Hi folks. I'm not sure if this is in the right place but here goes...
I've become a pretty big fan of the 70s Hard Rock style tone over the past year or so. It's not something I'd been drawn to much before now, but I am really getting into this now. Recently I started looking more at my amp settings (Marshall DSL 5) and I know it's capable of the sort of sound I'm after, but I'm finding it quite tough to get it close to the 70s style tone that I want. The best example I can find is something like this below from Johan Segeborn (who pretty much accelerated my developing interest in this sort of sound) and he has this kind of tone going on in most of his clips.
What am I looking to do with the amp settings here? More mids? Less mids? More gain? Last night I decided to try removing the mids a little having generally found myself wanting to add more and more mids until now... Removing them seemed to go against what my Rookie ears were telling me to do and it gave me a bit of an epiphany and a sound that I really liked, but too much of that and I didn't like it so much.
I am playing an SG Faded and tend to play with the guitar tone on full and volume somewhere between 8 and 10, the amp EQs are bass and treble at about 1 o'clock and mids now at 10 o'clock. I'm on the "Ultra Gain" channel and have the gain about 9 o'clock as it sounds a bit "messy" to me much higher than that. This is where I got to last night but any advice would be great. I know I won't get exact tones, it's more a guide as to what to try and ballpark advice on what sort amp settings I'm going for here.
I do have a clean channel to use and a tubescremer clone and EHX Soul Food if that helps too.
Thanks.
Andy
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I'll try higher mids too and see what happens. My amp doesn't have a presence control unfortunately.
Cheers for the suggestions.
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after thinking more, the soul food may even be a better boost to get your classic gain channel into hard rock territory given the greater volume -and resultant gain- boost it'll do to the amp.
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Treble back
Mids and low up a bit
The DSL's can get quite gain laden, so keep that tamed. Also the treble can make things too modern* sounding.
*I can't think of a better way to put it.
If you want a pedal which will do this, the DOD Gunslinger can get very close without any problems.
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Appreciate all the advice and help. Cheers!