Moderators ThudMaker Posted August 8, 2009 Moderators Share Posted August 8, 2009 So you're just saying that the EQ knobs have frequency ranges at different places in the audio spectrum? Eg. the bass knob is centred around 40Hz, mids at 160Hz, and treble at 320Hz? or something like that?Most bass cabs aren't even tuned as low as 40 Hz. 160 Hz would be for adding some girth to your signal or removal of mud. 320 Hz is a low mid-range frequency. I don't find it very useful unless I want to sound honkish. I don't consider anything treble until about 5 kHz. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members perrydabassman Posted August 8, 2009 Members Share Posted August 8, 2009 That's an interesting way of running a stereo guitar signal. I used to run my bass rig in stereo, technically, using an a/b/y box. The straight, clean bass signal went to an eden bass amp/cab (mono). The other portion of the split ran into a pedal board consisting of a trace elliot eq pedal to cut the lows, an OD pedal and a chorus pedal into a Marshall JCM600 head and cab. Chris Squire does that as well. At one point in time I was playing three piece, and carried two rigs to a gig. One for bass, the other ran thru an A/B and overdrive that I would kick on during guitard leads to kinda fill in. It sounded good, but was hard on the back. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators ThudMaker Posted August 8, 2009 Moderators Share Posted August 8, 2009 Chris Squire does that as well. At one point in time I was playing three piece, and carried two rigs to a gig. One for bass, the other ran thru an A/B and overdrive that I would kick on during guitard leads to kinda fill in. It sounded good, but was hard on the back.Yep. Pennick, Petersson, etc. It's not uncommon for bassists. It helps if we have roadies, though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members perrydabassman Posted August 8, 2009 Members Share Posted August 8, 2009 Yep. Pennick, Petersson, etc. It's not uncommon for bassists. It helps if we have roadies, though. I knew I was doing something wrong, wheredaya find these roadies??? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Jazz Ad Posted August 8, 2009 Members Share Posted August 8, 2009 I thought poweramps were slightly different for guitar and bass?They are different.Guitar power amps aim at bringing a flattering color in the medium, limited higher range to avoid ear piercing signals and they need to respond well to guitar speakers.Bass power amps need as wide of a range as possible, with the flattest signal and the most dynamics. It is exactly the same set of requirements as for a PA amp so that's just what we use. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members In the Fade Posted August 8, 2009 Members Share Posted August 8, 2009 whats so bad about a guitar through a bass amp? i used to play guitar through my sansamp/poweramp/avatar410 rig. i had a 24 band graphic eq to help out but i thought it sounded pretty good. and i know adam jones uses an old marshal bass head as one third of his live rig. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members In the Fade Posted August 8, 2009 Members Share Posted August 8, 2009 best bass power amp I've used was a SWR stereo 800 can still be had cheap but getting harder to find . +1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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