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Episode 88: S/D thread - No Hope
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After how many months of wondering why I was using such weird EQ settings on my Terror Bass compared to the EQ settings I liked on the GK 800RB I just found out flat is Treble 2 Mids 10 and Bass 2. Why I didn't assume that after owning the Traynor YBA200 is beyond me. No mention of it in the manual didn't help either. Thought sharing my stupidity would elicit some joy on here 
Love the Hardwire Reverb, thought I was going to have to A/B a bunch of reverb pedals but seems a keeper right off the bat.
51/Tele P bass body seems to have the proper amount of coats of tru oil and ready for final polish and waxing. Time to slap that sum bich together.
Found a unfinished jazz bass body that doesn't need a pickguard that JMac is re-routing the pickup routes to Gibson Thunderbird shape for me so I can use those USA TBird pups I landed. So jazz bass body, TBird pups, and Fender maple neck with black block inlays, pretty stoked about that.
Sorry for the long boring post
Love the Hardwire Reverb, thought I was going to have to A/B a bunch of reverb pedals but seems a keeper right off the bat.
51/Tele P bass body seems to have the proper amount of coats of tru oil and ready for final polish and waxing. Time to slap that sum bich together.
Found a unfinished jazz bass body that doesn't need a pickguard that JMac is re-routing the pickup routes to Gibson Thunderbird shape for me so I can use those USA TBird pups I landed. So jazz bass body, TBird pups, and Fender maple neck with black block inlays, pretty stoked about that.
Sorry for the long boring post
After how many months of wondering why I was using such weird EQ settings on my Terror Bass compared to the EQ settings I liked on the GK 800RB I just found out flat is Treble 2 Mids 10 and Bass 2. Why I didn't assume that after owning the Traynor YBA200 is beyond me. No mention of it in the manual didn't help either. Thought sharing my stupidity would elicit some joy on here
Love the Hardwire Reverb, thought I was going to have to A/B a bunch of reverb pedals but seems a keeper right off the bat.
51/Tele P bass body seems to have the proper amount of coats of tru oil and ready for final polish and waxing. Time to slap that sum bich together.
Found a unfinished jazz bass body that doesn't need a pickguard that JMac is re-routing the pickup routes to Gibson Thunderbird shape for me so I can use those USA TBird pups I landed. So jazz bass body, TBird pups, and Fender maple neck with black block inlays, pretty stoked about that.
Sorry for the long boring post
Oh, you have that tone stack. My Hartke has the same thing. Pretty much never move the mids off of 10. A lot of people don't care for it, but it sounds alright to me - meaning that I don't notice any scooping going on with the mids knob at ten.
While we're on the topic of metal basses, this looks interesting:
http://www.talkbass.com/forum/f8/billet-aluminum-p-body-bass-1064074/
http://www.talkbass.com/forum/f8/billet-aluminum-p-body-bass-1064074/
Yeah I scoop the mids for guitar some. I really dig how the treble even dimed isn't too harsh. Push the treble, cut the mids some, and leave the bass flat and add the reverb pedal and I get a very usuable guitar amp out of the Terror too.
father of fires
Commercial User
I love to scoop my mids but only because they sound nasty to me. If I don't need to cut mids its usually because the bass or pedals do it for me already.
I don't know how some of you guys pull it off.
I don't know how some of you guys pull it off.
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Oh man I wish I could of got a picture of this. Was at Wendy's and one of the guys there had a bunch of tattoos and on the top of his hand he a big 69, how cheesy is that, and he was no Ladie's Man either. Nice creeper tattoo buddy! Oh it's the little things in life that give me huge pleasure, cheesy tattoos and lazy eyes can put a happy spin on any day!
Check out my guitarist's new bartione:
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Guess I'm gonna have to restring the P for B tuning haha.
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Guess I'm gonna have to restring the P for B tuning haha.
ROFLMAO I didn'tlove even think of that, he did say hi to me and he wasn't even working the register, I must be more careful I do make Chubby look good jk jk
Like Brian Cook's fretboard emblem on his custom First Act baritone guitar LOL.
Well, my guitar player likes to scoop so I figure somebody needs to use that frequency space. I think it sounds great - the fuzz/od/distortion that I'm using is right up front in the mix, while still having lots of low end underneath.
It's really shocking how noticeable the difference when my guitar player decides to add or remove mids. I talked him into adding more a few months ago and it really helped him be more present in the mix, noticeably so. Then his roommate was showing him some scooped tones that he uses for recording that I guess sounded really heavy so he's back to scooping - and subsequently disappearing in the mix.
I even turned down my amp to compensate a little, as all I could hear was my bass and drums - still got asked if I had it louder than I usually do, because dude couldn't hear himself. He was a little miffed when I told him that the bass was actually quieter than normal.
I "scoop" my mids on my amp but my bass has huge mid presence. There are still plenty of mids in my overall tone. One of the minor issues I've been having is I can't quite hit the mids sweet spot. Either the mids are too high and I enter angry bees territory (although it still sounds great in the mix) or the mids are too low and the bass doesn't sound very present.
That's the main reason why I want to try out a tube amp. I think that will help me there.
That's the main reason why I want to try out a tube amp. I think that will help me there.
father of fires
Commercial User
We played with Marching Teeth a few weeks back and the bass player had the hive of bees thing going with his Fulltone Bassdrive into a Terror Bass but in the mix it sounded so amazing.
That **** never works for me.
It doesn't help that these sausages on my hands are the world's biggest mid-boosts.
That **** never works for me.
It doesn't help that these sausages on my hands are the world's biggest mid-boosts.
I had a moment of panic when we went to record last week. Lately I always hate my tone when I play my rig by itself. I plugged in and started playing to get levels and was like oh my god why does that sound so terrible. But it was my normal settings. Tracked my lines, went and listened to it through the monitors, and it sounded monstrous. I don't really get that, but whatever haha.
