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bass too loud?!!!

#21
Yeah, it's really important to have someone with good ears out in the audience. It might be a soundman, or it might just be a groupie. But it has to be someone that everyone in the band respects and pays attention to. Ideally someone who's "not" in the band (so there won't be any potential conflicts of interest).

My other 2c worth, is, what about monitors? I've played with plenty of guitar players that use monitors, they're usually at ear level (or close). I use bass monitors at big gigs, 'cause I need to hear my high end to "really" hear what I'm doing, and that can be difficult against a loud rock drummer and a couple of Marshall stacks.
 
#24
I have heard those words for too many years (DUDE TURN DOWN SOME) I need volume so I can feel it in my strings! Last week I took a chance and bought a peavey TKO 130 with a black widow 15" I put in front of me on it's side and angle it at my face like a moniter and I turn my amp down for the whimps. My main amp is an Ampeg B4R bridged mono into a svt 6-10 cab so it can loosen ones bowls if I'm not carefull with the old volume knob. Anyway It has been the best 100 dollar investment in my set up I ever made. I can hear myself perfectly now and I don't blast anyone else out. Funny thig is the Peavey souds damn good go figure. Now if I could just get the rest of the band to turn me up in our recordings.:p
 
#26
Tell the puttz to stand in front of the band away from the on stage sound when soundchecking. Depends on what specifically is loud. Is it the sub, or Overall volume? too bitey??? ask him specifically what is it that is the problem. Sometimes subs created by bass cabinets can take off on stage, but it could sound like a good fashioned "wah wah wah,:bawl: I want to be the centre of attention. Normally, guitarists are too loud, and singers have too scream their boobies of to get over the volume of the guitar. Typical guitar/singer ego poop. If he cant explain in a logical manner his dispute, tell princess to dry his eyes:bawl:
 
#27
It seems that a lot of non rythym section players are anal and just dont get it. The bass is too loud, you doing to many cymbal crashes, dont do all those bass runs there, dude who do you think you are you Les Claypool? or John Bonnam to the drummers out there? They are just upset that they will be upstaged. Just tell then to shut the hay up and worry about thier instrument. Its all about the mix anyway, not about one instrument! :bassist:
 
#30
Gday ben jammin. the guitarist has to justify to you why you are too loud. The guitarist probably cant hear himself because he doesnt know how to get a clean sound himself, as in eq settings. Too much sub on stage is a big reason for people turning up. Onstage sound needs mids otherwise it can be mud. I know for a fact that the sound I use when I practice at home is definately not the sound I play with live in a band situation. So it either gets delt with now or it gets progressively painful. the longer it is not resolved the more damage gets done with the band as a unit :cool:
 
#31
i remind him that we are a bass band, not a guitar band. then i point out that by turning him up we would be highlighting our greatest weakness.
that shuts him up til the next gig.
Ben Jammin' said:
what do you do when a guitarist in your band tells you to turn your bass down a lot?
If I went as quiet as he wants me to you could hardly hear me, which is silly as he needs me otherwise his playing goes haywire.

Competent bassists should be allowed to play alongside guitars, not beneath them!!!!!1
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#33
puttz buster said:
Gday ben jammin. the guitarist has to justify to you why you are too loud. The guitarist probably cant hear himself because he doesnt know how to get a clean sound himself, as in eq settings. Too much sub on stage is a big reason for people turning up. Onstage sound needs mids otherwise it can be mud. I know for a fact that the sound I use when I practice at home is definately not the sound I play with live in a band situation. So it either gets delt with now or it gets progressively painful. the longer it is not resolved the more damage gets done with the band as a unit :cool:
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Yup when the guitar and bass start sharing too many frequencies it equals mud.
 

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