How do you get a Precision Bass sound w/ ASAT

[bishop55]

I'm talking in the ballpark, not exact. I've been playing on the neck pup and rolling back the treble, in series mode, bass at 50% or so. Setting the volume and getting a good balance of the tone knobs has proved a bit elusive for me though. I am playing with a cat who really wants the p-bass, big speaker thump, and I'd like to be able to get it out of my ASAT Thinline. I'm rockin an SVT if that makes a difference, but I'd like to have some consistency of tone when I fire up the VT as well. Appreciate the help.

[chunkstyle]

try it in parallel and roll the volume back a touch as well as the treble and bass. make sure you're in passive...

[jfh2424]

Depends what kind of setting you usually like when you dial in the sound on your Precision. For me, Precisions sound good with a deep, bomming bass bottom. For that, on an ASAT or L2000, it is in series, passive with the treble knob almost turned off and the bass knob turned way up, using just the front pickup.

That will give you the boom I usually associate to a Precision with the tone knob off. People here don't usually like this because they consider extreem settings like that to be unpleasant. But I like big bass.

So you are pretty close in your settings now. What do you find missing in the sound? Mids? Lows?

Enjoy!

John

[bishop55]

its the mids I miss, the parallel doesn't really help on this either. For me, i wat the thumpy, percussive, goes great with the kick drum sound of a P with the tone rolled back just a bit.


mb

[fender3x]

Originally Posted by chunkstyle

try it in parallel and roll the volume back a touch as well as the treble and bass. make sure you're in passive...

Do this. Roll off the treble and bass a bit. That should bring the mids up, relatively speaking. I have found that switching to active may help too.

On the other hand, to get the sound your after is why some people do the SC mod... ;-)