Favorite bass tone of all time - go! Note - sorry the frequency spectrum graphics are hard to read, KZread compressed the visuals a bit too hard. I will hunt a better EQ plugin for future videos, in the meantime turn up your screen brightness and pray to the Dwarfs. ❤️

@muhammadburhan6948

Ай бұрын

Air bass no debate!!

@Maiden88

Ай бұрын

Steve Harris!

@apoplexiamusic

Ай бұрын

Don’t stop believing has a pretty good one. Every Rush song has masterful bass tones The tone on Primus’s Pork Soda is awesome The tone on Blood Sugar Sex Magic is amazing But more recently, in the metal sphere, Job For A Cowboy’s Moon Healer is incredible

@KarlBonde

Ай бұрын

Krist Novoselic!

@elflakeador09

Ай бұрын

Lemmy 😊

It took me ages trying to get the Dead Kennedys bass tone before I realized that he just had the bass knob turned to zero.

@ArtOfRuin981

Ай бұрын

Klaus also rests his pinky on the string beneath the one hes picking to dampen sympathetic vibration. Try it, sharpens the shit out of Holiday

@user-du1yk7uk9v

Ай бұрын

The perfect bass tone is in DISCO-FUNK

@heisenberg6785

Ай бұрын

​@@ArtOfRuin981Wow, didn't know about that one. Do you know about other bassists habits? Like Peter Hook, how to get his tone?

@ArtOfRuin981

Ай бұрын

​​@@heisenberg6785 Ill look in to Peter Hook! I try to watch how the bassist plays live or some vids where the angle is on them. I feel like its technique 90% of the time, most of the time 😮 Stu hamm on "a night in hell/foggy mountain breakdown" had super hot pickups on his yamaha,but also really light gauge strings. Barely had to tap, but it rung out like a piano with some growl. Bryan Bellar mutes with his pinky, but it switches between his fretting hand to his plucking hand. He also uses BEAD strings on a 4-string instead of EADG, tuned down 2 steps for dethklok shit. Really low grumbles, but the heavy strings doesnt get muddy during fast passages. live, you can see he switches his plucking to picking by stiffening his index and middle fingers, but on the reeeaallly fast shit he'll pluck but small alternating movements. Tough to explain, but think of flipping through a stack of records alternating with your index and middle finger but only moving the first distal joints really fast. The technique works, the strings keep the sound tight, so its a combination again.

@ArtOfRuin981

Ай бұрын

​@@heisenberg6785 For hook, play it like a guitar. Raking is key. Full strums dude.

I think you're the first person who's talked about EQ in terms of problem frequency and subtraction, rather than thinking of boosting first. Great work!

@JimmyRimmer

Ай бұрын

Far from the first, but FAR too few people talk about it.

It’s also pertinent to note that this happens to professionals as well. The last Tool concert I went to Justin almost blew out our intestines with too much tubby and the sound engineer had to turn him down before he disemboweled 10,000 people 😂😂

@damienalvarez2957

Ай бұрын

I was at a show where A7X and another band opened for Metallica. Sound board guy for A7X must’ve dropped the ball because guitars were getting lost underneath the bass and kick drum during the solos or when both Syn and Zack were playing harmonized melodies together. At first I thought it may have been my proximity to the PA system, but I doubt it since they were the only band that night that suffered from that issue. When Metallica played their harmonized melodies in, for example, Fight Fire with Fire, they cut through the mix without issue.

@user-zv6tz3uk5j

Ай бұрын

@@damienalvarez2957 Maybe it’s the sound guy personally fucking with A7X because he doesn’t like them.

@rome8180

Ай бұрын

That's the sound engineer's fault, not Justin Chancellor's. At that level, it's his job to make sure it sound good in the crowd BEFORE the show. 99% of the sound you hear out in the crowd is the club's gear, not the musician's. That's especially true for bass. It's different when you're playing at a small venue with a bad PA or no PA at all. Then it may fall more on the musicians to make sure things sound good. But in these mammoth venues with world class mix engineers and tens of thousands worth of equipment, they're the ones who need to make sure it sounds good.

@kieronmckay4276

Ай бұрын

The venue's acoustics and the music style also matter quite alot... some venues just have dead spots or places where sound collect or reflect badly... I saw a show in a dome where it was Mars Volta and A Perfect Circle years back... Mars Volta sounded like utter crap simply because their frenetic style didn't lend itself to the natural reflections and reverb of the venue, it was literally unintelligible, you couldn't hear anything they were playing. Even if you had the setlist in hand you couldn't pick out songs you knew. APC sounded unbelievable, like any of their albums, crystal clear perfect mix.

