JDOD
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It's funny you say that. Sounding good with everything at noon is part of my criteria for deciding if an amp is "right" or not. There's no science or technical wizadry to back up my feeling this way, it's just how I am. I feel that if I can flip on an amp, put everything at noon, and it sounds good, then it's good. Nothing else matters. No matter what amp it is. It's all gravy from there. Sounding good with everything on 5 leaves you a lot of room to fine tune it even further.
That's probably a pretty good idea... and the reason that I don't really like any of the amps I've tried recently more than my Blackstar - I was using a fraction of the gain dial and pretty much all of them. Took me a while to work out the Blackstar and that seems to "suffer" from a similar problem, its so bottom heavy that I have the Bass and Mid on 9PM and the treble on 3PM. Doesn't leave much room for fine tuning.