Bare Knuckle Pickups Forum
At The Back => Time Out => Topic started by: gwEm on May 09, 2008, 01:21:47 PM
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how do you like yours? give details :)
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Boosted. I don't know how I used to like scooping my mids when I was younger. You get so much more 'crunch' and expressive tone with mids when using a bit of gain.
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flat- i tend to have just enough to cut through when im playing live, but not so much as to be overpowering. treble and bass usually slightly lower
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I like mine at about the same level as treble, so I voted flat. I then bring up enough bass to suit the room or cabinet or tone I'm after.
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I just turn the mid and bass controls off - and the reverb up: surf city here we come :D
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mids!!! - whats that? I dont think my amp has such a control.... infact i dont think i have ever owned an amp with a mid control
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In the context of pickups/guitar, I vote Boosted:
I like a lot of mid range "push" into the amp - gives a warm punchy clean sound & a nice "growl" for high gain. My favourite bridge pickups are Holy Diver followed by Painkiller...
However, listening to my clips you'd be forgiven for thinking I'm a scopped mid player. The Engl Savage seems to have a naturally scooped voice for the lead channel - I have the mid on 4 & if I use the BBE I only have the controls around 3. Still, it works for me...
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I use the middiest pickups Bareknuckle do, in a middy guitar, a tubescreamer boosting mids into an amp set with a lot of.. MIDS!
I like mids.
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I like too play with the mids alot with my boss EQ because they add much more character and punch, grind, tightness and overall just sound good.
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Before I got my Crawlers, I boosted the mids on my amp, now I scoop slightly for the distorted tones. The Crawler bridge is probably the middiest pick-up in the BKP range and I run it through a tubescreamer style pedal, so even though the mid knob is backed down a little on the amp, it's fair to say my sound is far from scooped.
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Flatish.
I've been into the scooped thing for years but in a band (unless you're using 50 amps or a Herbert with silly settings) it'll sound like a$$.
The lead channel of my Einie is more saturated & scooped that I use sometimes, but I've got a Tubescreamer that gets about as much use too...
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I'm completely lost when it comes to tone.
What would be an example of each of them?
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Scooped - Metallica
As for boosted and flat, not really sure. ACDC is quite a middy sound imo. Also, Slashes lead tone sounds like it might have boosted mids, its got that nasal kinda sound on November Rain.
I like mine boosted or flat. Boosted is best for leads :)
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Flat.
All controls at 12 o'clock, if it doesn't sound good I'm not interested.
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not many fans of scooped mids here... i used to scoop them myself for the agression. but in the last few years i found boosted mids can also sound very agressive if done right. and for the electronic music i make it helps to cut through as well.
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I'm not sure.
I don't really boost the mids particularly but I gravitate towards midsy equipment like my Orange TT and I like the sound of humbuckers more than single coils (haven't tried P-90s though so watch this space!).
When I do get a mid control I might roll it off slightly but then I'd boost it with a midsy overdrive :? .
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When I was a young metalhead I scooped the mids. As I grew more towards a more vintage full sound, I added more mids. Then came BKP's wich weren't muddy in the mids.
Now I have the mids on my amp flat. Old bassman amps didn't even have a mid control, so I leave mine at 12 o' clock. So I voted flat.
However, the two guitars I use most, The Yamaha SG with Crawlers and the Gretsch Power Jet with TV Jones Powertrons both have pickups with added mids wich are great to push a tube amp.
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Hmmm... Yamaha SG with Crawlers.
I'll bet that sounds better than any guitar should...
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Mids on 4 on the amp, then have high mids low treble boosted on an EQ and the low mids to bass slowly cutting down
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I have mine boosted to an extent but it depends upon the venue.
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metal rhythm, scooped
metal lead, maxed out
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amps at mo don't have mids, tonelab le does....but all depends what I'm playing
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For everything I do, mids are probably the highest setting on my amp.
I love how clear everything is, for clean, metal rhythm, or lead. When I do leads, I'd rather have more sustain than an EQ change
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Definitely boosted (but not over-boosted). Scooped mids take away the body of the sound.
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I have mine flat then boost them with an eq.
Sounds weird but it works
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Depends
I used to kill mids mercilessly.
Now I use whatever amount is required, or whatever amount I feel like.
The mid is the EQ dial that I muck about with the most.
I put flat, though. Its most often round there.
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When you run a jcm 800 everything is set to 11 including the mids - except of course the treble which is down at about 2!
seriously though mids is where the tone is
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Flatish i guess.
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All the way up!!
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Boosted as much as needed, DEFINITELY not scooped. Best example I can use as for why, went to a gig in Swindon on Saturday, all the bands except one (The Arusha Accord) scooped their mids, and every band except that one particular band had fizzly, undefined guitars which if anything, just gave me a terrible headache, it didn't sound good, I could hardly make out what was being played without looking at the guitarists hands, the other band on the otherhand had very defined guitars, easy to pick out each individual note (and this is pretty technical fast music).
Considering most electric guitars are mid based instruments, mids = good sound.
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I voted for scooped, because at the moment i play lots of metal that just beeeeegs to be played with scooped mids, but i kind of use flat and boosted mids as well, depending on what i'm playing.
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boosted for me - my typical eq settings are...
treble 6
bass 7
mids 10
presence 5
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I like them boosted all the way! Nothing like a bit of throatyness in my crunch to make me a happy bunny! :D