The fact you use a fender rumble, one of the most common and decent sounding budget bass combos, makes this vid that much better

@Obscurity202

Ай бұрын

Yesss

@user-pu4oe3ew9g

Ай бұрын

So true

@user-mq9gh8xf9b

29 күн бұрын

I was debating between this and a Jackson Spectra, I love my Jackson but I can’t help but wonder how that rumble woulda been lol

@theobaldINsorrow

22 күн бұрын

agree. I'm a bassist on a budget and I own exactly Rumble 40.I don't own Fender bass (only Squier Affinity).

@JillyKatBassPlayer

19 күн бұрын

Wow, I'm completely floored by this video. Really important stuff here and I've worked in sound mixing for theater productions where everyone crashed and burned through it; cringe worthy. I have a lot of appreciation for my Fender Rumble 40 now!

This is hands down one of the best music instructions videos I have seen. Most videos tell you what to do without explaining why or at least in a cryptic way. Laying out what frequency spectrum does what. Such a great help! Thank you!

@djcm1018

Ай бұрын

I felt the exact way 💯✨️‼️

@yobrethren

Ай бұрын

Yeah, there' totally not enough tutorials out there teaching musicians how to actually nail the frequencies to not sound like ass

@infectedgoat7775

29 күн бұрын

The best live tone for bass I’ve heard is Godflesh. Perfect eq of tubby and wicked growl that fit right in the pocket of the guitar tone and bass drum (which was a drum machine) just 2 dudes guitar (and vox) and bass slamming it.

Saw a cover band go back and forth between hip hop, rock, pop in as many songs. Went up to the bass player and asked him how he’s getting these great tones… must have like 8 pedals right? “I have a nice beefy sound dialed up on the amp. I add bass for the hip hop tracks, put it back for the pop stuff and then kick on a drive for the rock stuff. That’s it” It was mind opening

Hey Josh great video! I’m an engineer that spends most of my time fiddling with knobs - and you had a great breakdown of showing how each range can affect the tone when boosted/attenuated. I’m trying to become a better bass player and your channel is helping a lot, cheers!

finally a bass tone that won't make my bass teacher puke.

That Fleetwood Mac joke killed me. Good job. More videos to revive me please.

I have been playing bass for over 30 years now, I don't play in a cover band so I'm not trying to copy anyone else's tone, I just like to get a good phat but clear tone. That has been an ongoing struggle for me finding that elusive balance between phatness (not boomy) and clarity. The 250 Hz dwarf appears to have been my nemesis all along. After watching this video I added the parametric eq block to the end of my signal chain in my HX Stomp and experimented with each of the frequencies mentioned in your video, I discovered that my tone got much clearer but retained all that lovely phatness when I just rolled back some of those frequencies around 250 Hz. Don't know why it took me this long to discover this! Thanks man!

I love that he's showing all of this on basic equipment, as well as high end stuff. This man is out to kill G. A. S., and I love it.

I had all kinds of EQ problems when I was a teen, running a 3 band EQ active Stingray through a Boss GEB-7 into an Ampeg B2R head with a graphic EQ. Every time my band played a new venue I had to spend time re-dialing my tone. What made me stop having to do this was simplifying my rig. These days I play a passive MIA J bass directly into an Ampeg PF-500 with only Bass, Mid, Treble knobs and a couple quick select buttons for boosting and I NEVER have EQ problems anymore. My tone is great at home, rehearsal, and gigs. Most importantly it stays consistent. Less is more, guys. The best advice I can give over my 23 years of playing is that the less EQ crap you gotta mess with the better.

Easily one of the best Bass channels out there, perfect blend between „no BS“ educational and still fun to watch. Been a bassist for 11 years now, and I still learn so much from you. And I‘m always motivated to keep practicing after watching one of your videos! Greetings from Germany✌🏼

EQ pedals are a great way to gain greater control of your tone on the cheap, if your current amp lacks in EQ department.

@ImnotgoingSideways

Ай бұрын

Solid! EQ pedals are underrated secret sauce for any signal chain. A Boss GE-7 can be a bit more manageable than the GEB-7, but the B7 offers more control at the far top&bottom ends. Even if the amp has a nice EQ, if you're using other pedals or a tube preamp, putting an EQ first in line in the chain can help tie down the other audible quirks. Even if only as an impedance buffer.

