I don't know about "missing", but...Gregory East wrote:Is that because it's missing sub freq or because you have it pointed at your ears so it just isn't turned up as loud as your average bass rig?
I guess it's a little of both, my cabs are plenty loud on stage and are located where I can hear them, but I don't use a lot of lows in my tone. Lows on stage just mush everything up. I run my Ashdown preamp with the EQ shut off. With good strings, good pickups and the clean reproduction of my BFM cabs, I let the natural sound of the bass do the work. My tone on stage isn't very bottom-endy. I get the bottom end on my sound from the PA. When needed without FOH support, I have pushed the bottom end up a tiny bit with the Ashdown's eq, but we don't play without FOH support for the bass very often.
Of course, it helps that this punchy, growly sound fits the style of music we write.
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