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where's your music stand go then?

Hmm, I could potentially get around that, but I'd have to wait months for them. Still, they are within my budget, and I have other basses to play in the mean time

they look very promising, thanks! Not heard of Pure Tone before, can't find many reviews

they are certainly weird, if not custom. You get pickups with exposed pole pieces, but they don't have the slotted screw head thing. The Delanos look to be the right size (thanks ikay), but it says they're humbuckers. I always guessed mine are single coil, although I don't actually know. I imagine this would make a significant difference tonally? I'm also concerned about how they'll match up to the pre-amp. I do have a multi meter but have no idea what sort of readings I should be taking

I have a pretty weird bass, bought off here 4 years ago. It has some unusual pickups. The pickups have now gone totally microphonic and cannot be re-potted. I really love the sound of the bass but I don't know what the pickups are, or what the pre-amp is. I've put some photos here in the hope someone can help The luthier was John Marshall Custom Guitars. I can't find any mention of him since 2012, and his website has been down since then too Failing that, do you reckon most of the sound comes from the pickups? Or maybe the actual bass and it's pre-amp have more influence? In which case, what standard pickups could I put in?

I have a yamaha drop 6, it's ace! Not sure on the tuning, it's like a normal guitar but the lowest string is a low A. It sounds lovely!

I have all sorts and never notice a difference switching between them, other than the sound and number of strings available. I also play a lot of guitar. Never noticed a problem?! Maybe I'm just not good enough to notice

heh, done the knuckle thing too

[quote name='throwoff' timestamp='1428589619' post='2742772'] Our drummer once walked onto the stage, stepped onto the riser, lent onto the curtain covered wall behind the stage to steady himself and discovered that the curtain covered wall was actually just a curtain. It took us a good couple of minutes to rescue him [/quote] Haha, that's actually happened to me on drums. They should be a barrier up or something! I often shift backwards on my stool while playing and if the back leg slips off stage 'cos I didn't realise there was no wall behind the curtain, it's painful!!

I break my nails every time I pluck the bass too hard. Sometimes it gets a bit sore

Tauzero, I did read it, and it's interesting, but doesn't really define what the "valve sound" or "heft" is, or what it's actually doing to the sound wave. Some are compressing, others are not, and yet there's some mysterious factor which all all-valve amps have which SS amps don't

If the voltage sags when an extra loud transient is played, then I guess that would make this part relatively quieter, which would be easy to replicate with a compressor Maybe there's some research on this but i'm struggling to find it. What I'm after is some sort of quantifiable evidence of the effect a big valve amp has on the input signal. From everything I'd read previously, I'd assumed it was a fairly subtle and fast compression

Went to watch another local gig last night, kick drum in the chest again. I swear I read about this causing a heart attack in Koko in London? If so why is it not illegal yet?! Put the ear plugs in and the mix wasn't awful, but as usual, could not hear the bass, only feel it through the subs. ARRRGH

[quote name='discreet' timestamp='1428355816' post='2740593'] ...As I understand it, 'sag' refers to the reduction of the power supply voltage in response to large transient signals which lends an important dynamic 'feel' to the amp that is not found in solid state amps... [/quote] What is the actual effect? What happens when you give the hefty amp a large transient signal (I guess you mean lots of fast attack?). Surely this can be replicated with a compressor?

As always, there's good and bad. I was at a local festival last year. There was a band with an electronic drum kit. For the first 4 songs of their set, no-one could hear the drums at all, and clearly the singers were struggling to hear themselves. They kept asking for more in the monitors but there was almost constant feedback. They abandoned their set after 4 songs. I think they were supposed to play an hour This guy gets a lot of local gigs, and clearly people think he's doing a great job!! I wish you did all the local gigs Matt

[quote name='thehillscorporation' timestamp='1427379964' post='2729646'] ...then it's an increase of four times, not 400%... [/quote] Same thing, surely?

Well i'd normally blame the bassist. The guy from Monuments was clearly a great player, but I figured he had a totally scooped tone as I could hear the occasional clank, and some subs, but nothing else. But yeh, I couldn't possibly blame Jon Stockman, he's always had such an immense sound. I was stood right in front of the desk, so maybe it was my fault, my density blocking the path to the engineers' ears

I don't think we can generalise about all sound engineers at all, I thought we'd moved past that in this thread a while ago. I just thought I'd bring it back to share my frustration with the sound on tuesday night. Other than the rhythm section it was pretty good for Karnivool. I still had to have my ear plugs in, and at one point I think my heart was struggling with the kick drum vibrations, but still an enjoyable night Anyway, a band on that sort of level probably takes their own sound engineer so I've no idea how they managed to get it so wrong

yeh, for sure, sounds like he needs to work on his synergies

[quote name='discreet' timestamp='1426792295' post='2722080'] I see no emoticons so can't tell if you're joking or not... if not, then you've obviously never played a gig with an Ampeg SVT and 810 on full song. It's like having a very large, heavy, sinister rubber ball bouncing on the stage behind you in time to the music. That's heft. [/quote] I can get that feeling from any rig that goes loud enough, so I'm still totally confused (and yes i've played through an SVT and 810)

Yes, you're right about that HH. To use it to switch between two instruments, you'd have one in return A, the other in return B, and your amp plugged into the output. It would allow you to set separate volume levels for each instrument, but that's about it, no option to add an effects loop on top

I went to The Ritz in Manchester last night to see Karnivool. I've seen them 3 times before, and each time their sound was just incredible, but just to focus on the bass, he is always very clear, you can hear every note, it sounds fat, and then when he kicks on his distortion I can't stop grinning Last night was a different story though. It seemed there was a massive scoop in the low mids. It wasn't that the bass was too quiet, as when he kicked on his distortion, the upper mids were cutting through just right. Perhaps the low end was too quiet, I'm not sure as obviously the kick drum has to be overpowering everything down there, but yeh, 200-400 Hz was just missing, and so you couldn't "feel" the bass. It was still a great gig, but I was pretty dissappointed with the sound. He had a mic on his 8x10 and I wonder if the sound man had a low pass set too low on the DI, or the high pass set too high on the mic, or both The sound for the support band (monuments, who were ace) was even worse. Loads of kick, almost no snare, a bit of guitar, and some subs from the bassist.

Haha, if you're struggling for cash I would get a cheap AB and invest some time into your zoom pedal! But the temptation can be strong. I have well over 60 pedals

So, language is constantly evolving. Big deal. I'm good with that. In fact I'm all set. Totes. 110% And at the end of the day, if you want to turn around and call me an idiot, I could care less

I'm not sure I can explain what a buffer does very easily. It's there to prevent noise over long signal chains. There's a buffer in your zoom, and it's always on. This is why it's not "true bypass".