One knob... I like it.

[Verb the Noun]

Me too!
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Immediate thought: "***? GAS got the best of THIS dude, what a sucker!!!!!"

Then I notice the still growing pile of Mesa gear in the corner of my room with redundant amps. *cough* As you were.....

 

[Verb the Noun]

I'm not a knob twiddler. I set them and leave them. Some players do like turning knobs. I think that some of that is nerves. It gives them something to do while turning away from the audience.

I'm a set it and forget it guy as well. Boomy room? Volume down has always done the trick for me, but I admire players who can "EQ for the room" by finding the offending frequency and eliminating it.

 

[Sparky Mark]

Immediate thought: "***? GAS got the best of THIS dude, what a sucker!!!!!"

Then I notice the still growing pile of Mesa gear in the corner of my room with redundant amps. *cough* As you were.....

Yep, it's easily done.

 

[SJan3]

I'd love to have a SS bass head with one knob, namely the "gain" for volume, the master function dimed, as I go for a clean tone.

EQ set to flat, maybe down a little on the lowest frequencies so my B always rings out like the others...

A touch of compression in place, I don't tend much towards dynamics...

That's how I work my head now, everything stays the same but my Gain knob, no pedals, I just use whatever controls are on whichever bass I'm playing, and adjust finger positioning to vary the tone.
That's called a power amp.
I was literally looking at my heads (I have two same heads only difference being watts) and thinking of making a new cover plate eliminating all but the Gain and the input jacks (on/off switch is in the rear).

I just think it would look cool... weird looks cool to me.

What more do y'all need?

 

[Marko 1]

I'm a set it and forget it guy as well. Boomy room? Volume down has always done the trick for me, but I admire players who can "EQ for the room" by finding the offending frequency and eliminating it.

Maybe a HPF would take care of that,

incorporated into the amp, always on, of course,

so it's not a knob.

 

[badinage]

Y'all all just got's the wrong knobs...

 

[badinage]

But if it's gotta be ONE, I'll go for this one:

 

[BlueRock]

27015272[/URL], member: 329920"]I'm a set it and forget it guy as well. Boomy room? Volume down has always done the trick for me, but I admire players who can "EQ for the room" by finding the offending frequency and eliminating it.

Where I went wrong for years was thinking I could find that one frequency to eliminate the problem but mostly just ended up gutting my sound. Then a great audio engineer told me to lighten the hell up and stop trying to completely carve some imaginary magic frequency that would somehow solve all my problems. He gave me a live mic and let me play with a 31 band 1/3 octave graph in a monitor to hear what different frequencies sound like feeding back. That upped my game. I simply couldn't use a parametric EQ very effectively until I could hear frequencies and name them.

Later getting a HPF also upped my game. It's about as idiot-proof as an EQ device gets and man can cleaning up the inaudible junk lows ever make a difference. More low mid clarity and the amp isn't working as hard trying to make the speaker reproduce frequencies it can't and that you didn't want to hear even if it could. And a HPF only has one knob which makes my dumb ass very happy.

 

[SteC]

After much pondering and procrastination at work:
- 1 volume knob with a range from "(shh) - LOUD" with 11 notches. bonus points for more visible notches within the range

- 1 mute flipy switch

- 1 3-way flippy switch labeled "BLEH / UMPH / MOAR" - no EQ boosts, smiley curve EQ, +6db boost to all points

What if: no knobs. Just 11 big switches in a line, each one you flip increases volume by 1. The first one doubles as the on/off