Further Mid Scoop on a Fender Tone Stack?

If he wants to SCOOP the mids, he will want a lower value resistor, perhaps 1K to start.

 

This is likely obvious already but just in case - mid-scooping that sounds nice at home can get completely lost in the mix on a stage.

Why not get the best of both worlds (as I did on my Tone King Continental) by replacing the stock resistor with a pot that runs from, say 6-20K? You retain the stock look of the amp by mounting it on the back or even bottom of the chassis.

 

The main reason why the normal channel doesn't sound as scooped as the reverb channel is that the normal channel is voiced to have signficatntly more bass and lower mids. So lowering the mid resistor from 6.8K may help a little, but probably won't be enough to give you the tone you want.

To make the normal channel sound closer to the reverb channel, try replacing the .047 cap connected to pin 6 ov V1 (2nd stage plate cap) with one of a smaller value. Start with .0047 and experiment from there. You might even want to go as low as .0022 or .0015. Since the signal coming out of this cap is not being severely loaded down by the 50K INTENSITY pot (as is with the reverb channel's signal off of the 3rd stage .1 plate cap), a smaller value should still pass plenty of bass frequencies.

 

Yeah, that .047 on the Normal channel is there to make up for the lack of a 3rd gain stage. That's why the normal channel usually sounds cleaner at any given volume level than the Vibrato channel.

When someone talks about "mids", they rarely say what mid FREQUENCY, so it's hard to know what they mean...

Getting an EQ pedal and playing with it will go a long way to educating the ear about what specific frequencies you find lacking or too prominent. Simply putting an EQ pedal in front of the Normal channel may be all that is needed, rather than modding the amp, plus you get more control over the tone.

I recommend the Tone-Jam modded Sniper BOSS GE-7. It's small and very quiet.

Cheers,
Ken