myths that you need vastly different settings for playing live vs in your room. Everyone I know that has a modern high gain amp, especially something like a 5153, pretty much sets them the same whether they are playing live or in their house. I don’t know where people come
Up with this shit that is just regurgitated over and here ad nauseum on guitar forums.
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i think that comes from guys who have amps that just dont cut it against a loud drummer and they have to do things like crank mids and lower the gain a ton to be heard, being heard dosent mean it sounds good though. i know ive jammed with a few drummers where theres no way a 50w and even some 100w amps were gonna be able to hang, headroom goes quick playing intense thrash metal.
 
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I think I first did it on a Laney Linebacker Pro (combo) that I had 80s, early nineties and playing Helloween's Keeper part1 !
 
RaceU4her said:
i think that comes from guys who have amps that just dont cut it against a loud drummer and they have to do things like crank mids and lower the gain a ton to be heard, being heard dosent mean it sounds good though. i know ive jammed with a few drummers where theres no way a 50w and even some 100w amps were gonna be able to hang, headroom goes quick playing intense thrash metal.
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This! My drummer is loud as hell and gets even louder with a few beers LOL. I need at least a 50w amp to cut through. I love my mini amp heads (20 - 25 watts) but even through a 4x12 dimed they barely cut through with a loud drummer. I never understood how some people claim their mini heads could hang with a drummer through a 4x12. :unsure:
 
MetalThrasher said:
This! My drummer is loud as hell and gets even louder with a few beers LOL. I need at least a 50w amp to cut through. I love my mini amp heads (20 - 25 watts) but even through a 4x12 dimed they barely cut through with a loud drummer. I never understood how some people claim their mini heads could hang with a drummer through a 4x12. :unsure:
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Yeah 20w might work for grateful dead or top 40 cover bands, not gonna work with any kind of hard hitting metal
 
RaceU4her said:
Yeah 20w might work for grateful dead or top 40 cover bands, not gonna work with any kind of hard hitting metal
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Doesn’t matter what style of music; it’s all about how loud your drummer is. No fucking way ANY amp not at 50w or more would keep up with my last drummer. He’d find a way to bury the rest of us if we played a Gordon Lightfoot song 😂
Thankfully we didn’t.
 
ccn said:
I think going through a bunch of amps is just part of being a guitar player . No matter what you have at any current time you will eventually start to crave something new and different (Even when others insist your tone is great as is ) , it's just a never ending quest that's seemingly impossible to overcome .

Some people can't be happy with a single sports car they eventually need multiple garages full of different sports cars .
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I went through a period where I was buying and selling amps like crazy, but for the last 8 years or so I've just been using one amp, well 2 if you count the little Katana combo. I guess I'm over that phase?? Maybe it'll come back, who knows??
 
I don’t remember scooping mids because I never added them in the first place. What an ugly sound they make for an electric guitar.
 
First time I played with scooped mids was using an ADA MP-1. Accidentally figured out you could have a negative setting on the MP-1 and was instantly rewarded with chugs.
 
I will say I tend to gravitate to amps that have a lot of mids. A 5150 has a lot of mids at 2 or 3 imho. My Mark iv I tend to keep the standard v shaped on the GEQ but not pulled all the way down.
 
Racerxrated said:
Doesn’t matter what style of music; it’s all about how loud your drummer is. No fucking way ANY amp not at 50w or more would keep up with my last drummer. He’d find a way to bury the rest of us if we played a Gordon Lightfoot song 😂
Thankfully we didn’t.
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My drummer was like that . He quit to join a cover band . He’s coming back because he didn’t want to play quiet
 
Techdeth said:
My drummer was like that . He quit to join a cover band . He’s coming back because he didn’t want to play quiet
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I had an evh lbx2 when I started playing seriously again and I thought 15 watts could keep up. WRONG! I had that shit dimed and couldn't keep up
 
RaceU4her said:
i think that comes from guys who have amps that just dont cut it against a loud drummer and they have to do things like crank mids and lower the gain a ton to be heard, being heard dosent mean it sounds good though. i know ive jammed with a few drummers where theres no way a 50w and even some 100w amps were gonna be able to hang, headroom goes quick playing intense thrash metal.
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I hate wimpy drummers that don't know how to hit or wear ear muffs and still hit like a sissy. I've been in a couple cover bands like that and I always had to turn down so as to not hurt the drummers poor ears, haha.

I kinda disagree with a 100 watt amp not cutting it though, cause every 100 watt tube amp I've played has had enough guts to hang with the loudest of drummers in a metal band.
 
ClintN667 said:
I had an evh lbx2 when I started playing seriously again and I thought 15 watts could keep up. WRONG! I had that shit dimed and couldn't keep up
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There is a big difference between the lbx 1 and 2, the first one is stupisly loud, or maybe just a terrible volume taper - sounds great when the wife, kids and dog are out!
 
pintspiller said:
There is a big difference between the lbx 1 and 2, the first one is stupisly loud, or maybe just a terrible volume taper - sounds great when the wife, kids and dog are out!
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I've had all three, LBX 1, 2, and S.
It's only the S that's quiet. The 1 and 2 are equally loud, IME.
The thing that does change is that the 1 sounds good quiet, the 2 sounds like fizzzzzzz unless you turn it up.
 
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