Playability Vs Tone, Help me to unravel this mistery... |
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Playability Vs Tone, Help me to unravel this mistery... |
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May 31 2009, 07:14 AM |
I always played 10-46 during the last years, and I had the urge to try-out a couple of weeks ago a set of 9-46s. I had exactly the same feeling as you Can ... much better control on several aspects of playing, however the tone was for me not as powerfull etc as I really wanted. Then I started experimenting with the height of the poles of the pickups and the action of the strings to see whether I could get it a bit more to my liking and it certainly improved my feeling about it, as well as EQing my amp a bit differently.
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May 31 2009, 07:51 AM |
Mix the sets. For example, I use 10's on the lower 3 strings and 9's on the highest 3 strings. Maybe it can give the mix of sounds that your looking for, using 11's and 10's
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May 31 2009, 02:52 PM |
Your sound was surely less powerful and without midds/highs
when you putted 010 after 011 IF you left all other setting just the same. There are many players that use 009 and they still have very powerful tone, with lots of bass/midds/highs etc. So imo the problem lays in rest of your gear/setting. You need to do some tweaking with EQ etc to get something similar you had with 011. Bare in mind, you'll probably never get 100% the same but you can get very close, like 80-90% tone wise. And it IS compromise, no doubt! Luckily you haven't switched from 011 to 008, you went to 010, be safe. -------------------- Youtube
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May 31 2009, 05:00 PM |
It's not a big change, you just have to remake the presets a bit to find the tone (frequencies) that you like. You will get used to it over time as well, so keep rocking mate.
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