Falcor77 Posted November 14, 2020 Share Posted November 14, 2020 I know a lot of people hate on them but I really like them in my LP Custom. Just curious, what adjustments, EQ tricks have you used with the Stomp to better match the EMG pups in your guitar? I tend to reduce bass quite a bit and modest cuts to mids and presence. I often dial in a parametric EQ after the IR block to get rid of some of the annoying frequencies. Cheers Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rd2rk Posted November 14, 2020 Share Posted November 14, 2020 3 hours ago, Falcor77 said: I know a lot of people hate on them but I really like them in my LP Custom. Just curious, what adjustments, EQ tricks have you used with the Stomp to better match the EMG pups in your guitar? I tend to reduce bass quite a bit and modest cuts to mids and presence. I often dial in a parametric EQ after the IR block to get rid of some of the annoying frequencies. Cheers What exactly is it that you LIKE about those pickups (apart from being made by EMG, you didn't say what model)? I mean, since you change virtually everything about their tone? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Falcor77 Posted November 14, 2020 Author Share Posted November 14, 2020 11 minutes ago, rd2rk said: What exactly is it that you LIKE about those pickups (apart from being made by EMG, you didn't say what model)? I mean, since you change virtually everything about their tone? 81/85. How exactly did I change virtually everything about their tone? That's a pretty non sensical assumption. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rd2rk Posted November 14, 2020 Share Posted November 14, 2020 23 minutes ago, Falcor77 said: How exactly did I change virtually everything about their tone? That's a pretty non sensical assumption. 4 hours ago, Falcor77 said: I tend to reduce bass quite a bit and modest cuts to mids and presence. I often dial in a parametric EQ after the IR block to get rid of some of the annoying frequencies. I get EQ for the sake of a specific song, but it sounds like those are your defaults just to get them to sound good. Thus my entirely logical question. I'm not attacking you. It's a serious question. It goes to why so many people (outside of metal) dislike them. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Falcor77 Posted November 14, 2020 Author Share Posted November 14, 2020 57 minutes ago, rd2rk said: I get EQ for the sake of a specific song, but it sounds like those are your defaults just to get them to sound good. Thus my entirely logical question. I'm not attacking you. It's a serious question. It goes to why so many people (outside of metal) dislike them. Sorry, thought you were being cheeky. The settings vary depending on the amp. My guitar can sound a little strident with certain amps, so I make the necessary adjustments. I like the ballsy, in your face aspect of the guitar but sometimes you need to figure out how to reign that in a bit along with some of the harsher high end frequencies introduced with high gain, and it's not always readily apparent. Took me a while to figure that out and then also how to compensate for the EQ curve of my headphones. I was just curious what others are doing, if anything, to compensate for their EMG equipped guitars in-your faceness or brashness with certain amps. I can't get a decent tone out of the AC30, for instance, but alas, this Les Paul is my only guitar. Interestingly, it excels at super clean and low to medium gain tones with the neck pickup. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rd2rk Posted November 15, 2020 Share Posted November 15, 2020 I kinda thought it had more to do with certain amps. I have a mahogany DC Ibanez that I dropped a SD Hot rod set into. The neck PU sounds great, but the bridge is 16.6k, and just blows up certain amps, like the older model Fenders. Sounds GREAT with high-gain amps though! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ossianott Posted November 15, 2020 Share Posted November 15, 2020 With my 3x EMG equipped guitars the most important is to set input impedance to 10 or 22k for distorted sounds, can go up a bit for clean sounds but active electronics are way too saturated with high impedance IMO. The EQ's are behaving in much more convenient ways and you don't have to fight the amps into submission to get good sounds to the same extent. Other general tips, I'm trying to minimise the amount of blocks, like not using an EQ block but trying to make the amp sound very good in itself, to save blocks and DSP as this is restricted in the stomp. I love to be able to have more blocks for cool effects like the transistor tape delay, double take modulation, chorus and ganymede/plate reverb and such for lush clean sounds (which I mostly if I have DSP left try to dedicate a block for a separate clean amp). I'm looking quite a bit at DSP allocation guides to see what amps/effects use a lot of DSP and try to maximize my presets that way. Good luck! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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