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 Posted: Thu Dec 21, 2006 3:43 pm
OK, so I've been using my bass with distortion for a while, and I wanted to know if someone could tell me why my high notes in a chord always drown out the low notes and how I could fix it.
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Posted: Thu Dec 21, 2006 5:28 pm
i'm not a bassist, but i have messed around on one and it did the same thing to me, i dunno what it is
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Posted: Thu Dec 21, 2006 7:33 pm
I'm guessing it'd be the frquency of the notes, but I'm no professional.
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Posted: Fri Dec 22, 2006 11:47 am
What distortion do you use?
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Posted: Thu Dec 28, 2006 6:20 pm
bambulus What distortion do you use? The pedal I use is the DF-7, but it's got multiple distortions on it. I mainly use hard rock and death metal.
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Posted: Thu Dec 28, 2006 8:18 pm
maybe you should try to see if it happens on the other distortion levals
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Posted: Fri Dec 29, 2006 8:04 am
suicidial tendancy maybe you should try to see if it happens on the other distortion levals I'm not a bassist either, but that's what I'd do.
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Posted: Mon Jan 01, 2007 12:54 pm
An EQ might help out they are great for honing in your tone.
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Posted: Tue Jan 02, 2007 12:53 pm
I guess the low notes just over power the high notes and the distor must make it harder and to hear the high notes . Its hard to hear chords when your usin distortion .
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Posted: Mon Jun 18, 2007 10:20 am
use a compressor.
how hard can it get?
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Posted: Tue Jun 19, 2007 3:09 am
theguitarwhore use a compressor. how hard can it get? Compression will only make things worse. The best way to fix the problem is to turn the gain down on your pedal. If your low notes are drowning the high ones out, it's because of a funny technique called masking. Audiophiles sometimes call it this since the sound you want to hear is being "masked" by a similar tone and frequency. My other question is, are you playing chords on the neck pickup? Or do you have a bridge pickup to play on?
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Posted: Wed Jun 20, 2007 5:24 am
play with tone levels, an eq if you have one, different distortion types (and levels). that may help question
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Posted: Wed Jul 04, 2007 9:00 am
hylianhero27 theguitarwhore use a compressor. how hard can it get? Compression will only make things worse. The best way to fix the problem is to turn the gain down on your pedal. If your low notes are drowning the high ones out, it's because of a funny technique called masking. Audiophiles sometimes call it this since the sound you want to hear is being "masked" by a similar tone and frequency. My other question is, are you playing chords on the neck pickup? Or do you have a bridge pickup to play on? It's the low notes that are BEING drowned out - I want to hear the low note. On a normal guitar the low note always seems to be the loudest (with distortion anyways). But anywho, I switched to the heaviest of my distortions, which has a really bright, somewhat irritating, tone, turned the bass up, mid frequency down, and high end to halfway. Worked for me. I just can't believe this thread is still here after so many months, and on the first page.
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