How are the varitone filters different?
I have a Batwing in a black refinish, and I've finally started getting on with it. The first four settings seem to completely change the sound of my fret noise more than anything else; which is actually pretty cool if any fret clatter is part of your sound. (I feel like it's an underrated tonal element of a good bass sound personally)
I forget what the 5th setting sounds like, but the 6th is the dub monster when you roll off your treble.
My re-attraction to the bass is mostly because I had a new nut cut and had it strung up as a B-E-A-D flatwound bass for about ten years. A couple weeks ago I decided to string it back up E-A-D-G, since I still had the G string from the 5string set that I bought, so they are the same identical strings. The weird thing is, the defined fret sound goes away when I string it back up as B-E-A-D, regardless of how I adjust the action or truss rod. Not that it doesn't have fret sound as a B-E-A-D bass, but for some reason when it's strung up proper the it feels like it there is a tonal pocket that it falls into now. I imagine it handles roundwound strings differently, but the flats are really underrated on this bass.
Are the pole pieces all identical? Or did they do something to finesse the sound of the individual strings?
