I’ve used a J as my main bass for many different types of gigs and was curious how you all set your pre-amp/tone knob and pickup blend for going from one different genre to another and various scenarios. Looking forward to your insight!
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Active J bass tone dialing
- Thread starter E Joe
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I’d say I use the blend to modify my tone on the fly more often than I mess with the tone knobs. I usually have the bass at detent or slight cut, treble rolled off, and bump the mids as needed to sit nicely in the mix.
I favor the neck pickup (oops! Almost called it the front pickup
) if I’m going for a thumpier P-type tone or the bridge pickup if I want more growl. I really appreciate the wide range of useful tones I’m getting out of my Fender Player Plus. It’s my workhorse too.
I favor the neck pickup (oops! Almost called it the front pickup
) if I’m going for a thumpier P-type tone or the bridge pickup if I want more growl. I really appreciate the wide range of useful tones I’m getting out of my Fender Player Plus. It’s my workhorse too.
I just put together an active Jazz 5 string (a couple days ago) I don't have a much time with it but so far I have been favoring the neck p/u slightly, has the bass/treble boost (concentric) so treble full on with the bass boost maxed then slightly dialed back, tone to taste depending on song.
I run everything pretty flat on my Fender Ultra right now, but I was playing a Sadowsky with a 2 band bass/treble boost that I would crank up pretty high with the bass maybe slightly higher than the treble and I really liked that.
I really wanna play with my EQ more during the show, but I’m worried it’ll cause volume changes out front, so if anything I’ll use the PU blend. I mostly blend in more neck or completely solo the neck. I just don’t have many gigs where the Jaco bridge PU thing comes up. I’d love an active preamp with a tone knob!
I really wanna play with my EQ more during the show, but I’m worried it’ll cause volume changes out front, so if anything I’ll use the PU blend. I mostly blend in more neck or completely solo the neck. I just don’t have many gigs where the Jaco bridge PU thing comes up. I’d love an active preamp with a tone knob!
Depends what pre as all my basses have different makes.
First off I get the amp pretty neutral. A load of prep work goes into this because I choose from 4 gig rosta basses.
Once I've selected my basses for the gig, I dont touch EQ and just dial in gain and Master to suit.
I might vary amps and cabs but I know where I am with them soundwise. I've worked this previously.
On the gig, Im looking for onboard to play to the room so I might just dial a bit on
Tone and eq of mids, T&B.
Im never far off but some sounds in a room speak better than others.
If i use the bridge pickup bias, i tend to keep the neck in there for depth so never 100% bridge
I might adjust the bass pot on the pre to suit as typically the bridge bias loses a bit of projection or volume.
The last thing you want is to be lost in knob twiddling.
I do mine mid song so you need to go to it instantly.
First off I get the amp pretty neutral. A load of prep work goes into this because I choose from 4 gig rosta basses.
Once I've selected my basses for the gig, I dont touch EQ and just dial in gain and Master to suit.
I might vary amps and cabs but I know where I am with them soundwise. I've worked this previously.
On the gig, Im looking for onboard to play to the room so I might just dial a bit on
Tone and eq of mids, T&B.
Im never far off but some sounds in a room speak better than others.
If i use the bridge pickup bias, i tend to keep the neck in there for depth so never 100% bridge
I might adjust the bass pot on the pre to suit as typically the bridge bias loses a bit of projection or volume.
The last thing you want is to be lost in knob twiddling.
I do mine mid song so you need to go to it instantly.
