Sansamp PSA tone quest

[Boganova]

Hey guys.

I'm pretty new to this bass thing. Been playing guitar for about 9 years now, having messed around with bass here and there over that time. Recently got into a very active band on bass and have a slight problem.

Im trying to get a good tone from my set up. I have discovered that my guitar rig is also very usuable for bass if I get a new power amp. My rig is as follows (minus power conditioner and poweramp)

Shure wireless
Sansamp PSA 1.1
TC Electronic G Major.

I play with a pick and will soon be using a Humbucker equipped Jackson bass.

So far I have been messing around with the Sansamp and the G major (For Compression and some parametric EQ) to get the tones I like and going by ear. But I am very aware that the tones I am getting, whilst sounding good to me, arent exactly good tones. Could do with more cut and a better bassy snarl. Sadly, finding a good bass tone is new to me.

So this is where you guys come in! Any advice on how to get a good solid tone out of this gear would be hugely appreciated. Just a ball park sorta settings, or settings that you like and I could tweak to taste from there. Here is a link to some of the bands stuff on myspace.
http://www.myspace.com/taintednz

Scars and Departed both have good examples of the tone used by the previous bass player when recording the last album. Live he used Line 6 gear, but was mostly plug ins in the studio I think.

Ive searched on here and on the net, been building up as much info as I can cause I really wanna do this properly, so any help would be very much appreciated.

Thanks guys.

EDIT: Oh forgot to mention, that all runs through an SWR 8x10 cab

[BillyB_from_LZ]

I just bought a PSA 1.1 to try out (mainly for guitar, but bass duty as well). Each knob has 256 positions so ball-park settings could be way off.

The blessing and curse of Tech21 gear is that the controls are very wide range...that gives you lots of flexibility but one has to tweak carefully.

Have you tried any of the overdriven presets? Does anything come close?

If I come up with something, I'll let you know.

[JGR]

Haven't used the PSA, but I have a lot of their other gear. There should certainly be some good tones in there. As you mentioned, get a good power amp (and cab). I would ditch the TC - there should be plenty of compression in the PSA sims, and often less=more.

[Son of Bovril]

Download the manual off the web, from what I remember the PSA has a few Ampeg bass type presets that should give you a good base to work from, although the PSA is designed primarily as a distortion type of unit so I wouldn't expect it to do a great modern clean bass tone.

Alteratively if a bit of Ampeg drive and sound is what you're after and the PSA won't get you close enough you might want to consider the "Jimmy Special" - sansamp VT bass pedal