Recent content by tlester

excellent tone!

Hi all - I currently play a small boutique combo (a Top Hat Club Royal). I love it, but when I play live I play a very diverse set list. Anything from real poppy stuff to hard rock. Not so much metal, but we do do the occasional synth metal type thing w/ some drop-D action. It's hard for me...

Better. I think you could add another .5 db of 50hz to the kick just to make it thump a bit. Then, add some 800 hz to the bass. It's a little bit too scooped for my taste. However... this is a big improvement. -tom

I'm great with parameters. I'm was a recording engineer for many many years (still am part time). I've been tweaking for decades. I do agree that a lot of time pedals can yield better sounds. I would just use the processor for time based effects.

Here's my comments. The guitars have a good start. There's no low mids in the mix and very little bottom at all. Over all a very thin sounding mix. What speakers are you mixing on? Are they over emphasizing the low end? The guitars image sounds bigger when they go cleaner in the :40's and...

Hi all - I'm looking for recommendations for rack switching and looping systems. I was looking at doing something like an RG-16 + FX rack + foot controller. However, by the time I get all that put together with something like a ground control and g-major... I'm up to the cost of the...

Here's my version. Some crappy fender that I used purposely to get a little bit of crappy sound. I can't remember which one. Just something that was lying around. http://www.speakrecords.com/music/Just_Like_Heaven.mp3 I engineered that for a Cure tribute album.

How do you switch from the closed to open side of the cab during a set?

I'm so glad I saw this post. So... unlike many on this board, I don't play a tremendous amount of metal. I'm looking for something really versatile. The band that I play in, plays everything from funk/hip-hop, to pop/top-40, to punk-ish, rock/hard rock, with the occasional metal-ish type...

So... I think I'm pretty close to pulling the trigger on a Mark V head. I'm wondering if I could get some recommendations on cabs. I play a variety of stuff from funk, pop/top-40 type stuff, to rock/alt-rock, and hard rock. I don't do the hard core metal, too much. I easily get into...

I'll try the individual footswitch controls and see if that works.

Hi all - I have a new Roadster. I have the foot pedal plugged in and it's switching channels fine. All the lights light up appropriately. I have the knob set to foot switch on the back. FX loop is on on all channels and in on the master FX loop on/bypass. However... I'm having two...

So... just wanted to let everyone know that my church campus has moved into a new building. When we were building out the stage, we built two slanted walls off the side of the stage to help with the acoustics and to provide storage space. On stage right, I had them build a trough from the...

No offense taken at all. :D I appreciate the advice. I live in Jacksonville, FL. We have a GC, but they don't stock Mesa's. There's another smaller, slightly sketchier shop that I never go to. They are the local mesa dealer. I may be going down to Orlando for my son't B-day in a week...

Yeah.. I'm familiar with what a master volume does. I'm also familiar with the fact that Marshalls sound like crap unless the master is cranked (or out of the circuit all together... my top hat behaves like this as well). That's basically why I was asking about the Mark V. In our main...