Genz-Benz Streamliner Part 5

[bdplaid]

Yeah, what's next? The great sitar revival?

That would be fretless with guitar strings.

 

[Eublet]

Boosting 2.5 really gives it more of that rock grind than what a tone purist might be used to.

Just to be clear, what I'm suggesting folks try is REALLY cranking the 2.5khz control to around 2 or 3 o'clock, maybe even higher. It'll be really present up top, so that's why you'll want to leave the bass at noon I'd think...to balance it out. Boosting the upper mids that much will really cause the lower-highs to boost as well, so dial the treble back control considerably to 10 o'clock, maybe 9. This will remove the glass off the top, but it'll also help pull the frequencies to the right of the 2.5k boost back down, so you'll wind up with more boost on the left side of that center. If you have an EQ on your bass, boosting low mids a touch will really finish this tone off for a J bass.

 

[vision]

Yeah, this means that Jason, Jason, myself, and some others are in alignment on this, and differ from you.

In short, just means you're wrong. Now go stand in the corner and be quiet or we'll make you wear the hat.

To be clear, Vision (Jason) didn't dig it much either with his LM. It is just a different thing that some will like and other's won't. No big deal, and there are many different J tones.

+1...When we were dialing it in I had to ask Ken a couple times to boost the upper mids, and I still felt like I was missing something. Even when listening to the clip he posted I don't hear the upper mid bite that I'm used to getting with my LM5. But it KILLS with the P bass.

 

[hasbeen]

I'm still trying to get somebody to try my "fat J" setting: dime the bass, dime the 220 mids, treble at noon.

 

[smeet]

I'm still trying to get somebody to try my "fat J" setting: dime the bass, dime the 220 mids, treble at noon.

I tried that yesterday alone in my practice room, and I was very pleasantly surprised. It was fat and lo-middy but not too bassy. I'll have to try that with a band.

 

[Eublet]

I'm still trying to get somebody to try my "fat J" setting: dime the bass, dime the 220 mids, treble at noon.

I haven't been able to try it on a mix yet, but I did give it a go. Not boomy at all like I would have expected. I could see that working very well in a lot of settings. Reminded me of the tone that I hear on a lot of Cake tunes. Thick, deep, with a lot of punch and a relaxed top and upper mid. It seems to work well with rolling toward the bridge pickup a good bit without loosing any meat.

 

[Gab124]

I'm still trying to get somebody to try my "fat J" setting: dime the bass, dime the 220 mids, treble at noon.

Wow - I just tried that. I would have never thought to dime both of those, goes against all TB eq rules!
I could use that, weird though, I was just thinking of converting my jazz from passive to active and this setting may have changed my mind. Not sure I can use it with flats as that is maybe too much, but with some fresh rounds could be fun

 

[svtb15]

I actually did that on a gig this week after sharing my SL with a buddy last week.
Im not afraid to EQ or twist knobs to experiment.. It will move air , and the guys in some pick up gigs that i do when home love that.air...

I'm still trying to get somebody to try my "fat J" setting: dime the bass, dime the 220 mids, treble at noon.

 

[Vic]

I'm still just a little bit in shock to read such a sentence coming from Ken...

Yeah, you ain't the only one diggin' that flip. And I still say I was the one that called it, way back when.

 

[Kelly Lee]

Continued here: http://www.talkbass.com/forum/f15/genz-benz-streamliner-part-6-a-754440/#post10645559