pete.young

How did I manage to forget Two Tribes?

Under Pressure.  Although that's only one bar!

Get Lucky

Treasure

Papa Don't Preach

The latency with g2m and b2m is pretty horrible, and you need to be very clean in technique. I found that EQ-ing all the bass out of the signal helped a bit.

I think you would be fine to run the J-Retro off the existing battery. John East would tell you for sure, but I think the drain on the battery is going to be a handful of milliamps and probably a lot less than the LEDs. Even if you have to change the battery twice as frequently as  you normally do, it's still a lot easier than changing an extra one in the control cavity.

I'd give it a go. If it doesn't work, you can go back and install the one in the control cavity. Assuming there's room for it of course. If you have to rout it out to make more space, definitely try the single battery first.

1 hour ago, lidl e said:

 

 

Surely it should be last in your chain right before amp?

 

According to the guy who makes it, it should be right at the front of your chain before anything else. This works well for me - I found that the only thing it really didn't like was an envelope filter, but I don't use one any more.

i'm currently preparing for the annual brass band area contest. So I'd say thats one aspect of music which is clearly competitive, and the quality of the competition tends to drive up standards for the bands that participate.

Beg pardon, it is actually a twin spot rather than a big twin. The pure mini is on a guitar-bodied bouzouki with a conventional guitar bridge.

I have a Rally F5 style mandolin and it's an excellent instrument which didn't cost very much at all . I think the same factory made a number of other brands including Kentucky, which sold for twice as much as my Rally. Good find @fleabag you got a bargain there.

That is an under-bridge saddle pickup, so it will only work if your bouzouki has a guitar-style bridge stuck in the middle of the soundboard.

I have a K&K sound big twin in one of my 8-string bouzozukis  and a K&K Sound Pure Mini acoustic guitar pickup in the other. The 10-string has a custom magnetic sound hole pickup made by Almuse. None of these have volume controls. I normally use a pre-amp with the K&K Sound units. The magnetic doesn't need anything.

All three of them have end-pin jack sockets - you can now get these with built-in pre-amps which will tone down the piezo harshness somewhat.

I had a Shadow with a volume control on a banjo. In practice the volume control isn't a lot of use. You have to set it to full in order to get a decent output.

You can't cause any harm doing this, and it's a lot easier than changing the pre-amp valve for a lower gain version.

Me too Jack. I was fortunate enough to see Television in 1977 in the Free Trade Hall, Manchester. Blondie were the support band. That was a great gig.

I gather that he decided to take a break from gigging last Autumn, so is probably lying low somewhere.

On 13/12/2022 at 15:40, Happy Jack said:

Luckily enough, running flat out for eight hours is not one of my requirements. 

I can barely manage 8 minutes these days.

He was also working with Tim Ainslie a couple of years ago. I'll ask Tim if he's heard anything.

58 minutes ago, Waddo Soqable said:

I tried one of the old style round back mandolins, unfortunately my sossidge fingers wouldn't do the tiny little neck / string spacing

I've got an elderly banjo that's do-able for 4 string twangy-ness, I also converted an acoustic guitar to a 4 string Tenor that worked surprisingly well for a butcher's job.. I'm now toying with the idea of doing another but with double courses of strings, mandolin/ bouzouki fashion. 

The tricky bit is getting the holes on the bridge in the right place, since this controls the string spacing. Fortunately basschat's resident genius has figured it out (round about page 7):

2 hours ago, Grahambythesea said:

If they’re going from E down to Eb you could fit a hipster d-tuner set to drop the half. The rest of the notes above are the same.

Loving the idea of a hipster d-tuner. Needs a shave and loves craft beer 🙂

Chances are that a pedal is going to make a sound that isn't very much like a bass guitar. Tuning down a semitone might be OK, otherwise you might want to consider BEAD or a 5-string. That's how I got into 5-string playing.

That would look nice on the wall next to my otherwise identical fretted version. Mmmm.

4 minutes ago, Silvia Bluejay said:

Regarding feedback, as per @Happy Jack's question above, I can only remember us having trouble once in a pub in WGC, when we set up with our powerful MarkAudio PA and a complete set of floor wedges for monitoring. One of the wedges necessarily had to be pointing directly at the oildrum ali DB. 🙄

We don't set up like that now - Jack's monitoring is a lot subtler and, cleverly, a lot higher (on a tripod, behind him, at head height!). Also, I'm now pretty good at fighting feedback by throwing the full sound-engineering bag of tricks at it. 😉

Does that bag of tricks include a feedback destroyer like the Feedback Ferret? I've got one of these, but havent got around to trying it on double bass. I find the notch filter on my pre-amp is usually good enough at stopping it.

Seems reasonably priced to me at £850. @thebrig has an ad for one of these in the Wanted section.

11 hours ago, fretmeister said:

pedal in loop A, nothing in B. Instant blend.

 

Or different ones in different loops. 

Me too. Each loop has a gain control so you can adjust that against the clean signal.

The search function is mostly broken. Using google with site:basschat.co.uk always returns more results than the internal search.

On 31/12/2022 at 17:13, mario_buoninfante said:

 

that said, this seems to have 1 instrument input and 2 return inputs, 1 instr out and 2 send outs.
I'd expect these to have difference impedances. I don't think that connecting an instrument to a return is ideal.

In practice, it works really well. I've been doing this with an LS2 for years.

My Stentor 3/4, in it's gig bag, is sitting on a Gig Stands stand, which came with the bass when I bought it second-hand.

I have a set of Status half-rounds on my fretted Duesenberg Star. I believe they're ground. They sound like a good compromise and retain some brightness whilst still giving a decent thump.

I think the thing which inflicts most damage on fretless fingerboards is poor vibrato technique - the sort of sideways stringbending favoured by guitarists seems to be very effective in digging trenches across the neck which line up with the string windings.