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Well, at least that puts me in the same boat as EMG's engineers. I can live with that. I guess we all can't be geniuses like you.

So connecting two passive magnetic pickups to a passive MN taper blend pot gives the same result as if mixing the separate respective isolated outputs from each pickup (being connected to each their own jack output socket on the bass) on an outboard active mixer?

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Amazing! Love it! I've only heard a bit of her music before, back when Anthony Jackson played the bass, but I've really liked everything I've heard with her so far. But I like me some trumpet, great addition, and wonderfully played. Also you can really tell Hiromi puts her entire being 100% into the music when she plays, but really all the musicians in that video are pretty amazing. Thanks for sharing!

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Your very first reply in this thread, and adding laughing reaction to factual correct posts actually trying to be helpful to OP! : We'll see who laughs when EMG confirms what I have been saying all the time. But of course i don't know what I am talking about, while you do, even if they do, which they will.

Or how about buying them a new car?

I don't think he'll appreciate having to pay double shipping and import fee. Also what is this nonsense, since when are you expected to put out the money and going through the effort of ordering yourself, just because you are advising people, if this is in fact expected, then sure, I will with all certainty stop helping people out all together on this forum.

The GZR is not EMG's first all passive bass pickup, and logic dictates that it if works for pickups with a passive volume and tone setup it will work for any other pickup with the same setup, EMG produced or not, also the text basically says is works for passive pickups (implicating all passive pickups, not just EMG produced). As I've pointed out several times by now already in this thread this isn't any different from a jack output for each pickup and an outboard active mixer, it's just onboard and much much smaller. One thing OP should be aware of though is that it will sound different than when blending the 2 pickups passively as the signals won't cancel out and interact with each other in that same way as when mixing them passively, which might or might not be a desired effect.

Nonsense... Looks like you don't know what you are talking about, or rather you do a good job to make it look like you know what you are talking about, except it is all actually factual nonsense. This isn't any different from having a separate jack output from each of your pickups respectively and mixing them in parallel on an outboard active mixer. And no matter how you mix two passive pickups passively they will interact with each other and cancel out parts of the signals they reproduce respectively, an issue using an active mixer fixes. Please stop pretending you know better and give people bad advice will you. Like as if you know better than EMG's engineers.

By far most phones have a software based HPF build in, cutting off the low end of what is recorded. You need a special recording app to bypass that. Further more you will also need an external microphone that is build to be able pick up and handle the lows frequencies that a bass produces properly, which the build in microphone of your phone won't do either. You are probably right about your phone also having a software based noise reduction function build in as well, that a proper app made with the purpose of recording music live should be able to bypass as well though. Can't really help you with suggestion of the proper app and external microphone to use though, not really that well versed in smart phones, but I am sure someone on the forum will know and be able to help you out.

How about you taking your own advice. And stop smugly laughing, like as if you knew better, of people who do actually read up on it before answering. And no a higher resistance pot won't fix the insertion loss that happens with all passive pickup mixing either. I don't see any X version mentioned in the OP either. Yes, the EMG ABC is for passive pickups. Just like I said. And why the resistance of the pot isn't higher is because this basically is a miniature active mixer, which is the whole point with it in the first place.

Of course them being out of phase makes it even worse, but what OP describes is perfectly in line with how passive pickups normally works when mixed passively. And to OP, yes the EMG ABC should fix this, basically functioning as if you had a separate jack output for each pickup and actively mixing them in parallel on an outboard mixer. Does require power from a 9V battery though, but I think it is listed to last up to a 1000 hours of actively plugged in use, so not like you will end up having to change battery every other week. The EMG ABC is made specifically for passive pickups to avoid the natural signal loss and mutual interference you get when mixing two passive pickups passively. So yes, it'll work perfectly.

As with many of Joyo's clones I don't think it's a perfect 1:1 clone, but rather Joyo's own take of the Darkglass pedal. That said I have only heard great things about it. I am seriously pondering on getting their Monomyth bass preamp.

