Voicing and Amp EQ

[WGTP]

When voicing you distortions/overdrives/fuzzes/boosters/etc. do you use the bright switch?  I'm trying to get a frame of reference.   

[slacker]

I use a Fender Twin and I don't use the bright switch, it adds way too much fizz for my liking. I prefer to crank up the presence control.

[KerryF]

Yea, I like presence controls.  Dont have much experience with bright switches though.

[petemoore]

  Sometimes I like to let the sizzle get all the way to the amp input, amp set dark, this seems to...I'll try to describe without vocabularizing...not...
  Set like this the 'sizzle' is easier for me to dial in...like for the treblier sounding LZ.
  With the treble turned toward less on my Pre-Fuzz Rangemaster into Fuzz [everything else set about the same...ie I only turned the amp tone to more treble, Rangemaster less treble] and this easily dials in a smoother drive type sound like for 'One Way Out' type sounds.
  So for a more complex treble that cuts, I like to let it through a bit more in the SB's and a bit less on the amp TC setting.
  For more of a Drive tone [a bit duller] cutting HF's early and then 'regrowing' some higher freq's later [by setting the Fuzz and Amp controls accordingly to a 'pre' LP Filter [that'd be the pot/cap TC on the RM's output from SP to Gnd.] signal seems to work well.

[WGTP]

I use a PV Special at low volumes and rarely apply any treble cut to the different distortions I bread board.  Seems I'm always trying to get more treble out of it.  I'm thinking turning up the Presence will get me more into the Tone Zone most of you are in.   

[tester]

I keep it off.

[MetalGod]

I set the amp for an optimal clean tone and tweak the pedal to sound good from there since that I how I'll be using it.  It's pointless having a pedal that only sounds good when your clean tone has been mangled.

[John Lyons]

I depends if you are using the clean sound by itself as mentioned above. If you want a clean sound and a distorted sound then you should get the clean to sound good first, bright switch or not, and then dial in the dirt sound.
This get trickey because some fuzzes, ODs and distortions don't have a tone control...

For pedal only amp use I usually leave the bright switch off (fender twin and bassman set clean).

One thing to note: The bright switch only works when the volume/pre gain knob is set lower than half or so. With a higher gain setting the bright switch does nothing. The bright switch is a 120pf (fender) cap that bypasses treble past the gain control, so the high frequencies aren't turned down when the gain knob is. FYI...

John