Music Man tone?????

[Birdland11]

im so overwhelmed with this preamp in the music man...this is how i like it to sound.I would like thoughts, ideas, and suggestions...Also sometimes i cant tell the difference between certain settings and people tell me im crazy, so, any music man pros wanna guess what my settings are? thanks so much........

 

[Winnb]

Just play fingerstyle closer to your bridge. Notice how the player has his thumb on the bridge pickup? The closer you play towards the bridge the more you'll get that "baby fart" tone.

 

[Birdland11]

that is me playing, my question is Does it sound good?

 

[Emm9T]

Sounds great, and now I totally have to learn that song on my puny Jazz bass. Yer doin' it right!

 

[Birdland11]

Thanks Dude.. I go back and forth....sometimes live its different

 

[Winnb]

that is me playing, my question is Does it sound good?

Yep, it sounds good. I like like it too. Sometimes. You can get it even ummm "gnarlier" by rolling off the very lowest frequencies and the very highest. But that's on a jazz bass with single coils. So might be different for you.

Nice work!

 

[Birdland11]

Thanks ill try that!

 

[delucajohn2000]

Excellent playing!!! Is that a Stingray you are playing and, if so, is that the Stealth paint job? Forgive my ignorance if I am wrong but I didn't get to see the head stock so it is tough to tell for me.

 

[Birdland11]

yup its the stingray hh.... thanks

 

[Bassmingo]

From my iPhone speaker it sounds like a 3eq with the treble and mid boosted slightly and the bass cut slightly. Am I close? I'm the wrong guy to ask, I habitually max my bass and mid and add treble to taste \m/

 

[Birdland11]

close....just bridge pickup, all three knobs maxed..sansamp bass driver..but its not on

 

[Birdland11]

tried cutting bass and treble a bit. i like it, i still gotta tweak it more... thanks

 

[Birdland11]

The best is still maxing them all out

 

[bottomzone]

It doesn't sound good.....it sounds great!

A Groove is a Terrible Thing to Waste!

 

[Birdland11]

Thank You

 

[keko]

Nice playing, ...typical Musicman alnico sweetspot bridge paralel pickup tone, ...but the same result is possible with flat EQ and just rise up gain on the preamp, or recording unit You use!

Maxing all tone knobs is the way I don't prefer as sound engineer, ..but OK Your choice!

 

[Dave W]

It sounds great and that some nice playing!

Is there something you don't like about the tone?

 

[keko]

It sounds great and that some nice playing!

Is there something you don't like about the tone?

Well, ...actually, ...as long as sounds good, everything is OK!

Just sayin' ...about that maxing tone control bass preamp knobs, ...it's not technically right, when You do that, You actually only rise up overall volume with two barely noticeable non wide scoops between bass/middle and middle/treble frequencies...etc.
So, ...maxing all 3 tone controls practically don't change original flat tone of pickup/bass, just rise volume and add unnecessary noise of active filters, that's the main problem! Another problem is increase of battery power loss, so as possible reaching of upper voltage bandwidth of preamp, that means possible slight distortion in the output signal!

But, ...as I wrote above, ..as long as sounds good for Ya... just play Your way!

P.S. ...Sorry for possible bad English (my non native) ...but electronic guys will understand what I'm talkin' 'bout!

 

[Birdland11]

Thanks.. I do seem to change batteries more often than other people.......but nothing matches the sound

 

[Birdland11]

Does anyone know how often you should change the battery??