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need help with big muff? ;-)

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kontraban123

Nov 11, 2008
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hey,

I'm having a bit of a problem at the moment with my Big Muff pedal and could do with some suggestions.

I'm running it with a Sansamp Bass Driver and when i play on my own I have found the perfect distortion sound for me but while at a soundcheck recently I stepped out from the stage to have a listen through the PA and with the big muff running I lost an awful lot of my bottom end, enough to really notice the difference. Coming from my cab this pedal sounds amazing and doesnt lose any of the bottom end but DI'd out of my amp and mixed in with the whole band is where the problem is. any thoughts?
 
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kontraban123 said:
hey,

I'm having a bit of a problem at the moment with my Big Muff pedal and could do with some suggestions.

I'm running it with a Sansamp Bass Driver and when i play on my own I have found the perfect distortion sound for me but while at a soundcheck recently I stepped out from the stage to have a listen through the PA and with the big muff running I lost an awful lot of my bottom end, enough to really notice the difference. Coming from my cab this pedal sounds amazing and doesnt lose any of the bottom end but DI'd out of my amp and mixed in with the whole band is where the problem is. any thoughts?
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Get a blend pedal.
 
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kontraban123 said:
I'm running it with a Sansamp Bass Driver and when i play on my own I have found the perfect distortion sound for me but while at a soundcheck recently I stepped out from the stage to have a listen through the PA and with the big muff running I lost an awful lot of my bottom end, enough to really notice the difference.
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You sure it's bottom end specifically, or your presence in the mix overall? Given the SansAmp/Muff combo you're running, I'd suspect it may be a mids issue.

BTW, what Big Muff do you have?

kontraban123 said:
Coming from my cab this pedal sounds amazing and doesnt lose any of the bottom end but DI'd out of my amp and mixed in with the whole band is where the problem is. any thoughts?
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Have you had this issue at other venues? It might be how the engineer mixed it, or simply how a DI output doesn't sound like a miked cab.

What you hear up-close, at any rate, isn't a good indication of what you'll sound like in a live mix by any means, regardless of PA support. Even if you can easily hear yourself when next to your rig in a live scenario, it doesn't mean the audience can hear you as well, or that you'll have sufficient presence in a PA mix. Have you tried doing soundchecks during practice, as far from your rig (and the band) as you can get?
 
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MysticBoo said:
You sure it's bottom end specifically, or your presence in the mix overall? Given the SansAmp/Muff combo you're running, I'd suspect it may be a mids issue.
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Beat me to it. Both of those pedals cut mids significantly and your mids are the key to cutting through a mix.

A really scooped sound, either EQ'd that way (for slap or metal tones) or because of gain pedals can sound great in the bedroom, but it's often completely swallowed up onstage.
 

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