Good morning, everyone,
I played guitar for many years and being a bit of a rock guy I never really payed much attention to my clean sound, but now that I've switched to bass, I find myself a bit perplexed. The tone I'm striving for is that really low thumpy sound often refered to as "dub" bass, and I can get it at lower volumes, well, frankly it's loud enough for practically any application I can think of, short of having to fill a small club with just my amp, but at higher volumes I just can't seem to stay clean. I have a (recently purchased) Acoustic B100 (100 watts, 15" speaker combo), and it sounds great to a certain point, but then it just starts to get, well, farty, for lack of a better word. I go through a Boss ME-50B and play a Jazz bass, exclusively on the neck pickup. I went from a Peavey 35 watt practice amp to the Acoustic, but I just don't seem to be able to get much louder without running into the same loss of clean that I had with the Peavey. I do tend to crank the bass eq on the amp and the effects pedal, am I just sending too much signal? I plug into the active input on the amp, just FYI, because it seems to stay cleaner that way, too.
Anyone that can suggest what I can do to clean up my sound at higher volumes would really be helping me out. Would a higher quality speaker help? Lowering the input signal volume? I don't use the effects loop, either, because it seems to dilute the, well, the effects when I do.
Please advise!
-Patric
I played guitar for many years and being a bit of a rock guy I never really payed much attention to my clean sound, but now that I've switched to bass, I find myself a bit perplexed. The tone I'm striving for is that really low thumpy sound often refered to as "dub" bass, and I can get it at lower volumes, well, frankly it's loud enough for practically any application I can think of, short of having to fill a small club with just my amp, but at higher volumes I just can't seem to stay clean. I have a (recently purchased) Acoustic B100 (100 watts, 15" speaker combo), and it sounds great to a certain point, but then it just starts to get, well, farty, for lack of a better word. I go through a Boss ME-50B and play a Jazz bass, exclusively on the neck pickup. I went from a Peavey 35 watt practice amp to the Acoustic, but I just don't seem to be able to get much louder without running into the same loss of clean that I had with the Peavey. I do tend to crank the bass eq on the amp and the effects pedal, am I just sending too much signal? I plug into the active input on the amp, just FYI, because it seems to stay cleaner that way, too.
Anyone that can suggest what I can do to clean up my sound at higher volumes would really be helping me out. Would a higher quality speaker help? Lowering the input signal volume? I don't use the effects loop, either, because it seems to dilute the, well, the effects when I do.
Please advise!
-Patric
