This ever happen to anyone?

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I have two cabs, an older 8 ohm uberkab and a friedman 4x12. For the longest time I mainly used the friedman, however, I took a break and started using the uberkab and after a while grew to really like it. Today I switched back to the friedman and it just sounded terrible to my ears. Very shrill, harsh, and unpleasant. The uberkab is darker and more smooth sounding which seems to balance out my amps. Did my ears change?

Now I'm thinking of selling the friedman and trying to find something similar to the uberkab. Any suggestions?
 
While aging, we lose perceptible tonal frequencies and other frequencies seem louder or more pronounced. “What did he say”? “Huh”? “I can’t hear”! Some folks don’t have the ability to hear certain frequencies to begin with at birth …. Point is, it could be you are changing (older ears). Or it could be that you liked the other cabinet better and you are used to the sound... Ie change is bad. There is work being done in folks with hearing deficits to increase certain frequency to improve their ability to hear normal talking conversations, not just increase volume to the ear.
 
Yeah, every time I stop using my old Mesa C90 2x12 then plug it in again there’s usually an hour or so of “This fucking sounds like shit”, but I’ve heard that cab slay in so many different situations previously that I won’t get rid of it.
 
If you change anything in your rig, you will re-eq it to your preferred sound. Then when you change back you will not "hear" your original tone. Nature of the beast, broham.
 
alund said:
While aging, we lose perceptible tonal frequencies and other frequencies seem louder or more pronounced. “What did he say”? “Huh”? “I can’t hear”! Some folks don’t have the ability to hear certain frequencies to begin with at birth …. Point is, it could be you are changing (older ears). Or it could be that you liked the other cabinet better and you are used to the sound... Ie change is bad. There is work being done in folks with hearing deficits to increase certain frequency to improve their ability to hear normal talking conversations, not just increase volume to the ear.
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All of that + Different Cab position in the Room = very different sound.
 
Ryan990 said:
I have two cabs, an older 8 ohm uberkab and a friedman 4x12. For the longest time I mainly used the friedman, however, I took a break and started using the uberkab and after a while grew to really like it. Today I switched back to the friedman and it just sounded terrible to my ears. Very shrill, harsh, and unpleasant. The uberkab is darker and more smooth sounding which seems to balance out my amps. Did my ears change?

Now I'm thinking of selling the friedman and trying to find something similar to the uberkab. Any suggestions?
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I had days i thought that all, literally all of my Amps and Cabs suck.
 
Simon Dorn said:
All of that + Different Cab position in the Room = very different sound.
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Exactly. I took the Xmas tree and all the frosty and whatever else out of the room which was all huge and everything sound wise changed. ?
 
alund said:
Not funny at all. I’m not kidding. I took a bunch of shit out of my room and it changed everything.
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I'm still getting used to my new rehearsal room after several years. Different building, Different floor, Different room-size, "Sound-Proof"-Glas-Door behind the Amp. This afternoon i was moving my Stack back and forth. And not for the first time :D
 
This happen to me all the time. I have 2 cabs hooked to my amp/cab switcher. Going from one cab to the other with the same amp will sound funky right at first. Most of the time my ears adapt after 5-10 minutes. Other times it won't even out. Then I switch back to the first cab and it sounds off when it was good 20 minuets prior.
 
MadAsAHatter said:
This happen to me all the time. I have 2 cabs hooked to my amp/cab switcher. Going from one cab to the other with the same amp will sound funky right at first. Most of the time my ears adapt after 5-10 minutes. Other times it won't even out. Then I switch back to the first cab and it sounds off when it was good 20 minuets prior.
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I run a similar setup using an amp switcher but this was the first time it was such a drastic difference. Maybe I'm just jonesing for a new cab and looking for an excuse haha
 
Ryan990 said:
I run a similar setup using an amp switcher but this was the first time it was such a drastic difference. Maybe I'm just jonesing for a new cab and looking for an excuse haha
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Yeah, you definitely need a new cab, that's for sure. :D
 
I have a Ampeg System Switcher. I only hook up one amp at a time. But it does allows me to switch between 8 cabs in real time. It has been extremely revealing to how cabs effect sound and feel.

What I found out was most of what I hear is only in my head. Preconceived ideas about what I think I should hear on how things are similar or different.

It also made more clear something I have know for many years. The sounds I create are much more in my head than in the gear. I tend to tune in the same handful of sounds regardless of what guitar, amp, cab, etc I am using.

So what is the truth ? How we perceive the world is much more about what we believe than what is actually there.
It's much less about the gear and much more about you.

I find I can get my sound pretty much out of any decent gear.
 
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