Ampeg SVT Classic Sounds

[dirtydumpling]

Greetings,

If you have an SVT-CL head, share your tone settings here please. Add any additional information you would like to share.

Thanks!

 

[Gearhead17]

This should help you: ampeg SVT tone settings talkbass - Google Search

Any time you want something on Talkbass, type it into Google and add "talkbass" to the subject line. You will get A LOT of results. The talkbass search bar is NOT this helpful unfortunately.

 

[Korladis]

When I used one at a show in late december, I dimed the gain, had the bass at around 1:00, the mids around 4:00, the treble at about noon, and I forget where the master knob was. The ultra low/hi switches were both off.

 

[JimmyM]

I usually set mine at bass noon, treble 2:00, mids between 2:30 and 3:00 @ 800 hz, ultra switches off. I will vary it a little bit according to room conditions, or if I'm after a specific sound, but generally that's how I set them because it gives me a nice slight mid scoop with a solid bottom end but still enough mid action to hear myself through a dense mix. And yes, I said "mid scoop."

 

[sharkbait130]

Bass @ noon. Mids @ 3 o'clock. treble @ 2 o'clock. Master @ 3 o'clock and gain @ 11 o'clock. Selector on 4. Both ultra switches off. Usually run the bass at 70 to 80%. This is for a fairly loud band with a mic'd bass drum and usually mic'd guitars. I don't run through the P.A. and occasionally get told to turn down. Playing rooms for 150 to 400 people. We do a few outdoor gigs. If I'm running through the P.A. I leave it at those settings. If I'm not in the P.A. I'll dime the master and not change anything else. If I need a bit more volume , I'll crank the bass up to 90%. Stole most of these settings from some guy in Fla. that had been chased up a tree by an alligator. Thanks again Jimmy.

 

[Chris 'Wighat' Jordan]

Answers to this question are rendered tonally useless by the use of different cabinets and basses but I'll answer anyway.

I play a Reverend BH5 with dual jazz pick-ups in both the neck and bridge position. The series/paralell/single coil switches and tone knob allow for even more tonal variation. I usually plug my SVT-CL into an Ampeg SVT-410HLF. This cab is notoriously bassy, lacks mids and has a little sizzler tweeter. The tweeter has an attenuator.

I switch both pick-ups to parallel, both volume knobs and the tone knob all the way up. On the amp, master all the way up, mid-range at two o'clock on the #3 frequency band, ultras off, control volume with gain. Tweeter attenuator all the way up.

Really to me the thing about the CL is, first, how you use the gain/master and second, how you use the mid-range.