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Or you just turn it up or down a bit more?
Like, if the treble is too high at the point where it does the most, surely just turn it down.
http://www.online-discussion.com/SteveKimock/viewtopic.php?t=56
My point was don't just limit your art to this trickery, amps have lots of sweet spots at different volume levels and in different rooms and like ICBM says allot of tone stacks are interactive
its all just trying to make a science out of tone, most of its in your fingers anyway, so all this internet tutorial stuff is all just flowering up and creating a format for unoriginal guitarists who need to call a helpline to be able to fret a chord.
Sounds to me like the theory is that finding those thresholds is pretty much the idea behind it all to get as much responsiveness out of the amp as possible, and then assuming that the responsiveness will lead to better "tone", depending on how you are able to make use of it.
Mid 2-3
Treble 7-9
Huge V in a graphic eq after the gain of which there is a huge amount.
Works for my amp.
Ymmv
If you're playing in a band that doesn't work that way, where the guitar needs to find its niche in the mix with everything else, the same concepts might not apply.
Back in the day when I was in bands I would just turn the mids to 10, treble to taste with the guitar on bridge pickup with the guitar tone rolled back to 8 or so and bass on the amp around 3 or 4. I did that with any and every amp I used, mids on full.
Now my amp doesn't have a mid tone control... :-(
Pretty much worked every time.
Thanks to the wealth of information immediately available day or night, I think most guitarists whether veteran or just starting out will have an idea of what a JCM800 or a Deluxe Reverb or a Dual Rectifier will sound like. Rough hints to getting a good tone are helpful, but I feel we're going to be turning out a generation of guitarists who think they're not *doing it right* unless the mids are set at 4.3345 because a guy in a YouTube video said.
Ultimately I think it's killing experimentation, young guitarists should be sticking everything on ten and making a nasty noise - it's all part of it. If it works, then bingo: Smashing Pumpkins' second album. Or maybe it won't work and they'll mess around until they find something they do like, but they've tried and they know there's a world outside.
Just my £0.02.