Finding your right bass tone

[CJPJ]

Just watched this - just so helpful and uplifting for someone like me who totally stuggles with this. I know there are some very technical and knowledgeable folk camping down on Basschat - which is brilliant - but I wanted to shout this video out as I found it very helpful. Maybe obvious to some and I guess much of this I probably know, in theory, but Mark explains it and tells the story so well.

 

Get your bass tone from the ground up - the tone controls should be the last place to look for your sound. I now understand why people have loads of basses. I finally have a reason to start accumulating basses 🙂

 

 

[Cosmo Valdemar]

Who's to say where flat is?

[Stub Mandrel]

Oi! Lemmy! No!

[zbd1960]

Oddly enough, I randomly watched that last night. Whilst I lack experience performing with my bass, a lot of what he says is common to hi-fi, something which I have a lot of experience with

[Stub Mandrel]

While I pretty much agree with everything he says  I do find that Trace Elliot preshape has its place, and not just for happy slappy.

[Bolo]

9 hours ago, Cosmo Valdemar said:

Who's to say where flat is?

And the illustrious 'round' tone. There are no agreements on what that constitutes.