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Lakland Alternative Mid Settings?

What LH-3 dipswitch midrange setting do you use?

  • 225Hz

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • 250Hz

    Votes: 2 2.6%

  • 275Hz

    Votes: 3 3.9%

  • 450Hz

    Votes: 4 5.3%

  • 500Hz

    Votes: 11 14.5%

  • 550Hz

    Votes: 3 3.9%

  • 600Hz

    Votes: 9 11.8%

  • 900Hz

    Votes: 1 1.3%

  • 1100Hz

    Votes: 1 1.3%

  • What dipswitches?

    Votes: 42 55.3%
  • Total voters
    76
psychotiger

psychotiger

Feb 24, 2008
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Austin, Texas
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Builder: Moore Custom Guitars
#1
So for those owners of Laklands with the LH-3 preamp (55-02, 44-02, 55-94, 4-94), what do you have the midrange set at?

I did a search and didn't come up with much that was current.

Mine came in at 600Hz from Lakland but will probably change the dipswitches to 500HZ.

Thanks for looking.
 
#2
I didn't vote 'cause I'm not sure of the Hz, but the switches on mine are at the stock positions. When I have time, I'm going to mess with them and try to find a nice, agressive slap sound that doesn't wreck my axe's voice when played fingerstyle. I have no idea which settings will do this, but if I ever have the time to find out, I'll type up a report...
 
#3
roadkill2309 said:
I didn't vote 'cause I'm not sure of the Hz, but the switches on mine are at the stock positions. When I have time, I'm going to mess with them and try to find a nice, agressive slap sound that doesn't wreck my axe's voice when played fingerstyle. I have no idea which settings will do this, but if I ever have the time to find out, I'll type up a report...
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Well when you are ready, here is a link to a pdf file with all of the possible settings from Lakland:

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I need to play with these setting some more myself. I just wanted to see what others had found preferable.
 
#4
psychotiger said:
Well when you are ready, here is a link to a pdf file with all of the possible settings from Lakland:

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I need to play with these setting some more myself. I just wanted to see what others had found preferable.
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Yeah, I downloaded that pretty recently. I'm just runnig flat-out at the moment. I'm interested to see what we find.
 
#5
I toyed around with it quite a bit. I ended up liking the original 550hz the best. My only grip is the fact they have such a tweakable pre yet use screws to hold the cover on. I understand in the business realm less is more when it comes to options . If you ever want to play around it can get quite tedious and start to wear the screw holes out. Anyways after my gripe I found leaving the mids flat and making the settings on my head did the trick best.

Oh...they say the tone is in the fingers .....:hiding:
 
#10
mccartneyman said:
Never changed 'em because I like the way it sounds from the factory. I cut mids, slight bass boost, a little more boost to the treble running TI flats on my 55-94. This is running direct to the board. When I run an amp, I tend to run the bass flat but still scoop out the mids.
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So how do the TI flats sound on the 94? I have them on my Jazz and love them. Trying to get used to the roundwounds on my new 55-02 but the G string sounds so honky. Cutting the mids at 450Hz has helped but I am still tempted to go with the flatwounds. Think that would help?
 
#11
LightGroove said:
I toyed around with it quite a bit. I ended up liking the original 550hz the best. My only grip is the fact they have such a tweakable pre yet use screws to hold the cover on.
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Agreed, It would be nice if they had an alternative way to access those switches.

I ended up leaving the cover off for an hour, or two while I switched between the settings.

I dident vote but I will say, I ended up sticking with 250 hz on my Bartolini pre/pick-up equipped 44-02. After trying the 4 settings mixed different ways. I found being able to boost the low mids got me closer to getting the sound I wanted.
 
#12
mccartneyman said:
Never changed 'em because I like the way it sounds from the factory. I cut mids, slight bass boost, a little more boost to the treble running TI flats on my 55-94. This is running direct to the board. When I run an amp, I tend to run the bass flat but still scoop out the mids.
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I'm not a huge fan of the way my 55-02 (Lakland pups and pre) sounds. I can't seem to get the zing and bite that some others are enjoying from their identical axes, so I'm definitely going to be playing with the switches...
 
