How to Fix Boomy Jazz Guitar Sound?

**oldane** · 12-03-2011, 05:53 AM

Originally Posted by cosmic gumbo

This is a popular cure for boomy sounds

You mean you mix one part Beano with one part water and smear it onto the speaker cone?

**jorgemg1984** · 12-05-2011, 07:25 AM

I will ask my father that one, he works in the hi-fi area, let's see what he thinks!

**oldane** · 12-05-2011, 08:14 AM

Originally Posted by hwqa52

Here’s a short quiz. You have $1,000 to spend on upgrading your stereo or home theater system, what do you buy to get the most bang for your buck in sound quality?

Premium speaker cables
A new receiver
Room acoustic treatments
Hi-definition DVD player.
If you answered anything other than ‘room acoustic treatments’, you might achieve only an incremental improvement in sound quality. If you answered ‘room acoustic treatments’ you would be making a significant upgrade. The reason is simple: The listening room is a critical component in the sound reproduction chain, at least as important as speakers, electronics, sources and cables, yet the listening room is often the most neglected component. When sound waves leave a speaker they interact with the walls, ceiling, floors, furnishings and other surfaces in the room causing room resonances and reflections that color the sound you ultimately hear.

Improving listening room acoustics is an option at home. But if you don't have a dedicated music room, chances are that it depends on what your wife accepts. For gigging musicians, the room acoustics is nearly always beyond control. So in many situations one has to come up with other solutions.

**AlsoRan** · 08-09-2013, 09:04 PM

I am resurrecting this thread because I want to add in one more thought.

I have an Epiphone Shreraton II with Gibson Classic'57 pickups (a '57 Classic Plus model is in the bridge). The fat "E" string was boomy around the first position (frets 1 - 4 more or less).

I was using a Fender VibroChamp XD on the #1 voice setting, which is a clean setting.

I tried: 1) moving the amp around the room, 2) changing the direction it was pointing so it would not face a wall, 3) moving the back of the amp away from a wall, 4) rolling of the volume on the guitar, 5) rolling off the bass on the amp 6), lowering the 6th string pole piece in the pickup, 7) lowering the pickup itself, 8) putting my 10-band MXR in line and lowering all of the sliders down to the most negative setting, 8) backing off the gain.

The only attempts that really worked were the ones that involved cutting volume, gain, or bass to the point that I did not have much to work with in that frequency or in overall volume/tone. And with the volume above "6," there was almost no hope without gutting the tone of bass.

Guess what, putting the amp on the #15 voicing, which is modeled after the Jazz King, allowed me to have volume and little of the boomy feedback, even with the volume up near 10.

I wish I knew what the setting did but my guess is that it lowered the digital preamp output to the power tube (I also left the pickup and the applicable pole piece slightly lowered, which also helped overall). But put the knob back to voice #1 and there came the boominess roaring back.

Just thought I would share this for those that might read this thread.