EleventhHour2139
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I was jamming during my daily "roommates aren't home so master volume goes to 2 :twisted: " session and I decided to do a little experimenting. Call me narrow-minded, but I have never really fooled around with my III on the 60 watt setting. I always assumed it would take away a lot from the sound and that the bass especially would suffer.
Well...
I was WRONG. Dead wrong. All of the time I have owned this amp I have been fighting a whale-arse of a low end. Had to dump the sliders on my outboard eq below 120 hz (since that's the last slider i have before what I refer to as the "sub-lows" 60 hz and 30 hz), in an effort to achieve some sort of a low end cut. Well lately I have been experimenting with just leaving those flat rather than cutting them and just dealing with it. And it hasn't been bad. Actually, I had been enjoying it as long as I remained at lower volumes. But when turning it up to neighbor-bothering volumes, the overwhelming low end made any kind of technical palm muting on the low strings an effort akin to swimming in not-quite-dry concrete. Or maybe trying to swim in DRY concrete lol.
So, I suddenly had the idea to switch down to 60 watts as opposed to 100 watts, as I had read a good long while ago on this board (thanks y'all ) that there would be a loss in the "massiveness" of the low end frequencies when running a lower wattage. But ****. This practically transformed my way of thinking about this amp. Now I can Iced Earth my way around the house at will! Palm muted tremolo picking/gallops/triplets while maintaining perfect definition WITH AN OPEN BACK COMBO at neighbor-enraging volumes? Check. 8) And I believe the mids and high-end have changed a bit too, although I'm in like sensory overload mode here so you'll have to bear with my while I wrap my head around quantifying even the change in low end never mind everything else.
As every day goes on I discover more about this amp, and this is going on two years that I've owned her. Just when I start to think "NOW I've got this thing dialed in," some new discovery comes around leading to even greater sonic awesomeness. So yeah, I'm sure it's brutally obvious...I do love this amp like it's family. :lol:
Well...
I was WRONG. Dead wrong. All of the time I have owned this amp I have been fighting a whale-arse of a low end. Had to dump the sliders on my outboard eq below 120 hz (since that's the last slider i have before what I refer to as the "sub-lows" 60 hz and 30 hz), in an effort to achieve some sort of a low end cut. Well lately I have been experimenting with just leaving those flat rather than cutting them and just dealing with it. And it hasn't been bad. Actually, I had been enjoying it as long as I remained at lower volumes. But when turning it up to neighbor-bothering volumes, the overwhelming low end made any kind of technical palm muting on the low strings an effort akin to swimming in not-quite-dry concrete. Or maybe trying to swim in DRY concrete lol.
So, I suddenly had the idea to switch down to 60 watts as opposed to 100 watts, as I had read a good long while ago on this board (thanks y'all ) that there would be a loss in the "massiveness" of the low end frequencies when running a lower wattage. But ****. This practically transformed my way of thinking about this amp. Now I can Iced Earth my way around the house at will! Palm muted tremolo picking/gallops/triplets while maintaining perfect definition WITH AN OPEN BACK COMBO at neighbor-enraging volumes? Check. 8) And I believe the mids and high-end have changed a bit too, although I'm in like sensory overload mode here so you'll have to bear with my while I wrap my head around quantifying even the change in low end never mind everything else.
As every day goes on I discover more about this amp, and this is going on two years that I've owned her. Just when I start to think "NOW I've got this thing dialed in," some new discovery comes around leading to even greater sonic awesomeness. So yeah, I'm sure it's brutally obvious...I do love this amp like it's family. :lol: