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[quote name='4-string-thing' post='723479' date='Jan 24 2010, 08:10 PM']Why is the sound tinny on youtube? I played it through a mixing desk and a pair of JBL studio monitors, it still sounded tinny, thats the way "slap" sounds, isn't it? Again, fine if you want your bass to sound like that.[/quote] Subjective tonal qualities aside, most Youtube videos (including the ones in this thread) are done no favours in being filmed with a hand held camera with a crappy mic. That's why everything sounds tinny.

Since this has drifted into a general Lady Gaga thread I feel justified in posting this...

Since a noise gate stops noises below a certain threshold they will often catch feedback, since feedback is basically a quiet noise reamplified into a loud one. High gain guitar players often use it this way. If you have a gate like an NS-2 that has an effects send and return as well as guitar ins and outs, you can put the bass through the front end and put the send/return in the amp's effects loop- that will (in theory) stop anything coming from the guitar as well as anything produced by the amp. Having looked at the Artec you won't be able to do this, so I would try it in different places in the chain and see if that helps.

I would imagine it would put way too much pressure on one or two points on your body, around the vulnerable shoulder/neck area, rather than spreading it. I have a double bass (not nearly as heavy as a 4x10) which I use a single shoulder strap for out of necessity- it really does get painful quite quickly, and I wouldn't want to be doing it with anything much heavier. Just remember to use your knees and you'll be fine

[quote name='thisnameistaken' post='717741' date='Jan 19 2010, 12:46 PM']I bet it's warm and growly and sparkly and stuff. I haven't tried that many pickups because it seems I'm not as good as telling what's so sh*t about my current pickups as the rest of you. Or maybe I just got lucky and bought basses that came with perfectly acceptable pickups - assuming they exist but only get sold to people who aren't on Basschat. [/quote] Tell me about it, ignorance is bliss eh?

...I'd settle for the shirt.

Mmm, bookmatched top! ...no thanks.

Its good for getting used to fingering long phrases that move about a lot, and sequencing.

[quote name='merello' post='715064' date='Jan 16 2010, 06:14 PM']Comments?[/quote] Definitely in the "shockingly expensive" camp as far as I'm concerned.

Maybe it would be better to have one "master thread" which can be pinned, which would contain links to all the others?

Chuck them in the deep fat fryer? Only play with dirty hands?

[quote name='NancyJohnson' post='714807' date='Jan 16 2010, 01:30 PM']The Thumb SC has to be one of the ugliest basses I've seen in a while. P[/quote] I like it more than I like the normal Thumb...

[url="http://www.warwickbass.com/modules/produkte/product_list.php?rndtop&list=17056&katID=17057&cl=EN"]Hit me![/url]

[quote name='BigBeatNut' post='713785' date='Jan 15 2010, 02:20 PM']Certainly no groove, also no melody, barely discernable harmonic movement, and it's hard to tell where the 'one' is at times. Different strokes for different folks I guess. Andy[/quote] Whereas I didn't get that at all- I thought it was bloody brilliant. That kinda summarised what I like about jazz. Ain't music great?

I have to say, Warwick have really raised their game IMO, especially the improvement on the RockBass line- previously I wouldn't have touched any of the Warwick line for being way too expensive or too cheap (nothing against cheap basses, but I have enough of them!)- but when the 2010 Rockbasses start appearing in the classifieds, I might have to think again...

For those of a thriftier bent, there's also [url="http://www.bluenoise.no/mydrumset.html"]My Drumset[/url] which is free and pretty good. Have to program the beats yourself though.

[quote name='bubinga5' post='711820' date='Jan 13 2010, 07:41 PM']well the pickups are passive, there is no preamp, so the biggest factor is the wood?...[b]a good passive pickup should only amplify the sound of what the bass is made of...[/b]so the process is different to an active setup[/quote] But they don't, do they? Even top end uber-jazzes (and you of all people should know!) still sound essentially like a Jazz bass, and that really isn't that natural a sound at all, especially with both pickups on. Likewise, a Precision with a "good passive pickup" still sounds like a Precision because of the electronics- there's not much different in their construction otherwise. Maybe its different when you get to more exotic breeds like QTuners, piezos etc but to be prefectly honest, I doubt it. Look at how much grief DB players go through trying to find a pickup that's "their bass, only louder"- it just doesn't happen. IMO, YMMV etc of course

[quote name='bubinga5' post='711763' date='Jan 13 2010, 07:07 PM']QUOTE>>>You can of course engineer out some inconsistancies with using very good hardware and electronics, but to say that the signal chain doesn't make as much difference as the wood or vice versa, is I'm afraid frought with self conflict. What about say, a passive Jazz?[/quote] What about it? Overall, the same process of sound processing is going on, surely?

[quote name='bubinga5' post='711716' date='Jan 13 2010, 06:39 PM']Somebody mentioned Wal...What was there slogan? "The Sound of Wood"..., im not sure how much there electronics color the sound...i hate the thought of getting your bass sound just from the electronics....Bass sounds are suppose to be an organic thing...[/quote] "The sound of electric wood" if I'm not mistaken. Which seems to suggest something slightly different, to me at least.

It seems to vary with manufacturer- there was an amp (either Euphonic Audio or Acoustic Image I think) which had the same output at 4 and 8 ohms, so its certainly not as simple as it sometimes seems.

Surely if you get the tone you want, it doesn't really matter how you get it? For example, when I play my 7 I tend to roll the treble right off, because I like how it sounds- if I relied on the woods completely it would be far to trebly for my taste! For a long time I subscribed to the "amp set flat automatically = good" idea (an extension of the same principle) and kept my preamp/tone controls flat, but lately I've come around to the position that whatever works is cool. As others have said, its the sum of the parts that make the noise.

What issues do you encounter using the Pod Pro? I would have thought it should be fine in a loop.

If it's a separate pot, it looks like it will need an extra hole- based on [url="http://www.sadowsky.com/stock/misc_media/controls/bass_pre_vtc.pdf"]this (PDF)[/url], they use a stacked pot for the treble/bass and have the VTC on its own. Hope that helps.

Sounds like they forgot to tune up before starting- and usually I like stuff that's a bit off the wall.

Very cool- I really like how easily you switch from fingerstyle to strumming to slap. Good stuff!