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How to get a metal bass tone?

Need a few tips on where to have the equalizer settings set (low, mid, high) for a nice metal sound on my bass guitar when in Drop C (CGCF).

With bass guitar in a metal situation mids are always your friend. They help give your tone a lot of edge and growl plus they often fill in the frequency space left more or less empty by every other instrument in the band so an added bonus of boosting your mids is your sound stands out more. So step one is to boost your mids. Highs add even more edge and growl to your sound however string noise tends to become unbearable with highs boost too much and unless your amp has tweeters it wont be able to produce these higher overtones that well anyways. So step two is to either leave your high settings flat (knob at 12 o’clock with most amps) or boost them ever so slightly. Most people think it must be a good idea to boost the bass in their bass sound however more often then not it just makes your bass sound muddy and interferes with the kick drum making your bass sound and the sound of the kick drum hard to tell apart. Also it tends to mask your mids and highs with low end muddiness and while it may make you sound big and powerful when you’re practicing at home in most live situations your sound is just lost in the mix when you pump up your bass. So as blasphemous as it sounds a gentle cut in the bass frequency range is actually a good thing in a metal band situation. So to wrap things up:

Bass – A little cutting here is actually a good thing
Mids – Boost away (A fun thing I like to do is really crank up my mids and use the bridge pickup during bass solos to get a great “jaco” sound: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yGxR5bF5PDU )
High – Flat or boost slightly if the string noise isn’t too harsh to your ears.

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