jalevinemd
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Hopefully I can express myself here clearly. I have gigged primarily with my Alembics. They have a bright switch for each pickup. So if I'm playing a song that needs more of the "trebly" sound of a Strat, I can simply engage that switch without changing any settings on my board or the amp.
I want to start gigging with my new Memphis ES-335 and am trying to figure out the best way to accomplish this same thing. With my non-Alembics, I typically play with the tone all the way up and have the amp and board adjusted so as not to sound overly bright. The downside is that I cannot get any brighter if the song needs it, without tweaking the amp or the board. If I were to increase the treble on the amp and roll the tone down on the guitar a bit, I would be able to get a little brighter for those few songs by then rolling the tone up on the guitar. For the bulk of the songs where I need to be in my usual "tone zone" do you think the sound will be the same as having the tone on the guitar all the way up and the amp treble rolled down a bit as I usually have it?
In the simplest terms, I want to make sure the tone of 90% of my set doesn't;t suffer because of the other 10%.
Does this make any sense?
Regards,
Jonathan
I want to start gigging with my new Memphis ES-335 and am trying to figure out the best way to accomplish this same thing. With my non-Alembics, I typically play with the tone all the way up and have the amp and board adjusted so as not to sound overly bright. The downside is that I cannot get any brighter if the song needs it, without tweaking the amp or the board. If I were to increase the treble on the amp and roll the tone down on the guitar a bit, I would be able to get a little brighter for those few songs by then rolling the tone up on the guitar. For the bulk of the songs where I need to be in my usual "tone zone" do you think the sound will be the same as having the tone on the guitar all the way up and the amp treble rolled down a bit as I usually have it?
In the simplest terms, I want to make sure the tone of 90% of my set doesn't;t suffer because of the other 10%.
Does this make any sense?
Regards,
Jonathan