Ashdown VU meter

[Kevin Dean]

When setting up the input level I can hit one string & hardly see it move but hit another string & it nearly touching the red So I try to get some where in between The while doing a gig the needle is going mental & going right into the red, It doesn't bother me sound wise but just wondered if I was doing something wrong ?

[BruceBass3901]

Which amp are you using? The ABM NEO 400 in your 'Interests' section? And what bass are you playing? How have you got the EQ set?

[dannybuoy]

Just put some masking tape over it and concentrate on the sound it makes!

[lefrash]

Yeah I've had an ashdown, and pretty much ignored the meter. I'm sure it's perfectly accurate, but I found it exactly how you described it. As long as it didn't constantly max out, I'd be happy.

[grenadilla]

If you have 50hZ boosted a lot the E string will be way louder. On my new Sterling Ray 34 and SUB4 I had to lower the pickup on the E string side so the Gstring could be as loud as the others.

[JapanAxe]

[quote name='lefrash' timestamp='1414175787' post='2586810']
Yeah I've had an ashdown, and pretty much ignored the meter. I'm sure it's perfectly accurate, but I found it exactly how you described it. As long as it didn't constantly max out, I'd be happy.
[/quote]
This. It's a gimmick.

[BassTractor]

I don't know the answer, and am a noob, but FWIW I found the VU in my MAG300 head to work perfectly like expected, whilst the VU in my Little Bastard is all over the place and seems like a gimmick to me.

[Kevin Dean]

[quote name='dannybuoy' timestamp='1414170138' post='2586721']
Just put some masking tape over it and concentrate on the sound it makes!
[/quote] I like it

[JPJ]

Do what we used to do to 2-stroke racing motorcycles, block off the Rev counter either side of the power band. As long as you could see the needle, everything was fine :-)

[EBS_freak]

[quote name='JPJ' timestamp='1414249425' post='2587496']
Do what we used to do to 2-stroke racing motorcycles, block off the Rev counter either side of the power band. As long as you could see the needle, everything was fine :-)
[/quote]

If you got time to look down at the meters, you weren't going fast enough!

[JPJ]

[quote name='EBS_freak' timestamp='1414252151' post='2587547']
If you got time to look down at the meters, you weren't going fast enough!
[/quote]

Oh I normally was, just not in the same direction as my bike :-)

[Kevin Dean]

I thought they were fitted at the request of Mark King to make sure you don't do triplets faster than him .

[jacko]

definitely a gimmick. They even put one in their pedals FFS!