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@Al KrowThis link is very simple in explaining what each frequency does, read and hold the info http://www.brightonsoundsystem.co.uk/pa-hire/frequency-in-music-and-human-hearing/ I really did not want to get into anatomy, but this is a reasonable short description of the complexities of the human ear and how it works as an organ. http://www.dspguide.com/ch22/1.htm Now in relation to what people have been saying about psychoacoustics and your brain hearing one thing and making up the rest, if we look at another sense of sight. firstly the image your eye sees is actually upside down and all that you see is not there, your brain processes, flips the image and fills in a lot of what you see for you. Simply put there are 3 colour rods in the eye located centrally red, yello, green - the brain merges these things much as you do painting to give a palette of all colours, in addition your periphery of the eye sees in black and white, yet your whole vision is in colour-the brain fills it in. Now back to hearing, keep in mind how everything is processed in the body, keep in mind the simple links above, and keep in mind some of the excellent responses on sound physics and acoustics etc. Especially the posts where the frequencies isolated you are fixated about are generated and what they sound like. Put it all together and see the big picture of how Sound sounds and how sound feels, and if you still can’t see the wood for the trees, then there is probably little point in continuing the discussion on this thread. We can get back to bass tone and tone shaping in general within the context of getting a good useable sound with presence either by EQ alone, or adding effects, which is primarily what the thread was about.

Beautiful Cam Sandberg is a wonderful wonderful thing

How does the VK handle what you throw at it out on a gig compared to the MB Combo? What percentage improvement if any does it give with instrument straight in via an amp or with the pedal board out to play. Is that not the best test?

Could be worse, could be me waving my Beef Bag under your nose

Make sure you post your dubstep version of Proud Mary

@Al Krow public confession is by the by. The real learning point is not to dismiss and hammer something without researching it (does not include crap pootube videos) actually properly learning about it (yes that includes reading the manual), getting to grips with it, using it in the context you bought it for (that would mean taking it out the house with or without a handbag and using in a band, if that is the goal) and then exhausting all tweakabilities in that context. Then you can give it a yay or a nay. It would have been stupid to rigorously stick to an ill thought stance, and you are not a stoopid man. Congrats on making it work. Onwards and upwards (not downwards, we can’t her that!)

@isteen simply our, record or remember the sound at practice, tweak a sound at home that you think folds into it no matter how poo it may sound isolated, store it, then go from there and ignore what it sounds like isolated when you practice, or make a note of those points, go back to a flat EQ practicing and then EQ it back if that makes sense

@dannybuoy we are talking about the pedal yes?! Are Acme still being used by roadrunner

@Al Krow agreeing with Alex, makes a change for you, you feeling OK?! I’ll float this about reggae for you, think about what instruments are primarily involved, think about how they are played, think about their sonic territory, then think about the sonic space left that the bass fills. If you put down the Hertzometer for a minute and think about the sounds and how they blend across not just reggae, but different types and styles of music, what the end goal of the sound is and how individuals play, the journey will be far more fruitful

I was going to say I could make it sound excellent even without the worlds best pedal, but mum told me not to lie as well as not talk to strangers, but I seem to be doing that a fair bit on here. You are right about the finesse, let me know when you find someone to make yours sound good

I reckon I could make most rigs sound alright except an MB Combo.....

@Opticaleye you are right, I think mine is a wannabe, which makes you sort of a hero for me. That and a Forty Eight would be peachy

I am less subtle pretty much all wide open! i do like the notch on the turn on my blend though

0000 wool is the thing to sand it with gentle and does the job

Me too and I rather enjoy a root note and a plectrum

All hail @FacStudio the anointed king of Sandberg’s!

@Opticaleye you know I have an Umbo fetish and this is doing it no good!

10”, 15”, 500” speakers the statement stands that you make up the fundamental

Reggae is less about the subs and lows and more about the mids actually Al. The reason you feel the note is because the sound systems often used 500” speakers at massive volumes

You can hide at my bunker - pork scratching and crispy bits with real ale on tap

@dannybuoy i think we get fooled that because it looks like an MM pick up, it has to be in the same place as a Stingray bass, and it should sound like a stingray if solo’d. Absolutely this is not the point of that bass configuration, and it is not the way it has been wired for sound either. Both the position and the relative ‘weakness’ of sound as some people call it of the MM is entirely intentional as it is there to blend with the J or P pick up. Even within the sig models that are VM/TM the M is positioned differently to a standard version ever so slightly. Now the sound may or may not be to someone’s liking anyway, but I wouldn’t say that an MM pick ups ‘natural’ place is in the Ray position, as the Basic shows that it works on its own out of Ray territory

I know Bas, tuning 1 string takes super ages. Its Ok DB, AK spends even more time on the fret board than he does on BC so he has muscles of steel

Judicious use of lower notes understanding harmonics of the fundamental in a carefully crafted sound, without the use of a heavier implement to act as a more expensive thumb rest. Remind me if you remembered your lesson on Drop D tuning vs D tuning.......

Well i am a bit more meat and potatoes, we cant all have your bling and pizazz buddy. On this occasion yours are definitely bigger than mine