Ivan-- from the title, I thought you were going to talk about the Lowrider bass pedal from Zerofiveaudio. They make a stompbox version of the pultec bass trick, it add thickness to your low-end at specific frequencies. Jean from the Wetterbass turned me onto it.
Pultec is also a technique used with a HPF & a little bass boost...i've used a Broughton HPF/LPF pedal in my bass amps effects loop for 6 months now, very happy with the results...i had never heard of it till i watched "Wetter Bass" video where he uses a HPF & a little bass boost to get a tighter bottom end...talking bass obviously...lol...neat when used mixing bass into the rest of the track....
fantastic video! but i have to say, with my headphes it was easier to hear the trick when you did it on the low frequencies. on the high ones i really had to concentrate. For me the effect was almost reminescent of a compressor in the way that more notes projected an even fullness, not only on the Estring (for example) and the notes on the a, or d string get thinner. with your eq trick activated i thought that the a and d string were bringing more bass foundation to the table while the estring did not overpower in contrast and it did not sound boomy. One question remains for me: is it important in which order the high-pass and the bass boost (or low pass and high boost) sit? in my teaching room i run a simple alway on HPF in the Master effects loop of my amp to keep things less boomy for my colleagues and that works quite well, but i am yet to gain experience with this stuff live or while recording...
I am not sure where in the circuitry most of the units have the HPF, but I think it is: HPF -> Bass Boost. With that being said, the best way to test this is to try both option and listen to what sounds the best in your context :)
@ Yep. I downloaded a bunch of plug-ins and wasn't impressed. So I bit the bullet and financed a bunch of analog gear. There's something about hardware with real circuitry, transformers, tubes, etc,. that warms up your tone like no software can.
It's wild that by cutting low end it sounds deeper. I understand why, obviously sub lows (50 and under) is muddy but its a super sick technique.
Pretty interesting, right? 😁
Ivan-- from the title, I thought you were going to talk about the Lowrider bass pedal from Zerofiveaudio. They make a stompbox version of the pultec bass trick, it add thickness to your low-end at specific frequencies. Jean from the Wetterbass turned me onto it.
Cool! Didn’t know about that one. Thanks for sharing!
Pultec is also a technique used with a HPF & a little bass boost...i've used a Broughton HPF/LPF pedal in my bass amps effects loop for 6 months now, very happy with the results...i had never heard of it till i watched "Wetter Bass" video where he uses a HPF & a little bass boost to get a tighter bottom end...talking bass obviously...lol...neat when used mixing bass into the rest of the track....
De que país sos craaack?
Peru
fantastic video! but i have to say, with my headphes it was easier to hear the trick when you did it on the low frequencies. on the high ones i really had to concentrate.
For me the effect was almost reminescent of a compressor in the way that more notes projected an even fullness, not only on the Estring (for example) and the notes on the a, or d string get thinner. with your eq trick activated i thought that the a and d string were bringing more bass foundation to the table while the estring did not overpower in contrast and it did not sound boomy.
One question remains for me: is it important in which order the high-pass and the bass boost (or low pass and high boost) sit?
in my teaching room i run a simple alway on HPF in the Master effects loop of my amp to keep things less boomy for my colleagues and that works quite well, but i am yet to gain experience with this stuff live or while recording...
Do you mean at which frequency or where in the signal chain?
@IvanBassist where in signal chain. So is it important if i go HPF->BassBoost or instead BassBoost->HPF?
I am not sure where in the circuitry most of the units have the HPF, but I think it is: HPF -> Bass Boost. With that being said, the best way to test this is to try both option and listen to what sounds the best in your context :)
@@IvanBassist thanks!
When you mentioned a Pultec rackmount EQ, I thought you were gonna pull out a real $4K Pultec. I didn't expect a plug-in you downloaded for $80. LOL.
Does the trick though 🤷🏽♂️😅
@@IvanBassistBut definitely not as impressive…
@ Yep. I downloaded a bunch of plug-ins and wasn't impressed. So I bit the bullet and financed a bunch of analog gear. There's something about hardware with real circuitry, transformers, tubes, etc,. that warms up your tone like no software can.
Y’all touring with a pultec in the rack?
First!