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I've had that with a new set of strings, and then not with a replacement, so @Beedster's suggestion looks likely to me. If you like higher action, the amount of compensation required is larger, and it can highlight when you get weird strings like that.

The left speaker is the 'full range' one (not really full range, but not 'modified', if you will), and the other is highpassed. This means when you stack them as a standard 410, the leftmost two speakers form a 'miniarray' of sorts and avoid the usual comb-filtering of 410s where all speakers are the same. I use a pair vertically usually, so I'm not sure what the effect of that will be, but it sounds good to me.

when I got mine and tested both orientations I found that in vertical orientation, with the port firing downwards, the low end was a bit tighter, less prominent, and I liked that sound the most. But it's not such a huge difference that one is great and the other terrible. In practice, I mostly use them vertically (one, or two cabs stacked), but when I had to stack two horizontally (wobbly festival 'stage') I did notice the dispersion on stage was better than what I was expecting from a 410. I used a single Two10 horizontally only once, with a little stand to angle it towards me, and placed a few metres in front of me, like a monitor, and that was very good too. In short... possibilities possibilities.

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I'd just rewire as a Jazz bass, considering each coil as a separate pickup. I had an OLP wired that way and the difference between the coils was subtle, given how close they are, but noticeable and useful. In fact, look for a "Jazz parallel/series switch" and wire it with that, for maximum versatility.

Well, neither of those is polyphonic, so if that is important, you may need to look at the OC-3 or newer OC-5 (or some other brands). As for tracking, the Octabass is much better than the OC-2, but tracking to low E is always challenging. The Octabass does it better than the OC-2 and so does the MarkBass Octave (the older bigger one), but to go that low you need to clean up your technique and probably playing a bit with EQ/compression before the pedal will help... but the OC-2 has a particular sound, so if you want THAT sound the Octabass is not going to be the right one either.

The LPF might disappoint you, it only goes down to 3 KHz, which is way too high for my preference. I thought the Radar would do reasonably well as a HPF + LPF little pedal, but I ended up getting a separate LPF from SFX for that reason.

As for adding additional features like pedal power supplies and compressors etc... I personally would rather not. It would add to the size and price, and I prefer a modular system where I mix and match the elements I want. I prefer the amplifier to stay small, and I'll choose which compressor (if any) to use, which power supply, etc.

I actually saw it as the ideal amplifier for a stage monitor. When I have my bass amp/cab on stage it's typically just for monitoring and placing it behind me was never the best idea. Have a single speaker on the floor angled towards you, just in front of your pedalboard containing not only your pedals but your amp too.

Then you'll like it. It gets VERY close with minimum effort without getting into deep menus or anything, just from the default parameters accessed on the pedal controls.

Don't trust youtube videos, they can be very misleading. Passive Stingrays sound great. I had a preamp bypass switch installed on mine, and... I found that the sound I generally go for is pretty much the same one as bypassed! Roll off a bit of treble with a passive tone control, and it's delicious. You can just remove the whole control plate as is, and get a new one and install passive controls. Then it's a 5 minute job to restore to original if you wish, in the future.

You know you can use your existing pickup passively, right? It *is* a passive pickup after all.

good choice

I never tried to make the Aftershock sound *exactly* like my big muff, but I got in the vicinity without trying very hard. It is super-tweakable (even too much! :D) so if you want it to sound just like it, I am pretty confident with a few tweaks on the Neuro app (which opens up a lot of additional parameters) you can get it to sound much like it. It can do anything, it seems.

She probably thought they were meeting at 6...

Music was primarily 'fun' although between May and September I tended to be pretty busy and usually made some nice additional £££. Not enough to quit my day job, but enough to pay for those new toys and a vacation here and there. This summer looked to have been particularly good, but... all I did was a live-streamed gig, purely for fun and to keep the band looking alive. I do know a few people whose income is entirely music related, and they're struggling. My day job is still there, so I'm doing ok... but my current contract was meant to end at the end of the year, and new sources of funding (I'm a molecular biologist / bioinformatician doing research) are proving to be difficult. As it stands, my lab has sufficient funds to keep me for 9-10 months beyond my current contract, but if we don't find new funds, I'll be gone... not a good time to be a 52 year old unemployed foreign researcher in this country. Redundancy money will be very helpful (I've been working for the university for 17 years) but it will only get me so far. I suspect the future for a lot of us will be a time of rediscovery and adaptation. Who knows what I'll be doing next? Is it too late to become a boy-for-rent? 😛

Yup, I've done that a few times in the past. The first couple of times I simply moved the bridge 2-3mm one side or the other. You need to be careful and you should really plug the old holes as the new ones tend to be right by the old ones and even overlap a bit, but it's easy to do. Then I learnt that most times it's not that the bridge is mounted at the wrong place (CNC, templates... it all makes it extremely unlikely), but an issue with how the neck was mounted on the body. There's always a tiny room for manoeuvre there and all it takes is a movement the size of a gnat's baw hair to angle the neck off-centre. It's very very slight, but enough. I only learnt this the first time I tried to swap necks on a guitar... After I noticed that, every single (bolt-on) bass that was not quite aligned could be set right by reinstalling the neck carefully ensuring it stays centered. There may be exceptions, of course, but CNC manufacturing techniques make them very rare.

If you like the candy apple red and maple combo, and prefer lacquered necks, the SX one is very nice too.

Another vote for Fusion here. Not the cheapest but definitely the most comfortable, with really good protection and lots and lots of storage space. I've been mostly using their F1 for... about 7 years now. Since March, it's only left the house a handful of times but before that it's been used several times per week, travelled all over the place with me in the car or in the band van with other stuff, and it still looks good and nothing is fraying or anything. Yeah, they look expensive at first glance, but totally worth it, in my opinion.

Indeed!

In a nutshell! I have a long history of projects I start, and then lose interest the minute I know how to overcome its hurdles. At work, a big part of what I do is figuring out solutions to problems, and that part I love. Once I know how to solve the problems, all I want is to teach someone to do it so that I can move on to something else... I hope this one will be one of those situations where I actually use what I learnt

In case any of you is still fooled into thinking that I am a sensible reasonable kind of man... I may have just bought a little android tablet, with the right functionality that would have made this thread completely unnecessary to start with However, I've learnt a couple of tricks here (thank you all! ) that I am very happy to know about. The iRig2 arrived today and it seems to work well, I just need to RTFM and figure out how to adjust latency in n-track. No biggie (I hope!), but of course, I started messing about with the built-in instruments (keyboards... lots) and it's hard to access all the little buttons on the little screen on my phone, so that's what finally pushed me to get a tablet. Still... I'll keep n-track on my phone too. A multitrack on my phone! I can't get over how unbelievable this would have seemed to me 20 years ago. Then use the tablet around the house, take it to practices, writing sessions... The future is here, and I didn't even know it...

Of course, you had to come here and point out the harsh truth: I'll end up recording basic drum beats, four chord progressions and little more So much technology wasted... if only I were able to have this when I was in my 20s and time was not the scarce commodity it is now! I sometimes think we've all been misled. I mean it's 2020 and life is not that much different, on the surface, from what it was in 1975. No flying cars or silver 'space' suits... However, look at what we can do with a tiny devide that fits in ur pocket. My first programmable calculator that I used for my engineering degree had just over 1K of RAM, and I thought it was magic. (I do not have an H4n, 'though, not that it makes any difference )

I didn't care for Telecasters. Then, I grew up and saw the light They do look a bit like something assembled in technology class at highschool but I love them.