heminder

Title of the thread should be "How to survive, period?" Jobs are crappy in every industry. I, as well [i]all[/i] of my friends, finished uni just as the recession hit and to date none of us are in work. I did a course afterwards in electronic engineering, but still no work. I'm now trying to get freelance jobs as an industrial designer but still no work. The government likes to release rosy figures of "decreasing unemployment" to celebrate themselves, but we all know what politicians are like. I never got into music expecting any kind of work out of it. I feel for musicians since they not only get screwed over trying to find work, but also by the record labels and industry itself when they actually [i]get[/i] work. Then they have the cheek to say that they "protect" musicians when they advocate things like SOPA and ACTA.

The Germans can be relied on for super fast delivery. I've bought amps and instruments from there and had them shipped to me faster than a UK shop can send me a small pack of strings, and with no suspicious holes in the parcel.

Hey. Has anyone tried these pickups? They're passive soapbars that fit in the EMG 40DC route dimensions. [url="http://www.wdmusic.co.uk/claymore-soapbar-bass-pu-4-or-5-string-bridge-1226-p.asp"]http://www.wdmusic.c...idge-1226-p.asp[/url] I've searched everywhere but nobody on the web seems to have any opinions on these anywhere.

I tend to only replace tubes when their symptoms of planned obsolescence kicks in. If it still works there's no need to replace.

It's just a high-pass filter tuned to filter out all frequencies below 25-30Hz. I'd probably just build one myself instead, and add a pot to vary the threshold frequency. A lot of amps nowadays have those low frequencies filtered out anyway.

Sounds a bit like a hot-rodded Marshall type. There's a lot of those.

I didn't know Argos had musical instruments in their catalogue.

So much for free speech. I was taking an interest in Music Man basses after watching the factory tour. Not any more!

[quote name='Machines' timestamp='1363900823' post='2019282'] Curious. One would assume EBMM may have requested it's removal. I'm no longer in a position to confirm this. [/quote] It would be really really crappy if this site resorted to censorship on that level. Fascism, anyone? EDIT: It seems that the thread has indeed been taken down. This is the link I had to it from my browsing history: [url="http://basschat.co.uk/topic/203060-sloppy-work-from-music-man/"]http://basschat.co.u...from-music-man/[/url]

You could turn the input gain down if you find yourself fiddling with the threshold on the volume pot.

One of these? http://www.thomann.de/gb/steinberger_guitars_synapse_xs_1fpa_ta_custom.htm

Was reading a thread on this earlier. Etienne Mbappe does it too to keep his strings fresh.

This is one reason why I hate hate hate gooped/epoxied electronics.

When I play something I eye up where all the root notes are across the whole fretboard. Navigating between them and adding modal colours of different scales is the fun part. The only notes I record the name of in memory is the root, the rest I just go by their intervalic designation (eg. flat 2nd, perfect 5th, etc).

[quote name='icastle' timestamp='1363720350' post='2016564'] Going from 250KΩ to 1MΩ is a hell of a jump. If you couldn't hear a difference I'd be worried about you. [/quote] Aye. Not sure what ESP were thinking putting a dual 250k blend in a humbucker-loaded guitar.

[quote name='KiOgon' timestamp='1363717618' post='2016510'] The difference is inaudible to normal hearing, OK on paper there's a difference - there's a miniscule to be gained on the higher frequencies of guitars generally speaking but I don't think any of us could tell the difference on a bass between 250/500K pots, (assuming the same quality & circuitry). [/quote] I replaced a 500k volume and dual 250k blend control with two 1meg vol/vol and I can definitely tell a difference.

Some signal is bled through the volume pot too, and will dull your tone. It's the value of the pot that matters most. 250 kiloohms will reduce the output slightly and round off the tone, while a 1 megaohm pot will give you the better signal and a more open tone.

A fun blindfold test, only done acoustically. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QCEdT2d43jU

It's proprietary hardware, so the only ones who know anything about it is Line6. Read: planned obsolescence.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x4zVGGWlvkU

I can't speak for the B-15/B-55, but I play a standard B-205. It's very comfy overall, but the active circuit is noisy so I gutted it and wired the pickups passively. Noise gone. The nut on mine is cut perfectly. Maybe just a hair shallow on the E string but nothing worth getting a new nut over. Action is fairly low across the whole fretboard.

EBS Reidmar is serving me well for practicing at home as well as playing with others. It's got parametric mids including a handy notch filter for taming boomy-ness and feedback. It's quite loud for its power rating, and has a headphone jack too.

This discussion has introduced pre-amplifiers, which are largely irrelevant to the topic as they are merely signal conditioning/shaping units. The only thing that matters here are power ampifiers, since they are the devices that push out power to the speaker. iPoods and all devices that employ some kind of speaker contain power amp, however strong or weak of a signal it is they produce.

There's absolutely a tonal difference. Braided cables seem to be able to deliver a punchier tone which I've never heard through a standard cable and they seem to hold together passive pickups better because the braiding has a tight weave. I've also found that ones with the springs on the jack plugs have better harmonics than those with rubber sleeves.