@ArleyMcBlain

Ай бұрын

there’s a great video on the jhs channel showing the mutemath bassist using eq to make guitar overdrive pedals work well on bass, restoring lost lowend

This, BY FAR, has been the best video explain tone problems and how to fix/master them!

Finally! I love how Josh admitted that his plucking advice isn't everything when it comes to tone.

This video SHOULD be sponsored. You're a gem. Thanks for all your hard work out there.

I guess being a (mainly metal) guitarist first helped with the first two, I always went for the "full but not muddy" low end right away. But yes, you guessed it, it was Bitey and Edgy all the way for the first few months of learning bass. Also, 10/10 for saying THE TONE IS IN THE WHOLE CHAIN and that yes, both fingers and (correctly setup) gear are important. I've also been in both "I need new gear" and "I just suck" lands at various points and both can be very toxic and demotivating if you ignore the other part/half.

8:38 no seriously buy the course. It's amazing and it has significantly improved my life. Thank you, Josh!

@Obscurity202

Ай бұрын

Buy my course!

@Obscurity202

Ай бұрын

Subscribe to bass buzz!

@401Blues

Ай бұрын

I am a graduate of Josh's Bass Buzz course...hands down the best beginner course out there! I have used or are using just about all the popular On-Line instruction out there,,,,but they are all really tailored to Bass Buzz grads

You need a t shirt with the Josh elves!

@Space_Rooster420

Ай бұрын

Dude, hell yeah! Lol. Seconded

@stu1037

Ай бұрын

I need a NOT JOSH shirt, because I'm not.

This is by far the best video on youtube about EQ settings for bass. I’ve been searching for a video like this for a long time, and actually was surprised that there is not a single instructional video on yt that talks about the corresponding sounds of the frequency ranges for bass guitar. This one felt like a medicine. Keep up the good work Josh, really appreciate it.

This Fender player bases are awesome, especially in good hands trough the right gear and settings.

This is one of the most important videos you could have made to help any bass player. Big thanks to you Josh ! Greetings from France :)

Another great video. As a follow-up, I'd like to see amp and EQ setups for various styles, i.e., metal, jazz, rock, etc. Great to see a new video!

@giorgiofenrir

Ай бұрын

Yes, that woud be really cool!

As a regular guitarist trying to get into bass territory, I can say that this information is gold. Thank you

Literally the best explanation of bass-centric EQ that I've seen in the decades I've been playing. Absolutely fantastic. Thanks!

"...unless i tell you to!" You're the living legend in bass community, Josh!

This is super clear and interesting. I’m a drummer and fledgling audio mixer, but I would still recommend this vid to anyone trying to understand the frequency spectrum more fully. Well done.

That is really helpful! Especially about Honky - one of my basses has this honky character, and I always struggled to get rid of it. And the part about the chain is super important. I mostly play metal, and I need this clanky sound to cut through the mix. My go-to metal bass is Warwick; however, I was not satisfied with the sound. I bought a Darkglass pedal and still was not satisfied with the sound. And only when I changed the strings, that was an 'aha' moment - puzzle pieces came together, and I got the sound I was looking for.

So the key takeaway is that you can do everything with a jazz bass. The two volumes and one tone coupled with you plucking hand placement (and angle) will carry you through all 5 situations. Almost rarely get the chance to play with an amp/eq so I had to adapt

My solution was pretty simple: I bought a 20$ Behringer BDI21 pre-amp pedal, and toyed with the knobs until I got the tone I wanted. Pre-amp modeler equip is life-saver, and it's rarely talked about in beginner/intermediate discussion. You'll see people talking about overdrive, vintage, distortion, and other sorts of things but not about this.

Wow! 30+ years playing with established pro musos and this vid has been SO useful I feel like a noob.. I used to take pride in thinking tone just came naturally now I realise I've just been flattered by sound techs.. legend.

Studying mixing has improved my bass tones immensely. Being able to recognize frequencies and understand exactly what they do means I can quickly get any tone I want. I highly recommend that every musician mess around making music in a DAW. Also, maybe watch some music production tutorials. Recording yourself is also useful on a lot of levels besides just solidifying your grasp on EQ. It'll immediately magnify any technical mistakes you're making, for example. It'll also teach you how to use other important tools like compression.

