Tele Tone & Transfer Functions | Dialing In MixWave's Benson Chimera

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I was drowning in options…
I love the tweaking and dialing in process just as much as any other guitar gear head, but recently I found myself spinning in circles.
Which one of these twelve mics sounds best?
On which of the four cabinets?
And where the heck should I place the mic?
Should I back it up some or move it to the edge? Or BOTH?
And not to mention the tone stack on the EQ….
AHHHHHH!
After much frustration it suddenly hit me…
What if I could use measurement tools to help me systematically move towards a tone I liked? To help isolate the variables and tweak in a more organized fashion?
Check it out!
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00:00 - Guitar Intro
02:47 - Plugin & Measurement Walkthrough
06:01 - Post-Cabinet EQ
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[@nemanjapudar201]

Thank you for using Gig Performer! :)

[@guitguy6579]

I can't express how nerdy this was....and I LOVE IT! I'm so glad I signed up for your online training, your teaching is always so good!

[@MichaelCurtisAudio]

Thanks a ton! Much appreciated.

[@jscottbartholomew]

Great stuff! Going to have to try this out on some sounds from my UA Dream65 and Line 6 HX Stomp pedals.

[@littlechicago7482]

Thanks for this Michael, chances are you will get a ton of comments when you open things up to guitar players. Shaping the sound as you have done certainly improved things, but my first thoughts were it sounded "thin". My guess you are using .009's and that's why. Try going to 10's on top and I bet you'll be much happier!

[@MichaelCurtisAudio]

I've actually got 10's on there! My tele is on the bright side, so I can see what I can do to tame some of the top with the tone knob.

[@adam_churchfront]

Michael Curtis Mayer?

[@MichaelCurtisAudio]

I need a PRS strat first : )

[@radioflyer2030]

@littlechicago7482 - What sounds great for playing alone / practicing is rarely ever what sounds best in the mix, regardless of whether that is a studio or live mix. In my experience instruments, especially guitar should sound a little thin, but once the whole band is playing together on a decent PA, it will sound "right". For example:
I did a double header metal show in a small semi-open-air venue last year on my own system (KW152's & double EV15 ETX's), I'd never worked with the 3 piece opening band before, and there was literally nothing I could do to get them to sound right - just pure mud, zero punch. The headline act (friends I work with all the time) came on, and the difference was night and day - clean & rip your face off punchy.
Then by coincidence I had to work with the opening act again a few weeks later at a large indoor venue (where I'm the backup SE) with installed sound. I got the guitarist connected up, and I had a moment of ice cold despair - I had literally never heard a guitar sound so terrible on our Avid / Meyer system before. Absolutely no amount of console EQ made it sound acceptable. So I sat down on the stage with the guitarist & said "we have 1 hour to fix your guitar tone". So we dove into the patches on his pedal, and came up with some changes. He told me "wow, my guitar sounds sooooo thin". But we sound checked several songs with the whole band, and they sounded great. After their live show that night, the guitarist told me that they had fans coming up & telling them that they had never sounded that good before.
I would say that the take home here is that if you only ever play on your own (a bedroom guitarist), then adjust your guitar tone so that it pleases you. On the other hand, if you play live shows, then work with the other instruments in your band (and your SE too, if possible) to come up with tones that allow each instrument to have it's space in the mix. Doing the later will give you, and more importantly, the audience the most pleasing, punchy sound possible.