Mr. Foxen

I picked up a Johnson P on ebay for around £70, chunky necks on them tohugh. £30 for a less flimsy bridge or a nicer pickup. The one in it was bit wooly but plenty of output. Trade it and gumtree is the place to be.

Its just a single P style pup, volume and tone. And its only one half that does it, mostly when playing, its a click when you touch the pole. Although I used this diadgram: [url="http://www.guitarelectronics.zoovy.com/product/WDUPH1101"]http://www.guitarelectronics.zoovy.com/product/WDUPH1101[/url] which has the capacitor on a different leg, which is pretty irrelevant. Since there ar only two wires comin out of the pickup, if one wasn't connected, it just wouldn't work, and why would one half be different to the other?. Gonna just have to tape over them for the moment.

[quote name='LukeFRC' post='191988' date='May 5 2008, 01:23 AM']if i was doing a live mix of your sound i would cut the mids of each guitar at different points and boost at others but have them all at diffferent points. ie one of the big mid freqs the bass sounds nice at cut the guitars there to create space for it. if you just turn it up it's just more mush. on my imac speakers though i cant hear the very low bass freqs[/quote] Not convinced I want to tell Ben to turn anything down on his guitar.

[quote name='Jase' post='191967' date='May 5 2008, 12:37 AM']Low A, wow must be like playing bungee ropes.[/quote] They are dead thick, reasonable tension though, I like high string tension, and the sustain is necessary.

[quote name='Shockwave' post='191949' date='May 5 2008, 12:04 AM']More growl and a light overdrive maybe. Depends what you we're playing with on the recordings. The best way to cut through in my opinion is new light gauge stainless steel strings. Lots of Zing. Otherwise Just boost your Mids but you probably new that already. Maybe in the recording the guitars could be panned left and right and the bass near dead centre. Or use cabs with 10's inside. I play with a Low B and my 4x10 marshall handles it fantasticly. Wait you have a 2x15 marshall bass cab? I maybe in touch... ;-) EDIT: After Listening to the music I would say get more clang into the bass sound, New strings More low mids. WITH a very light overdrive.[/quote] Light strings aren't really an option when downtuned to A. The marshall 2x15 was borrowed from the practice space, am going to make sure I get 10s next time of take my 4x10 with me, and add another cab. I was using my stereo bass with one channel clean into the sansamp and one through both valves in my DHA, and a wah, which is what was doing all the feedback stuff that was cut out of this recording (15 minutes is too long for myspace).

No idea which section to put this in, might fit in all of the gear and technique ones at once. Got a lot of dense guitar going on, and having some trouble making myself heard, check new recording posted up on myspace on sig. This wasn't aided by the lame borrowed marshall 2x15 cab that just wasn't dealing with the downtuning. Any tips, gear or technique or eq setting wise? You might hear where I start playing near the bridge and use a bit more nail to get some clank at one point, but that not really the sort of sound I'm after.

I've just put a 1/4 pounder (p style) in a bass, all works fine, but on one half I get a hum when I touch the polepieces, but not on the other hald, is some sort of shield or earth disconnected? It also hums a bit through the amp, but not loads.

If you are getting rattle from hitting strings hard, heavier strings will help too.

I'm doing something like that at the moment, using stereo wired bass and a blend cause I can't afford biamped rig yet. Downtuned to A, snarling dogs wah with built in overdrive intodual valve DHA pedal blended with clean into a sansamp (my sound in a backpack is current plan, due to amp borrowing). Use the wah on overdrive to do huge intro feedback, then control the generally full on to huge lows sound using volumes on the bass. Putting headstock on cab for feedback is also a recurring theme.

The Sansamp turned up wicked fast, in box with manual, off to practice with it saturday. Cheers.

[quote name='chrisba' post='187875' date='Apr 29 2008, 10:41 AM']As a bit of a newbie, I have a related question. I have a Squier P-Bass, which I've had for a couple of years, I've been playing a lot more recently, including a gig or two, so I decided it was about time to put new strings on. According to the sticker, the bass was supplied with Fender 7250 strings ( they have red threads on the end ). I replaced them with a pack of 7250 M ( .045-105 ), which have black threads, so they are clearly not quite the same. My main issue is that the sound is incredibly different, much tinnier and twangy-er, more resonance, less bass, much more noise from finders sliding along them. Doesn't really suit our pop and soft to hard rock style at all. My question is. is this due to... 1 - Them being a lighter grade than the originals 2 - They need playing in ( this is the first time I have changed the strings, so have never experienced the difference ) 3 - The sticker lied, and the originals were something different. Any ideas ?[/quote] Thats the sound of new strings, without the 'funk' thats in the 'funk'. They'll die down as you sweat into them, till then, roll off your tone knob.

50s, suddenly basses weren't all huge any more.

[quote name='budget bassist' post='187453' date='Apr 28 2008, 06:29 PM']I'm moving house on friday and i just cleared a cupboard out and realised there was loads of kids board games and stuff in there that i don't use (i'm 17 now) and i won't have anywhere to put them in the new house. I can't remember what a lot of the board games were (there was a harry potter one), but there were also a couple of smallish meccano sets which are now mixed up so you can't really just take one, and the same for a couple of lego sets, one of which was the harry potter train one and an insect one that makes noises and all that jazz. They're mixed up but i still have the instructions and most/all the pieces, so if any of you have kids that want them (or you want to feel young again ) i'm in the nottingham area so come have a look if you want. Alternatively if you paypal me a few quid i'll send them to you once i've moved as they're currently all boxed up. I also have a fair bit of fishing gear that i'm selling (rods, nets etc, some good gear) so PM me if you're interested. Mods, if you don't find it appropriate, feel free to edit that last bit out.[/quote] I call the lego, I still make stuff with that. Love the stuff, only thing better is technical lego, due to ease, used to make models of mechwarriors and stuff.

[quote name='thedarxide' post='187547' date='Apr 28 2008, 08:20 PM']The green one? It was a nice price, but the damage put me off, especially with those super hi-res pics on the auction![/quote] Oh, no the stripped to wood one, NJ, no. 290224275204

One is a standard mono with both pups going to it, one is a stereo one with pups split. Stereo wiring is awesome.

I scored the knackerd warlock. Think a trashed point bass would be ideal style for our stuff.

Hmm, suddenly I have my suspicions about when Shockwave mentioned a dream bass appearing on ebay. It ticks all his boxes.

How about let your guitarist name the band the first name that comes into his head, and put up with everyone how that relates to doom metal [see sig]?

Brass will change your open string sound a bit in theory, and graphtec is very brittle, so you have to make sure you file it to just the right size, otherwise you'll have same problem again.

One of my basses was hung in a shop window for ages, it made the rosewood go very pale and the red paint to go pink. Not recomended.

I've got a full set of hardware for a Westone I stripped to restore, its all tatty and stuff, shoot me a pm, I'm tempted to let it all for and start from scratch with just the body (the neck needs a new fingerboard).

If you put in a block under the whole neck pocket, then the contact area should be sthe same as before, which would make no noticeable difference in sustain. In addition, many stock basses will come with a shim in anyway. Get some numbers on how much sustain it has with and without the shim.