Taming the Fender shrillness | Page 2 | The Gear Page Playing through cranked tube amps, shrillness was a real problem for me But after years of experimentation, I learned that taming the shrillness in ANY amp is a simple matter of rolling down the GUITAR'S tone knob until that shrillness is gone The ONLY way I've gotten around cranked-amp shrillness is the GUITAR'S tone knob
What OD is voiced like a Blues Driver but TB and without the Shrillness . . . I really like the throaty voice of the BD-2, but man does it have a lot of unwanted grissle to it Any suggestions for that same type of voice but maybe with true bypass? I really don't believe the mods that are out there solve this problem without changing the voice, but please correct me My
Pure Nickel strings - Who uses them? - The Gear Page I used to buy them in an attempt to tame shrillness I guess the marketing appealed to me; ex nickel = warmer sweeter less shrillness Then I soon realized that they didn't alter the plain unwound steel strings any—which is 100% of the time where I've had any brightness issues I'd like need to tame
Who rocks a SHS Strat? - The Gear Page I just switched my SD Hot Rails to the middle and I like how it smoothed-off some shrillness Moved a SD Quarter Pounder into the bridge which really brought it to life Don’t know why I didn’t try this sooner These guys like it
fralin steel pole pickups - The Gear Page You get this really nice honkin' mid-range that has no ice-pick or shrillness Lindy will tell you it's almost like a P-90 The REALLY cool thing about it is when you flip to the second postion (Bridge-Middle) it still sounds as "quacky" as any Strat you will ever hear
FIXED - Help needed - Helix with headphones | The Gear Page Because shrillness no matter what sounds like a hardware issue Beyond that, a bit of room verb - or the newer Dynamic Ambience - is basically required to make headphone sounds (without a mix around them) usable, in my experience and opinion
Neumann TLM102 - Im Surprised in a Good Way - The Gear Page A mic I could never figure out until I used it on a flute It always sounded "veiled" to me and thought it was useless Once I heard it on that, I used it on trumpets (Wynton Marsalis uses it) and a lot of other brass and wind instruments Really helped tame shrillness-kind of ribbon like
adjusting a p90 for ice-pick shrillness reduction | The Gear Page Here's an idiotic question I want less treble and more bass out of the bridge position p90 in my 54 reissue goldtop - more even balance, tried to adjust the polepieces - no go Is there another way to do this?
guitar cable too long? - The Gear Page It think it's just a matter of touch I experiemented wtih some longer cables running from my pedals to the amp-and it seemed to take away a litle bit of the shrillness I also switched from a standard Fender type flatpick to a Herco Flex 50-this did as much to improve my tone as the purchase of any pedal or guitar, to be honest
Taming a shrill Strat | Page 2 - The Gear Page Various ideas in order of bang-for-the-buck: 1) Don't keep the guitar volume on 10 (assuming you don't have a treble bleed circuit) 2) Don't keep the guitar tone knobs on 10 3) Use the tone knobs on your pedals amp 4) Switch the block to zinc or brass