Equalizer settings

[zep]

I normally use fairly standard equalizer settings - low mids and either high treble or bass with the other one at about 5 or 6 but today I figured out a new trick that I found interesting.

I turned the gain on the amp up to 5, put the pickup selector switch in the middle position, turned the bridge pickup to 9 and the neck to 1. It ended up giving me a very slight distortion - almost clean when I picked lightly in the lower frets and a mid level distortion with harder picking in the higher frets.

Any thoughts? Any other tricks or favorite settings that you guys have?

[ZacAttack]

You may or may not already know and use this method, but I have been around enough audio technicians to have learned that most of them try to EQ at what I have been told is called half EQ. Or in other words setting all your faders at the -0- posistion or flat and pulling the unwanted frequencies out or down, and rarely adding or pushing up the faders above -0-. This is mainly a rule of thumb for 31 band equlizers, but I have found it can work well with any EQ. A good starting point I have found on the smaller 7 band EQs is to first set it flat at -0- and then pull some of the middle faders down so it looks kind of like a slight downward curve. Or like your EQ is smiling at you. Back when I had a 7 band EQ stomp box I did the same thing and just added or took out frequencies as desired to suit the sound I was looking for. Putting a 7 band EQ in line right after your distortion box is another thing I used to swear by. But finding which pedal sounds better in what order is purely a matter of taste.

Hope some of this may help
Zac

[Doug]

Can anyone with a Marshall MG15DFX amp give me some different settings for excellent tones?

[Doug]

I forgot to say I am using an Epiphone Les Paul if you could reccommend some tweaking there also

[supedupviper]

heres the settings I have on my Marshall AVT150 half stack:

Acoustic simulator
-Top: 7
-Volume: 10
-Body switch on

Clean
-Gain: 5
-Volume: 10
-Bass: 10
-Middle: 7
-Treble: 8
-Bright switch on

OD1
-Gain: 8
Volume: 10
OD2
-Gain: 6
Volume: 10

EQ
-Bass: 9
-Middle: 7
-Treble: 7
-Presence: 10 at normal volumes, between 0-3 at high volumes
-Master Volume: Whatever I want, you can get a nice sound with the MV cranked up and the guitar volume turned town to about 4