stingrayPete1977

There's a mod I believe for those to stop the preamp being so hot but I'm not familiar with the non USA SUB. Maybe have a google for it?

I'd just raise the E a little bit on the saddle, measurements are all well and good but feel, sound and playability are more important. Fwiw I clank on all five strings on mine, lol. The EQ can boost the issue too, how have you got the bass /treble set? It might also need a tiny bit more relief in the truss rod but it's hard to say without it in my hands.

Jot down what you've got, speakers, mixer, power amps, monitors etc and post them in here and we can argue I mean discuss the possible outcome.

I use a Genz Benz 1x12 as my monitor on most gigs now, I'll even put out at head height sometimes if there's a suitable spot for it.

There's often a reason why things are rare.

I love the look of it, classical meets industrial.

He's in a mariachi band!

So what we've learnt is that a speaker designed to relay an entire live band at volumes higher than the band itself can easily cope with just dealing with a single bass guitar, who'da thunkit?

I'm the same, I'd be much better if used the headroom of the amp but I'm a ham fisted thumper now after that introduction to jamming.

An xlr lead from the Di on the back of the amp (strangely labelled line out on there) into your pa mixer will have that sorted so it's just a matter of hearing yourself, the obvious options are; 1-Bass cabinet under that head as normal. 2-Put your bass through the monitors on stage that face back at you if they are decent. 3-Get some in ear monitors that are fed from the pa mixer. It mostly depends what PA you have?

You've killed rock and roll, you bastard!

I had a D string break where it goes over the bridge saddle years ago, I found a meccano nut and let out enough to tie it on and tune it up, it stayed on the bass for about 6 years like that no problem!

Which string is which?

I'd certainly try a 5 string version too, I'm a bit fond of active basses though I think.

There must be a whole raft of instruments aimed at those who are less financially buoyant, maybe try and hook something on line or the net?

I've got spare double bass strings in my bag, I've never tried changing one myself so it would probably be more entertaining that my playing watching me try on stage!

There is a flip side from a listeners point of view, whenever I've seen RHCP Flea uses some crazy sounds and I'm sure it sounds ace in his in ears or fake GK bass cabs on stage, lol, but more often than not the heavily fx laden sounds don't cut through, at Knebworth I'd rather someone had given him a humbucker equipped bass and just mixed a good core tone audible around the whole park and left it at that! He's now gone back to basses with MM pickups full time, the jazzes have gone and the new ones have musicman pickups in the musicman position, other than that he still uses the Modulus basses.

Certainly, as long as the crowd are happy it's job done

Yeah that would work but I don't think they're losing many sales from it, Fender ones don't line up, my USA Jazz 5 certainly can't because the string spacing is adjustable!

They aren't always in the same position in each bass though, the single coil on a Ray HS isn't going to fit in the bridge position of a Caprice for example.

I used to play live bass for a singer song writer who wrote and recorded his whole albums himself, all played to a high standard, the live shows sometimes had 3 guitarists or just him on guitar, sometimes acoustic sometimes electric, sometimes we had a drummer sometimes we didn't and it would be a cajon player instead, sometimes we had the female singer that did the studio session if she was around, if not Dave sang his version. It's all good, he has a whole new lineup these days and the songs still work because they are great songs. If anything I go and see bands live to hear the songs played differently to the cd, I'm going to see a band on friday where the core member is an epic banjo player but you never know what you'll get until the night, I've seen him with a harpist,cellist,violinist, guitarist,bassist,drummer,percussionist and upright bass so far in various formations of no more than 5 players normally 4. Always good but never the same twice, that's live music for me

They are symmetrical if you look closely, no one makes pickups with different poles to suit different nut width, fingerboard width, bridge spacings and then the infinite positions you place the pickup under tapering together strings. Plain covers is the only solution.

I heard once that the sign of a good song is when it can be stripped right back to just an acoustic guitar or a piano and vocals yet still be both recognisable and memorable, if purely removing some of the driven tone on the bass live makes the gig not worth doing I'd be worried about the songs.

The rcf and qsc have been talked about throughout the thread, if someone tries putting 1400 watts through a sound lab from Maplins expecting it to replace an Ampeg stack they'll have a nasty surprise. I don't really see the difference, a rubbish bass speaker could be replaced with a rubbish PA speaker with similar outcomes, most people interested in frfr are already using a nice bass rig so they need to expect to require a nice P.A. speaker.