Effect to reduce string noise

[Bemo]

I'm working on a piece with a lot of position shifting and want an effect that will reduce the "zzzzzzzip" of my fingers on the strings as I move them.

Would this be a compressor/limiter? or just a plain compressor? or perhaps a gate of some sort.

What would be a good inexpensive effect to get and would I put it in front of the amp or in the loop?

I'm playing active P/Us into an Ampeg BA-210 with the scrambler circuit off if that makes any difference.

 

[two fingers]

String zing is usually pretty high frequency. An adjustable LPF should help.

 

[btmpancake]

You may want to look at usings flat-wound strings, probably a cheap set to start out.

 

[Blue Swede]

String zing is usually pretty high frequency. An adjustable LPF should help.

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Alternative option: turn down your passive tone control (if you have one) until it is an acceptable level to your ears.

 

[BasementWarrior]

Eq pedal should do the trick. Finger noise is in the 1K-3K range.

 

[BrentSimons]

I'm working on a piece with a lot of position shifting and want an effect that will reduce the "zzzzzzzip" of my fingers on the strings as I move them.

Would this be a compressor/limiter? or just a plain compressor? or perhaps a gate of some sort.

What would be a good inexpensive effect to get and would I put it in front of the amp or in the loop?

I'm playing active P/Us into an Ampeg BA-210 with the scrambler circuit off if that makes any difference.

A slice of pepperoni pizza before you play.






Perhaps a cut around 1K-4k or higher?

 

[ahc]

A slice of pepperoni pizza before you play.

Or this...

 

[buldog5151bass]

Work on your technique, rather than rely on a crutch. It's something that anyone who uses round wound strings has to work on.

 

[StatesideRambler]

You won’t find a pedal or rack effect that will replace practice. The pitches of finger squeaking on strings are in the midrange and anything that filters out those pitches will negatively affect the bass’ sound. The only equipment solution is flatwound strings.

 

[gln1955]

You may want to look at usings flat-wound strings, probably a cheap set to start out.

Pressure wound or ground wound strings will keep more of the brightness of round wounds but still decrease finger noise.

 

[Cutter8]

I would focus on technique and consider trying flats, half-rounds or pressure-wounds rather than looking to mask the string noise, but I'm certainly no expert!

 

[Seashore]

A compressor would likely do the opposite of what you want, and a gate wouldn't be able to cut out string noise without chopping off a ton of what you need. I have cut it out by hand in recordings when it's particularly annoying, but the only solution I've found for live string noise is to actually get your fingers up off the strings while you're moving around.

 

[zoonose]

Fuzz. String noise won't be an issue.

 

[Pdaddy1978]

This is as good a place as any for me to say this....
I like the string noise...
I've had this discussion with other musicians, but I kinda like hearing those sounds between notes. Some players seem to leave more of it in on recordings. Phil Lesh for example.
I like to call it " hearing their fingers".
Maybe it's because I'm a bass player, but even to a layman it says " this is being played on a bass guitar ".
I wouldn't want it to be so prominent as to be distracting....but without it, it might as well be a synth...right?

 

[1bassleft]

Fuzz. String noise won't be an issue.

Depending on the string, I stroke the plectrum across between 1/500th and 1/2000th of a second before making a move with the fretting hand. Not so good when I'm off with the timing, though.

 

[BarfanyShart]

You don't ever touch your tone knob, do you? Cuz if you do, that's your first mistake, you're not actually supposed to use that. Weird that they still put them on basses ... confusing.

 

[RoketRdr]

String zing is usually pretty high frequency. An adjustable LPF should help.

What he said. Get a LPF and set it around 5kHz.

 

[Kipp Harrington]

Work on your technique, rather than rely on a crutch. It's something that anyone who uses round wound strings has to work on.
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This

 

[DavC]

GHS PressureWound strings ..!

or Roto Monel 77

 

[Tim Skaggs]

I'm working on a piece with a lot of position shifting and want an effect that will reduce the "zzzzzzzip" of my fingers on the strings as I move them.

Would this be a compressor/limiter? or just a plain compressor? or perhaps a gate of some sort.

What would be a good inexpensive effect to get and would I put it in front of the amp or in the loop?

I'm playing active P/Us into an Ampeg BA-210 with the scrambler circuit off if that makes any difference.

Turning the tweeter off will help a ton.