In my current power trio rock project, it became evident that I will fill the bottom & top end and leave the mids to the guitar player. May be unusual for some, but that's the result of our tonal experiments.
I know that StingRay's are fit for this purpose, so I went to the shop to try some. The Classic they had was good, but had a bad E-string with fluctuating intonation across the board; which didn't get better in spite of the local Luthier spending almost 2 hours on it - lowering the pickup, re-installing saddles, changing strings, doing setup and whatnot. Weird.
Meanwhile, I played and fell in love with the Old Smoothie; which has the StingRay DNA with a little less aggression. That matches my taste and works wonderfully for the scooped sound I was aiming for; especially with overdrive.
So here I am, with yet another NBD post!
I have a question for StingRay experts though:
If I need more mids for an alternative style of music (jazz, blues, classic rock); I figured that I can do that by keeping the onboard bass & treble close to 50% (adjusting to taste) and boosting 450Hz & 900Hz slightly on my EQ pedal. Does that seem OK to you, or do you have any further suggestions?
It obviously doesn't sound like a P-Bass or something, but occupies a similar frequency range - if I'm not mistaken.
For those who have read so far, here is some eye-candy.
I know that StingRay's are fit for this purpose, so I went to the shop to try some. The Classic they had was good, but had a bad E-string with fluctuating intonation across the board; which didn't get better in spite of the local Luthier spending almost 2 hours on it - lowering the pickup, re-installing saddles, changing strings, doing setup and whatnot. Weird.
Meanwhile, I played and fell in love with the Old Smoothie; which has the StingRay DNA with a little less aggression. That matches my taste and works wonderfully for the scooped sound I was aiming for; especially with overdrive.
So here I am, with yet another NBD post!
I have a question for StingRay experts though:
If I need more mids for an alternative style of music (jazz, blues, classic rock); I figured that I can do that by keeping the onboard bass & treble close to 50% (adjusting to taste) and boosting 450Hz & 900Hz slightly on my EQ pedal. Does that seem OK to you, or do you have any further suggestions? It obviously doesn't sound like a P-Bass or something, but occupies a similar frequency range - if I'm not mistaken.
For those who have read so far, here is some eye-candy.
