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tvickey

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Just now, EBS_freak said:

You're missing a cable! (from your bass)

It sounds better without one 😂

Ok there’s a small Lynx cable from bass to backbeat and another small male-female cable from the backbeat to the end of my strap. I believe that covers everything, except the TC BH800 powering my bass board and all those cables too!

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Interesting thread. For me (on a gig)

 

Fingers

Thumb on pickup cover

Rotosound Jazz Bass (45 - 105) on:

2 x SVL Reserve Precisions and 1 x Fender Japan A/E fretless

ClearTone cables (silent plugs)

Mike Hill switcher/buffer (two outputs)

Output 1 to amp rack (via CleartTone cable)

Output 2 to Peterson Stomp tuner (output 2 is permanent but has a mute switch on the unit)

Mike Hill unit goes into Korg DTR 1 rack tuner

Tuner into 'A' Mesa Subway TT-800 (Boogie channel)

Effects send/return into Channel A of DBX 215S graphic eq (currently in bypass mode)

Channel B routed into 'B' Mesa Boogie Subway TT-800

Rack powered via Furman power conditioner

Edited by Steve Browning
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Sadowsky NYC 5 or Vigier Arpege 5 Elixirs Nickel set 130-132 (both tuned 'up' to drop B Karnivool style but on five  strings rather than six); or
Sadowsky Metro with Roto 100-40 stainless steels (standard tuning); or
Vigier Excess tuned to C sharp sabbath tuning/drop B with Elixirs 130-50; or
Fender Precision tuned to D standard/Drop C with D'addario Nickel set 120-50; or (probably not but maybe)
1974 Gibson EB3 with Elxir stainless steel 105-45 (standard tuning)

Generally I play fingerstyle but I have been playing with a pick more in lockdown.

Cable

Boss Tuner - TU3
Darkglass B3K or made by my mate GCI Bass Brutalist
Darkglass Alpha Omega or
TC Electronic Flashback X4
My mate's DIY clone or an Earthquaker Hummingbird Tremolo
TC Ditto X2
Keeley Bassist Compressor

cable into any one of 

Mesa Big Block 750: or
EBS Fafner; or
Trace Elliot V6;

into a Mesa Powerhouse 6x10 (I have a heavily soundproofed garage and I am careful with the volume!);  or

when I being sensible my Mesa Walkabout 1x15 combo.

 

Edited by thodrik
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Good thread!

Fingers. R/H thumb moves from pickup covers right up to base of neck.

Elixir rounds (mainly steels now) 45/65/80/100/ (+125 or 130 on fives)

Vigier Passion V, Ibanez EDB605, EDC715, Warwick Fortress MasterMan V, Warwick Infinity SN IV

Whirlwind cables

Pandora PX-4D headphone amp/fx/tuner/metronone with aux input.

Sennheiser HD415 mk1 (headphones)

Other paraphernalia also owned, but the above is the day to day stuff. 

Edited by Lfalex v1.1
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On 15/03/2021 at 13:19, thodrik said:

Sadowsky NYC 5 or Vigier Arpege 5 Elixirs Nickel set 130-132 (both tuned 'up' to drop B Karnivool style but on five  strings rather than six); or
Sadowsky Metro with Roto 100-40 stainless steels (standard tuning); or
Vigier Excess tuned to C sharp sabbath tuning/drop B with Elixirs 130-50; or
Fender Precision tuned to D standard/Drop C with D'addario Nickel set 120-50; or (probably not but maybe)
1974 Gibson EB3 with Elxir stainless steel 105-45 (standard tuning)

Generally I play fingerstyle but I have been playing with a pick more in lockdown.

Cable

Boss Tuner - TU3
Darkglass B3K or made by my mate GCI Bass Brutalist
Darkglass Alpha Omega or
TC Electronic Flashback X4
My mate's DIY clone or an Earthquaker Hummingbird Tremolo
TC Ditto X2
Keeley Bassist Compressor

cable into any one of 

Mesa Big Block 750: or
EBS Fafner; or
Trace Elliot V6;

into a Mesa Powerhouse 6x10 (I have a heavily soundproofed garage and I am careful with the volume!);  or

when I being sensible my Mesa Walkabout 1x15 combo.

 

Nice... I also use Darkglass Alpha Omega, but found that it sounds best when just using the DI out of it to just record stuff.  If I push the Darkglass signal through one of my bass heads, the preamp tube(s) and EQ mess with the sound in a not-so-good way.

Also have a Mesa Powerhouse 6x10 :)

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2 hours ago, tvickey said:

Nice... I also use Darkglass Alpha Omega, but found that it sounds best when just using the DI out of it to just record stuff.  If I push the Darkglass signal through one of my bass heads, the preamp tube(s) and EQ mess with the sound in a not-so-good way.

Also have a Mesa Powerhouse 6x10 :)

I essentially use the AO as a clean preamp to add mids back into the signal to counteract the scoopiness of the B3K!

Not recorded with the AO yet. Did a stoner/doom album lately with my signal essentially being the Walkabout combo with the B3K. 

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