By coincident I use the Angular Tone Hammer amp emulation and the Ampeg SVR 212AV IR cab sim on my NUX MLD Bass Preamp + DI pedal (by the way an absolutely amazing pedal, that comes at an unbelievably affordable price, considering). And it's pretty amazing for fingerstyle, at least the way I pick the strings.

Is the switchable speaker sim only on the XLR out or is it on the jack out too on the Monomyth?

Try, instead of striking or pulling the strings, to just lightly stroke them with a slight inwards slapping motion, using only the outmost tip of your fingers/nails. Or use the index and/or middle finger flamenco guitar flicking style technique, which when you get this down properly would actually allow you to pick the strings faster than with a pick. This ought to give you more emphasis of the attack. These two approaches to finger picking strings require a quite large amount of precision though, and as with most techniques are rather tricky to get right to start with, but with just 2 x 5 minutes or so focused practice of them per day consistently you'll have them down pretty decently after just a couple of months or so, and you should be able to actually practically apply them to your playing after just a month or so with just 10 minutes focused daily practice.

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Was that question aimed at me? I play both. But always considered bass my main instrument of choice. At the moment though my main bass is tuned in tenor bass, A standard, tuning, which I know for instance Victor Wooten makes use of frequently, but especially Stanley Clarke makes wide use of. As far as I am concerned perfect for the just 28.6" scale length of the 4 string Ibanez Mikro Bass that I love playing and use for this. From the WikiPedia article about Bass Guitar tunings: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bass_guitar_tuning Obviously not suited for covering a traditional bass player role in a band context, but perfect for melodic/solo work, as well as being well suited for doing chords, but while also still actually sounding great playing more traditional transposed bass lines on, making a sort of hybrid guitar/bass approach suited when playing such a bass to make full use of its capabilities/possibilities. I guess more so taking on a role of a low tuned Tenor Guitar, rather than a traditional bass role, but the instrument still technically being categorized as a Bass Guitar, hence the name Tenor Bass. So while I do play both Guitar and Bass Guitar, and my current main instrument still is categorized as a Bass Guitar, I suppose you could argue that with how it is strung and tuned at the moment I play neither, but rather a low tuned Tenor Guitar, or more specifically a Tenor Bass Guitar. Just like the Bass Ukulele is typically being tuned in fourths, rather than fifths, as you would otherwise traditionally tune a Ukulele or Tenor Guitar. The WikiPedia article on Tenor Guitars: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tenor_guitar

I've changed my setup once again, so this is what makes up my core basic "clean" tone of my "amp-less" setup: But while the NUX MLD Bass Preamp got the main preamp duties in this setup, and I am actually really happy with what it does, and while the ART Tube MP Project Series tube preamp got the DI duties, I would say that the EHX Black Finger, which I kind of more so use as a tube preamp stage than a compressor, really, would be my favorite preamp overall, having been an integrated part of my core basic clean tone setup for both bass and guitar, through various different setups, for as long as I've owned it, which is about 20 years. Just makes anything you put through come out sounding better on the other side, and takes my tone from great to amazing, adding tube warmth and harmonic complexity and depth to it, as well as a touch of tube breakup grid when I am digging in. Here it is: And yes, I know it is dirty as hell, but as said it is 20 years old, have been all sort of places and been stomped on with shoes on, while it has never been cleaned beyond the occasional vacuum cleaning, and also the photo enhancement applied to the image actually made it look worse than it really is, just pretend that it is 100% pure magic mojo tone sauce.

I feel like I should probably add that this is so to partially follow the radius of the fretboard but while also accounting for the fact that thinner strings compared to thicker strings of about the same tension will require less space to vibrate and therefor making adjusting them for lower action possible. This goes for when adjusting bridges with individual height adjustment for each string too, that is that ideally the strings should form an arc of ever so slightly lower radius (more curve) than the fretboard, but tilting slightly downwards towards the high G string.