This bass tone

[ejmy]

Thank you for the suggestion. I've never adjusted the action or truss rod on my bass, so I'll take it in somewhere.

If I had an SX bass like that, I would set it up myself. A luthier will charge you half the price of the bass to do it.

 

[ghostrider]

If I had an SX bass like that, I would set it up myself. A luthier will charge you half the price of the bass to do it.

SX bass?

 

[ghostrider]

Hmm... I would prefer to hear a sound that's anchoring the low end solidly and staying out of the way (mostly) of the guitar. I'm thinking that once you get a drummer involved, he (or she) will wash out this bass tone due to what I think is an over emphasis on treble here.

Check out John Entwistle tearing it up with his own band, covering his "other" band's song "The Real Me" here: John Entwistle Band- The Real Me - YouTube
He's got a ton of treble going on with the fuzz and flanger going, but he doesn't let go of the bass frequencies - he's got solid fundamental tones in there even when he's high up on the fretboard, so even though there's a ton of other treble competition from the cymbals and synth and to some extent the guitar too, he never gets lost. Honestly, I'm not a huge fan of the flanged fuzz sound he's doing either, but it definitely isn't getting lost due to the fundamentals being present.

Yeah I get what your saying about filling the lower frequencies. We lost our drummer and I did not compensate for that loss in the video. I'll boost lower frequencies and drop the treble.

PS. My strings were fresh out of the package, hence the immense amounts of treble.

 

[ejmy]

SX bass?

Sorry, I was just guessing.

 

[ghostrider]

Sorry, I was just guessing.

No I don't know what an SX is, so that's why I asked.

 

[ejmy]

No I don't know what an SX is, so that's why I asked.

SX are Fender knock off's. The older model had a similar to Fender headstock. Thought that was what you had in the video.

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[ghostrider]

SX are Fender knock off's. The older model had a similar to Fender headstock. Thought that was what you had in the video.

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No it's not one of those. It's a 70's modified.

 

[rtslinger]

Well, any suggestions to correct it besides lowering treble frequencies and raising the action?

My first though is lower the pick up sounds like the strong attack is causing the strings to hit the pups I like the tone if the clack was gone like I mention it is overpowering hope this helps

 

[ghostrider]

My first though is lower the pick up sounds like the strong attack is causing the strings to hit the pups I like the tone if the clack was gone like I mention it is overpowering hope this helps

It does thanks very much