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Is it a case of it’s too thin or brittle on the top? Does it only occur with both pick ups on it is it a general feeling with the neck or bridge solo’d too? As @Al Krow says the scoop could be pulling out mids and/or high mids but it might not be the single factor. Does the bass have a passive tone control as sometimes simply rolling back can help or the capacitor can have a solid impact to thicken things up without any major tweaks. Flatwound string can be more mid range focused so that may help. There is a school of thought that generally being a thinner bass body/neck/headstock can all have an impact on the ‘heft’. The p bass is likely just inherently putting out more ‘information’ in the frequency which you’re hearing as cutting through and let’s face it they’re famous for filling out that sweet spot in and about the midrange. I’ve found looking at my p basses on a graphic eq they have a lot going on in around 400Hz and up about 2-4kHz too. This isn’t set in stone of course but if you can run the Ibanez into a DAW and see it on a graphic EQ, compare it to your p bass - you could try and see where the gaps are and see if you can do anything with EQ to help. This can be fun to do in general (well it was for me)!

Agreed but worth a try 😀

Line 6 have been on top of this stuff for years. Sure there are other options but their kit has paved the way for many other companies. Competition is no bad thing if it encourages progress.

Is this a veiled chip set comment ahead of namm21 😂

Do tell

Or turn the bass volume down just a notch.

Just be mindful of your gain stages across all amps/effects and you should be fine.

I’ve no doubt that bars will be mad keen to get back to normal business. The bar we do our regular gigs at is a central Edinburgh ‘tourist trap’ which also has a strong local crowd too. It’s an Irish bar, offers student discount and in a great location and is busy every night. We play enough fiddle-de-dee to keep the crowd happy and suit the vibe of the place - you can imagine the managers are dying to get back open. With the 6 Nations and St Patrick’s Day being big events on their calendar early in the year we’ve already been ‘penciled in’ to play those dates but we all know it’s unlikely. The bar can generate between 15-20k on those big sport Saturdays - thats one days turnover!

@Burns-bass Not the original source but this BMJ article references some of the material I was referring to and basing my opinions on https://www.bmj.com/content/372/bmj.n18 To be fair the title of the thread doesn’t appear to be based on any evidence either other than maybe optimism that some carried over dates for a wedding gig come off in Spring 2021. The evidence that I’m basing my opinions on are related to a single dose administration of a two dose vaccine. The extended delay to the second dose basically means it’s being used ‘off license’ ergo not within the administration guidelines from the pharmaceutical companies. If you were on a course of antibiotics and told it’s a seven day course but were only given three days worth and told the other four days doses would be given in three months you might question the reasoning and it’s efficacy. While not the same thing it shouldn’t be dismissed. The vaccine does not offer complete immunity nor prevent people from spreading Covid for a significant period. I’m not sure if this is factored into the projected numbers

Let me reframe my point. Is anyone who had regular gigs prior to this pandemic been getting calls to work the May bank holiday Weekend?

Nuts though this was a double post and deleted it. Needless to say my numbers/information came from respected medical journals and show that after the initial vaccine (after about 21-28 days) efficacy drops off to about 50% which still has it as a success and higher than other vaccines in circulation where 40% efficacy is considered a success.

Don’t let my posts on bc cloud the optimism I embrace daily. I work in mental health and am continually focusing on the positives, trying to encourage and promote positive outlooks and outcomes for the people I work with. My comments are in relation to the prospect of gigs by the Spring which is as baseless a prediction as my suggestion that it’ll be 18 months away. I was gonna say that. Having more folk vaccinated is of course a positive but the way the body develops immunity is not an instant thing so if numbers are projected based on immunity on day one and not being a potential carrier on day one the they’re not realistic. Again best case scenario is to vaccinate a population when it’s not in the throes of a pandemic. We have some catching up to do.

May is an arbitrary date which isn’t backed by anything other than a click bait inspired thread title. The reality is that Covid will continue to spread and we’ll likely need another 18 months (a figure I too have pulled out of my hole) to see any sort of positive dent into this. The disregard over the festive period and the half assed notion that a jab will automatically guarantee protection is foolish and misguided but folks want to have that hope as the last year has been horrendous for many. A lot of folk cannot be trusted to continue to follow guidelines and I’m sure we all have a neighbour, family member or colleague who thinks “Sure I’ll be grand” and carry’s on regardless of the consequences of their actions. I get it though - due to the haphazard way Covid appears to vary in terms of infection/symptoms/severe illness and the sheer variability among those who have caught it folks are ‘justified’ in their own minds about the risk. It’s not about me making a judgment call on other people’s actions but there’s little hope for convincing folk to continue to behave in a socially responsible manner a year in and with high infection rates we’ll continue to see more infections. Vaccines work best when a population isn’t experiencing a pandemic. We’re at the wrong end of this just now and need to claw back lost ground. Optimism is wonderful and it makes a great thread title but come on we’re a long way off and I’d be hard pressed to find anyone who deep down doesn’t see this getting worse before it gets better.

