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Baloney Balderdash

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  1. Respectively I didn't actually look at the picture more closely, but trusted the OP saying that the power supply used reverse polarity. But since that does not actually match reality, and that the power supply indeed does in fact use the same polarity as the pedals, yes, it will work perfectly fine.
  2. While not all pedals use this polarity, the standard is center minus, sleeve plus, like the two pedals on the left. I think it's pretty safe to assume the two pedals on the right use that polarity too (center minus, sleeve plus). And no, your power supply with the reverse polarity won't work! ( Edit!!! : that is assuming your description had actually matched reality, however that is not the case, as the power supply, after having had a closer look on the picture you provided, does in fact use the same polarity as your pedals, so it will work perfectly fine ) Weather it could potentially harm your pedals to use it I don't know, but there is no reason for trying it out, as I can guarantee that it most definitely won't work.
  3. The cure to this is getting a short scale bass. Short scale basses will very rarely have any dead spots. Adding weight to the headstock does actually work, but rather than eliminating the issue it most often just move it to somewhere else on the neck.
  4. For now I have dropped the plans about getting a Zoom B1X Four for reverb effects at the end of my pedal effects chain and decided to instead use my Zoom G1Xon for that, which currently fills out the role as my start of the chain subtle compressor (going to be replaced by a TC Electronic SpectraComp). The TC Electronic SpectraComp for compression at the start of my pedal effects chain was delivered today, but I wasn't home to sign the delivery so it has been passed on to a depot where I can pick it up. Very much looking forward to pick it up and try it out, I will pick it up at the depot tomorrow. I also just ordered a cheap NUX Mini Core SE Phaser yesterday (same as the Kokko Mini Phaser, which is a digital emulation of the MXR Pahse 90 phaser, just, beside the speed control, with an added depth and mix control), which I await arriving with the mail Monday next week, as I discovered my cheap Xvive Phaser King was sucking out a lot of high end from my signal. The few bass demos I have been able to find on YouTube of this phaser sounds great, but if it turns out not to meet my expectation I will order a TC Electronic Healix phaser instead next time I get money, around the middle of October, where I will then also order the Harley Benton pedal board and the solder-free patch cables. Finally I am pondering on getting an Ibanez Super Metal Mini, to replace the Joyo Orange Juice overdrive stacked into a Boss MT-2 Metal Zone that I, parallly mixed with a Turbo Rat clone, via my Boss LS-2, use for my high gain bass distortion currently.
  5. Actually according to Wikipedia's article on Last Exit they manage to draw a following of quite a few hardcore punk fans. I have no idea if the tittle of that song is a direct reference to the band of the same name though.
  6. The Sinking Belle (Blue Sheep) [by Boris and Sunn O)))]
  7. I'd argue quite on the contrary! That concert/video is a genuine display of raw creativity in it's absolute purest primal essence, tapped directly from it's primordial divine source. Also extremely life-affirming to see relatively elderly people (with the exeption of Bill Lasswel, at that point) still being capable of breaking free from all reins and restrictions and go absolutely berserk in ultimate devotion to whatever the chaos of each given moment might throw at them and bring.
  8. Ok, then try this, one of my favorite acts, and one of my favorite YouTube concerts (and yes, they are all acclaimed and extremely skilled jazz musicians, even legends on the experimental-/avantgarde-/free- jazz scene) :
  9. The one I linked to is a studio version, yeah, and that sounds phenomenal, haven't watched the YouTube live version, so can't really say how close that is to the studio version, but I suspect not nearly as sharp and well sounding. You can use Spotify for free though if you just sign up, though there will be commercial breaks every now and then between songs, not in the middle of long songs and not between every song you hear, like on YouTube, and they got most music that was ever released. If you pay a monthly subscription you can use it without commercials and got the option for streaming in a good deal higher than YouTube resolution.
  10. Then try this Yes cover (link to the Yes cover of their song "Long Distance Runaround" by the Danish band A Kid Hereafter on the streaming service Spotify) : https://open.spotify.com/album/4rqOY9C9r8zmyPyofPLSf9?highlight=spotify:track:2aRewOdSG47NGyhuFW5FTu In my opinion no less than a phenomenal cover, and as far as I am concerned better than the original version.
  11. Every EQ is different, even EQ controls with the same center frequency might sound different and have a different curve around that center frequency point, so what you can achieve with one equalizer you might not be able to achieve with another, but as said set all flat and then start from an end, either your bass or your amp, and then move on from there, the individual effect pedal's EQ you only set after you got your basic clean tone in, to make them sound good when engaged, according to that basic clean tone, and if it turns out that you can achieve the tone you desire with just the amp and bass EQ, then there will be no reason to keep your EQ pedal in the chain, but start the way I described in my initial post.
  12. A laminated neck made of the same type and quality of wood as a similar 1 piece neck is theoretically much stronger than the 1 piece neck. When that is said I have never owned any guitar or bass with as stable a neck as my cheap budget December 2010, Chinese, production, Ibanez GSRM20 Mikro Bass, maple neck, which is a 2 piece, I guess, 1 piece of wood for the angled headstock cut in an angle and glued on from about the end of 1st fret to about the middle of the 3rd fret to a likewise angled cut 1 piece remaining neck piece. Of course it is still a relatively young neck, compared to some of the basses out there, so time will tell if it eventually will develop a twist or warp, but up till now it hasn't, and it seems like when the trussrod once has been adjusted to the desired amount of relief the neck pretty much stays in that position regardless of weather changes, even through quite prominent temperature and humidity changes, and holds tuning extremely well too. Still if the same neck wood that this budget bass has been lucky to get, out of the pile of more or less random, budget production poor quality control, wood, on the factory where it was made, had been cut out and laminated, no doubt it would have been even stronger and even more resistant to changes.
  13. Not sure which forum belongs to, one could argue for this one, as well as respectively "Bass Guitars", "Effects" and "Recordings" could be argued for being the right forum for this question. Anyway, how would you describe your tonal aspirations, as in which kind of tone do you strive for that you would call your tone (if you got a such. Guess this might really be more relevant for people who play in original bands than cover bands)? If you got any recorded clips demonstrating this you would be welcome to post those too. I would describe my tonal aspirations as punchy with a pronounced attack and bite, which in practice means a Model P pickup wired directly to the output jack socket, with the low/low mids frequency area, around 40Hz to 300Hz, as well as the upper mids frequency area, around 700Hz to 1.5kHz, boosted some (specifically with most weight on the 50Hz to 120Hz and 800Hz to 1.2kHz area, and out of those with more weight on the latter upper mids frequency area). I'll try to pull myself together to make some recordings of my setup and edit them into this post in the near future (the bass in the video of my signature is not my main tone, and pretty far from how my bass currently sounds).
  14. Also no one says you absilutely have to use all your EQ options just because you got them, so if all the EQ's set flat sounds better than anything else, then of course do that, and if it sounds totally perfect after just adjusting the amp's EQ a bit, then stop there. No harm in experimenting though and see if it is possible to get it even better, you can always easily go back to a flat setting if adjusting an EQ band sounds worse than leaving it flat.
  15. This phenomenal noise rock song by the Danish band Murmur (later renamed Speaker Bite Me), from around the mid 90's: So good, and brings back the memories.
  16. I am curious how that tittle associates to Bright Dead Star for you?
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