Wow it's great to see you posting again. Loved the video, but I have one suggestion: the spectrum analyzer was kind of hard on my screen to see. The EQ curve was basically the same color as the background. Loved the video otherwise, glad you're not telling us to buy more gear.

THIS is the video I've been looking for

Sincerely, thank you. I have been struggling to dial in my tone with my Sound Gear I bought 4 years ago. This video not only taught me what the 7-band EQ on my amp actually means, but, I finally got my tone the way I want it with the Sound Gear.

When you were making that face on the couch playing Getty Lee, I thought wow, I only wish I could sound as good as you were there.

Man. I bought a bass when i started getting into home recording and producing some time ago (as a guitarist originally). Your channel tought me so much in such a short time about the instrument and how to play it. Despite the (very enjoyable!) puns, your teaching is super on point. Just watched this video today (4 times...) and it ties so many things together. So much i can take out of this for recording, tone, playing. 11/10 stars! Thank you!

This comes as a good counterpoint to some other influenza that got recommended to me yesterday, claiming that a way to good tone is: and here came a list of expensive new gear they claimed people have to buy.

The trick I found personally for my Jazz Bass is to roll off the neck pickup knob a bit. It cuts away some bass and makes the tone into a nailbiting gritty almost distorted sound (if you play it hard enough). But I almost exclusively play metal so that might not fit everybody Also the video is very helpful. The people that are comfortable around EQ were like wizards to me for a long time. P.S. I think there's no such thing as "too much bite". Playing slower songs with a lot of bite just means you're too excited!

Seeing a Rumble 40 in this video made my heart happy since I just got one a few weeks ago! As far as bass tone goes, I'm a huge fan of Chris Wolstenholme's distortion.

@marcusroute935

Ай бұрын

I have it too abd its the best budget bass amp out.

Glad to see you back Josh, just picked up my bass about a couple weeks ago and have been having the time of my life learning and playing the instrument thanks to your channel. Please start making videos again, we have similar taste in humor and it helps ease the beginner frustration 👍😂

Edgy bitting metal bass tones are my favorites. Geddy is one my favorite classic bass tones so full but so clear on the top end

0:14 you were in Tempest? that's awesome

@robertbenson1957

Ай бұрын

Awesome band

This is the kind of video that I needed about 30 years ago. That's when I 'learned' that tone was in the most expensive gear and had to weigh a ton. (Although, those boutique 8x10 cabinets sure did sound incredible after I drug them up a few flights of stairs to the gig. 😖)

This is the most helpful bass EQ video I've seen. Right to the point with practical exaples we can all relate to. Well done!

Probably late to the party, but I've been playing for 10years and this was one of the most instructive and well spoken EQ video I've ever seen. Thanks for this, Josh!

Nice vid! When i was in HS, i tried playing golf with a few other kids with some no-name handed down clubs and one kid started to make fun of them. Then one of the older guys said Tiger Woods would still be the best player in the world using my clubs. Golf didnt really stick at all, but music and that lesson kinda did. Like, your instrument doesnt suck, Billy Sheehan would still shred on it, you just need more practice. Also with a small investment in some tools, you can buy 350-650 range and MAKE it sound 800+.

Greetings from Dublin, Ireland 🇮🇪 Another superb video with brilliant insights. On the never ending search for the ultimate tone….start here with this excellent video. Thanks very much for sharing this and all your other great videos

Just a few of my personal favorites... - Tony Levin all over Peter Gabriel's So album. - Michael Anthony's Van Halen sound, especially Running With the Devil. - Lesser known but... The late great and incomparable Tim Chandler of Danial Amos, The Swirling Eddies, The Choir and The Lost Dogs.

Probably the only good video ive ever seen on tone. I dont even play bass but i watched the whole thing

You are a real one for this. This and technique are the most important yet overlooked elements of being a musician. Universal skill that'll impress the ignorant

Active bass supremacy. I set up the amp sound with the bass EQ at halfway, and adjust the tone for the song on the bass. If all at halfway doesn't work, mid boost for rock, bass and treb boost for metal, bass boost for soul.

This is incredibly helpful. Been playing for about a year and have been chasing Cliff Burton's tone so hard. Turns out the key was actually backing off the bass knob! Now that I have his pedals- the Morley wah and the TS9- it's dead-on, especially if I use a line splitter to blend the clean and dirty tones together. Thanks bro!

