I got excited after hearing the good people of TC Electronic have a drive/distortion based pedal in store for dweebs like me. However, after seeing the conception, I was wondering if the middle frequency is of any relevance to many drive-type pedals today. I personally feel this frequency is of crucial importance for the guitar as it propels aural warmth. The bass & treble ends per se, often fail to provide the electric guitar with that necessary definition of being non-synthetic. It's either that or me getting old & in need of eardrum tweaking...
Thursday, July 30, 2009
Middle frequency, anyone?
I got excited after hearing the good people of TC Electronic have a drive/distortion based pedal in store for dweebs like me. However, after seeing the conception, I was wondering if the middle frequency is of any relevance to many drive-type pedals today. I personally feel this frequency is of crucial importance for the guitar as it propels aural warmth. The bass & treble ends per se, often fail to provide the electric guitar with that necessary definition of being non-synthetic. It's either that or me getting old & in need of eardrum tweaking...
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I can fully agree with your statement, the cliché'd "It's all in the mids..." comes mind.
True bass and treble frequencies from a guitar rarely translate well musically; maybe manufacturers are driving towards making the instrument sound more synthetic, or hyped than usual.
Either that or they are pandering to the 'everything louder than everything else' jarg.
Well, the magic is in the mids. Never like that "scoop" sound.
more importantly, the mids make the guitar stand out in a band context. having a scooped sound would drown the guitar tone effectively- the drums & vocals would account for that.
The boosted middle frequency is one reason why some players add a tubescreamer before the amp, even if they do not use it's overdrive.
Having seen the demo video, this concept can be applied to the nova drive, using it's OD section to boost it's own distortion.
that is surely one way to go about it but if the manufacturer has thought about this consideration, it'd be less hassle :-)
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