jay249

None of that did anything for me at all, whatsoever.

I agree that people's over use of EQ is shocking, and Lowdown hit the nail on the head with his post.

Boosted nothing sounds pretty good to me.

Yeah I've had a look at some engineers forums and one in particular that I don't wanna mention to avoid petty arguments with anyone, seemed very sort of...hostile and closed and more like a public discussion between the 'fat cats'. Strange indeed!

You speak mostly the truth but this is a bass player's forum.

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I have decided that I don't understand the problem, I can't see how a compressor is the answer, also be careful that you're not being compressed at the desk end as well, compressing a compressed signal from a Stingray can't be good, especially when it's an engineer who doesn't know how to use a compressor.

I'm not completely sure compressing it will help though, If what you want isn't there in the first place.

Gutted, thats a shame, maybe its just not for you!

If you can do all of that, and also not cry the third time you ''play mustang sally'' and make people smile, you'll go far, haha!

I've seen some EQ's in my 3 years crewing, I've seen some eq's. [quote name='theosd' post='111409' date='Dec 31 2007, 11:50 AM']I agree with you. I mean, i use a stingray 5 which are renowned for their ability to cut through (due to the mid-biased voicing), and yet it sounded trash.[/quote] Try running everything flat

Yeah that's an example of someone who shouldn't be given a job, I have a massive problem with people who are 'too good' for the younger bands, I'm only 20 now and I've been gigging about 5 years in all your token local venues, I've had famous things said like ''you wanna get that bass looked at mate I couldn't get a good sound out of it'' in a un-named Bristol venue that I'm not going to name, and this bloke's talking about my 78 jazz bass directly interjectulamated straight into his mixing desk, that was a good joke, I just laughed at him and left. I just thought, I should have said ''Haha well no [b]good[/b] engineer's ever had that problem!

What's a 'more open' sound? Also, fretless basses are bound to have different sonic characteristics. We should do a blindfold test. I have a maple neck knocking about that I could use.

Any good engineer would notice that, granted there are some fools out there but every good engineer I know, regardless of if theyre a musician, would see that a mile off. I will also add that anyone who uses a mid scoop and then complains about lack of presence in a live mix should be penalized and made to go to a 3 hour mid scoop workshop which touches upon the human and commercial losses that result from mid scooping, or three points on their mid scooping smiley face eq licence!

If you play in a covers/pub/etc band, I can guarantee you that sadly, a soundman doesn't have all night to make sure the bass has perfect 'bass player' level of presence, put yourself in their position, anything from 0 to what? 400 punters who cant hear the vocals. It's very rarely any punters come over to me and complain that they cant hear the top end on the bass guitar. You can of course make a complete fool of yourself and turn up with a 2k basson or ampeg or something, rig, and be a twat, then you won't get put through the pa at all because you're so loud, louder than everything, and a bad bass player! I personally as a bass player just take my EBS 12 and point it at my face for monitoring, and the fact i can feel myself rumbling around the room is comfort enough for me.

Nah I love em, I wouldn't buy one but I love em!

Plus my 8, 1160

People tend to say stuff about EB's being all ''dull'' and ''wooly'' and then you see the amps theyre using, i call this ''cobweb overtones''.

Basses being light in weight doesn't bother me at all! especially after a night of lugging a 10k pa system in, and masses of lighting with the sound company and then playing bass all night! I once had a rosewood neck jazz bass with a badass 2 bridge and nice pickups etc and i bought a good quality upgrade neck from allparts. I also had plenty of time to a/b and actually made recordings too at one point, and I don't mind admitting if there was a difference, my ears cant hear them! I've also had two ash mij 75 reissues recently, one maple neck, one rosewood, i sold one to buy the other, and It was almost like playing the same bass again, especially with my eyes closed. I would like to publically admit that if there's a difference, I can't hear it, and i won't pretend to!

I consider the weight of an electric bass [b]way[/b] before I worry whether it's mahogany, alder, ash etc. And then I consider electronics and strings, and to a much lesser degree, the bridge.

..And then maybe learn to coil them properly and they won't break!