paul_5

Best thing Tech 21 ever made!

Practice/demo stuff is bass ->Alesis core 1, MacBook Cubase and amp sim 

Serious recording bass -> pedal board (with compression and HPF-> Ampeg preamp -> MOTU interface -> MacBook and Protools.

KiOgon (username) on here can knock you up an excellent quality circuit that does exactly what you want.

Failing that you'll need a dual 250kΩ (or 500kΩ) potentiometer and wire it like this:
 

The two 'sources' are your hot pickup wires.

8 hours ago, Woodinblack said:

I generally do the under over twist, it seems to work best

Me too. My main cable is over 30 years old, so something is working!

Just now, Bassman68 said:

It’ll be the colour of the screws next?

Chrome screws are brighter sounding than Black ones? 😂😂

Unless they’re a left-hand thread, but everyone knows that!

Yes. Because I’m old and wretched I have varifocals. 

1 hour ago, horrorshowbass said:

Yeah wondered about that. He was dancing around enough with it

 

Nobody can dance with a Wal slung around their neck! 

4 hours ago, Bart Funk Bass said:

 

 

I kinda respect his choice due to smoothness of two Alembic's humbuckers. However, you cannot duplicate a StingRay slap tone.

I like Wal sound on Blood Sugar Sex Magik. But the slap tone in "Naked In The Rain"? He should also use a StingRay!

I think the only track on BSSM that was a stingray was the 5 String on ‘The righteous and the wicked’, everything else was the Wal.

Possessed to skate - ST

Look like Rotosound Nexus- excellent strings!

Mmmm, freshly cut tree-meat 

Stratus the way (I like it) KC and the sunshine band.

1 minute ago, snorkie635 said:

Dear God, I thought those guys had been left behind in the 70s. Heebies and Geebies.

Nope, that’s the Beegees.

I can heartily recommend the iReal app for learning standards and walking, though it’s Mac only.

Moi aussi

Motherly Love - FZ and the Mothers of Invention

2 hours ago, SteveXFR said:

I do some backing shouting.

With our particular style of punk / metal crossover I don't need to be able to hold perfect pitch or make the lyrics understandable. I just have to get the timing and general attitude right.

It’s surprising how well the ‘shouting at approximate pitch’ approach works!

I got coerced into BVs during my tenure in a metal band, and really enjoy doing them now. I’ve known from a young age that Pavarotti was never going to lose any sleep over my vocal ‘abilities’, but well placed harmonies can often mean the difference between a good live band and a great live band.

I've avoided using a compressor for years, and tend to favour a HPF over an actual compressor. I fire mine (Emma Discombobulator) on for slap passages as it's set to a fast attack time and quite a heavy compression.

One fretted, one fretless. Identical models apart from the ‘speed bumps’ - ensures I don’t have to muck about with eq settings or compressor thresholds etc…

6 minutes ago, Beedster said:

Seriously that came from Fender? 

Yup. I went back to watch the video and to be fair, after about a minute she DOES play a Jazz… with the bridge pickup dialled all the way back so it just sounds similar to the P bass. Awesome.

The power of equality - RHCP

1 hour ago, LeftyJ said:

"Wow, that guy's bass looks and sounds awesome, but I don't recognise the headstock!" 

"Me neither. I think the logo is... drawn on with sharpie? And the tuners are mounted in this supercool fan pattern! I want one."

...ideally one where the bridge is hanging off the ârsę end of it!

1 hour ago, neepheid said:

Death to Jazz basses.

I will fight you!!

I’ve just had this ad pop up on FBook - seems as though there’s no real difference betwixt the two…

just so everyone knows, I’m Jazz all the way, they’re good for metal too.