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    Sheared neck screws: What to do?

    in Repairs and Technical

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    On 19/07/2023 at 21:22, SpondonBassed said:

     

     

    Oh yes...  Like you said, EZ outs (screw/bolt extractors) may be the answer but you have to be very steady with the tiny drill bit to get the pilot hole in the centre.  The smallest extractor is usually good for screw shanks of 3 to 5mm diameter.  You will need a tap wrench to use one.

    I hate these things with a passion, and would advise against using them unless as a last resort. The chances that they will break are very high, and then you have a serious problem on your hands because you have a hardened carbon steel extractor in the centre of the bolt, which no drill can touch. When it happened to me I was lucky enough to find a local engineering works with a spark erosion machine (think this was a VW bus cylinder head exhaust stud, but it was a long time ago).

     

    Once the neck is off, if there is enough of the broken screw sticking out a Stud Extractor might do the job - something like this: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Remover-Extractor-Puller-Mechanic-Vehicle/dp/B07B3S1CJN/ref=sr_1_1_sspa?adgrpid=60146397584&hvadid=259084582987&hvdev=c&hvlocphy=9180720&hvnetw=g&hvqmt=e&hvrand=16234816946913686502&hvtargid=kwd-298754072628&hydadcr=28149_1724799&keywords=stud+extractor&qid=1689932951&sr=8-1-spons&sp_csd=d2lkZ2V0TmFtZT1zcF9hdGY&psc=1

     

     

    Does your guitar player use backline or just an amp&cab modeller / DI out from his pedalboard, through the PA?

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    We had a lot of success doing this with a TC Electronic G-System a few years ago now.

     

    If you're going to do it, it's got to be all or nothing IMHO - loud valve amps on the stage were the cause of many sound problems so using them a monitors is counterproductive. Likewise any kind of FRFR cab with a volume control that can be turned up mid-gig.

    Setting Pedal Gain (Compressor)

    in Effects

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    I think this refers to "make-up" gain, boosting the output signal to make it the same volume as the uncompressed signal. When you compress the signal you are likely to lose some volume.

     

    I do the same as Thodrik with my Becos, which has a similar set of controls, and use the mk. 1 earhole to raise the compressed volume to the same level as the uncompressed (pedal off) volume once i've got the desired amount of compression.

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    Double bass player wanted for established American Old-Time band: north Essex / Suffolk area

    in Bassists Wanted

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    The American Old-Time band I play in is looking for a double bass player, or an experienced bass guitarist who wants to learn upright.

     

    Our fiddle player has retired from playing and I've moved from double bass to mandolin, lap steel and other instruments to fill out the sound. I'd prefer to find someone who is already playing upright, but I can show someone the basics and temporarily loan my student bass to soneone looking to take up upright.

     

    The band has members in Clacton, Colchester and Ipswich, and we usually rehearse in Colchester. We have a couple of bookings in the diary for the summer and would like to build back up to 10-15 gigs a year, where we were before Covid and other things intervened.

     

     

    Help! Flying V Bass Gigbag

    in Bass Guitars

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    21 hours ago, mrn1989 said:

    Anybody own a Epi Flying V Bass, what gigbag are you using, I’m desperately trying to find a gigbag for it as the massive rectangular hardcase is super impractical. 
     

    TIA

    I have an old Tribal Planet gig bag, an Epi flying V will fit into it. Unfortunately they're no longer available new but they come up used occasionally.  The scale length is shorter so the overall length is not that much longer than a jazz/precision .

    Run a DI output, into an instrument input?

    in Repairs and Technical

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    On 05/05/2023 at 19:22, DaleASmith said:

    Never thought that would work.

     

    I assumed you would lose the signal to the power amp section if you interrupted it in the effects loop...

    It depends whether your amp has a serial effects loop or a parallel effects loop. If you do this with a serial loop, the result will be silence. If you do it with a parallel loop, the clean signal will still make it as far as the power amp.

     

    You need to read the manual to find out what your amp does. Some amps, such as Markbass LM2, have an internal jumper which allows you to change the loop from serial to parallel.

    Recording off the mixer ?

    in Repairs and Technical

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    You're right, XLR into mini-jack, I misread that bit of the manual. Apologies. 'C' is a mono output, 'L and R will give you a stereo output.

     

    Depending on whether you have any stereo effects in the main mix, a mono recording might be all you need. Personally I've found it's a much better idea for a live mix to put everything in the centre,.

    Recording off the mixer ?

    in Repairs and Technical

    Posted

    He's probably right about the effects - looks to me that the effects return is going straight onto the Mix L and R busses so probably wouldn't appear in the Aux Sends or the Headphone output.

     

    Don't think he's right about using 2TK though, as @Bigguy2017says that looks like an input.

     

    If you're not running a PA off it why not record off the main outs? You'd need a lead with a pair of 6mm jacks going down to a stereo 3.5mm jack to plug into the recorder.

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