--- In gsp-2101@yahoogroups.com, "Brian Hansen" <bchansen@s...> wrote: > I bought the Tonelab SE, and after a couple of weeks of use, I sent it right > back to Musicians Friend. It was really easy to use, but the tone was way > too thin. Tone wise, I haven't been able to find anything that will take > the place of my 2101 as of yet. Brian, You are absolutely dead on- that the tone on the Tonelab SE is bright & thin, more than I expected, much thinner than you get from the 2101. I took a while for me to use it live because of that. But I guess I've learned over 30+ years of working in bands and EQ- ing the guitar in mixes, (I'm 48 and been making money playing gigs & recording since I was 15), is that you need more treble to cut through other instruments in a mix than you would think, listening to just guitar in your practice room. We guitarists tend to want to create big, fat, warm, bassy, and heavily distorted tones (got RECTO?). When, in the harsh reality of bands & mixes, we mostly need less bass and less dirt than we would like. (YMMV, of course). I took some treble off the settings on the Tonelab SE, and started gigging with it. Nice thing about that board is, your amp settings are always live on your knobs, so on the gig or in the band practice room, you can easily tweak the tones mid-song and when you're happy, just press write and it's saved that way. The Tonelab is great for classic rock, vintage style effects, nice Vox wah, tremolos, etc. It breathes Aerosmith, Lynyrd Skynyrd, AC/DC, Hendrix, Beatles & Stones, Pink Floyd. I wouldn't push the Recto style tones on it, they're not that great. If you want that, spend the money on a Mesa Recto for the real thing. Modelers are all lacking something on that sound. Again the 2101 is still tone KING in my studio. Gerry O'Dowd
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2004-10-28 by Gerry ODowd