Originally Posted by
orri
I played a 100XL yesterday in a rehearsal room, with a humbucker archtop.
I just couldn't get the EQ right. It sounded annoyingly loud without cutting through properly.
There was too much of some low mid frequency that sounded loud without hearing what notes were played.
I was not successfull to filter it out with the available EQ knobs.
I was perhaps doing something wrong.
I might have found a better setting if I'd been alone with it for a few minutes, but generally other musicians aren't that fond of it when guitarists spend much time fiddling with their knobs.
One criterion for "A great amp" is that you can plug a good guitar directly into it and within seconds get a good usable tone, and I would definitely give this amp a failing mark on that criterion.
I can though imagine that single coil guitar, or just having an EQ pedal, might have worked much better.
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