Agreed. My clean sound without it just seems so muddy and inarticulate. I guess I understand that for certain styles. Thought there'd be more keeping it left on, though.
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Horn/tweeter on or off?
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I didn't put tweets in my fEARfuls. Someday I might add one to one of the cabs, but I don't really find anything useful about about 5K - 6K with bass guitar.
On the rare occaisions when I have PA support, I send a DI with everything over 5K filtered off.
On the rare occaisions when I have PA support, I send a DI with everything over 5K filtered off.
Almost always off, except with my Acme cab. Something about having all the sound come from paper cones just appeals to me more.
Depends on the cab. Mine has a switch and an attenuator. Previous cabs I have owned only had an attenuator, but I have seen some that only have a switch.
It depends on the cab/tweeter ... on the Berg/Aguilar cabs I usually run them about 30 percent on ....there is nothing worse than a harsh sounding tweeter/horn
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Off, although occasionally I might have it on just a little to catch a little bit of extra treble. But a little goes a very long way for me, and if it's on, it's just barely on.
Not a portion that I think sounds good for what I do. I'm not always completely fuzzed out, but I pretty much never play completely clean.
One of the reasons I sold my 2x10 was that it had a non-adjustable tweeter and with how my tonal tastes developed... it just didn't sound very good.
Of course, if I start doing something completely different musically, that may change and I might want a cab with a tweeter.
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-2 to -3 db (mainly to protect the tweeter) and if I'm not using any pedals. I then adjust the passive tone knob on my bass which seems to roll off anything that would go to the tweeter.
if I'm going to use fuzz it's rolled off all the way.
if I'm going to use fuzz it's rolled off all the way.
maybe I'm weird, but I've been running a sansamp with mild distortion to a very distorted/fuzz sounds, and I find I actually like the tweeter on. If I'm going to do this, should I roll off some of the 5k? I currently have it at noon. This is with my 410 cab by the way. I plan on selling this cab and getting two sealed 210s and possibly using a 115 w/tweeter all together in vertical alignment. any objections? I think it could sounds killer, but maybe not. the 210s are Ampegs and the 115 is an acoustic, so I'm aware of possible phasing issues
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Always on. Most horn-loaded cabinets sound inarticulate and dull with the horns turned off or all the way down, IME. The one exception I've found are Berg cabs.
