My SR4 thinks it's a duck

[Chroliver]

Doctor, Doctor, my 2EQ SR4 thinks it's a duck, and "quacks" all the time.

When using my own "portable" set-up* I have to cut about 6dB of 500hz, and a couple of dB at 250Hz an 1k to resolve this issue - at which point it sounds pretty super-sweet.

This issue does follow me around, though - whatever equipment I am using - even if DIing on recordings, we need to get rid of that quacking frequency band.

Could this be an issue with the electronics, or is it more likely to be something with the guitar itself? From limited experience of playing other MM basses, I don't think it is something that is a wider issue with the StingRay...

Would appreciate any input

*Hartke HA2500 head and Trace Elliot 2x10 cab (2103H).

 

[Golem]

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Change the battery, spray all the pots, check the PU
height, take two aspirin, and call me in the morning
[but not before noon].

`

 

[Rick Auricchio]

Doctor, Doctor, my 2EQ SR4 thinks it's a duck, and "quacks" all the time.

When using my own "portable" set-up* I have to cut about 6dB of 500hz, and a couple of dB at 250Hz an 1k to resolve this issue - at which point it sounds pretty super-sweet.

You don't mention if this a new behavior, or if it has always sounded this way to you.

To my ears, a Stingray has a characteristic "buzz" to its tone, which is what I consider to be the Stingray tone. There's nothing else like it. (I suppose "quack" could describe it, but I've never used that word for it.) Using the 3-band tone controls and right-hand position, I can vary its tone considerably. My '65 Precision has its own characteristic "honk," a tone that is pretty much there all the time.

But that's why we have different instrument options.