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08-14-2006, 08:08 PM
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Anyone else just completely obsessed with getting your ideal tone? I just bought a brand new Hartke 3500 amp and an Ampeg cab and im STILL not happy with the tones. Im always messing with the eq, but still, sometimes i dont like how much hiss there is, or how much the sound of my fingers hitting the string is registering. Or maybe the lows are too overwhelming, or the highs too high. Whenever I get the right about of growl, something else is frusterating me. It never ends! AHhhh
I wish i wasnt so damn picky. |
08-14-2006, 08:27 PM
|  | I'd kill for a Nobel Peace Prize! | | Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: Ottawa, Canada | | | Not really. I have come to the conclusion that what sounds good in a band setting generally sucks at home. So now I just practice straight into a mixer. This saves me a lot of grief fretting about tone and gives me time to work on technique. Also helps cut down on GAS.
However, at the one place I jam they consider me very picky about tone because I am "always fiddlying with the EQ". I might make slight changes to my EQ every hour or so. |
08-14-2006, 08:30 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Santiago de Chile | | Yep, everytime i play i mess with the EQ. And the next time i find i don't like it and i tweak it again... it maybe my cheap amp... but i can't afford a better one 
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08-14-2006, 08:32 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: Nashville | | | Nope. I noticed that "the tone" varies from hit record to hit record so I just go with what works.
If that's a rig or DI to PA, it doesn't matter.
I always sound like me, for better or worse.
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08-15-2006, 10:35 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: South Carolina, USA | | | Nothing unique about your situation. That's why there's so much gear constantly being bought and sold! Nobody gets the sound they want!
Speaking for myself only, the issue is that the "ideal" tone is not a fixed but rather moving target.
Sometimes I want a growly grrr, sometimes a singing mwaaahh, and all points in between. |
08-15-2006, 10:37 AM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2004 Location: Metro St. Louis | | | Just remember that tone is only about 30% of the issue. The other 70% is what music statement do make once get "the tone."
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08-15-2006, 10:41 AM
| | | | Not got that problem either, since I kicked out all eq from my system.A very clean pre amp( that has no features but a volume knob) paired with a very good poweramp,does me fine.If I want to add eq,I'll get a nice one(API or something like that)rather than the rubbish often found on bass amps.
In my case it's "less does more"
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08-15-2006, 11:08 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: Mother North | | bass + low mid + high mid + high = good tone 
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08-15-2006, 05:11 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Sooke, BC, Canada | | Quote: |
Originally Posted by Jazzman23 Anyone else just completely obsessed with getting your ideal tone? I just bought a brand new Hartke 3500 amp and an Ampeg cab and im STILL not happy with the tones. Im always messing with the eq, but still, sometimes i dont like how much hiss there is, or how much the sound of my fingers hitting the string is registering. Or maybe the lows are too overwhelming, or the highs too high. Whenever I get the right about of growl, something else is frusterating me. It never ends! AHhhh
I wish i wasnt so damn picky. |
Thats what plunged me into construction. I am happier now, it does "end". I find that you can discover tones for styles of music and then build up your arcenal of tools to get it every time.
Also what the others said, it does sound different in the band and by yourself, but I try to find options for both, I just cant play if I dont enjoy the tone. |
08-15-2006, 06:28 PM
| | Banned | | Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Auburn, Washington | | | I have NEVER cared about my tone. Sometimes I'll play around, and say "ooo, I like that tone." The next day I'll randomly play around with the EQ and say the same thing. |
08-15-2006, 06:29 PM
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The simpler the better. Nice bass, nice amp, simple eq. Then go gig. Its completely different live anyways
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08-15-2006, 07:55 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: Fern Park, Florida | | I got the tone I like...but I think it also came from playing.
I can do things now that I wasn't able to do before(not saying I'm great though).
I can cop a tone from a Squire P bass that satisfies me enough to play it for hours...
It's all in the fingers, I mean picks, I mean fingers, no picks....!!@#$!#
You get the idea..... 
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