Stealing my range

[The Artist]

I find that our guitarists sound is occupying the same range as mine.
We play semitone down and dropped D (C#).
My problem is that I can not hear myself clearly or too loud...
When he is not playing I can hear myself over our other guitarist.
Any suggestions?
I am not very experienced with my EQ...

Thanks in advance
Lexx

 

[capnsandwich]

How big of a room do you practice in and how do you have your amps facing? Believe it or not this has a lot to do with how you'll hear yourself. If they're not already positioned this way, try to face both guitar and bass cabinets the same direction. This way you won't have both amps fighting each other and getting muddy and unclear but they'll be sending sound in the same direction and blending together, thus creating an overall clear tone in which each instrument should be distinguishable. Another problem could be volume. You don't want to get too loud in a smaller area.

 

[The Artist]

Yep, all is as discribed.
The size of the the room is big anough for five guys to play and have plenty of room.
Loudnes could be the problem.
We practice so loud that it is unbarable without earplugs.
I've mentioned playing quieter, but you know guitarists. Plus our drums are pretty loud by nature.
Our guitarist is a sound technician, but he dosent seem to get the whole bass guitar thing or at least what I mean.

Is there anywhene I can find out (like a chart would be great) what freq is located where on the neck or something like that.

Cheers
aLexx

 

[SoLongJake]

turn the bass down on his amp when he's not looking, bassy guitars just sound like mud anyway.

 

[Son of Bovril]

maybe try boosting some high mids (between 800 and 2K) to help cut through the mids

 

[makaky]

Yep, all is as discribed.
The size of the the room is big anough for five guys to play and have plenty of room.
Loudnes could be the problem.
We practice so loud that it is unbarable without earplugs.
I've mentioned playing quieter, but you know guitarists. Plus our drums are pretty loud by nature.
Our guitarist is a sound technician, but he dosent seem to get the whole bass guitar thing or at least what I mean.

Is there anywhene I can find out (like a chart would be great) what freq is located where on the neck or something like that.

Cheers
aLexx

Guitards makes horrible soundman

 

[The Artist]

does changeing anything on the EQ also change my tone?

thanks for all your replys
aLexx

 

[Geezerman]

yes but tone that usually sounds great by yourself stinks when in a band situation.

 

[makaky]

EQ's will only have a small effect.

Maybee , you can use your bridge pickup a bit more( if your bass has one) you will have a bit more definition. Can also try to play a bit closer to the bridge ( you will get more attack and you will have a more staccato sound) should help your bass cut in while playing.

The real solution is for your friend to turn down.

 

[The Artist]

I'll try raising the high mids as mentioned, and maybe also SoLongJakes' sneaky advise.
I already use the bridge pickup and play relativly far back.
Otherwise, would it be worth getting some headphones or earplugs to wear during practice, just so that I get more deffenition. I was thinking of getting some anyway seeing as I can't be too loud in my appartment and I tend to play late at night.

 

[Son of Bovril]

earphones for practice at home are great.