Loud noise from fingers hitting strings

[ChuckTrucks]

When you are playing aggressive or fast or whatever you are hitting the string with the meat of your fingertip resulting in said thud. Instead of doing that, pluck the string with the tip of your finger. Like everyone has said here slow down before you speed up.

Your level of input gain is also going to have an effect on your fingerstyle dynamics. If you have too much gain then when your fingers touch the strings your going to hear string+fret+thud more often.

One time when I was younger I was playing with some heavy rock guys and they wanted me to get a really warm, flat sound and just play very aggressive (sloppy). Sounded like crap to me by myself but under the band it sounded awesome (I was told).

If I wanna play really fast and get a smooth bass tone Ill use my P bass and roll off half of the treble.

If I wanna play really fast and get a more bouncy tone Ill play a J bass with all knobs at 10.

 

[kattus]

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[mcnach]

Here is example of what kind of noise fingers cause when hitting strings, see attachment.

Too loud.

Nothing wrong with the bass, just your finger technique could be rather more refined.
I suggest you find a teacher in your area and talk to him about it. He should be able to give you some hints to help you improve. It's just too hard to explain in writing.

 

[DrJKO]

About that some of your fingers might sound treblier than the others could be because they are not equally strong so you pluck harder/softer unconsciously with your fingers.

I am practicing this ----->

I set my metronome about 95bpm playing quarter notes first of with my index and ring finger four strokes per string (going from the G-string to the B-string, I've got a 5-string), alternating between those finger obviously and using "rake"-technique

Then I continue at the same bpm but this time going from the G-string to the A, to the D, to the E etc....

I do this excercise until I've reached about 115bpm then I skip to doing the same thing but now with my middle-finger and ring-finger. Finally I do this with all three fingers.

I know that not everyone is using the three finger technique at all or at least not like this.

What bpm you should be doing this at depends of course on how hard you think it is, the plucks of all fingers should sound fairly equal to each other before you speed things up.

Hope that you've found my post helpfull !