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Topic: More bass |
Gene Wright
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Cody Wyoming USA
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Posted 16 Apr 2013 7:10 am |
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| Having lost most of my hearing in the service and love to play the pedal steel, is there any way to add more bass sound to my set up? I play a Fender ten with a Fender 1965 blackface super reverb amp. I have all the bass set that I can get from the amp. Thanks, Gene Wright Cody WY. |
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Scott Duckworth
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Etowah, TN Western Foothills of the Smokies
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Posted 16 Apr 2013 8:04 am
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The amplifier only reproduces what bass is fed into it. While pedal steel is a wide range instrument, you probably are getting all the bass available from the pedal steel.
If your amp has a headphone output, you might try a good set of headphones. They can be arraigned so that if you are playing with a track or band, you could have a feed from that also into the headphones. Try different sets of headphones, some have more bass than others.
If you know someone who has a bass guitar amp, you could compare your amp to a bass amp just to see if you are getting all the bass you can. If it helps, you could piggy back a bass amp in your setup.
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Herb Steiner
From:
Spicewood TX 78669
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Posted 16 Apr 2013 8:44 am
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A Fender 10-string in E9 simply hasn't got much bass range to it, and the Super Reverb isn't a bass-accentuated amp. Scott's probably on the money with his response.
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Donny Hinson
From:
Glen Burnie, Md. U.S.A.
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Posted 18 Apr 2013 1:35 pm
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Gene, try turning the middle control all the way off. Then set the bass at 6 (or higher) and do the final tweaking to get the best overall tone with the treble control (usually the treble works best between 3 & 4). The Fender design really emphasizes the highs, so the only way to get decent, solid bass is to turn the mids all the way off...or nearly so. 
You'll need to have the amp volume fairly high to compensate for these settings. (I run mine wide open all the time, even when practicing quietly at home.) Don't be afraid to turn the amp up - learn to control your max volume with the volume pedal, and not the amps volume control.  |
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b0b
From:
Cloverdale, CA, USA
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Gene Wright
From:
Cody Wyoming USA
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Posted 19 Apr 2013 8:01 am Bass
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| Thanks guys for the help. Will try the control settings. Won't give up! |
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