Bloshmire
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Joined: 29 Oct 2002
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Right now im getting a little frusturated about my EQ on my bass amp. Its a Hartke 2000 model and tried tons of different EQ settings and none of them fits my taste. Is there a easy way of finding your own "taste?" Im more interested in rock/ punk rock type of music, so I set my EQ with my 30Hz at 0, 60 Hz at 1, 125Hz at 2 or 3, and 200 HZ at -1, 250Hz at -.5, 300HZ at...0, 500HZ at 1, 1.5kHz 1.5, 3kHz at 3, , 4.5kHz at 3, 6kHz at 2.5. My EQ is set something like that. Well if u can, help me out on how to set the EQ for a rock/punk rock style of music.
Thanks
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Mon Nov 04, 2002 2:13 am |
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ben m
Joined: 15 Sep 2002
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Matt,
there are many factors that will influence your 'tone'.
Before looking at the EQ settings you need to look at the sound of your bass and your style/technique.
Some bass guitars tend to have a particular sound. There are many bass guitars that have a sound more suited to rock.
Also, are you playing with a pick or fingers? Many punk groups tended to use picks and this will make a huge difference to the sound, greatly emphasising the initial attack of the note.
Pickup selection is also very imortant to your tone.
What I would recommend doing in your position is this.
Put on a CD of a band whose bass sound is consistent throughout the album/song. Zero the EQ on your amp AND your bass if it has any tone controls.
Now, play the CD on loop whilst playing along on your bass and make incremental changes to the EQ on your amp. They key to making this sucessful is learning exactly what every EQ band does to your tone, as well as the pickup selector on your bass.
There are other factors that have to be taken into account. The bass sound on an album will have been manipulated during the recording process -the very least that will have happened is that the bass will be compressed during the mixdown. Also, in a studio environment the bass player can usually crank his/her rig up very loud - guitar/bass amps of all type usually sound better when running at a high volume.
Failing all this, if you wanted to get technical about it you could sample a section of the bass guitar playing in isolation into your PC and then run it through a Frequency analyser. This would give you a good idea of the frequencies that are important in this style of music.
ben m
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Mon Nov 04, 2002 5:17 pm |
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G-Meister
Joined: 27 Jan 2003
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Hi Matt,
As Ben says, its a good idea to start looking at the original sound from just your Bass,
You havn't mentioned whether your bass is passive or active (ie can boost the output signal) as this also can make a huge amount of difference to the end result.
Another thing which can be experimented with is the gauge strings you use, but don't rush into this too quickly as you well may need a truss rod tweek to compensate for the difference in tension, so ask your local guitar tech first!
Check out your favorite bands websites and other gear orientated sites too, they may have details of stuff like stomp boxes that they use to get a paticular sound.
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