what do you do to get your "sound"?

I need to have my hand slapped for messing with the tone controls, on my bass and on the pre-amp. I don't have a sound, but I love to get different sounds for the mood or tune. Usually 75% on the bridge p'up with the mids boosted a bit.

 

Cut the hi-mids and boost the treble a bit. Solo the front pickup on whatever bass I'm using.

 

The volume on the bass is open wide, pickup blend centered, EQ flat. The limiter on the amp is on, so I can dig in and get a nice growl. Then I adjust the amp's EQ settings to fit the room's acoustics (my amp is pretty simple: volume, limiter, 4-band EQ, contour, and a built-in DI, which is cool).

 

jazz bass, bridge all the way, neck 0 to 30% - play mostly near the middle or bridge pickup

on the sadowsky pre, 1/4 on the treble and 1/2 on the bass

ampeg svp-pro, all buttons out, bass at 2 o'clock, mids on the second from the left setting with the mid gain at 2 o'clock and treble at 11 o'clock

 

just completed my first rig,so i'm here to find out.

 

1 notch boost to my lows, centered treble, 2 notch boost in my mids at 1.7KHz. It seems to give me a very nice and punchy sound without sounding too low or anything.

 

hate to be the freak here, but I have 2 passive Bartolini soapbars open wide on my neck-through Conklin. my pre- is a Demeter VTBP-201s with a touch of bass rolled off and goind uncolored into a Stewart 2.1...

if I can't get the sound with my hands, I'm screwed!

from the low end,


Stew

 

SVT-II: (EQ off)
Bass: 12:00
Mid: 1:30
Treble: 12:00

ATK Controls:
Bass: Flat
Mid: Flat
Treble: Rolled almost completely off

That dials in a pretty kickass fingerstyle rock tone.

 

Because my Aria pro dosen't have a nice bassey tone:
EQ:
40: Boosted about 9
then starting about 800 everything goes up and then peaks off about 9db then the highs rolled off a scootch
Then the Knobs:
Bass: around 1
Mids: around 11
Treble: set to what i feel like at the time.

 

The best thing I ever did for my tone was use Bergantino speaker cabinets.

EQ-wise: depends on the bass, but if I need to cut through the mix I often boost in the vicinity of 250Hz, which adds punch and growl and definition.

 

Sans Amp RBI set close to the SVT setting they give in the manual.I use a Fender Am.Deluxe Jazz 4 and a Millenium 5 and both sound good with the EQs on the basses set flat.I use the pickup pans to change tone mostly.Before I tried a Sans Amp I would always be messing with the EQ on my Carvin R 1000 to get a good tone.The Sans Amp makes it simple.

 

run my p bass wise open, plug it in to the svt classic and 8x10, crank the gain and leave everything else pretty much flat, i just got a boss od pedal yesterday so that should be fun too.

 

On my bass, I have a cut/boost 3 band EQ. I boost the mids +50%, and slightly boost the highs. I use the lows to reguate the tone, from vintage thump to really clear. My sound is with the lows centered.

My sound is bridge pickup on full. I like that midrangey, almost nasaly sound, which many people hate. When I need to, I put it over to the neck pickup to get more of a p-bassish sound out of it, also what I call the vintagier.

One the amp, I usually leave the mids boosted, lows ever so slightly boosted, and the highs centered.

 

What FuzzBass said.
Add the Demeter 201s and the Bergs then let your fingers do the walkin.

 

Pickups in series. Everything flat.


Geoff