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I have an EMG J set and EMG 3 band EQ in my Sandberg TT4. I do like it but I fancy a change to something passive and less hifi. It also currently has the ABC control that means when both pickups are full you don't get that classic jazz mid dip - often useful but also not entirely traditional jazz like. Whatever I get must be humcancelling though. What is good these days? I noticed from @Kingbassist rig video that many pit pros are using noiseless Barts but I can't tell what model - and there are a few choices - any ideas? Or maybe the noiseless Nordstrand? The Aguilar DCB set looks good - but it's very expensive. I'm looking for something vintage, deep and plummy that works well just with a passive tone control. Another thing I really like is when polepieces are flat with the top of the plastic - not protruding at all so if I do have them very close to the strings I don't get any string on pole clicking. So covered pole recommendations are good too. All recommendations welcome!

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Shielding the whole of the pickguard, not the cavity, can take out a bit of treble on a strat or similar, and I like a real bite to my guitar tone (Martin Miller style) so that’s why I did it in strips as minimum as possible. can’t see why it would be any different on bass? And again I like the jazz bass high mid growl so if I had to earth the pick guard I would do it as minimalist as poss.

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"I hear you telephone thing, listening in..."

Thank you so much! I wrote the Nathan East inspired track to go with my demo video and, it seemed fitting to use a 6 string headless as Nathan has one too. Love that bass!

A while back I bought a heavily discounted BBNE2 and traded a multtiscale 6 string Ibanez I wasn’t getting in with. now I am all about fretless and have had this irritating idea that won’t leave my brain about having the Yamaha de-fretted. Am I crazy? Would you do it?If so are there any decent luthiers in Suffolk you would trust to do it, or should I just leave it well alone for when I am back in love with fretted again. ???? Every time I pick up the Sire V10 I wish it was the fretless Yamaha and I don’t think Mr East even plays a fretless unless it is an upright. Aaarrrggghhhhh!!!

Yes, I agree and that is exactly why I'm saying it's a huge problem. The issue is not that people are not working hard enough now - if anything, people are working harder than ever before, for far less reward. But the AI / social media platforms you use to plough all that hard work into are the same platforms that are making their money from putting you out of work and making you broke. In 2026, everything you post on insta, TikTok, Facebook etc is being used to feed generative AI. When you use those platforms, your license agreement tells you that. The generative AI fed by those platforms floods the internet with worthless junk which is a facsimile of everyone's content, and that devalues your actual work to zero. It's a trap, and there is no getting away from it without moving away from the algorithm chase model and the platforms that provide it.

Shielding the whole cavity can be bad for tone? Interesting...never heard that one before. Can you elaborate? Kind of makes sense but I'm no expert with electrics ☺️

Very much this and I think it is down to size of the format. This is what I miss about vinyl. Poring over the artwork of some albums, especially gatefolds, and finding some small detail that you’d missed before (difficult with cassette or CD, as they’re so much smaller) is something you can’t replicate without that 12” size. Regarding sound quality, I had a conversation, many years ago, with a colleague about hifi gear. We came to the conclusion that non musicians were more likely to spend more money on their setups, compared to those who played an instrument. Players being more concerned about the quality of the music, rather than the quality of the reproduction, that and the likelihood of many musicians to have impaired hearing anyway.

Just going back to my mate, he used to (no pun) wax lyrical about different elements he could add to his system to make it sound (subjectively) better. I can recall speaker isolation systems (spikes, then this ball bearing/cup system). Crocodile clips (on speaker cable) attached to curtains, speaker cones made 'from the same stuff that they coat the tiles on the space shuttle'. Power supplies. Power amps. Different cartridges for different music ('Yeah, this one us better for reggae.'). He would say regularly that achieving 85% of musical audio fidelity was cheap and simple, the big money is in the final 15%, which I suppose is where his business model lies.

yeah dying fetus for me have that perfect blend of death metal and catchy grove hardcore riffs. was even better their intro song was YMCA lol

Slaughter To Prevail confuse me just because everyone refers to them as STP and for anyone of my age, STP will always be Stone Temple Pilots. I have seen Dying Fetus in Bristol years ago and they were excellent. The mosh pit was pretty much the entire room!

Really whatever you want, but you absolutely should not be using a kick drum mic as the frequency response is wrong and you'll be competing with the kick drum sound. The reality is that unless you are playing huge stages with your own sound engineer, any mic on your bass rig will be mostly for show and the main proportion of your FoH sound will come from the DI. Remember also that a single close mic on one driver in your rig is not picking up the same sound you hear from the whole rig when stood a few feet away from it. Save the mics for the recording studio and if you like the sound you are getting FoH from your DI signal path stick with that.

slaughter to prevail at brixton. they was ok but i really went to see Dying fetus who albeit having terrible sound, were very good

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What do BC'ers use if/when mic'ing a bass cab live? I'm not after anything overly expensive. It's for occasional use (alongside the wonderful valve DI in the TT800). I've watched a good few videos and am drawn to the Behringer C112 - alongside the DI signal. Any other ideas/thoughts?