Hi there,
For more than a year i am the proud owner of a lovely 90`s Starfire II bass. I use D'Addario half round strings and it literally sounds amazing... My second instrument of choice is a 00's Rickenbacker 4003. A totally (and tonally) different instrument, armed with Rotosound flats that helps me cover different audio landscapes.
Lately i moved away from my old and familiar (did i mention also tight-budget?) Zoom 708II multi-effects pedal and got into the good old stomp-boxes. A few days ago i was at a friends place messing around with his Warwick $$ Corvette (round wounds, active electronics). It came as a surprise to me how well a mutual pedal we shared (the EHX Micro Q-Tron), responded to all the 3 modes (low pass, band pass and high pass), when my Q tron only responded to low. When i got back home i tried the pedal with both my Starfire, Rick and an Orville Les Paul guitar... The guitar did well on all 3 modes, Rick did significantly worse on HP and BP and alas my Guild was ok on just LP. There is a ton of things that affect the output of the signal, true, (passive/active electronics, pickups, strings, frequencies and the instrument itself) but to such extend? And i really wouldn't go crazy about it had i not attended a live by the Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, a band that uses exclusively semi hollow instruments through some very heavy fuzzes, distortions and other pedals associated with garage music...
My Guild sounds great. Period… but it sounds great when i plug it straight into the amp. When it goes through fuzzes, distortions, envelope filters, delays, flangers and two choruses (all true by pass pedals save from one chorus) it kinda sounds thin... and i am totally into effects !!!
The original thought was to change the pickups with another pair that might deliver more punch (feel free to make suggestions) but that made me realize that it would change the sound drastically and my problem does not stand with the clean signal per se, but with the one that goes through my pedal board. Maybe a signal booster coupled with some roundwounds will do the trick or maybe a compressor pedal - even though i am not a great fan of them (to be totally honest)... I really don't know... L
If you have a suggestion on how i can improve me effects signal, please do...
Thanks in advance,
A.
For more than a year i am the proud owner of a lovely 90`s Starfire II bass. I use D'Addario half round strings and it literally sounds amazing... My second instrument of choice is a 00's Rickenbacker 4003. A totally (and tonally) different instrument, armed with Rotosound flats that helps me cover different audio landscapes.
Lately i moved away from my old and familiar (did i mention also tight-budget?) Zoom 708II multi-effects pedal and got into the good old stomp-boxes. A few days ago i was at a friends place messing around with his Warwick $$ Corvette (round wounds, active electronics). It came as a surprise to me how well a mutual pedal we shared (the EHX Micro Q-Tron), responded to all the 3 modes (low pass, band pass and high pass), when my Q tron only responded to low. When i got back home i tried the pedal with both my Starfire, Rick and an Orville Les Paul guitar... The guitar did well on all 3 modes, Rick did significantly worse on HP and BP and alas my Guild was ok on just LP. There is a ton of things that affect the output of the signal, true, (passive/active electronics, pickups, strings, frequencies and the instrument itself) but to such extend? And i really wouldn't go crazy about it had i not attended a live by the Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, a band that uses exclusively semi hollow instruments through some very heavy fuzzes, distortions and other pedals associated with garage music...
My Guild sounds great. Period… but it sounds great when i plug it straight into the amp. When it goes through fuzzes, distortions, envelope filters, delays, flangers and two choruses (all true by pass pedals save from one chorus) it kinda sounds thin... and i am totally into effects !!!
The original thought was to change the pickups with another pair that might deliver more punch (feel free to make suggestions) but that made me realize that it would change the sound drastically and my problem does not stand with the clean signal per se, but with the one that goes through my pedal board. Maybe a signal booster coupled with some roundwounds will do the trick or maybe a compressor pedal - even though i am not a great fan of them (to be totally honest)... I really don't know... L
If you have a suggestion on how i can improve me effects signal, please do...
Thanks in advance,
A.
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