Tricks to get the E string on a mustang to cut though?

[DeepSouth]

I recently entered the world of mustang basses and fell in love with blue JMJ model. That neck is sooo good. I play is all the time at home.

I do have issues when I run it though my gigging bass rigs.
Either a Super Bassman with a Fender 610 neo cab or My Ampeg V4B and 212 AV depending on the size of the bar.
On the other hand, my pos practice amp with a tiny 5" speaker sounds great with it haha.

The A,D and G sound amazing while Running Chromes on the bass.

The E string wants to disappear in the mix however.

So far I've found very thin .50 picks will make that E pop out but I'm not having lots of luck with fingers or thicker picks. My hand gets tired fast using the little paper thin .50s!


I'm used to P basses with TI flats so its been a bit of an adjustment for me. Looking for the sweet spots with my eq, compression ect for this bass.

 

[jmjbassplayer]

Huh...well that's weird. A few things come to mind:

1) Change the strings, you could have a fault.
2) Adjust the pickup heights to compensate.
3) Aggressive parametric spot eq.

I'm sure other folks might have some ideas for you too.

 

[DeepSouth]

I hadn't though of it possible being a dead string. I've had this set on and off several basses. Worth trying a new set. Even after rising the pickup the E is still acting odd.

 

[jmjbassplayer]

I hadn't though of it possible being a dead string. I've had this set on and off several basses. Worth trying a new set. Even after rising the pickup the E is still acting odd.

It could be off-base but it does happen...but yeah, I have two JMJ mustangs and my E sounds great...of course in that particular short-scale way.