Looking for that midrange punch....

[4 string mofo]

If the others think you're too loud and you still have the feeling you don't hear well yourself it's probably because you have too much lows in your tone.
Try cutting à bit the lows and if then you find your tone too trebly in the mix, play with your tone knob on your bass. Your sound will be more focused but still bassy.
The best tool you could use is a parametric eq to find the perfect frequencies to cut and boost. The ms-60b and zoom B3 are great affordable tools for that kind of stuff

thanks very much for the advice dude! il have a fiddle around when i gig tommorow!

 

[Scottkarch]

OK only read page 1... not much time at lunch.. so this may have been covered already. For a relatively inexpensive option that could be similar to the split rig, get a splitter, put a distortion pedal on one signal, run the second clean, run them both through an inexpensive mixer. Blend them together.. you could use the normal Low/Mid/High on the channels to drop the distorted lows and highs and have mainly mids... or put a small graphic EQ on one or both of the channels. ( don't plug your bass into the output of the distortion pedal, the drawing just flows better that way.

There are pedal sized 2 channel mixers too.. just googled and there are options. Even a volume like pedal that could be use to go back and forth between the dirty/clean input or 50/50. This isn't specifically midrange punch. That coul very well be cabinet and even the way you play. Your finger/pick style can make a giant difference in tone. Expeiment with that too. And that's free.

 

[davy4575]

Thanks for the tip my friend! btw have you heard about trace elliot lately? i heard they went into liquidation from one of the forums around here....

http://www.talkbass.com/threads/trace-elliot-is-done.1116684/ this one specifically

Not that I know of, but Trace has been through a few buyouts over the years.
I use a dual amp setup, both my build dates are from 1994, pre gibson era. My 1048 (410 ) cab is also from 94, My 1028H I bought new off the showroom floor back in 08 or so I think.
Granted, I have the Tech21 GT sansamp pedal and the MXR bass octave deluxe and the MXR Bass envelope filter as well, most of the tone is strings, bass, pick and the heads being EQ's the way they are. I have only mic'd my cabs once in the past few years.....you dont need the cab to get the sound at a show nor on record. I just use the direct outs from the Trace Heads.

Guess what Im trying to impart is before buying a bunch of new gear, Try some fresh stainless steels, (i prefer dean markley Blue Steels). A good sharp pick and play around with your eq(s) on your amp(s). You may be presently surprised.

i havent seen anyone write about the set up of the bass coming into play? will a lower action help better? i play mainly in E flat if that comes into play in any way?

I play in drop C# tuning on one of my basses. Its a pain in the arse, I leave the strings where they are, but to get the tone I like, i need to reduce some of the lows and spike the highs and a bit more around 1khz back in.