petejt
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When Mike Wagener said that he split the guitar signal between the Marshall (for highs) and Laney (for lows) in the Amigo studio room- does anyone know what that device was? Would it have been a frequency crossover? Or a combination of low-pass and high-pass filters?
Or did he just run an EQ pedal in front of each amp- one with the lows cut (Marshall), one with the highs cut (Laney)?
And what would the threshold frequency be? 800Hz?
I think it's an interesting concept- the idea that a guitar amplifier is set to only amplify half of a guitar's signal. Particularly if you want to blend two amp signals.
I've read a comment somewhere that a normal guitar amp can barely amplify a 6 string guitar's signal. Following on from that comment was a statement that Diezel VH4s were more effective at amplifying 7 string guitars than most other amps. Is that due to its headroom? Ability to handle the low end?
How do you choose which amp is to amplify either the low range or the high range? Would you split the signal into thirds- so you could run the lower third through a bass amp, the central third through a midrangey guitar amp, and the top third through a trebly guitar amp?
And this comes back to the Rockman comment as well- Chorus is known to either muddy up the bottom end, make the top end really shrill and brittle, or just make the midrange squawk and squonk like a toucan through a telephone. If you ran the effect (or any effect) with a narrow frequency range, and then blended it with the same signal but filtered through other frequency ranges- how would that sound? Was that Mike's (and Lynch's) objective on Under Lock & Key?
Or did he just run an EQ pedal in front of each amp- one with the lows cut (Marshall), one with the highs cut (Laney)?
And what would the threshold frequency be? 800Hz?
I think it's an interesting concept- the idea that a guitar amplifier is set to only amplify half of a guitar's signal. Particularly if you want to blend two amp signals.
I've read a comment somewhere that a normal guitar amp can barely amplify a 6 string guitar's signal. Following on from that comment was a statement that Diezel VH4s were more effective at amplifying 7 string guitars than most other amps. Is that due to its headroom? Ability to handle the low end?
How do you choose which amp is to amplify either the low range or the high range? Would you split the signal into thirds- so you could run the lower third through a bass amp, the central third through a midrangey guitar amp, and the top third through a trebly guitar amp?
And this comes back to the Rockman comment as well- Chorus is known to either muddy up the bottom end, make the top end really shrill and brittle, or just make the midrange squawk and squonk like a toucan through a telephone. If you ran the effect (or any effect) with a narrow frequency range, and then blended it with the same signal but filtered through other frequency ranges- how would that sound? Was that Mike's (and Lynch's) objective on Under Lock & Key?
