oldprussians

Hi Guys I need a little help and perhaps advice

I have a Califiornia TT 5 passive. Made just for me.

But it sounds slightly top endy and thin. 

Don't like active basses, so please no remarks about preamps

I have tried my friend's Sadowsky in passive move, and it sounds way more warm and thick.

Is is just the stock pick ups or worse?

Ta Muchly

6 minutes ago, peteb said:

 

@oldprussians are you going to be gigging the MB amp??

 

Yep done gigs. and sounded great. Most were DB gigs. Electric gigs I can't remember what I thought... but I may have had active basses.

But I agree that it is worse on low volumes. Mitigation I have found is basically have the Low eq down to 9 o'clock and Mid-Low to 2 o'clock at low volumes

Hi Guys. I should have been clearer.

The EQ is at 12 and the filter and speaker emulator are 0.

I realise that the EQ is also pre set from the company, so 0 isn't really zero.

I think peteb is probably right, they took over from SWR i suppose for that Hi-Fi sound

I also found the high eq knob does pretty much nothing.

I have passive basses mind...

Hi guys!

I have a Markbass 121p I think old one no horn.

Combo Head II

Love it, light and powerful

I put my DB through it with a shadow nanoflex pup, flat eq and the sound is so close the  acoustic instrument. Love it

My electric basses.... hmmmm

I love the sound coming out of my vox ampPlug tone set to 1 and AKG headphones.

The the Markbass amp is thick  and bassy and very hi-fi! but lacks the growl and percussive attack, I get from a 30 quid piece of plastic.

Any one here got some quick cheat eq settings 

Many thanks.