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Wow! Nice bass. I’m very impressed with the Marcus Miller stuff and the V8 is on my ever growing want list. Enjoy, I’m not at all jealous!!!!

Thanks for that detailed answer @Phil Starr, I will certainly enjoy my summer sound. one last thing, would I be correct in thinking that all things being equal a 2x10 will produce half the SPL of a 4x10? Or have I got that wrong as well lol.

Why is it that music especially guitar through a nice valve amp and cab always sounds better louder rather than quiet? Bass too, but to a lesser extent, meaning I get the same feeling from bass, that lovely in the zone kinda groovy with the beat feeling, at a lower volume. ???

Summer set up is always easier on the ears. I’ve moved the cabs/monitors back. Thanks for the input everyone.

So the only way to reduce the spl is to increase the distance between speaker and ear. Is that correct?

I’ve taken down the dividing partition in my studio today, effectively doubling its size. I put it up in winter to reduce heating cost. If everything else remains the same, will this reduce the spl from the speakers as the sound has more space in which to dissipate. I can’t decide, because the extra space is behind the speakers/cabs, but it certainly sounds more spatial, better in actual fact, but isn’t due to reverberations because the space is well treated with acoustic dampening material. So the only thing I can think is that the spl is lower so the sound is ‘nicer’.???!!! Anyway, someone with a bigger brain and more knowledge of this complicated subject than me, please help, but don’t use long words coz you’ll just confuddle me further. Thanks.

Well I spent the afternoon in and out of the studio depending on my pain levels and had a play around with picking techniques and if someone had said it’s all in the fingers then I would have said they were just being awkward, but I get it now, it really is all in the fingers, not the gear. I often changed picks as a guitarist for a different tone and is the same with the fingers, well I don’t change my fingers but you know what I mean. All those years spent playing one tone when I was playing bass and now I have a whole new perspective. Wish I’d known when I was younger. Isn’t that a song title??

I’ve pretty much got it sorted now. I’ve got the bassman into a couple of small speakers and a Kowalski DG tube preamp into the mixer and Genelecs. Either can give a nice growl. Also got a Digbeth pedal on order which may sound even better. I was watching a Julia what her name video earlier on flatwound strings and that is the last 10% of the sound I think, but flats are a lot higher tension and I don’t want them on either of my 6ers so may well get a Sire 5 string and put flats on that. I love all this messing around chasing tone almost asmuch as playing, so long as I make some progress towards the tone I’m aiming at. I would be very happy to turn up at a rehearsal or gig with the tone I have now, having always gone for a very clean tight tone before, the growl is something I never liked until now. Julia Hofer. Edit.

Yeah, I said it was too much.

Damn!! RIP

Been looking at various preamp pedals and just ordered the Laney Digbeth. It had nothing to do with how it sounded and everything to do with the fact that I found out today that Nathan East became a Laney endorsee recently, because I’m stupid. So will post up how it sounds shortly.

great bass line. I’m thinking flats on a jazz or p neck pickup and slight bit of drive and compression maybe? absolutely love the tone.

I know you taking the fosters out of me but I found it very funny.

Why is it I got a killer tone with the Yamaha TRB (more growl than a pack of hungry wolves) and the I plug in the Ibanez and it sounds crap, even on passive mode. Really frustrating, really really very frustrating.

Well you see I wasn’t meant to be sounding like I have all this gear and I don’t know where I’ve put it all, but I had sort of retired that amp as I used to use it for guitar a while back and then our son came along and I was evicted from the spare room and built the studio outside and I haven’t got around to moving everything out there, and he did like playing with it, and I had to trade him a tube screamer pedal for the amp as well otherwise he wouldn’t let me have it back.

Ok. Pm me your address and I’ll send them to you. what bass will you put them on?

No takers for a free set of strings then?

The Vintage Finish also allows you to breathe new life into the tone wood if your tone should be ‘off’ with a little known but recently rediscovered (in the back of a dusty old music theory book) guitar CPR technique.

I don’t remember what I take to the gig or anywhere else now coz I’m in love with Julia.

Yes I don’t doubt it. Shame he lures people in that way though. Something about it I just find annoying I suppose, and yet I really like his channel and regularly watch it. Enjoyed the Guy Pratt i/v recently.

Preying on peoples’ desire to play bass without putting in the work the same as fatfighters preys on peoples’ desire to be fit without exercising. Combine that with a bit of stupidity and gullibility and it’s a recipe for making money, but then I should add that I’m just a grumpy old cynic.

Nice. Like your style!

Firstly, if it’s tight to get the string through the bridge you don’t want these strings as it will ruin the black coating (see my earlier post). The tension I would say is very slightly less than the similar gauge strings I took off although the neck didn’t move enough to measure but they feel easier to bend. I don’t know what advantage the taper set would be other than not taking up space on the tuner. Someone will no doubt help me out here. If you like a bright string which creates a high output from the pickup then imho these strings are not for you. They don’t have a lot of brightness or zing even when new and are a noticeably lower output. The D’Addarios have all sorts of complex overtones and a bright zingy sound, much like a piano string, which I love and you can eq out if needed but if it’s not there to start with you cant eq in.

Yeah was a bit snidey wasn’t it? However, they refer to the severe bend as a crimp. I quote; The severe bend (crimp) will provide an anchor ……….. In any case it didn’t work on that string, and I don’t like the sound of them compared to the D’Addarios and I wouldn’t have found out unless the G failed like it did and I put the D’Addario G back on to hear the difference. So I’m glad the crimp bend whatever the flip you want to call it didn’t work. If anyone wants a free set of BLB6-30 strings let me know and if you pay postage you can have them coz they no use to me. (I bought two sets.)

Well i was using the terminology straight from the manufacturer’s instructions. Sorry if I wasn’t up to your normal standards of accuracy.