String Volume

[tramp]

What do you guys use to make sure all the strings and notes are the same volume? Is it a compressor or a limiter or what? I have adjusted my pickup heights. It helped, but not enough.


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[BurningSkies]

Originally Posted by tramp

What do you guys use to make sure all the strings and notes are the same volume? Is it a compressor or a limiter or what? I have adjusted my pickup heights. It helped, but not enough.


I reposted in Effects and don't know how to delete this.

Thanks in advance

It could be a compressor, but really you should work on your playing technique. That's the best way to learn how to control your note by note volume.

[BassmanPaul]

Technique. You have to practice making each of your strings the same volume. If you are using your fingers it's easy to pull a string differently as your hand moves across the strings.

Paul

[will33]

+1 to technique, it has a lot to do with everything.

This kinda reminds me of people who start shopping different amps and cabs because they're tone has become dull and they don't like it anymore when all they needed to do was put a new set of strings on there.

Get your bass setup properly, after that it's all in your hands.

[raymondl3]

Make sure you don't have a radical EQ dialed into your amp. Set it close to flat. Room acoustics can make certain frequencies pop out. I've had some basses that had a string or two that resonated louder than the others. Usually happens on cheaper instruments IME. Technique is important but I've never had a bass that I had to alter my intensity from string to string. Beyond these considerations, you might not have many options. Go into a quiet room and listen to the bass acoustically, checking string to string volume.

[MIJ-VI]

Pickups on the same plane as the pick-guard, and adjusted high enough for a good string capture yet low enough to avoid excess magnetic damping of string vibrations leading to a dead sound, loss of sustain, and harmonic dissonance (aka "Strat-itis").