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Preffered MM EQ Settings.

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Rhythmbug

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Interested to hear your onboard settings. Why am I interested? To see what other sounds are being made of course! Do share! :D

Mine

SR5

Bass - Neutral
Treble - 1/2 Boost
Mid - Full Boost
Piezo - 3/4 Cut
Volume - Full Duh
 
Bass full
Middle used to be full, now about neutral, I prefer the tone now
Treble - just over neutral
Volume, just under full. I have a thing about having things on full, so usually have them just below.
 
I start by setting the volume full on, and the bass eq flat. I eq my amp for the venue and usually just use the active eq for subtle changes depending on what the song needs.
 
For most applications:

SR5 Fretted:
Volume 1/2 to 2/3
Bass: 70%
Mid: 50%
Treble: 50%
Selector switch in middle position

SR5 Fretless:
Volume 1/2 to 2/3
Bass: 60%
Mid: 80%
Treble: 50%
Selector switch in bridge position

Bongo 5 Fretted:
Volume 1/2 to 2/3
Bass: 60%
Low Mid: 40%
High Mid: 30%
Treble: 50%
Selector knob set in dead center
 
SR4 2 band eq; bass boosted just a hair, treble flat.

Amp flat (or all but).
 
Volume is ran wide open.

Other settings depend on the room, what music we're playing, etc...

I generally mess with them until I'm sure I'm stopping someone's pacemaker... :)
 
4 string Ray 3 band

Usually boost the bass a bit....70/80% ( done while thumping E string)
play the G string and give the mids a slight boot. ( G can be a bit soft otherwise)
leave the highs in the detent position

that's the starting spot...will tweak further to suit song

I usually keep fairly fresh rounds on my Ray...volume all the way up
 
I tend to favor a combo of neck pickup and piezo on both fretted and fretless Bongos.

As for EQ, it depends on what I'm going for.

The fretless usually gets both a low mid bump and a high mid bump, depending on how much I want to stand out in the mix.

The fretted usually just gets a slight treble cut (which will probably stop once the Sadowsky flats settle down), and a bass bump.
 
My rosewood Sterling:

Fender 9050M flats
Volume 75%
Treble 0% - 10%f
Mids 60%
Bass 80%
Pickup in Parallel


I don’t have enough time with the SR5 yet to really dial it in, but the same settings as my Sterling is 75% of the way there. The other 25% may be string differences.
 
I usually set my eq flat on my bass and adjust my preamp to the room i'm playing. I play in a house band at a club 4 nights a week, so my amp settings hardly ever change. My front of house sound man gets cranky when i adjust my eq on my guitar and i use a pre-out d.i. to send to my monitor console and from there into the p.a. Every now and then, i'll boost my bass a lil and finger pick up on the neck to get a real dead tone. I change strings every other night and i usually find myself boosting my mid eq a little during the second day of use on my strings just to brighten it up a little w/ out it being too punchy. I use in-ears to. I usually leave one ear out though so that i can hear my amp sound and also the stage sound so that i don't feel like i'm all alone.
 
Bass cut slightly from center detent.
Middle on center dentent
Treble cut all the way.
Volume full
Switch to the bridge position.

TI flats & SR 5

tk
 
Stingray 4/rosewood
Strings: DR High Beams

Bass: --- 8
Mids: --- 7
Treble -- 2 to 5 (5 is flat)

I find that a Stringray with the treble past 5 is a hard beast to control.

Until recently I had a set of LaBella flats on my 'Ray, and found that the above settings gave it a somewhat vintage Jass bass tone.

I just put a set of High Beams on to experiment, and like them. My usual other strings were Dean Markley Blue Steels. I find the High Beams have slightly cleaner highs, a little more bass, and more subdued mids.

I always have the volume wide open.

To those that don't run their volume wide open: Doesn't this make your pre amp work harder?

Mike
 
I typically play with my bass at 10, mid at about 7, treble down all the way, and volume at 10 of course. Those are just general settings though.
 
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