dannybuoy

What's the difference? Sounds like an AB switch is what you need!

Certain instruments and mixes suit scooped mids. If I'm playing with my P with flats to some blues, RnB or classic rock, I like a lot of fat low mids, not too much deep lows, and barely any highs. Especially important to steer clear of the upper midrange if there are high pitched vocals or horns to contend with. With my last band that featured some heavy downtuned guitars, experimenting with headphone mixes showed that a scooped pickup setting (both pickups up full) and scooped / distorted preamp (Darkglass B7K or Sansamp) made the bass leave a nice hole for the guitars to sit in rather than battle them for the same frequencies. Yet it wasn't lost in the mix as the low end was very present and the distorted top end cut through above the guitars.

Looks good to me. Can the FI be used like an envelope filter? If so I'd probably put the comp after that, to stop it affecting envelope control and also to reign in any peaky filter sweeps. You might also want to put the metaphors last if you want to use it as a DI, or perhaps even try it before the fuzz since a blended Big Muff sounds ace with a light distortion going into it.

I think one of the most interesting combos around that I'd like to try if I had to have one bass is two Jazz pickups with an MM in-between, as used by Atelier Z. I'd like to be able to flick a switch to go from both J pups to the single MM.

The stock one. Tried them all and came full circle!

Yup, same with the SolidgoldFX Beta. Too much bass boost and too dark at low volume I thought, but it has lots of heft at gig volume!

I voted PJ due to my favourite bass for rock being my BB1025X, however standard Fender PJs sound nothing like it. If I was playing old school funk though it would be a single MM like my Sandberg Basic. I'd love to have a custom one, but it's €1690 for this one and my standard one cost me £350, so I'll stick with that for now!

All I can say is listen to lots of demos on YouTube. Never found a demo of any bass with P/MM pickups blended, or a bass with those Sims pickups that I liked the sound of!

Not necessarily. If the 1x10 is 8ohm and the 2x10 is 4ohm, the power will be spread evenly between all 3 speakers.

Never tried a 735A. Would probably want to buy one if I did, but for now I've cured my addiction to buying bass gear!

I never look at my knobs, I just do it by feel, a quick twiddle to see how far they are from min/max/centre is all that's required. The colour of them is irrelevant if there are no markers on them, and 90% of basses have no markers! But if you enjoy staring at knobs, knock yourself out!

The WD one is decent, I can attest to that. I was umming and ah-ing over a Spitfire, but ultimately turned off by the price and poor customer service. Heard of one case where someone's guards did not come out as expected, e.g. colours different to advertised with a massive ugly blotch in the center, and there was no offer of refunds or anything. I'd ask for detailed photos of the finished product before handing over any cash!

No contest for me - my BB1025X with both pickups on is 'my' sound, and no other P/J or P/MM can sound like it. It's also the only 5 string neck I've instantly liked, having briefly owned but not got on with a Fender P5, J5, and Sandberg TT5. Nothing against Sandberg though, I have a single pickup Basic that is a pure funk machine and is my 2nd favourite bass!

Yes, pretty much any pedal will convert the signal to the kind of impedance that will make the mixer happy. If the pedal has a buffered bypass (e.g. anything by Boss) you won't even need to turn the pedal on, just power it up. The HA400 is for splitting a headphone out to 4 people with individual volume controls, it can be used as part of the solution, but not by itself. Running the line output (or FX send) of one amp into the aux input of the other amp is a good shout if your amps can do that, all you'd need is the correct cable plus a headphone splitter.

Thunderbirds have the most stable anti-neck-dive of any bass ever... as long as you loop the strap around the front of the bass and over the lower 'wing'. You can take your hand off the neck and do star jumps and it'll stay put!

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Have you tried replacing, or simply refitting the string? If there's any twist tension along the length of the string it can make it sound a bit like it's going through a chorus pedal.

Same! Probably the only film I’ve ever instantly decided to switch off.

Most mixers are not designed to accept plugging guitar or bass straight in however. The impedance is not high enough, which results in a really dull sound. Although you could still get by, it just wouldn’t sound great. If you have any pedals you can go through, that would improve matters. Also, bass usually sounds pretty decent direct, but guitars sound very bland direct without some kind of amp sim, so see what your guitarist has available, like a multi-fx unit.

I take it both amps have line outputs? If one is for guitar, hopefully the line out includes some form of speaker modelling to remove the harsh treble. My old band used to rehearse all plugged into a mixer, me using a VT Bass pedal or similar, the guitarist using a Roland practice combo with amp models built in, plus an electronic drum kit and vocal mic. We then ran a 4-way headphone splitter cable straight out of the mixer, surely not the ‘proper’ way, but it sounded great and we all had decent volume! Something like a Behringer Xenyx 502 would probably do the job.

Just pointing out the finer points that the 'I don't need compression' folk may not have considered. And clipping does indeed increase sustain, which is why your have a sustain knob on a Big Muff!