tone chasing

So I have a newly assembled parts P. It has standard-wind Fralins, roasted swamp ash body, roasted maple neck. I put DR Sunbeams on it, but they seemed polite and a little scooped so swapped them for nickel lo-riders which sound better. My issue is that the tone seems sort of anemic compared to...

Aside from painting, I’ve finished a parts P. Got some pickups from a local builder, and they’re just not right. Im finding the pickups are wooly in the bass, without much growl or edge, and that lack of bite is more or less there throughout the mids and into the highs even though the highs...

Hello, I've been trying to make some tones of my favorite metal bassists since my previous tones got deleted by accident, currently I'm not really getting a hold of my tone creating capabilities, mainly with EQ balancing (knowing what is too much) and order of blocks, usually I place my blocks...

Hi all you great people! I really dig the bass tone in this song by Okvsho and I would love to pick your brains about it. Between Us by Okvsho: Questions: For those of you with more experience / more discerning ears, what equipment would you use to achieve this tone? What kind of bass...

Chasing a certain bass tone and running into some trouble. You can hear what I'm going after in the vid below (Daybreak by Ivy League TX), but it's honestly a pretty standard hardcore-style bass tone. In live shows the bass player (can't figure out his name) is playing a P-Bass, but I can't...

So after a year or two of wondering, should I should buy a preamp or a new amp or a new cabinet or just continue working on my technique? I finally decided to go ahead and buy one. I went with the Underground Accelerator. Oh what a great choice! This thing really makes your bass sing. Exactly...

Listen to this song. You’ll hear the bass tone right away. I assume this is the clanky sound associated with metal that I’ve heard people discuss. In any case I cannot get anything remotely sounding like this. So TB heads help me out how would you go about trying to get this type of sound?

I have an Ibanez SRMS805 bass, and a Mesa WD-800 head going into a 1x12 Darkglass cab. I’m happy with my tone for the most part, except I kind of wish there was maybe just a tad more warmth to it. Not sure how others feel, but even though I love Ibanez basses, I’ve always thought the tone on...

Hey guys, I currently play a beat up old epiphone accubass through an older fender sidekick 35. Ive been cranking the gain on the amp and love that tone! However I wish I could crank it more than it maxes out. Ive been looking at a tc electronic spark plug, hoping to just crank the clean gain...