My Gross Bass Tone

[Iamthelampshade]

Incidentally, an EQ story; in my first gigging band, the BL/guitarist once asked if I minded if he fiddled with my EQ. He had a lot more experience than me, and was polite enough to ask first, so I said sure. He tinkered a while and basically wound up scooping my mids. I had been using a setting of about 7-7-4 (out of 10), he changed it to like 9-2-7. Sounded great in the practice room.
Our next gig after that, I'm using his settings, we start playing the first song, and he calls over to me, "Can you turn down?" Turn down? My master volume is barely at 3 or 4. Shouldn't be all that loud. "Yeah, it sounds really BOOMY!" Boomy. Huh, boomy. So I go to my EQ, leave the volume untouched, and put my settings back at 7-7-4. "How's that?" "GREAT! Much better!"

Yeah my guitarist likes to take all the low mids and I like Grind in my tone but in sections where the guitar and drums break, My tone sounds like If the speakers smoked for 25 years.

 

[Dennis Smith]

Yeah my guitarist likes to take all the low mids and I like Grind in my tone but in sections where the guitar and drums break, My tone sounds like If the speakers smoked for 25 years.

Are you playing Doom or Stoner type rock?

 

[Iamthelampshade]

Are you playing Doom or Stoner type rock?

I'm playing something weird. We're like pantera (in a way as we use the same sort of modes and characteristics they would have in their songs) and we just got a vocalist that sounds exactly like Chris Cornell. I posted a separate update to this post on how My new vocalist fixed this by taking his Lower freq. away.

 

[Dennis Smith]

I play bass in a Black Sabbath tribute. My guitarist is also very loud and 'grindy'..... Sometimes your ear can decieve you, where you think your not cutting thru but you really are. Not sure what kind of gear your using.