The Steel Guitar Forum

Does anyone know what settings are good for steel guitar on a milkman amp?

.Tim Marcus says. "Whatever settings you like.."
Tim talks about how steel players cut the mids on the traditional amps, but he says that is because those amps have a mid-peak (I think that is what I remember him telling me the reason was)..HIs amps are pretty neutral and you can just, literally, play it by ear...

And to quote one S. Lipsey, “it’s hard to find a setting which sounds bad.”

Hey Steven - it depends on which model amplifier you have, but in general I find a good starting point to be "all knobs at noon" and from there you can make minor adjustments.

my amplifiers are designed to sound great with steel guitar right out of the box - there are not many controls and the idea behind that is you should not need to spend much time getting the amp to sound right, you should just be able to plug in and start playing music

What Tim said...
I have a The Amp Combo and a The Amp 100. I do keep both tone controls at noon as Tim suggested but I also use an MXR 10 band EQ pedal (a great little pedal that runs about $149). The MXR allows me to compensate for rooms and music directors who want more or less twang. I also have two different Show Pros and adjust the MXR somewhat differently for each of them and also for 6 strings.
I don't care for midrange controls on amps and that is one of many reasons I love my two Milkman amps