I haven't tried flats, and I'm sure that the answer is just to try them, but I'm trying to decide if trying flats is really the answer or if I should try something else.
Basically, I'm almost happy with my tone, just not completely. I'm pretty content with my tone in the lower register, but sometimes I think that my upper register sounds thin and weak. The character of the highs is more of a 'honky' tone and I'd like a warmer, rounder sound on the highs. I've been on a Led Zeppelin listening binge and it's been making me think that flats would give me the warmer, thicker, more dull sounding tone that I desire on the high notes.
I play classic rock, hard rock and strait ahead rock covers. I play a HWY 1 P with SD 1/4 Pounder and BAII strung with nickel XL's 105,85, 70, 50 into an 80's era Trace Elliot AH250 into an Eden D210XLT. I roll off a little sub bass on the graphic EQ, and bump the low mids and the high mids just a bit. I like the tone that I get with this set up, I like it a lot down low, but up high it's too thin and honky. To my ear, it sounds a little weak.
If I switch to flats, will this help with what I want on the high notes? Would I be compromising what it is that I currently like down low? Am I barking up the wrong tree - and if so, what should I be looking at? Any specific flats that I might want to try?
Basically, I'm almost happy with my tone, just not completely. I'm pretty content with my tone in the lower register, but sometimes I think that my upper register sounds thin and weak. The character of the highs is more of a 'honky' tone and I'd like a warmer, rounder sound on the highs. I've been on a Led Zeppelin listening binge and it's been making me think that flats would give me the warmer, thicker, more dull sounding tone that I desire on the high notes.
I play classic rock, hard rock and strait ahead rock covers. I play a HWY 1 P with SD 1/4 Pounder and BAII strung with nickel XL's 105,85, 70, 50 into an 80's era Trace Elliot AH250 into an Eden D210XLT. I roll off a little sub bass on the graphic EQ, and bump the low mids and the high mids just a bit. I like the tone that I get with this set up, I like it a lot down low, but up high it's too thin and honky. To my ear, it sounds a little weak.
If I switch to flats, will this help with what I want on the high notes? Would I be compromising what it is that I currently like down low? Am I barking up the wrong tree - and if so, what should I be looking at? Any specific flats that I might want to try?
