So many places to adjust EQ!

[Nuage420]

Where do you guys adjust your EQ?

 

[Zephrant]

On the amp for the set, minor tweaks on the bass if desired during the set.

When I picked my lass bass out, I wanted an active EQ on it. Turns out I don't really adjust it much at all.

But extra knobs must make it sound better, right?

 

[20db pad]

Almost always set the amp flat and just leave it be, unless the room is really weird acoustically. After that, I'll do some minor EQ stuff on the bass during the set.

 

[BazzTard]

Amp flat.

Three EQs preset on my Sansamp PBDDI

Use the P's tone to go from Geddy trebly to Jamerson smooth annd warm. Amazing range just from the P's tone knob.

 

[Dogbertday]

The EQs on my Eden wtdi and my little Mark III behave differently, so there's that.

For the most part I do it o. The amp first and adjust my tone knob or wtdi as needed. My tone changes from gig to gig depending on my mood sometimes so the always flat approach (though a very good one) isn't always my bag.

 

[morgansterne]

I like to set amp eq with as big of a mid boost as I can stand for the room. Then from song to song I adjust on the bass. I play (most often) a jazz with two tone knobs but mostly I adjust the volumes of the pickups to get what I'm after, leaving the tone knobs up full.

 

[Nuage420]

Awesome, thanks for the input. I'm a beginner and just trying to figure things out. I have the "recommended" settings for the amp (minx 110) for genre and I kinda understannd the logic. but then I started thinking, why not just scoop the mids with the eq on my bass? Then i remember people saying they buy EQ pedals. And I couldn't imagine why i would need 10-12 band on my amp to set, them another 10 or so on a pedal then another 3 on my bass itself??? good god how do ever remember where everything was dialed in for once certain sound??? lol the more i learn the more i find out i don't know.

 

[Nuage420]

I think I'll be working the flat amp approach for a while. I haven't had any issue yet finding a sound close enough to what I'm looking for out of the 3 band onboard.

 

[two fingers]

I dime my tone knob usually and set the EQ on the amp to the room/style. It's a little brighter than I like it, but it allows the sound guy a lot more flexibility. He can always take out highs and beef up lows. But you can't add mids/highs if they aren't there. So I err on the side of too bright and let him sort it out up front.

 

[Nuage420]

Lol my sound guy is me. My venue is my office.

 

[walterw]

i use a P-bass into a sansamp pedal into a straight power amp; that means no EQ on the bass and no EQ on the amp. problem solved

 

[ArtechnikA]

I dime my tone knob usually and set the EQ on the amp to the room/style....

Yes.

My rule of thumb: Bass EQ is for my tone; amp EQ is for the room.
I've got a 3-band active EQ with a high/low mid-center and pickup blend control.
Over a set of blues I may go from upright-emulating (all neck, low mids, no treble) to "P-Bass with flats" (touch of bridge, bit of treble) to "Cream at Winterlands" (everything in the center, high mids). I never touch the amp once the levels are set. I start with flat at the amp (whatever that is - if it's my Hartke, that's 2-10-2 -- if it's a provided backline amp, it'll be something else...) and then tweak from there a little depending on what the room needs

 

[taylor16]

I'm rocking passive basses. I tend to get as bright a tone as I would need with the tone knob maxed on my passive Precision bass with a "neutral"/12:00 setting on my amp head. Adjust EQ settings on my Enabler DI (last pedal on my board) as a last resort if I can't get what I want out of the tone knob during a set.