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Awesome Video in stop motion!!!  

Usually I'm not Very fond of headless basses but this one looks awesome. GLWTS

On 26/09/2018 at 20:09, BreadBin said:

Exactly! They all look the same so why pay more?

Because different pads can actually make your headphones sound different. Increasing or decreasing the distance between the drivers and hears, can make a significant diference. Not to mention confort and durability.Take this in considereation, specially if you use your headphones  for mixing.

How about changing the order of the pedals? I also have a b3k and the vt bass but i place the vt after the B3k. I like how the preamp and the cab sim adds extra flexibility. 

Good closed back headphones usually have bether bass response, the downside beeing  they get warmer and sound a bit less natural.  For practise, recording, and critical listening the Audio techica M40X or 50X will do a great job. 

I use the M40x  and they do soud great, feel good but i also have a pair of AKG 720 that sound and feel awesome. These days i tend to prefer the AKG for quiet practise environment . Super light a comfy.

Take a look at the site above, they did a really nice work

https://www.rtings.com/headphones/reviews/best

All the above...

And get ready to jam and create on the flow. Fist time a got an audition to a original prog/post rock band, it didn´t went  so well because i could not deliver on the the flow a crazy 7/8 lick.  work on odd time sig if needed.

11 hours ago, Grangur said:

I do up basses. One I had was a Warwick with a wenge fingerboard. The frets were worn out and the strings had been well ground into the wood of the neck. I guess this is what would happen to your fretless.

Why not remove the fingerboard and fit a new ebony board? This would also give you the opportunity to put the side dots in the right place: in the fret-wire positions.

Well that´s an interesting idea! Never thought about that.  I was thinking about doing it my self  and changing the fingerboard  is a bit out of my league 😅

I guess that´s because wenge is a bit uneven and fretless fingerboars usally a re shiny and flat. Also i guess i´ll have some trouble with the splinters when removing the frets. Maybe someone allready tried this and can shre the results

Dear bass fellas,  since i have a japanese ibanez laying in it´s case for.. lets see...too long . I was thinking in converting it to fretless.

The thing is, it´s a wenge fretboard and  I don´t remeber seeing many fretless basses with wenge fingerboards (maybe i just have bad memory). Any particular reason for this? Is it because wenge gets splintered easily or something else?

Thanks in advance

9 hours ago, fretmeister said:

I think that's just the over tones from his usual drive sound. that bass is very grindy.

 

He's using a Helix these days - Line 6 modelled Billy's own Pearce Preamp to get the helix model dead right.

Thanks for you input fretmeister. There´s  some sort of  a "auauaua" going on.  😅 I lack better words to descrive it. Is that what you mean by overtones?

I´ve been listening to Sons of Apollo - Psychotic Symphony  album, and i was wondering what kind of effect is Billy Sheehan using along with his drive?  It makes the bass "roar". Is it  some king of envelope flter? Any ideas?

On 13/05/2018 at 01:12, Count Bassy said:

I generally brace the body between my knees and pull the head back, thus taking the strain off the truss rod/nut, make the adjustment and let go of the head. The bass goes pretty well back into tune though obviously needs minor tweaks.

Never (yet) had a problem doing it this way.

 

I've been doing this for years too. Zero problems so far. Just creates some relief over the Rod allowing smooth rotation. 

Never used the RV-3, but IMO, to much low end using reverb wont work very well as the bass will get easily out of control. A reverb with high pass filter is a very usefull tool. That will allow you to take the excess of bass affected by the reverb. 

Hey awesome partnership!! soundig great so far. 

Been doing that for years. I only play on a originals band nowadays, but by the time the band was put together, i was also playing on a black sabbath tribute band and i tuned  half step down. So, i started composing all musics and bass lines this way. And yes, the guitar is standard ...7 string

22 hours ago, Higgie said:

My Dargie Delight Stingray 5 Fretless. Since the pictures were taken I've swapped out the original pickup and preamp for a Nordstrand MM5.3 and John East 3 Band 4 Knob Preamp. Sounds great!

 

 

You can hear it here: 

 

Nice bass, but that string spacing... 

3 hours ago, dyerseve said:

ery strange to see one fitted on a 2006 made 'wick but maybe it was requested as a custom option? or retro fitted.

Yup! That´s a JANI 

PM´d

2 hours ago, Didg said:

Are there any reverb pedals that have a HPF built in?

Take a look at the mxr. 

Another vote on the lead upgrade. Never had that problem with my SR. Neutrik user too 

The Marshall reflector is also a nice budget option. It can be used mono or stereo,  controled with a expression pedal, and When you turn it off it still let the reverb fading (Spill Over).

ohhh my...  i can´t find my wallet. This is almost a giveaway. 

That´s a beauty!! I´m jealous  congrats!