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settings for an svt 350
- Thread starter dredd
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Grats on your new head! Ampeg will tell you to turn the gain up until it clips on the hardest played notes and then adjust the master for overall volume. When I had an SS Ampeg head I couldn't get everything out of it by doing it like that. I eventually decided to disengage the limiter, turn the master to full and then use the gain for overall volume. Low frequencies require a lot more watts to be loud than higher frequencies, please keep that in mind when playing. A cabinet with good sensitivity is also key with spreading your 500 watts @ 4 Ohms around as much as possible. Your sonic space is between the lowest notes of the guitar and the kick drum, being lower than the kick drum is going to sound like mud and isn't going to an effective use of watts in the least. If you are going to use your EQ, cut anything lower than 50 Hz and anything higher than 3K Hz and you will be in a good starting place, let your ears decide what sounds best to you, and then know that when you play with others you want to make your tone a bit brighter than when you play alone, if you don't you won't "cut through" the mix. Enjoy the trip! Cheers.
Amp settings are determined by the individual player. How you play has more to do with it than anything else. When you get suggestions for setting eq for certain sounds, it's only a very vague guideline, as *your* touch will affect everything. Best practice is to start flat, or all dials to noon, and make small adjustments from there.
RickenBoogie makes some good points. Something to remember though. When you set all the knobs on an ampeg at noon, it is not truly flat. I would start with the graphic eq on your head off. Start with the bass somewhere around 11:00-noon, mid selector on 3 and mid knob between 2:00 and 3:00. Treble around 1:00 and 2:00. On my SVT 7 Pro thats what generally sounds pretty flat to me. From there just start playing with the knobs and then move on to the sliders on the graphic.
I cut the treble a bit and boost the bass to about 2 clock.
Turn off the limiter. Turn off the graphic Eq. Don't expect a ton of volume unless you are running an 810. even then you can't compete with a deaf singer.
I know this from experience unfortunately. For me in a loud heavy band it took 2 810s and a Crown macrotech 2400 using the svt350 as a preamp.
YMMV
Turn off the limiter. Turn off the graphic Eq. Don't expect a ton of volume unless you are running an 810. even then you can't compete with a deaf singer.
I know this from experience unfortunately. For me in a loud heavy band it took 2 810s and a Crown macrotech 2400 using the svt350 as a preamp.
YMMV
In addition to what others have said the cab can makesa big difference as well because the voicing can be very different from maker to maker.
I set my gain about 3-4 o'clock, Bass 12-2 depending on what I'm playing, min selector on 3 at 2 o'clock, treble flat to 2 o'clock. Tube gain never more than 9 o'clock. This is important for me. It gives is some edge but doesn't take away from the tube sound and make it more compressed sounding, for a lack of better wording. Going higher with this to me seems to take away from all those wonderful tubes doing their thing that only they can do.
I set my gain about 3-4 o'clock, Bass 12-2 depending on what I'm playing, min selector on 3 at 2 o'clock, treble flat to 2 o'clock. Tube gain never more than 9 o'clock. This is important for me. It gives is some edge but doesn't take away from the tube sound and make it more compressed sounding, for a lack of better wording. Going higher with this to me seems to take away from all those wonderful tubes doing their thing that only they can do.
