--post-date: 2023-01-06
--type: blog
    <article>
      <h1>Music Blog?!</h1>
      <p>I wanted to make a little blog section to just talk about my music
      making. Mainly, to save my friends from enduring my thinking out
      loud.</p>
      <h2>Reworking my THR100HD</h2>
      <p>I have a <a href=
      "https://usa.yamaha.com/products/musical_instruments/guitars_basses/amps_accessories/thr100hd/index.html"
         rel="external noopener noreferrer"
         target="_blank">Yamaha THR100H Dual</a> which is a nice modeling amp
         with two &quot;amps&quot;. Typically, I run these in parallel so I am
         running through BOTH at the same time. As of late I am actually
         considering moving to dialing in separate tones, and using my <a href=
         "https://www.joyoaudio.com/product/88.html"
         rel="external noopener noexternal"
         target="_blank">Joyo PXL-Live</a> to act as a &quot;channel&quot;
         switcher.</p>
      <h3>Dual Amping</h3>
      <p>Honestly, dual amping is my <em>favorite</em> thing. And I would hate
      to give it up, as it gives my tones SO much depth. But I find when I try
      to mix my guitars that extra depth just makes mixing a bit more of a
      hassle than need be. But Mick of &quot;That Pedal Show&quot; on YouTube I
      feel feels similarly, considering in <a href=
      "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uMvhraRDvDs"
         rel="noopener external noreferrer"
         target="_blank">one of their &quot;use less&quot; challenge videos</a>
         he used two amps for maximum tone shaping - which I feel adds some
         justification to my efforts!</p>
      <h2>Results after one night</h2>
      <p>I spent an hour or so tonight messing around with my setup and came
      out with the following high gain tone:</p>
      <figure>
        <figcaption>
          &quot;Rezzed&quot; - Hi-gain dual amped Baritone guitar
        </figcaption><audio controls=""><source src=
        "/blog/music/2023-01-06/audio/rezzed-senders-io-audio.mp3">
        <source src="/blog/music/2023-01-06/audio/rezzed-senders-io-audio.ogg">
        <p>Download <a href=
        "/blog/music/2023-01-06/audio/rezzed-senders-io-audio.mp3"
           rel="me noopner"
           target="_blank">MP3</a> or <a href=
           "/blog/music/2023-01-06/audio/rezzed-senders-io-audio.ogg"
           rel="me noopner"
           target="_blank">OGG</a></p></audio>
        <figcaption>
          <em><small>No copyright</small></em>
        </figcaption>
      </figure>
      <h3>Thoughts</h3>
      <p>I feel its a bit... boomy still. There is some extra weight coming
      from the &quot;clean&quot; channel that I think is causing this to lose
      some clarity. I don&#39;t think if I wanted to add a mix around this
      I&#39;d even end up keeping it. Or I would do some heavy EQing to that
      channel. Here is what I have dialed in so far:</p>
      <figure>
        <img src=
        "/blog/music/2023-01-06/img/thr100hd-settings-senders-io-img.jpg"
                alt=
                "A photo of the front face knobs of my Yamaha THR100HD. The top amp is set to the clean setting, the booster is turned off. The gain is roughly at 3 O&#39;Clock, Master at 9 O&#39;Clock, Bass at 10 O&#39;Clock, Middle at 2 O&#39;Clock, Presense off, Rever off, and Volume at 11 O&#39;Clock. The bottom amp is set to Modern, with the booster turned off. The gain is set to around 2:30, Master at 10 O&#39;Clock, Bass at a bit below 9 O&#39;Clock, Middle at 2 O&#39;Clock, Treble at 1 O&#39;Clock, Presents at 1:30, Rever off, and Volume a little above 9 O&#39;Clock"
                role="img"
                width="100%">
        <figcaption>
          <em>Current dual amp settings</em>
        </figcaption>
      </figure>
      <h2>Future</h2>
      <p>In the future I plan to setup different profiles between each the 5
      channels per amp - so they&#39;re all useable and I can just do single
      amping - as that provides me the FX loop until I setup a proper stereo
      board. But until then - this is the setup I&#39;ve been using and I
      rarely touch the back!</p>
    </article>