mm and swr

[rhfactor4]

who likes the tone you get from SWR and a Sterling or Stingray?

 

[Aussie Mark]

Me. I went to a jam yesterday with one of my Stingrays, my SM400 head and just a Goliath Jr (2x10) cabinet and received several compliments about my tone and how huge the sound was from such a small cabinet. The drummer in particular commented on how he could "hear every note I played", which is surprising, given my fetish for trebleless, old school tone. Amp EQ was flat, and the Stingray (3 band) was treble zero, mid detent, bass full. The SM400 is a relatively low powered head (I powered the cab with one side of the head, which would be around 180watts @ 8 ohms), but it has a warm thumpy tone with a Stingray dialled in as I described above.

 

[Soulfinger]

SWR amps seem to really bring out the low-mids of Musicman basses. I like them.

 

[Moondog]

SWR amps seem to really bring out the low-mids of Musicman basses. I like them.

Both, Sterling & SR4, sound great through my Super Redhead.

 

[MM Scarborough]

mm swr

I currently run an SWR WM 4004, through harte 4x10 and 1x 15 cabs with a SUB. The head voices the instrument really well. It's a very pure amp, i doesn't have GK growl or Trace tone, It's got a lovely tight bottom end and a percussive but warm top end. It really does take the voice of the instrument and enhance it. Plus it's two years old and has some serious abuse aswell as a barrage of effects through it, it's was used at the weekend for eight hours solid, and will be used again soon for a 48 hour music fest as a backline amp.

 

[Aragorn35016]

I love the way my stingray 5 sounds through my super redhead, however I can't boost the bass on the guitar very much and use my low B because I somehow keep destroying my 10's when I do so. And this is with no preamp or pwr amp clipping!

 

[MM Scarborough]

hmm i had a similar problem wth my effects loop, basically the signal going in was to high which cliped some of the pedals (noticebly my ZOOM box), however the input gain which drives the loop was not clipping at all. To compensate have stuck a delay box first in the chain which can be used to reduce the level to the loop i then boost it by turing the volume up on a clean channel ( I have a ZOOM 11). Anyway thats going off the point. What speakers are you using? assume they are the standard ones that come with this combo? Superreads are awesome, if only i cud afford. Im not familiar with the superedheads controls but does it have a aural enhancer? mines does which I think can boost the eq (all beit slightly). I used to have an old crapy tanglewood which always blowing amps, even though they weren't clipping, this was sorted by increasing the pick-up height. Have you increase string size at all?

 

[SWR_n_EB]

i figured i'd chime in on this one. i have a workingman's 15, sumthing the average Joe might be able to afford. i really like it, its got plenty of lows, but if u decide to go this route(with the 15) be cautious, because the 15 inch really brings up the low end, and does an OK job with the treble. a fine, moderatly affordale alternative, is a 2x10, which can range from 200-400 bucks. still a well priced rig.

the main thing, is bring ur bass over to ur local store, and try the amps. set the tones to 0 (dont worry about teh mid freq, cuz it is rendered in affective when the MId level is at 0) and wrok from there, ull get a good idea of what the amp sounds like protraying ur bass for what it is. after u get an idea of that tone, enhance it.

sound is very subjective, so there will never be a cut and dry answer for how it sounds.

PS. for those of u who care, and remeber me posting about more punch. im getting the 2x10, just no time soon. i still gotta get my cars coil-overs(suspension) by august, so its crunch time... after that, my prioty goes bac kto my bass.

 

[MM Scarborough]

interesting point about the 1x15, SWR hve now started doing a 2x10 which has the same head as mine (400/4). You; be able to obviously run another cab after that. There rare as rockinghorse doo doo in the U.K. I run a 1x15 paper harkte cab with a tweeter most of the time, the tweeter makes up for the 4x10 advantages somewhat and is a heck of a lot lighter!, then for bigger gigs I run a 4x10 stacked on top which looks and sounds awsome.

 

[rhfactor4]

hey, well i got a 750x and i dunno what to put the settings on i got a stingray recently, i can make it sound deep sometimes but its to dry, then i try middy and its kind of crappy... lol.

so what should i put the settings on?

 

[MM Scarborough]

Mines got a 7-band eq, so don't know if this would work on you'res. I have the aural enhancer set on 1 o-clock and the eq pretty flat apart from a little bass and plenty of Hi mids? hope this helps.

 

[Dees]

I always wanted to know how a SR sounds through an SWR. Someone here said that SWR is good for the SR's low mids? that would be exactly what I'm looking for. I never had a decent rig, I've been rehearsing and performing with my Fender combo (an old one, but good sound). Last year I had to decide, new amp, or Stingray, and I got the stingray. But now I really want a decent rig, to justify the complete power and tone of my stingray. I always get the feeling my stingray would sound a lot better with a decent rig.
I thought the SWR SM-400 and 500 series weren't that expensive, is that correct? (I'm just a student )

 

[MM Scarborough]

Don't know how much they go for, but id recommend the workingmans stuff, i've got a 400/4 it was £360 (dont know what that is in dollars). It sounds great brings the bottom end really well and really voices the instrument well. Id also get a cab with a tweeter in it, it's warms the sound up loads and makes the treble sound lovely. I've got a hartke paper cab and it works great although Im sure the wm stuff is good also. I bought the swr after buying and playing Traces, ashdown Marshall and GK and il have it for life now.