peaveyorangegretsch

You prefer using the open 3rd string instead of the 5th fret on 4? I seem to get better tone with the fretted note and easier to keep it from ringing out so bad.

When you are playing in a band where the guitars are downtuned to something like cgcfgc do you tune your bass to cgcf or on a 5er would you tune cgcfg or cfa#d#g ?

Thanks.

Ok thanks.

I have a 5 string bass. I pretty much set the action at the 12th similar to my treble guitars. The intonation is pretty spot on also, the problem I have though is when I play it with any kind of thumb thump I think it is hitting the frets\fingerboard. Playing with a pick helps, but not the tone I want. Should I raise the action, or set action at a different location? And will raising the action effect intonation drastically?(more string being displaced to fret a note, essentially bending the string, etc.) Thanks.

Hey. New to the site. Bass is a secondary instrument to me but I think it is still really cool, looking forward to learning from everyone who knows what they are talking about. I'm from Birmingham, Alabama USA.

I own a cr120. I play my bass through it going into a Peavey Valveking 4x12. I use the dirty channel. Set treble to about 3 or 4. Cut mids completely. Boost bass to about 7 or 8. Gain set between 30 to 50% use a little reverb (i like the top one for it) It is a 120 watt amp. I have the older version before they dropped them down to 100 watt amps. This tone set up makes for a pretty good metal sound too with a treble cleff guitar, if you boost the mids from here it really opens up with the standard guitar. But muds up the bass. I play a 5 string Alvarez bass. No idea the model. It has 2 very sensitive pickups. No pickup selector, you can hear it when you adjust them to their sweet spot it is like the tone just gets opened up.