jamesonrd's Forum Posts

Sounds cool! I don't love the snare, sounds flat, maybe too quiet. If you have a transient shaper you could fatten it up, like a Addictive Drums DS-10 or similar. I feel like the Synths could be panned differently. Infected Mushroom Wider is a sweet panner for synths and its a free plugin.

Really cool vibe, I dig it!

Yeah I don't want to get into a Vox AC50 discussion... I just keep mine on the first channel and try get the cleanest sound I can sans pedals. Then I let my pedals do their job.

I'm definetily going to try out a JHS Haunting Mid from my local store and see if they can get their hands on Naga Viper. Until then I'll just keep tweaking with my DOD FX40B. It does have a 3200K slider that I'll experiment with.

Thats really great info, thanks man!

Music style: Blues-Hard Rock... some "prog"

I usually play my Les Paul Studio through a Vox AC50CP2. I get the amp really clean with gain to taste to get that Vox "Chime". I use a xotic SP compressor and the SL Drive to drive my amp, then I usually use my Empress Boost/Buffer+ when I want to solo.

I usually use my DOD Eq Fx40b to scoop mids for a crunchier tone, but lately I have been experimenting with it to boost my tone. It's relatively quiet and has a +18 boost on each frequency. I have been boosting anywhere from 800hz-2k and as long as im not pushing the main gain over +5db im not getting additional noise, but some pretty intresting boosted tones.

I appreciate all the info though. I'm definetily going to look up some of those pedals. The JHS Haunting Mids sounds very interesting.

THANKS!

oy, ehre we go

what type of amp are you driving, how much noise cna you tolerate? what sort of music do you even like? define mdirange... midrange is the frequency spectrum that encompasses MOST of human eharing. basically for guitar purposes think of maybe 200hz to 3000hz.... here's some 2 cents

The absolutely classic is a tuebscreamer with the gain all the way down. The boss SD1 does this trick as well being basically the same but with assymetrically clipping and different mid frequency emphasis. Both cut your bass as part of the mid hump effect. Ibanez hinks, boss barks. All TS/SD variants do this for the most part. Though in different ways and to different extents for sure... If you want a lot of headroom, pretty much no clipping get one with a diode lift switch or get the xotic RC booster which is absically a TS9 with no diodes and a bass control added LOL. if you crank that the opamp wills tart to growl, but at anything elss than full gain its fairly clean. Mid Boost available in spades tweakable via tone cotnrols.

A rangemaster type treble booster creates a midboost as long as its the first thing your guitar sees. Apart from cutting abss and thus boosting treble it has a low input impedance that laods the down the high of your pickup creating mid-boost. If tis not the first thing your pickup sees it wll just treble boost because your pickup won't receive the laod from the transisotr. Think Iommi, Brian May etc

there is the full tone fat boost. Guess what that one does,

there are EQ pedals aplenty, these are gyrator circuits simualting inductor absed EQ... these graphics tend to be noisy and many of them don't have enough bands and the nes that do usually are the wrog frequencies for guitar. Boss' 10 bands ten to eb the best if you cna locate one... MXRs 10 sucks... anyway

Ibanez parametric EQ pedal from the 8 and 9 series.... I've ahd both. Very good stuff. Not to noisy, great sweepable mid with cut or boost and fixed frequency shelves for treble and bass... goofy, but excellent.... getting collectible... similar is the JHS hanting mids pedal, check it out

elearn to sue your guitar controls more effectively. If you play a gibson style guitar there's wealth of shades and textures available from those 4 knobs straight into a quality tube amp set to peel the paint off the walls with your bridge pickup at 10

I've been looking for a guitar pedals that will boost specific mid EQs for soloing. A boost with a parametric EQ to boost specific frequencies.

Then it hit me... should I just use my old DOD FX40B Equalizer pedal to boost my mids?

Has anyone tried this for solos? Have you had any luck? What pedals have you used and what settings worked to put your guitar in the front of the mix?

MPC Software 2.0 is very good for beat making, especially intergrated with an MPC Studio Black or an MPC Live Controller. I use Reaper myself, but it's more for my Main DAW.