EQing to different rooms and volumes

[monkeyfinger]

You are referencing a Fender tone stack. Is that what the EQ model is on this amp? This tends to have somewhat scooped mids even at the flattest settings. With this eq model, the flattest setting is typically mids full, bass and treble almost completely counter-clockwise. The impact of the eq section will be affected by the gain stage. The filter section allows you to adjust bands relative to each other. Its designed to achieve musical results without a lot of effort. I think the less you think about it, the easier it is to use.

Here is the best explanation I've read about this type of eq.

 

[monkeyfinger]

BTW, I love the Fender tone stack model. However, I usually prefer to compliment it with a more precision style eq, such as a 3-5 band parametric.

 

[Wasnex]

You are referencing a Fender tone stack. Is that what the EQ model is on this amp? This tends to have somewhat scooped mids even at the flattest settings. With this eq model, the flattest setting is typically mids full, bass and treble almost completely counter-clockwise. The impact of the eq section will be affected by the gain stage. The filter section allows you to adjust bands relative to each other. Its designed to achieve musical results without a lot of effort. I think the less you think about it, the easier it is to use.

Here is the best explanation I've read about this type of eq.

Yes the bones look almost identical to a Fender tone stack. The component values of the capacitors, resistors, and potentiometers has a significant impact on the overall frequency contour and how interactive the controls are.

Again, this is the original TB tone stack. The current model may be somewhat diferent.

Fender AB763 tone stack

 

[GBassLondon]

Is the horn in your cab engaged? Is it distorting? Can you turn it off?

There’s a dial on the back for that. Have had it set in the middle but moving it seemed to make no difference to the sound whatsoever!

In response to later posts, it’s an original terror bass, not the later version with the clean switch

EDIT - another thing I’ve just thought of - the Eden cab is 8ohms, so I’m only getting 250w of the terror’s 500w. Does this maybe mean a lack of headroom and problems at volume?

 

[monkeyfinger]

You are probably driving it into distortion.

 

[themickster]

I play in a three piece, quite loud metalcore type stuff but quite precise too. We often end up in different practice rooms and I sometimes struggle to get the right bass sound.

The guitarist uses an amp profiler into a Headrush unit which always sounds pretty decent. He is very good indeed and very precise.

I play a jazz bass into a Seymour Duncan studio bass compressor, then through an Alpha Omega Ultra into an Orange Terror Bass head and an Eden 4x10 cab.

I have been trying to dial a tone I really like through the six band EQ on the AOU then adapting the three band EQ on the amp to the room but this doesn’t seem to work always. I tend to end up with too much treble, or too much boom or just not being able to hear it. Everything on the bass is on full.

My question is how would you adjust this rig when in a new room? We play loud (not my choice) and I am wondering if the EQ has to change loads at high volumes or something?

You can assume that I know what the different frequencies do and that I want to stay out of guitar frequencies etc. I’m more after how people would go about this in the room, not necessarily “ideal settings”.

the basic tone of the jazz is awesome so it’s not that I dislike it or anything.
Thanks!!

I go by this simple way