Josh, this is an outstanding addition to your considerable library. Great to have a new video. Immediately understandable. I'm SO grateful for a) you using simple stuff like a Fender Rumble example and a passive J Bass and b) making it clear good bass sound is not about buying more stuff but understanding the stuff you have. I applied all this quickly to my home practice amp (a Fender Rumble 25, with only 3 bands) plus both my P and J Basses and WOW, what an improvement!! Worked just as you described. Thanks so much, Josh!!!!

This video was insanely valuable. I already knew most of this by ear, but not by frequency. Having the specific language to communicate with a sound engineer in terms of hertz to fix undesirable mixes has been a bridge I've been trying to gap for a few years- I'll definitely be rewatching this several times and taking notes. More value in 16 odd minutes than my four years of music school education. Killer dude

Super helpful! I really appreciate your “how to fix it” as well as the “unless it’s the tone you’re after for [example] style of playing”

Great video and information! As a bass player and sound engineer, I find many players are totally missing out on the whole audio spectrum theory. I also think it's worth mentioning pickups' heights, and what it means to plug a bass directly into the PA\Recording gear without a preamp or anything that deals with its raw sound - Which is at most times a massive low end boost, and barely any high mid and treble. I usually want to kick bassists showing up with only a cable, expecting me to create their sound from scratch.

As somebody who is a nobody, this is the greatest bass video I have ever seen. Tone is the most abstract and confusing thing for the average bass player. You've started the explanation and breakdown of what the hell the knobs on a person's amp mean. That's something. That's truly something.

You guys need to pump out more vids! Your stuff blows everything else out of the water as far as entertainment and education...

This is maybe the best and most important tone-related video in existence. Thank you!

Wow! This was a great and very helpful video. Thank you. I hope your students know just how lucky they are/were. You really are a wonderful teacher and gifted at explaining these complicated things in a fun and real way.

Another great video Josh! Thanks for making these and breaking things down in easy to understand terms. Also, we need more footage of you playing

Thanks for this video! I've been really struggling with all these (especially with my limited budget). I'm super excited to try these out :)

Great video. I've been playing bass since late 70s. I've used tons of different basses but have used Ampeg SVTS exclusively since the beginning. Tone to me is at the top. I can play flawlessly on a gig but if my tone sucks I'm pissed for the entire night. I get to gigs early set up & screw with my tone because size of room, how the stage is ..alot of wood metal whatever i find .& It could just be me..but so much effects tone. I always change strings before every show..roto sound round wounds, fresh batteries active pickups wireless etc. Anyway I'm from Buffalo NY & grew up watching Billy Sheehan in clubs. Great guy great bassist & killer tone.

This is probably the most comprehensive instruction video on setting up my Darkglass I have found so far lol

Great content, my dude! Funny thing is this popped up in my feed as I await the arrival of the gift I purchased myself for working lots of overtime this summer (darkglass alpha/omega amp)

Two quick points; 1) I like the idea of the Zon Sonus BG4 model (Billy Gould signature) as it only has one knob for volume - so now you don't have to get into a debacle of constantly adjusting multiple knobs on your bass AND on your amp - just deal with the EQ on your amp. 2) after playing for more then 33 years I just found the perfect tone(s) IMO; I just got a Spector Euro LX4 with EMG PJ's & the Tone Pump preamp; frickin amazing sound AND playability. It sounds awesome on it's own plugged into my Eden WT-300 & SWR 2x12 cab but to take it to another level I plug my bass into a SansAmp DP-3X (Dug Pinnick model) DI/preamp. Everyone that hears it without the SansAmp loves it but when I engage the mix mode on the DP-3X their faces melt with excitement. So Zon Sonus Billy Gould model and/or Spector Euro LX4 with EMG's plugged into a SansAmp DP-3X plugged into an Eden WT-300 which goes into a SWR 2x12. I bought every piece of gear used to save $$$. Altogether I'd say it was about $2800; $1950 for the Spector, $286 for the Eden WT-300, $257 for the SansAmp & $300 for the SWR 2x12. This may seem like a lot but if I compare it to the thousands and thousands of dollars I spent since 1991 on basses, amps, cabinets, pedals etc. it is really a tiny fraction of the money I spent. Learn from my mistakes and go with the items I just mentioned - you're wallet will thank you, cheeers!

