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A little VT Bass tone help needed

bassnyc1

bassnyc1

Jun 3, 2006
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#1
Hi all,

Instead of hijacking a couple of VT threads that are active right now, I thought I'd just start a new one asking for a little tone help from others who use or are familiar with the pedal.

I run my VT pedal into the front of my Genz Benz Shuttle 9.0 and I either have the shuttle's EQ flat or sometimes with a bit of bass and treble boast. The settings on my VT pedal are:

Level: 11:00
Mid: 1:00
Character: 11:00
Drive: 11:00
Bass: 1:00
Treble: 2:00

depending on the cabinet and/or the room, I sometimes turn down the treble as much as to 12:00. I'm basically happy with this sound with my passive jazz bass and P bass but it's a bit "clanky." Anybody have any ideas on how to get rid if the clank but still keep the bsic sound from these settings?

Also, anybody use this pedal with an active bass? With my passive basses, it's tone heaven (or close to it) but with an active bass, IMHO, not so good.
 
#2
that's a LOT of treble. some would call it a buttload. back it down some more. and maybe cut a little bass to even it out. the treble knob is supposed to imitate the ultra-hi switch on an svt at settings past 11:00, which can get really irritatingly clanky really quick.
 
#7
JimmyM said:
that's a LOT of treble. some would call it a buttload. back it down some more. and maybe cut a little bass to even it out. the treble knob is supposed to imitate the ultra-hi switch on an svt at settings past 11:00, which can get really irritatingly clanky really quick.
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It's odd... when I have the VT in my chain, I keep the High right at 11 or a little below.

However, for a while the actual input on my amp was messing up, so I had to bypass the pre by going into the Power Amp In in the back. When I did that, the sound was so incredibly muddy, I had to dial up the High on the VT to about 1:30 to get it to sound "normal."
 
#8
Check out this thread:

http://www.talkbass.com/forum/showthread.php?t=526710

According to it, the "flat" position (as flat as you can get with the VT Bass' rolloff around 4.5 kHz) for this pedal is with:

Bass at noon
Mid slightly past noon
Treble around 10:30-11
Character very slightly past noon
Drive off

and the Level set to unity, around 9 o'clock or so

That being the case, boosting the treble to where you have it is going to give you a good deal of clank. Dial it down and boost the level slightly to get you back to unity.
 
#11
3toes said:
It's odd... when I have the VT in my chain, I keep the High right at 11 or a little below.

However, for a while the actual input on my amp was messing up, so I had to bypass the pre by going into the Power Amp In in the back. When I did that, the sound was so incredibly muddy, I had to dial up the High on the VT to about 1:30 to get it to sound "normal."
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if the normal sound of your amp is very trebly, i could see that ;)
 
#12
Running my VT bass in front of my Shuttle 6 I have the settings almost identical to the OP with the exception of the treble, I have been keeping it around 10 for rehearsals. However I have discovered that using the Shuttle's DI (pre) it is still too much treble and had to cut it almost all the way off for FOH.
 

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