Help someone please

travisw · Post by **travisw** » Thursday Dec 21, 2006

i recently been screwing with my eq on my bass head and now shit is all screwed up and i cannot get it back to sounding descent. I have a 115 and a 210 cab and a 3500 series hartke head ive tried moving them every which way and cannot get it to sound like it use to its a 10 band eq if anyone has some recomended settings for rock music it would be greatly appreciated if you could help me. but then again im usually beyond help. thanks

tonefight · Post by **tonefight** » Thursday Dec 21, 2006

Set everything straight up the middle and go from there.

skipisode · Post by **skipisode** » Friday Dec 22, 2006

The Hartke heads also have high and low parametric blend controls,
try these. Hartke 3500 also has blend for solid state and tube settings,
you may want to adjust these as well. Good Luck!

MeYatch · Post by **MeYatch** » Friday Dec 29, 2006

did you ever have any luck with this?

I have a few extremely easy rules to follow when I don't like my sound.

rule #1, when your rig sounds like balls, change the strings. As often as not, this will remedy the problem.

rule #2, reset all EQ to 0, and go from there.

rule #3, EQ with your ears not your eyes. graphic EQs are not for making facial expressions, every room sounds slightly different, and the same settings do not work for every situation.

good luck

oh yeah, ten band EQ

what situation are you playing in, by yourself or with a band?

I like to boost slightly around 200 Hz, and around 1.5 KHz or so. I usually adjust the neighboring faders so that its a gradual taper up to it. This gives me a sound that sits well in the mix, but it is not a very pretty solo sound. If you are playing by yourself, you are probably best served by performing the hated mid cut. I'm not familiar with the controls on the amp, but this is probably best performed by not using your graphic EQ. do you have low/mid/high controls or anything like that?

If you are unfamiliar with what you are doing, it may be best to just leave the graphic EQ out no matter what you are doing. Its probably best to dial in a decent sound with the more simple controls, and then use the graphic EQ for fine tuning if nessesary.

bassist_25 · Post by **bassist_25** » Friday Dec 29, 2006

Mitch gave some good pointers. One thing I'd like to add is to step about ten feet away from your cabinets when setting your sound. This gives the sound waves a chance to expand. What you're hearing right up against your rig is not the same as what's being heard a few feet in front of it.