This video was very helpful and informative, thank you! As a very new bass player, I figured i needed to get a new bass to sound to get a certain tone instead of just messing with the dials on my amp, that i was told from the salesman not to mess with🤦🏽‍♂️. Definitely subscribing 👍🏽

Your video gave me motivation to pick up the bass again and get back to practice. Thank you!!

This is a very educational and easily understood video for EQ. Amazing

Man I love how you made the Dwarfs look, and even more amazing advise!

I have to admit, I came with low expectations and was eagerly surprised. Great video and I love the technical details and anti-gas approach. It is indeed not very mentioned on the Internet and I appreciate there's a good video showing it

Thanks for this amazing advice. I'm playing with a very simple Laney LX10B. It has a bass knob a treble knob and a shape button that seems to boost the middle frequencies. Yet by applying these tips I'm getting some changes in sound that I had never gotten before!! So awesome! I'm learning and practicing Iron Maiden's Wrathchild at the moment and turning the bass knob down, giving Tubby a little less expression has done wonders for the tone and overall sound. Thanks man, you are a jewel!

For years, I've used an LMB-3 pedal, and it works great for tone in being able to manage those dwarves from getting out of control. It's also great for as a booster for solo's

Guitarist here. Subbed. Useful, funny and to the point. well done, sir!

Man, what an amazing video. You're a genius!

I can't believe that a graphic t-shirt with dwarves ended up allowing me to understand the frequency spectrum. Of all the things that I've seen, this has made the most sense. I think you've just accelerated my electric playing ahead by like 5 years through this one silly drawing.

This is a great video! You were able to explain sound frequency on bass so I can actually understand! Appreciate it!

I am here to tell you that the discerption of your Darkglass was the best I have ever heard 😂😂😂😂

I learned this stuff as a sound engineer.......... and applied it to my musicianship. You're right that LOTS of musicians need to learn it. Sometimes a musician will cut out a NEEDED frequency before sending it to the board.........and that sucks too. Good sound techs need to be benevolent dictators sometimes.

I’ve been running the trace Elliot GP 12 SMX series since it came out in the 90s - between the 12 band graphic EQ with the 30 Hz knob for tightening up the B string by cutting down a couple notches ... and then add in the dual compressor and holy crap the best bass sounds ever - doesn’t matter what bass; active, passive doesn’t matter what pick up!

You nailed this one Josh, thank you so much for the tips. Sharing this with my guitar buddy for sure. My favorite video of yours, for sure.

Awesome video, I've been looking for i video EXACTLY like this, you always come to the rescue!

Very interesting way to visualize the eq, thanks!

Funnily enough i unlocked Tool sounds by accidentally switching guitar amp with a bass amp… guitar sounded more like Adam and bass more like Justin. I knew Adam plays into bass cabinets, but trying it out was still mind blowing

Man you put out the best stuff hands down

Most underrated and important topic to discuss. I recently just started tweaking with EQ and it really makes so much difference!

Great video! I would add one detail: Despite doing whatever to your EQ, you ll frequently get bad tone without proper muting. Both harmonics and partial harmonics of both muted strings and played strings and even the position of muting within the string (dividing the muted string in two sub-strings) can ruin the tone).

Mr. Lee's tone is so good. It's nice when bass is doing it's own thing in a small three piece. Tonally & musically.

This is awesome! There's little to no videos on this topic for bassists. Love it!

A really interesting and documented and smart and funny video! These are rare theses days! Keep up the good work.

Great great great content as always, Josh! I can't thank you enough.

This is definitely one of the best bass videos on KZread! Great video 👍🏾

this is so great! i wish you did something related to 5 string basses, either about tone or better ways to use that space to decorate bass lines

The problem with 250hz is that everything lives there: keys, guitar mute chugs, toms and kick, and male vox......a lot of times, its the other instruments/vox that are attributing to the mud and becomes an "audio illusion" that the bass is the culprit......I have been preaching that bass is often tailored to the instruments around it for a long time, sometimes making a crappy isolated tone that sounds great when the other instruments are present (Im glad you mentioned this)

Wow. This was insanely helpful! Thank you!

This is SUPER HELPFUL! Thank you! So many bass tone/amp videos talk about putting all the knobs at zero and it just isn't helpful.

How to cut through the mix and also sit nicely. Finger picked? Boost the mids Slap? Cut the mids. Thank you for coming to my TED talk