
jimistone
long standing member
Whats wrong with the pickups that are in th guitar now?
jimistone said:Whats wrong with the pickups that are in th guitar now?
It sounds like the amp is the problem and not the pickups.Mr. Moon said:Just not quite "the" tone I'd like to have. I find then to be a bit "thin" sounding, especially when playing out live. If I tweak my amp to make the guitar sound really good when overdriven, it tends to have too much bass when I go to the clean channel ...gets all muddy and such. Wouldn't be as much of an issue if my amp had separate tone controls for each channel, but it doesn't, so both channels share the same tone settings.
-mr moon
Mr. Moon said:Just not quite "the" tone I'd like to have. I find then to be a bit "thin" sounding, especially when playing out live. If I tweak my amp to make the guitar sound really good when overdriven, it tends to have too much bass when I go to the clean channel ...gets all muddy and such. Wouldn't be as much of an issue if my amp had separate tone controls for each channel, but it doesn't, so both channels share the same tone settings.
-mr moon
jimistone said:If its the amp....and you have a clean channel and an over drive channel that share the same tone controls.....does the drive channel have a pair of controls? A pre-gain (sets the amount of distortion) and a level (sets the overeall volume)?
If so, you can solder a 220 uf silver mica capacitor accross 2 of the 3 posts of the "pre-gain" pot.
problem solved
I just did that on my Fender Hot Rod Deville and the total cost was $1.15.
Do a web search for the model of amp you have with "modification" in the search.
Like "Marshall tube amp modification" and you will pull up several sites that discuss how to do that with your particular amp.