I have the filter closed completely on the neck pickup with no Q at all when playing reggae as it tends to have a nasally tone with q on the lower frequencies that doesn't tend to work for me. I get the bite with the bridge pickup but at the moment it's a bit hit and miss to get the right tone for different reggae tracks.
I try as best I can to get close to the bass tone that is on any of the original reggae recordings that we cover as I personally think the bass tone is pretty critical in getting the right feel in reggae. The current tour is called When Reggae Was King and covers many classic tracks from the Desmond Dekker, Toots, through the Wailers to Sugar Minot and Matumbi. All have characteristically different bass tones that give a flavour of the era so it is not all about having massive amounts of dub bass tone although having that option available is important. I did use the SF-2 for the second half of the set so set at just under 110Hz in the band pass mode with and about 1/4 damping and filter gain about 3 so it gave me some extra punch but not overtly heavy.
Jazzyvee
(Message edited by jazzyvee on April 27, 2013)
