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#21
G-string is a skinnier, twangier string. I use a sort of custom set that runs .045, .065, .080, .100. Keeps some depth/fullness in the high notes. Can try something like that but make sure your bass is set up good first. A string vibrating in the saddle or the nut slot, or against a fret can kill your sound.

The sizes I mentioned are available from Di'Addario as a complete set in nickel roundwounds.
 
#22
Did you cut the high-mids? Have you cut the highs? Loose the tweeter horn in the cab? We can't help with no info!
What are your settings on the amp head (in clock face form like 1:00). Have you tried a different cab? Did you change to different cables or are using an instrument cable as a speaker cable instead of a proper speaker cable? Can you hear anything from the horn in the cab?
 
#23
B-string said:
Did you cut the high-mids? Have you cut the highs? Loose the tweeter horn in the cab? We can't help with no info!
What are your settings on the amp head (in clock face form like 1:00). Have you tried a different cab? Did you change to different cables or are using an instrument cable as a speaker cable instead of a proper speaker cable? Can you hear anything from the horn in the cab?
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+1

Quit being tight with the info.
 
#24
B-string said:
Did you cut the high-mids? Have you cut the highs? Loose the tweeter horn in the cab? We can't help with no info!
What are your settings on the amp head (in clock face form like 1:00). Have you tried a different cab? Did you change to different cables or are using an instrument cable as a speaker cable instead of a proper speaker cable? Can you hear anything from the horn in the cab?
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Sorry i haven't been giving much info i havent really had time to go into detail i've been practicing for graduation all day. But my amp settings are; Contour is cranked, Treble-2:00, hi mid-1:30, lo mid-noon, bass-noon, and boost-noon. Can't really change cabs i have a GK BLX 2x10 at home but it is fading out alot that's why i'm using a hartke. I've checked the horn and it is working. All my cables were recommended by my local guitar shop.
 
#28
So far I see contour cranked (no mids +,treble boost) and more treble boosted at the eq knob. GK's already have a pretty healthy treble boost built in. If you're adding even more, and turning up to "carrying the room with your rig gig volume", you're asking a whole lot of a cheap little bullet tweeter. It's indeed possible you may've blown it. That's a crazy amount of treble. Makes me think yoh're doing that much on the top end trying to make up for stuff you took out a little further down. Put some of those mids back in so you don't have to crank the bejeezus out of it to be heard. You don't have to have an overly middy sound, but don't suck them all out.
 
#30
Example: if you're already maxing out your tweeter amp at 50 watts, then you go and throw 10db worth of treble boost on there, you're asking that amp and tweeter to perform the equivelent of 500 watts.:eek:......something's gotta give.
 
#31
will33 said:
So far I see contour cranked (no mids +,treble boost) and more treble boosted at the eq knob. GK's already have a pretty healthy treble boost built in. If you're adding even more, and turning up to "carrying the room with your rig gig volume", you're asking a whole lot of a cheap little bullet tweeter. It's indeed possible you may've blown it. That's a crazy amount of treble. Makes me think yoh're doing that much on the top end trying to make up for stuff you took out a little further down. Put some of those mids back in so you don't have to crank the bejeezus out of it to be heard. You don't have to have an overly middy sound, but don't suck them all out.
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So turn back the contour, set treble back to about noon, set the mids to about 2ish. And what about bass level is that good?
 
#32
musicman281 said:
So turn back the contour, set treble back to about noon, set the mids to about 2ish. And what about bass level is that good?
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Set the bass level to the fullness in the lows you need without getting woofy. The GK eq set "knobs at noon" already has a good dose of treble boost in it. Focus more on reducing what you don't want to hear rather than cranking up what you do.

Also, when playing live, "bedroom tone" doesn't work. All those scoooed out mids that sound nice playing by yourself get drowned out in a band mix, and if you don't put some back in, you'll be cranking the rig in a failed attempt to be heard, possibly enough to damage your speakers. You don't have to be "all mids", you can take a little out for a warmer tone, but if you scoop them all out...it just plain doesn't work out.
 
#33
Yes try backing down on the contour! That control provides a mild boost on the lows and highs and sucks out the mids. Sounds good in a "intimate" setting but not for a gigging situation.
Low-mid and bass will need some cutting back if you are still in that gym. You can dial them back in when you are in not such a "live" room. :) Start with the contour fully off and work it slowly back in if you want to chance it.
 
#35
will33 said:
Example: if you're already maxing out your tweeter amp at 50 watts, then you go and throw 10db worth of treble boost on there, you're asking that amp and tweeter to perform the equivelent of 500 watts.:eek:......something's gotta give.
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I highly doubt i blew the tweeter my dad ran the same setup i am for at least 5 years with insanely high trebles and never had any problems and i never have any problems like this when i play with my band it's just when i play with the school band i have the problem of not hearing my g string.
 
#36
Yet another +1 to senior B-string.

When playing in a gym, or any big, echoey, "live" room, bring the bass down. What sounds too thin, midrangey, and weak in the bass to you up close will likely sit nice out in the audience. If you dial in bass that sounds good to you up close, all the audience will get is mud, thud, boom and crap sound. You gotta "take one for the team", meaning just deal with a sound you don't like, so your audience can have good sound they do like.
 
#37
musicman281 said:
I highly doubt i blew the tweeter my dad ran the same setup i am for at least 5 years with insanely high trebles and never had any problems and i never have any problems like this when i play with my band it's just when i play with the school band i have the problem of not hearing my g string.
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Maybe the room effects then. Gyms pretty much suck for amplified music.
 
#40
B-string said:
Hold on will33 the BL600 does not have a tweeter amp. Only the main power amp. You are thinking of the RB and Fusion series. ;)
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Ahh...good point. I might be confusing threads, I thought this guy was getting scratchy sound/no sound from his tweeter amp....something to do with a behringer cab.

I probably screwed that up, but the rest of the bedroom tone/playing in gyms stuff still applies.:)
 

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