#13
A little update:

Yesterday, I piled my amp, cab and bass into my guitarist's car and went to ply with the dip switches in his studio. I've now got the m set at 550, which gives me some nice bite, but I'm thinking it might be a little *too* zingy, so I might put them at 500 when I get the chance.

We spent forever clicking switches and overdubbing by bass part in a couple of sounds to see what we could get. It was pretty fun, actually. You can get a lot of different tones out of the pre with those switches, though I think teh effect is pretty subtle for a lot of the settings.
 
#14
roadkill2309 said:
A little update:

Yesterday, I piled my amp, cab and bass into my guitarist's car and went to ply with the dip switches in his studio. I've now got the m set at 550, which gives me some nice bite, but I'm thinking it might be a little *too* zingy, so I might put them at 500 when I get the chance.

We spent forever clicking switches and overdubbing by bass part in a couple of sounds to see what we could get. It was pretty fun, actually. You can get a lot of different tones out of the pre with those switches, though I think teh effect is pretty subtle for a lot of the settings.
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The effect is definitely subtle, but those DIP switches are a secret weapon for changing the ENTIRE tonal character of the bass overall, even flat. I settled on 450Hz after experimenting for a while. I generally don't have to boost mids, but I find that the 450Hz setting gives a nice balance between lower mid bump and upper mid zing, and you don't have to add too much to make it happen. YMMV, though.
 
#15
psychotiger said:
So how do the TI flats sound on the 94? I have them on my Jazz and love them. Trying to get used to the roundwounds on my new 55-02 but the G string sounds so honky. Cutting the mids at 450Hz has helped but I am still tempted to go with the flatwounds. Think that would help?
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Update: Well, answered my own question. TI Jazz Flats are now on. Played with it through my Ashdown rig and it is exactly the tone I was looking for. The G string has been tamed. Tone between lows, mids, and highs seems much more balanced and consistent. Incredible old school tone but can easily produce the coolest modern sound when I want it just by manipulating the pups. With all pups on and equal, mids cut slightly, bass and treb boosted just a bit, I get this neat Berg sound. I may play with the switches again now that the strings have changed to fine tune it but I am happy! :hyper:
 
#16
JazznFunk said:
The effect is definitely subtle, but those DIP switches are a secret weapon for changing the ENTIRE tonal character of the bass overall, even flat. I settled on 450Hz after experimenting for a while. I generally don't have to boost mids, but I find that the 450Hz setting gives a nice balance between lower mid bump and upper mid zing, and you don't have to add too much to make it happen. YMMV, though.
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Hm. I didn't try that one, for some reason. Maybe I'll give it a go...
 
#17
I'm going to bump this zombie thread to see if any people have changed their minds or to see if new owners want to chime in. I usually boost the lows and low mids on my amp about 10%, so I like to have a high mid band on the LH-3 ready to punch through a mix when I need it. 500 through 900 are the bands I have been trying and I'm not convinced I've found the right one.
 
#18
I changed after a while. Like you, I prefer having the mid knob 'on call' to help punch thru/add clarity when I need it. I have mine set back at the 'default' 600Hz... I found that 500Hz (and definitely the 450 Hz setting) could be too muddy and anything higher just didn't have the same effectiveness for me.

MarTONEbass said:
I'm going to bump this zombie thread to see if any people have changed their minds or to see if new owners want to chime in. I usually boost the lows and low mids on my amp about 10%, so I like to have a high mid band on the LH-3 ready to punch through a mix when I need it. 500 through 900 are the bands I have been trying and I'm not convinced I've found the right one.
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#19
I played around with all the various options for a day right after I got mine, and eventually settled on the default 600Hz.

I find for 99% of the rigs I play thru if I just back off the LH-3 Mid knob the tiniest hair below the detent -- and then goose the Lows maybe 5-10% -- I can leave the amp's tone controls "flat" (sic) and it's perfect.
 

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