Yeah I can see the first half of 2021 being worse and trailing into the end of the year before we might see a positive shift. A vaccine which we’re now being told will get rolled out to everyone so we all have ‘immunity’ makes sense but when it’s a two stage dose and we’re now being instructed to forgo the second dose within the correct timeframe (and see efficacy drop to 50%) - still it’s half as good as nothing.

The stomp is very feature rich and the recent update has increased its functionality so there is a lot to learn and it’s potentially able to do things for you that you don’t know you need yet! Firstly you could try and recreate the JhS pedal settings on the stomp to best match what it’s doing for you. There are a few choices of comp so you’ll have options to find the one which closely matches the controls on your pedal. Adding it on a parallel path might be fun to try too for the studio style ‘New York’ sound - it’ll basically equate to having a clean blend function if your pedal doesn’t offer that feature. You can set the stomp up to send fx to your amp while sending amp/cab sims to foh if you wanted. Useful if you want to gig your amp and have a ‘rig’ sound coming via FOH or experiment a bit. Do you want to run the stomp as a complete one box solution or incorporate it into your rig for fx? The getting started cheat sheet posted above will layout the basic ways to hook up the unit for various uses/rigs. One option is you could use the Ashdown ‘Original preamp’ in the fx loop as your preferred pre and that’s pretty easy to set up - you could also run you comp in that loop with the Ashdown pre so you’d have those two units always available. My understanding is the new ‘favourite setting’ on the stomp means you could create a basic chain and if you save that as a ‘fav’ when creating a new patch and use it it’ll save the loop etc. which you’ve identified as a fav. I’ve not played with this yet but that could save a wee bit of editing time in basic patch layout and creation. If I’ve got this wrong let me know and I’ll edit accordingly. You tube will be able to show how this works. Actually that’s a fair point there’s 60 pages of thread and you may find just searching a query on you tube yields quicker results with clear how to’s plus check out the 3.0 update videos to see what other new tricks the unit has up its sleeve.

Opinions are great but...

Chuch!

There are a few players who were on ‘everthing’ back in the day Jamerson/Babbit, Duck, JO. Their playing has had an indelible impact on bass playing generally and how we define a style or fill the space. There have been many great innovators since in various genres from funk to punk but there are ‘signposts’ in this and other classics which as a bassist we must have in our vocabulary. Finally what a magical thing to hear only bass, drums and in this case exquisite vocals. Something about the bass and how it flirts with melody, rhythm along with the Vocal

Go raibh maith agat in Irish Gaelic which would be similar enough.

It’s been mentioned before but if the pick up is that powerful it might need height adjusted.

It’s not that I don’t think there’ll be gigs. If the lockdown got lifted tomorrow the bar we have our ‘residency’ at (3 gigs on average per month) would be on the blower booking us up for the year. It’s just my options are now to do the 60 mile round trip for the show or make sure I’m at work on the day of the gig and play after work. Thing is some days after 13 hours working in a medium secure forensic psychiatric ward and then a gig combined with being awake for 18-19 hours does make me think it’s not entirely worth the hassle 😀

Aye it’s pretty common place but usually on other marketplace type sites. If I’ve nabbed a great deal on here I usually try and shift it locally. One reason being it might be a bit cheeky to sell it on the same site where the bargain was found and it can appear in bad taste but as has been mentioned most folk look at how good the deal is for them at that time and aren’t gonna start searching the for sale threads to see if the similar item has been listed for a similar price. edit thanks for the offer of taking your cab but even with 50% off the asking price I might be shiftding my gear soon too. Less and less likely tht there will be meaningful gigs in the near future and now that I’ve moved what was once a local gig is now a 60 mile round trip.

I think this is where the discussion started and I’m presuming it means if you bought for X price on that forum you’d sell for the same price on that forum.

There’s no dishonesty in making a profit. We buy, we sell - sometimes we list gear to get it shifted and don’t mind taking a loss and sometimes we’re able to make a few quid on a bargain. Let the interested parties decide. Simple.