Cant get a good sound!!!

[donno32]

I just recently got a thunderfunk 550 to go with my aguilar db 210. I get the greatest tone in my room, but when i go out to rehearsal i cant for the life of me get a good tone. I have heard that a cubed room is the worst for acoustics especially bass and that an asymmetrical room is the ideal. Well my room is the perfect example of a cube shape and it sounds amazing, but in the rehearsal space is a huge asymetrical shape, ***!!!!!! Should i try elevating my 210 and if so on what? I know bass waves are bigger and thus have the possibility of skipping large areas, it can sound good in one area and sound dull in another. I assume i should try moving the cab around more, though i have moved in two places both resulting in the same sound, i have also tweaked the eq in both places but no luck, i mean i wouldnt have all day to tweak the sound at a real gig, do you think its just this room?

 

[moody]

It may be just as much what the rest of the band is doing as it is you!!

Also, if you have a big scooped mid sound then you are not going to sound good live - you need to up your mids.

 

[Purple Haze]

It may be just as much what the rest of the band is doing as it is you!!

Also, if you have a big scooped mid sound then you are not going to sound good live - you need to up your mids.

100% agree with this, a bass that sounds good solo (usually a mid scooped sound) easily gets lost in the mix live. Play around with boosting frequencies around 180hz-500hz and actually taking some of the bass out of your sound. This wont sound that great on its own, but in a band situation, youll punch right through.

Also if your guitarists are boosting the low freqs on their amps, and ur boosting the bass too, you're gonna get lost.

Watch this video, its marcus miller talking about his new premp. He explains what all the mid range frequencies do to your sound. Its a good videos for explaining what all the knobs do on an amp so watching it all wont do any harm, but the bit im talking about is at 5:30

 

[donno32]

Yeah iv seen the video already, the owners manuel for the t-550b is awesome and gives a really user friendly and informative way of going about tweaking the tone. But does anyone have any advice when it comes to elevating any cabs?

 

[JustOpenYourMind]

I just recently got a thunderfunk 550 to go with my aguilar db 210. I get the greatest tone in my room, but when i go out to rehearsal i cant for the life of me get a good tone. I have heard that a cubed room is the worst for acoustics especially bass and that an asymmetrical room is the ideal. Well my room is the perfect example of a cube shape and it sounds amazing, but in the rehearsal space is a huge asymetrical shape, ***!!!!!! Should i try elevating my 210 and if so on what? I know bass waves are bigger and thus have the possibility of skipping large areas, it can sound good in one area and sound dull in another. I assume i should try moving the cab around more, though i have moved in two places both resulting in the same sound, i have also tweaked the eq in both places but no luck, i mean i wouldnt have all day to tweak the sound at a real gig, do you think its just this room?

What kind of tone are you looking to acheive? If you like big chest pounding bass, I'm sure you can get it in a small room with your two tens. But in a bigger room with drums and guitars you'll surely be heard but there's limits to what a small 2x10 cab can do as far as pushing low bass.

Can you please describe what is happening to your sound that you don't like?

One last thing, raising your cab will help you hear yourself but you'll loose floor coupling, that means loosing bass in your sound.