Kiwi
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On Sunday I'll be interviewing one of my all time bass heroes: the great Tim Lefebvre! If you have questions for this giant of bass, hit me up, and you'll hear it back in my podcast
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Is it just me or are secondhand basses getting more expensive recently?
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FFS, I went in for a replacement filling and after 2.5 hours came away with prep for two crowns (prepaid). I hate it when events deviate from the plan.
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Hi guys. Any thoughts about how to choose better pickup and electronics for my Ernie Ball Musicman StingRay 4 3band eq?
I want more mids and less treble than in factory pickup and electronics. Which one will be best in my case? There's so much options on market and I almost always bump my mids and cut some treble on my Stingray so I need something that it will be more transparent and flat sounding or at least more mids and less treble. Thanks!-
They're not as important for bassists as they are for guitarists. Just get some pickups that can give you everything you want to hear. Although bear in mind they're passive (therefore subtractive) in their effect which means they can take frequencies away but they can't add them. Also, they are fairly coarse in how they respond so you can ask for a peak but it's quite wide in it's bandwidth, you can ask for highs to be taken away and added but if you add them then usually there is a sacrifice in warmth. Conversely if you want warmth then you can get it but it means the pickup becomes woollier sounding - although that can be remedied to a small extent with magnet type (ceramics) and wire (thicker). But where that leaves the mid peak you asked for after all the faff is anyone's guess.
As for preamp, if you're nit picky then get something which gives you the control you want. The frequency centres can be quite important for bass, mid and treble.
But if you are looking for a particular timbre (ie. how can I make this bass sound more like a Smith/Rickenbacker/Status/Alembic), neither will give it to you by themselves.
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Is there a manufacturer who has or still makes self biasing valve bass amps? The nearest amp tech to me lives in Hong Kong...700km away.
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Still buzzing from Vulfpeck live last night - and yes, Joe was playing the new EBMM to within an inch of its life! Amazing band!
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You know that thing where you're drilling the neck heel for new fixing screwholes, and the drill bit breaks off in the hole?
That.
