LukeFRC

Why? Bass guitar, heck almost any instrument isn’t going to sound good with everything below 8kHz cut out! I would look at the Vong and miniVong at musikding as alternatives …

What comp do you use?

That’s actually really useful as looking to put my stomp on it

Yeah it was me bumping it up, been looking at the 2.1 and 3.1 and enjoyed it that @Al Krow started a thread and liked them so much he ended up with two of them

Or two of them even!

I don’t have bas GAS anymore - but that PJ has to be one of the nicest basses on basschat

Interesting - I had a ACG EQ1 and started it with the high filter from the bridge and after playing with it a while ended up with it on the neck pickup (on a Warwick SS1 so probably not a million miles away from Wal position, if not a different style of pickup)

even better?

But these days a two channel amp and digital crossover would probably be cheaper.

See - this is what’s nice around here… every so often we get a thread where people passionately throwing around misunderstood “facts” go away … and we get to learn from experts like @agedhorse and @Bill Fitzmaurice

That's true metric brightness rather than your old fashioned imperial brightness

Here’s a question that might make me look like an idiot… I’ve used a few compressor pedals before and in build compressors in amps, (Tecamp puma 1000 and Hughes Kettner QT600 come to mind) I even have used the compressors on a zoom b3 and B3n successfully… so I know a little light compression does things I really like … but… hx stomp I’ve had less joy dialling in a basic starting point that works - apart from the LA studio comp that I can sometimes get sounding ok… now the problem is all me- lack of ear skills, lack of metering meaning lack of confidence … it’s the thread hold I find hardest to set - and not knowing the ideal x-over freq on the 3 band… and the Rochester so any tips of how to work it out - or any suggested starting places settings for bass settings - esp on the 3 band?

And @Al Krow has gone quiet too come to think of it has anyone ever seen them both in the same place? Coincidence- I think not. Could they be the same person??!

er they have a model of that too, I just looked

they did that though ....

Maybe Disssa has shared them all n here and I’ve missed them - but if not this thread - via google translate, is great https://www-bassic-de.translate.goog/threads/disssa-bastelt.14887065/?_x_tr_sl=de&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_pto=wapp

“Do I like this pedal” I asked turning it on and off wait - I think it still has a transformer in the signal path when turned off so put it in the effect loop of the hx stomp - def makes a difference also an envelope filter before it is fun- quiet playing and when the filter is triggered it pushes the colour box into fuzz territory!

also I should add - the pink line was me boosting the mids enough to get the response flattish- I could have added more to give a boost if I wanted

oh and I also looked at some IR's through the same setup... my one thought about the differences between the cab models of a SVT 8x10 vs the IRs of an SVT8X10. - the shape of the eq curve for the cab are the same, and the top end and bottom end roll offs are similar.... but the peaks and dips in the frequency aren't as extreme - it's a less extreme flavour of the cab... again that's without being able to see the time based element of the models/IR

What are the cab sims doing? All on factory default mic/distance and other settings... obviously they are based around some kind of impulse response and time based element that I'm not gathering here... White noise into reaper.... Ampeg B15 1x18 Woody blue 8x10 SVT 6x10 calipower 2x15 brute Now this is interesting Ampeg 4x10 HLF with the 421 dyn mic.... same cab with the 4038 ribbon mic.... bit odd

So there you go... the collective basschat hive mind probably understands what they are looking at more than me, it kinda helps me visualise what it's doing... It seems that there's more than 15db bass boost on tap...

The EQ Now this is the interesting bit for me.... and involved some photoshop... The high control - which goes quite low if you want it too... (grey line is flat) The mid control purple is shift at it's lowest setting, pink is the shift set at 12o'clock and the lilac is the highest setting. And here's where it gets a bit odd... The Bass control Light yellow is set at it's lowest setting- it also pulls down everything above 200Hz but fairly powerful control... it can go plenty low enough and fat enough for bass, don't listen to Talkbass... The orange is set at it's highest setting... if 450Hz is considered Bass? Interestingly that boost seemed to go a bit weird at the full rotation of the pot and gives that secondary peaks at 1.5k and 2.5k - backed off just a smidge and this turns into a more regular peak ... there's actually a lot of change available at the end of the pots travel. I'm not sure when I would turn down the bass on the orange line...