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11-12-2006, 01:55 PM
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Avatar Speakers Endorsing Hooligan | | Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: Bakersfield California | | | Anyone else NOT mess with their tone controls?
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During shows, I NEVER change my tone. I hit my distortion on my sansamp in one song, but other than that its just on channel 1 which is some sort of SVT type setting.
I have my pickup set mostly to my bridge, slight low boost, slight mid cut, slight high boost... Same settings on my amp more or less, but i keep the mids at 12...
Once my controls are set, thats it. I have one tone for 12 songs.
Sounds just fine to me.
Anyone else like me?
(BTW, i had no idea where to put this.) |
11-12-2006, 01:56 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2003 Location: Madison, NJ | | | I seldom touch my tone controls. My amp never changes, my pedal settings never change, and I generally run my Marcus Miller passive, flip the switch for a bit of a bass boost. That's pretty much it.
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11-12-2006, 02:08 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: May 2004 Location: St. Louis, MO, U.S. | | | I don't mess with them besides configuring my amp for the setting I'm in. I do use the pickup knobs, but I took the tone knob off my bass, since it was useless to me.
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11-12-2006, 04:45 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: Adelaide, Australia | | | Once I have set the tone controls for the room, I hardly ever touch the amp. More often I will use the tone controls on my bass. I consider myself luckiest in our band. My set up is bass>lead>amp. I run a tuner out of the dedicated returns and can set-up and packdown in about 5 minutes, really.
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11-12-2006, 05:23 PM
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Full volume, full tone.
The flatwounds on it keep the low end so the full-on tone isn't harsh at all, and it's a comfortable amount of punch that lets me cut through. |
11-12-2006, 05:24 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2005 Location: Metro Detroit, Michigan | | | I find a good sound and keep it that way.
Plug and play baby. Everytime. |
11-12-2006, 05:38 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: St Louis MO - St Charles | | | Volume full, tone adjusted to give me what I need in the room. From there the only knob I touch is the volume on the amp, I crank that up until the front row's glasses start bouncing around. |
11-12-2006, 05:55 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: North Dakota | | | I have a new rig so I have it set flat for now. Sounds fine. I may tweak it a bit for the gig/room but I usually just leave it alone and change my right hand placement for different tones. |
11-12-2006, 06:42 PM
| | Supporting Member | | Join Date: Oct 2005 Location: L.A. (the Valley) | | | 12:00 all the way on the amp. Volumes on the J bass full on, tone control half-way.
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11-12-2006, 06:56 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: Ferndale, Michigan | | | Volume and tone wide open, never touch 'em. Tweak the amp occasionally, done.
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11-12-2006, 08:44 PM
|  | Veteran Dispenser | | Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: Newton, Mass | | | Usually I don't touch it. However, for some songs I'll move the pickup selector from the bridge humbucker to the neck single coil and cut the treble to give a little rounder, more upright, sound, say for a song like "Stand By Me."
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11-12-2006, 11:38 PM
|  | prefers electric miles davis | | Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Los Angeles, CA | | | i like my bass and amp all flat. i let my fingers do the talking. |
11-12-2006, 11:46 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Oct 2002 Location: Urbana, IL | | | I am a knob twiddler. But at showtime, it's pretty much the knobs on my amp, and switching pedals on and off if need be/
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11-13-2006, 12:05 AM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: northern illinois | | | on bass : volume and tone set to max
on amp: EQ is flat, boost control is set to 1 O'clock
i don't touch anything unless it's switching on a pedal |
11-13-2006, 12:55 AM
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Endorsing: Ampeg | | Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Apopka, FL | | | I generally don't touch them, but I will turn one pickup or the other down sometimes, and if I'm playing reggae, I'll roll off all the treble.
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11-13-2006, 02:03 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Oct 2004 Location: Iowa | | | My tone is all amp. I play through an old Yamaha B100 and a folded horn 12. I play with amp tone and grit and things, but all knobs on my bass are on 10. |
11-13-2006, 02:24 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: Sac Area | | | I alllmost never touch my tone control.
I generally will tweak the individual volume controls to decrease either the bridge or neck pickup (to suit the song). If, for some reason, I am totally unhappy and can't get the tone right, I may, but this is almost never. I am usually happy!
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