Bass tone help......need thicker & smoother

[Mo'Phat]

Did you ever think...maybe God doesn't want you to have ungodly bass tone?

 

[bass4worship]

how are you connecting the Sansamp to your rig?
so far I prefer the LMII w/o the Sansamp........but I guess I need more time

thanks!!

I go thur the Sansamp first then to my BX500 input which I keep on active. I'm telling you once you use one you'll love the warm tone it give to the sound...

 

[bass4worship]

Check it out on You-tube under rskin95 in the seach box.

 

[David Jayne]

Another point, the room may be such that where you are listening for more girth you are standing in a cancellation node of those frequencies and its nothing to do with your rig at all.

In which case move

Try listening to the PA playback of some full range material, if the bass is quiet in the same physical place in the room then it may well be out of your control. All you can do is keep moving the cab around to see if there is some way of defeating the issue, chances are ther isnt.

+1 to all of this. There is no such thing as 'throw,' so lose that concept pronto. There IS such at thing as 'cancellation,' as 51m0n said, which is ALL about the room. Chances are, you will simply have to crank up the low end to compensate for it, and live with the boomy close-in tone.
But try this if you haven't already: tip the cab so it's pointing directly at your head, or as close to this as possible. This way, you will find that the mids and highs appear stronger, and to compensate, you will reduce them or increase the bass.......which will then be heard better out front.

 

[62Start]

Not all flatwounds are the same. I like "chromes' by d'ardaggio (sp?). d' ardaggio also makes ground rounds (aka half rounds) which I play most of the time as you can switch to the neck pickup turn down the tone and get a fat tone very like a good flat wound. As someone said previously, you can also adjust the tone by where on the string you pluck it.

I don't think using a mute will get you there. I use a mute to better seperate notes and avoid string noise on rapid note changes. Sustain is not always good.

I would bet 90% of the people on this forum don't own a bass with a mute installed.

 

[Joe Smithberger]

+1 to all of this. There is no such thing as 'throw,' so lose that concept pronto. There IS such at thing as 'cancellation,' as 51m0n said, which is ALL about the room. Chances are, you will simply have to crank up the low end to compensate for it, and live with the boomy close-in tone.
But try this if you haven't already: tip the cab so it's pointing directly at your head, or as close to this as possible. This way, you will find that the mids and highs appear stronger, and to compensate, you will reduce them or increase the bass.......which will then be heard better out front.

Good stuff here.

 

[Whitbass]

I go thur the Sansamp first then to my BX500 input which I keep on active. I'm telling you once you use one you'll love the warm tone it give to the sound...

I own one which is for sale, but I am revisiting it again based on these recommendations.
we'll see my friend

 

[Whitbass]

Did you ever think...maybe God doesn't want you to have ungodly bass tone?

that's a pretty low down thing for you to say.........pun intended of course
hopefully, if use it for HIM, he will allow it though......

 

[Whitbass]

+1 to all of this. There is no such thing as 'throw,' so lose that concept pronto. There IS such at thing as 'cancellation,' as 51m0n said, which is ALL about the room. Chances are, you will simply have to crank up the low end to compensate for it, and live with the boomy close-in tone.
But try this if you haven't already: tip the cab so it's pointing directly at your head, or as close to this as possible. This way, you will find that the mids and highs appear stronger, and to compensate, you will reduce them or increase the bass.......which will then be heard better out front.

will give it a try....