How To Adjust Your Bass and Amp Sound

[eric.kiser]

Reference here… Show Us Your Basses (Part 1) - #3046 by Brian.RichardS

@Brian.RichardS

On the Vox there are various settings.

Step One

Drive: off
Bright: off
Treble: 50% (set at noon / 12 o’clock)
Bass: 50% (set at noon / 12 o’clock)
Volume: Whatever sounds comfortable/good

Step Two

P Pickup Volume: 50%
J Pickup Volume: 0%
Tone: 50%

Step Three

@BassFaceDisgrace

Edit to be slightly more helpful: A good place to start on a PJ bass like yours is turn your P pickup to the desired level, and slowly turn up the J pickup to add some of that qwackier flavor until you find something that sounds good to you. Play with the tone knob from there to mess with it some more.

Step Four

@Brian.RichardS

As a beginner is it best not to use the Drive and Bright settings

Leave them off till you find the basic sound you like on the bass.
Then use them as needed, as you like. Don’t think you have to ignore them because you’re a beginner. Especially that drive knob. Overdrive is a lot of fun.

Part of doing all this is you finding a reference point to work from. Usually the 50% mark on any given knob. This way you can return knobs to that position and start over if you start to feel like you’ve lost track of what knobs are having what effect.