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Thursday, May 12th, 2011 at 12:27 pm

1995 Peavey Revolution half stack, tone problems.?

I can’t seem to get the deep low crunch that I used to get with this amp. Effects rack mount seems to take away the low end, not sure if I should use Stomp boxes or get a new stack. I used to tune to D but band I am In now tune standard 440, could this be the reason? Must have that low end back! Maybe some new active pickups will help? Been out of it for a while not up to par on the new stuff.

The shortest advice I can give, without knowing your rig, is that if your effects are cutting your bass, first try compensating for it by raising your bass knob a bit, then try raising the bass side of your pickups a *little*. Try not to have it too much higher than your treble side.

The most powerful tool you can have is EQ after distortion… running your effects loop into an EQ is huge… it means you can do things like boost your bass knob a bit, then go into your EQ and cut below 100 hz-ish and a few in the 300-500 hz region… it’ll let you have more bass response while still keeping that “hard rock/metal” tone.

Sounding good while playing solo is not the same as sounding good while playing in the band. A very simple guideline is that when you find the tone you like when playing solo, to take it to band, boost your mids by 2 and cut your bass by 2. It’ll sound weaker by itself but it’ll fit into the mix better.

In general I prefer to cut bass before distortion and boost it afterwards. This means even lowering the bass side of my pickups if need be! Getting a tight tone, never flabby, is paramount.

Try diming all of the EQ knobs on your amp and see how it sounds. Tone stacks are lossy, meaning they cut tone. No tone cutting = fuller tone. Sounds weird, but try that as a place to start from. Keep your guitar’s volume and tone knobs dimed. Consider even removing/unwiring your tone knob, even, so it doesn’t impact your tone!

If no amount of tweaking works, consider replacing pickups. Active pickups in general are a little hotter than your standard pups, and push more mids to get that fuller/more distorted tone. EMG 81/85′s are popular, but they color your tone heavily – they’ll make your guitar sound like every other guitar with 81/85′s in ‘em (for better or worse). Seymour Duncan Blackouts have more lower mids, and therefore better low end chunk.

If you go the direction of a distortion pedal (and you totally should try one before getting a new amp, even if you end up returning it!), remember to play it through the cleanest possible settings on your amp, even up to wiring it directly into the effects return. That’s a situation where you would want to consider keeping all of the EQ knobs pretty high on the amp, and controlling tone mostly from the pedal. While modded pedals tend to be better than stock pedals (ie anything “Keeley”, ie Keeley-modded Metal Zone, etc), there are a few very good ones out there… ElectroHarmonix Metal Muff, for instance. The Metal Zone (unmodded) cuts your bass a little more than I think you’d like. The Boss Metalcore and Mega Distortion are worth considering, if metal is your thing.

I can’t give you much more without knowing more about your rig. Good luck!

Saul

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Do they make Guitar Floor Processors with +4db stereo inputs and outputs?

attention all guitar gear nuts, I wont go into detail about my setup but I need a multi effect processor to add to my rig, needs to have stereo ins and outs like rack FX and can handle +4db line levels. I know rack systems meet all these requirements but would like it if someone made something similar but in a floor box with stomp switches and an expression pedal. Does it exist?
@ Lare … no im modding my amp again and doing a post phase inverter fx loop which has 2 leads instead of one and need stereo for both sides. reason I wont do a regular line level fx loop is the phase inverter distorts alot on my amp

A floor pedal will only have guitar level inputs because it is designed to be connected to a guitar which puts out much less signal than +4dB.

You can “work around” this if you know what you are doing though. If a certain input needs MORE signal, buy a preamp. If a certain input needs LESS signal, turn down the output of whatever is connected to it or buy a “pad” or attenuator. You can also build these – search online for “attenuator schematic”.

If you went into a bit more detail about exactly what you are trying to connect, I can help more.

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