Perfect your sound with advice from the Marshall Workshop. This episode focuses on your amplifiers EQ and tweaks you can make to get the sound you want. Check out more in the Workshop series - • Workshop
This video is a treasure because this is not only applicable to Marshall amps EQs but for pedals and other stuff that have a PASSIVE eq system. You take out the highs and you get more mids, you level up the highs and the mids and the lows goes down. Very different that an active eq system.
Here are my eq settings for my marshall mg30gfx Gain - 6-7 Bass - 6-7 Middle - 7-8 Treble - 5-6 Reverb - Optional Effects - Optional (i sometimes use the delay effect and a wah pedal) Volume - 7 And Master - Optional I use this for my fender strat and epiphone slash les paul to get a dirty 80's tone. Feel free to use these settings on any amp. I wish you good luck with these settings.
@@anthonyvaccari4607 it's mainly good for beginners learning the guitar and wanting a quick and easy Marshall sound in a studio. Although for gigs and live I'd probably get a DSL or something with a bit more volume. With that though I love the amp and it has a lot of versatility and it's great for blues, jazz and classic rock. If you have single coil guitars it's also good for crunchy and clean tones. If you have a humbuckers guitar it's great for hard rock and classic metal sounds. Hope that helps :)
I've never known quite what all of these knobs mean, but as far as sound goes I seem to like the treble and gains really high, the mids as low as possible while having the bass at maybe 1/3rd the way or maybe half way. I just love the sharp, cutting sound it produces. It's thrashy and crunchy and tremolo picking and pinch harmonics sound better to my ear that way as well.
Well then, allow me to educate you a little. The each of the eq controls cover a large section of the frequency spectrum, the guitar happens to live in the mid range section of the frequency spectrum, not the bass end or the treble end. By turning the mids down, you're reducing the body of the guitar's frequencies. It's like having a blind spot in your vision. Now playing in a band with those settings will result in your guitar being nearly inaudible. Turning up the mids will put you in the correct part of the frequency, and sound thicker, and give the guitar a big boost in perceived volume. There is such a thing as having too much too, too much treble results in a thinner buzzy tone, too much bass makes your guitar boomy, too much gain reduces clarity, to the point you can't tell what you're playing or even the kind of guitar and pickups and all that.
Oh yeah and there's a thing called a cord with a plug on the end that goes into the wall outlet the thing on the wall with the little holes and be careful! You don't want to plug into the wrong hole without protection.
On my 2525H I go with these settings Presence:6.5 Bass:7-7.5 Mids:7-8 Treble:5-6 Master:4-5 Lead Master:Cranked Input Gain:Cranked Sometimes I dialed the lead master and input gain both to about 7 and use a GE-7 as a boost.
My struggle is that everything plays off each other so you can't really individually set something. Say B and T are 12, and i decide that in this point the sweet spot for M is 3. But now say when i change T around to find the sweet spot suddenly the M is no longer in the sweet spot now. It was only the sweet spot when the other two were 12 but thats not "my sound"
Hi Corey, i’m a little late but if you still have these problems I would advise bringing your M back up to 12 and then changing the T around to find the sweet spot of the T while the M and B are at 12 so that way you can individually set all three eq settings and once you are happy w your B and T then just bring your M back to 3.
using words like richer, warmer, brighter....to explain tone is far too subjective to what a persons own identification to those labels are. warmer to some might actually be thought of as muddy. Brighter to me on guitar means spanky or quacky, if its too much. all those are, is words for marketing, not your own ears. My preference seems to be treble at 1 oclock, mids at 10 o clock bass at 2 or lil higher on dsl401 od2 channel with 2018 explorer elite and 2015 LP studio. Any good suggestions for improving that, not that its not good, just could it be better? for just the eq part anyway, the rest of my tone from after that is not what im asking. just those 3 eq settings what do u use. i play hard rock not thrash, or grunge. - rhoads influenced madman over blizzard
I just got a Marshall mg15r and my setup is this Gain 1.5 Volume 6 Bass 4 Midle 6 Treble 7 Reverb 0 It is the configuration that I did at the moment, I have not had a day with this amplifier so I am just trying this configuration, I still like how it sounds
How’s it sound man? Got my first Marshall recently and playing a Les Paul through it and it’s hard dialing in the right tone for me… Amp is good but I’ve mainly been an acoustic player so getting back into the electric world is a headache lol
@@shayh.3556 its actually really worked out for me! I have thst tone with Marshall amps but I occasionally use fender amps too with thst same tone dial
?Do you increase the low frequency by turning the Bass knob all the way to the right, or do you not cut it anymore. These are passive controls, everything wide open is what the Amp sounds like, and you cut where you think you need. There are a Million variations and turning them all down a little will give you a different sound, a muffled Marshall Sound. This is Marshall, are they passive Potentiometers.
Wish you would have played the tracks back-to-back without interruption. I was listening for a subtle difference between the two tracks but your voice cleared it from RAM. Still a great video and very much appreciated.
Basically, youre promoting Scooped Mids... along with CLEAN CHANNEL, CHEAP DRIVE PEDAL, ALL THE GAINN!! ALL THE GAIN!!!!... no mids... ALL THE GAINNN!!! SLAYERRR!!!
For those of you who read comments before you watch the video, let save you a little time. Just do what you have been doing since you bought your amplifier. Play with the knobs until you like it. You're welcome.
I don't think this is very useful at all, since different Marshall amps have preferred settings. Some I've seen all dials on 10, and others the bass all the way off and mids and treble high. So yeah, this was not useful.
The Presence control isn't part of the Bass/Middle/Treble "tone stack" but works off the negative feedback loop in your tube amps power section; it controls the very high frequencies and adds more sizzle in the distortion.
Presence also acting as tilt EQ, reducing low mids while shelving the mids and highs while adding some distortion to the sound. For bright and smooth distortion, try set the treble lower and the presence higher. This will reduce the upper mids hashness while making overall tone musically brighter and clearer.
How do you get deeper tones without cutting into the sustain on the higher strings? It seems like my lower strings ring out more, but the higher ones get cut short. I used my boss distortion pedal to increase the volume on my output and the helped a little. But my lower strings still go on for ages while the highers although have more sustain and sound deeper, dont ring out as much.
My amp as only got bass an treble an there both set at 1:o'clock an u can hear every single sound clear as anything it's bang on I've ad my amp a few years now an I just messed around with them until I got the sound perfect I play bassline drum n bass dubstep hardcore music like that an there all sound amazing with the settings I set my amp to
lmao im holding my guitar then i was looking for my amplifier then ive noticed some dots and a straight line in my backgroud which i didnt thought it was from the video fuckin scared the shit out of me
when doing fingerstyle cover like last christmas, or like pop songs. What are your recommended settings for middle trebble and bass? can someone share? thanks
I can't hear any big difference when using the Marshall amp in live setting. It's still so bright even if the kigh is at zero. Maybe the amp needs mods. 😂 Btw i love the recorded sound of a Marshall amp sounds alot better than live. 😂
@Fabian Ansteg yes but the only noticeable difference is it becomes brighter or muddy, i just cant hear alot of difference when listening to it live vs recorded. Or maybe the amp is already broken. It's the church amp btw not mine.
