Jean-Luc Pickguard

Interesting pricing on that dean. I'm pretty sure the new price was less than half that when I tried one.

I've only used (medium scale ECB81M) chromes on mustangs and the tension although higher than Thomastik TIJF324s it isn't excessive.

I bought a red one of these a few weeks ago when I saw it hanging up in the secondhand section of Guitarguitar in Epsom. I've put an old set of short scale status hotwire flatwounds on it, a Fender hi mass bridge from my spare bits box, and a red pearloid pickguard from Brian Pillans. It looks incredibly cute & cool especially with the ridiculously chunky bridge. After setting it up it plays really nicely. I rather fancy putting in an EMG Geezer pickup but I don't know if it would be worth doing as I'm unlikely to record or gig with it in preference to my JMJ mustangs. I told the missus it'd come in handy for getting the grandkids into bass, but the eldest in only three so it'll still be a while before she grows into it.

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To prevent that occuring in the new one, get someone who owns a soldering iron to replace the output socket with either a switchcraft or puretone one - my favourite is the puretone but either should last a lifetime. The output jack is one of the areas on cheaper basses & guitars where manufacturers often cheap out to save a few pennies at the cost of reliability.

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Although I'm afraid I don't have any experience with reaper, it is interesting that the issue you have described is pretty much the same as I experienced with Logic Pro X before I found a solution. Based on what I now know about Logic I'm wondering whether your issue has an equivalent cause, ie plugin(s) on existing tracks when you're recording a new one. With logic it seemed to be specifically a limiter plugin that had a lookahead element which caused the new recording to be offset from the existing tracks by a fraction of a second.

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I have been recording a new project with my Mac Mini M2 pro 32GB running Ventura with Logic Pro X. I had an aggregate device configured consisting of my Fender Mustang GTX100 amp along with my focusrite scarlett solo gen2. I was getting an annoying amount of latency when recording my new Strat into logic using the usb interface of the GTX100 amp. I thought maybe the aggregate device was causing the latency - I had to monitor the guitar from the amp's own speaker as I coul dhear the latency when using the input monitor on the channel, but even then the resultant recording was audibly out of sync with the existing tracks - it was lagging by something between an 1/8 or 1/4 note. My plan was to abandon using the USB of the amp and instead take a stereo output from the XLRs on the back of the amp. To be able to do this I ordered a twin XLR cable (colour coded black & red for left and right) and a focusrite scarlett 2i2 gen3 (studiospares has them at a very good price at the moment) I tried recording using this setup with just the scarlett 2i2 interface selected in logic and I still had the same latency issue. This was very disappointing. Studying the focusrite website I found this article: https://support.focusrite.com/hc/en-gb/articles/208736249-How-can-I-improve-latency-using-my-2nd-3rd-Gen-Scarlett-Clarett-USB-interfaces-on-Mac which has a link to something called the 'Focusrite Low Latency installer' so I installed it. I also found this page on Apple's website: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT207527 This has details of the 'Low Latency Monitoring Mode' which uses a button to disable hungry plugins such as the Adaptive Limiter. This plugin was probably causing the issue due to its lookahead feature. I selected the option to add a button to enable Low Latency Monitoring Mode so it could be selected whenever I record a track - shown below in orange. I have set up a new aggregate interface consisting of the Scarlett 2i2 and the USB interface of the GTX100 amp and when recording from the amp's USB interface I now can turn the master volume of the amp down and use input monitoring to hear the guitar through my headphones/desktop monitors along with the existing recording with no discernable latency. RESULT! I checked the latency as reported in Logic's audio settings and was surprised to see how low it actually is. I could have got away with not upgrading my interface and I didn't have to use the twin XLR cable, but I should be able to sell the scarlett solo to recoup some of the outlay and having two mic inputs is bound to come in handy at some point. How much latency do you have with your gear? Can you use input monitoring on the channel or do you need to use a direct monitor on the interface etc when recording?

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