| The Thonk
I played rootsy stuff for quite a few years, and used various synthetic gut-like strings for that old-school tone. Lately, have been playing in an acoustic pop-rock kinda trio and decided I needed more definition and sustain...went back to Spirocores. The tone I need is there, but....
I frequently have a pronounced "thonk" at the front of notes. Not there acoustically, but I'm amplified for this gig...Revolution Solo into a EBS Microbass II, DI into the FOH. The MB has all the eq capability I need, but I've not been able to eq this "thonk" away.
So is this a right-hand technique issue? Anybody else had to address this? Only seems to happen when I use the much-prescribed side-of-index finger pad pizz method, and not so much when I use index/middle tips, more perpendicular to the strings.
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