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Thanks everyone for your help, i still havent got to the bottom of what is wrong, I had new set of strings spare here (A 4 string set of DR High Beam 45, 65, 85, 105's) and my bass is a 5 string, so in my lunch break today i went down to Denmark St and bought a single 130 B string (maybe a 125 would have been better but its all they had and id like my B to be a little less flappy so it made sense). So the 4 higher string have intonated fine but this B string is confusing the hell out of me. In order for it to be anywhere near intonated correctly i had to wind the saddle all the way up tight to the bridge and its still a fraction sharp. Its a 34 inch scale bass and the B string i got was a RotoSound SBL130 whicj i gather is long scale (am i right in thinking a 34" scale is long scale?) All the other saddles are sitting fairly similarly to heach other but this B looks way out of place. If i measure from the nut to the saddle the B is more like 35" than 34" Have i just bought the wrong kind of string or am i missing something else? Also my saddles have V shaped notches in them i presume to accomodate different string sizes should i be filing the saddles out to suit the larger string guage? Heres a pic of how its currently looking

Hi Ive just checked my intonation following this video: [url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hGfbebLI3pw"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hGfbebLI3pw A[/url]nd found something a bit odd, and am wondering if anyone can shed a little light on whats happening, Im checking my 5 string ESP (Not LTD) Surveyor Bass and when i check the heavy B string and tune the harmonic then pluck the open note with my pick and it goes slightly sharp (just a couple of Cents and then comes to a solid B as the note rings out. So i presume thats ok and in tune. Then if i play the first fret (C) it goes sharp and the comes back to C after a second and this seems to be the case for any of the fretted notes, I play quite fast aggressive metal and im wondering if i should tune slightly flat so that the note i strike is in tune rather that the second after i play the fretted note, or am i just worrying too much? The reason this whole thing has come about is that when i play with my band something doesnt sound quite right, my guitarist insists that his guitar is in tune although im never going to really know for sure as he 's not that approachable to let me see myself. I just want to be 100% sure its not me thats the problem Thanks!

[quote name='stingrayPete1977' post='1104556' date='Jan 26 2011, 11:27 PM']Bankai-Why would taking a DI from your amp defeat the object? Taking it from my amp gives the desk my Stingray tone through a bit of my valve drive without me worrying that if I turn my rig up (obviously not adjusting the pre/gain just my master) half way through a song FOH mix will get ruined like using a mic, Or am I missing something? Ta[/quote] This had been my feeling all along and the thinking behind the original post The obvious thing missing from this setup us is clean DI but is a clean really that important? just for the low end perhaps, I dont know, And this thread is making me begin to care less as everyone obviously has different opinions and i may just carry on with my thoughts of requesting My Di (with my valve distortion - what i consider my sound) along with the clean DI if the soundguy insists on that. I will do what i usually do and take a moment to stand out front during sound check to have a quick listen if it sounds too trebbley i will tell them.

Yes thats what i meant when i said "il just have to be double extreme with my bass, onboard preamp"

[quote name='charic' post='1102184' date='Jan 25 2011, 02:39 PM']Quick slight OT. My amp (RH450) has a good DI out and I don't want it to get Phantom Fried. Is there any kind of safety buffer I could put in between? Something to absorb the phantom power should it be active on the desk.[/quote] Correct me if im wrong someone, but a Transformer blanced DI as opposed to a electronicly balanced DI should isolate you, so perhaps throw a transformer balanced passive DI box between ? *EDIT* Sorry didnt see the RTFM bit

Ok thanks everyone for the input but i think a lot of you are going a little far and taking my original question out of context or misinterpreting what im trying to say. 1) i have never tried (or succeeded to) to piss a soundman off or approached one in a confrontational manner i have ALWAYS gone with whatever they have wanted to do, even if i didnt agree with them i have never told them that, and just done what they said. 2)im not hoping that my sound is perfectly recreated through the PA i know they are different signal paths and will have different sounds. 3)All i want, is for me not to sound like an awful Mark King Tribute player full of pop and twang, i dont want any of that sound (thats not the sound coming from my amp and id like it to go somewhere near to resemble that sound to the crowd). il just have to be double extreme with my bass, onboard preamp. So i think from the sensible answers ive had here i will ask for a DI and Mic on the Cab, Thanks for all of your help !

to be honest i doubt i need to go through the PA in some of the smaller venues as my rig is plenty powerful enough its just that if im in control of the only bass level the venue will hear, i cant be mixed properly with the rest of the band

As i mentioned before my head has transformer balanced DI outs so its pretty isolated from PA mishaps, and if my amp goes down im gonna stop playing anyway so no difference there really.

Dont get me wrong im not expecting an exact replication of how i hear my sound to be out the front for the crowd , just somewhere near, What i heard from the PA that night was a night and day difference to my amp sound. What was coming from the PA was a clan twangy pop funk bass hifi sound (apologies for my crap description but im not so good at axplaining the sound). Where as my sound from my amp is driven distortion blended with a fat low end without any high twang at all. Otherwise i may as well not bother taking my amp rig at all.

[quote name='dan670844' post='1101999' date='Jan 25 2011, 12:39 PM']Alrighty, the sound guy needs a dry signal from you bass usually this is so he can eq the main sound properly to get the main mix right. But the sound guy should always also take a feed from your amp post eq or even a mic'ed cab to colour your sound then he can blend the two together. Then all is well, but most often for the sake of easyness this is overlooked! its a case of insisting that you want it done this way[/quote] Sounds like the right idea, thats exactly what i do when doing a studio mix, wasnt sure about pushing my studio techniques onto a live sound engineer as i know nothing about live sound.

[quote name='bassbloke' post='1101996' date='Jan 25 2011, 12:36 PM']+ 1 Or something similar like a SANSAMP BAss DI[/quote] if i did that, what would be the point of me lugging a huge great big ampeg (that i can get just the sound im after) around with me?