Hi, just joined the Forum having finally bought an SR4. I have been promising myself one for the last 5 years and being left-handed, you do not see too many come on the second hand market in the UK. It is an amazing bass and for once it is a case of the wanting of something not actually being better than the having of it - if you follow me?
Until the arrival of my SR4, my stage set up was a JayDee bass into Boss Flanger- Boss Octave - Boss Compressor/Sustainer out into a Hartke Kickback 12", with a DI from the Hartke into the band's Mackie Active PA system.
For the first couple of gigs I tried exactly the same set up for the SR4. However, I have found that with the compression/sustainer switched on, it really deadens the sound of the Ray. The SR4 seems to have a much higher output than the JD so I increased the input level on the Boss pedal but it still does not sound good.
What I have found since playing without the compression pedal on, is that the G string is much quieter than the rest of the strings mid-neck which is noticable when playing bass prominent sections of a song (example is the instrumental break in Brown Sugar, part of our Stones Medley).
Is this differnce in string output level a set up issue, a pickup issue or something that is natural and normally solved by using a compression/sustainer effect on it?
Any thoughts please
Until the arrival of my SR4, my stage set up was a JayDee bass into Boss Flanger- Boss Octave - Boss Compressor/Sustainer out into a Hartke Kickback 12", with a DI from the Hartke into the band's Mackie Active PA system.
For the first couple of gigs I tried exactly the same set up for the SR4. However, I have found that with the compression/sustainer switched on, it really deadens the sound of the Ray. The SR4 seems to have a much higher output than the JD so I increased the input level on the Boss pedal but it still does not sound good.
What I have found since playing without the compression pedal on, is that the G string is much quieter than the rest of the strings mid-neck which is noticable when playing bass prominent sections of a song (example is the instrumental break in Brown Sugar, part of our Stones Medley).
Is this differnce in string output level a set up issue, a pickup issue or something that is natural and normally solved by using a compression/sustainer effect on it?
Any thoughts please
