Just when I was ready to give up on the ES, I finally managed to dial in a rather pleasing and acoustic tone. Looks like I'll be holding off the pickup swap for a while now.
What I did:
Using my Yamaha ag06 built in parametric eq, I was able to do a deep mids cut from 300-800hz, a slight bass boost at 120hz and a slight treble boost at 3khz to bring out the punch when strumming. On the onboard ES, my treble and bass were at 2 o'clock (assuming centre detent is 12 o'clock). To top it off, used a BBE sonic stomp at very subtle settings (3-4 for both bass and treble), which seems to round off the magnetic sounding trebles, but not too much or it will start to sound processed. Result was quite a pleasing and useable tone.
Any ES1 users had a similar experience?
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