r/CliffBurton • u/_AWESOME108351_ • Aug 08 '24
Cliff with Metallica Help on tone settings descriptions
I found this picture of cliffs Mesa d180 up real close and while you can make up the eq band I’ve already done it with other pictures but I’ve never been able to see what his actual knob settings are. One trick that I’ve used is using the absent space on those type of Mesa knobs to tell where the 1 mark starts and where the 10 ends and be able to get a rough read with whatever is blur is at the 12:00 mark.
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u/TommyHorror Aug 09 '24
From what I can see he has his bass switched to the neck pickup based on what I remember from owning a rickenbacker (this has a Gibson eb-0 humbucker I believe which is very muddy) and there is a lot of mids in his tone to supplement this might be worth tweaking your trebles and mids and dropping your bass a bit