Preferences/tips for taming Fizz on crunch tones

[boynigel]

I’ve just begun experimenting with taming the fizz on overdriven tones.  I’ve had pretty good success by using the high cut at 4.6 khz on the amp cab block, sometimes combined with a 9 khz cut using the Hi Lo Cut EQ block, or w/the EQ block by itself (no cab cut).

 

FWIW, my main “dirt” tone is usually via Placater Drity with the gain at 4, w/a Pillars in front of it w/it’s gain set at 3, volume at around 5-6…just so you know I’m not doing “high gain” by any means.

 

For me, I don’t think the global eq is the way because I prefer little or no high cut on my cleans and as far as I know, you can’t toggle global eq on/off via snapshots

 

I’m not looking for specific frequency suggestions as we all use different guitars, pickups, amp models/settings, etc.  I’m just looking to see if there are any of you who’ve found other effective methods which I mightn’t haven’t considered…maybe via a different mic model, or some non-conventional method that maybe on paper shouldn’t work, but happens to do a great job.  More options are never bad. 

[silverhead]

Yes, by all means experiment with different mic/cab combinations. Another tweak that can be helpful is to increase the setting of the Bias parameter in the amp (not preamp) block.