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Please rate my sound.
- Thread starter Birdland11
- Start date
- Oct 7, 2000
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- Endorsing artist: Musicman basses
Awesome. I like your tone very much. Maybe a bit too much high mids for my tastes, but it suits pretty well the song you're playing.
Also, are you using some kind of compression? Your part sounds very even, and that's very nice, just wanted to know if it's a compressor or just amazing technique.
Also, are you using some kind of compression? Your part sounds very even, and that's very nice, just wanted to know if it's a compressor or just amazing technique.
Good playing. Suits the song. But honestly, I don't care for the tone very much. Too much mid and not enough depth. I'm more into a Marcus Miller type of tone.
It's alright. But to give some comments it sounds very flat and not much sustain. I think you should try to make your sound more 'alive'. But I am not sure if you are going to get that with the bass you have. But not bad at all.
For my taste, it needs more on the bottom, and less above maybe 4k so the high notes don't get so twanky.
Sounds nice, kind of Stingray like bite with a bit of jazz bass mixed in. Nice playing too.
Randy
Randy
Hard for me to judge the tone without hearing in the mix with other instruments. Sounds good on its own though. Very well played!
Do you like it? I certainly wouldn't feel the need to start applying any corrective EQ or compression if I got that from the bass player at a job. Maybe I'd add a little low end, but it's hard to say from a Youtube clip and would depend on what the drummer had going on anyway. I'd probably just push the fader up and leave it at that. So yeah, sounds good to me.
Typically the other instruments mask a lot of the high end of your instrument.
So a bass tone that seems a little lacking in the low end when playing by itself sounds fine in a band context. And a sound that has plenty of lows by itself ends up totally muddy and indistinct when played along with the band.
So its hard to make that call from the clip. Sounds reasonable, in the ballpark to me. And sounds like you're shooting for a finger funky growly tone, not a round deep sound anyway.
Depends on your goals.
And I'm surprised its the neck pickup, it has the sort of bite I associate with a bridge pickup played closer to the bridge.
Randy
So a bass tone that seems a little lacking in the low end when playing by itself sounds fine in a band context. And a sound that has plenty of lows by itself ends up totally muddy and indistinct when played along with the band.
So its hard to make that call from the clip. Sounds reasonable, in the ballpark to me. And sounds like you're shooting for a finger funky growly tone, not a round deep sound anyway.
Depends on your goals.
And I'm surprised its the neck pickup, it has the sort of bite I associate with a bridge pickup played closer to the bridge.
Randy
