EQ settings, running flat, or however you desire still cannot replace a players abilities with touch and technique.
Your pluck, thump, slap, pop, attack, release, and control of the strings are ... well...
more important than EQ settings.
This ultimately is the determining factor of "your" tone.
Check out this youtube example: from the 7 minute mark...
clearly, a demonstration of total control of the tone, with touch & technique.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R0e0Y...eature=related
( I believe this is Ken Smith BT6 - red stain color; rarely seen like this?)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z51o7...eature=related
(Jerry Brooks Solo with red Smith BT6)
Oh yes...
Tone is such a subjective topic... "ear" of the beholder.