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[quote name='longtimefred' timestamp='1474121772' post='3135765'] Cheers Dood, i will check out the DCX stuff. [/quote] Happy to help!

Definitely try the X models instead (DCX for example) as they have a more traditional and slightly less hifi tone. Or if you want to try something a different size then the Alnico EMG's are really nice. Coming away from EMG, well I love the Aguilar DCB - a great sounding passive pickup - The Delano SBC is very nice too but has a different flavour. Nordstrand, I think the big singles are superb and would love to give more of Carey's products a test drive for sure. My 'grunty' pickup of choice is a Dimarzio P style but this may not fit the configuration! I need to try some J styles, just a shame Dimarzio don't do soap bars!

Just beautiful, I've eyed this bass up more than once I can tell you. Jon's work is impeccable and I'd recommend him without any hesitation. The man has golden hands when it comes to luthiery and boy does he know his woods and electronics. He's designed his own preamps too from scratch and they are very good indeed. Oh and visit his wood store at your wallet's peril for no one leaves that building without drawing up a custom order yippee!

Ah! Good song! Will definitely cue it up in the morning for a trip down memory lane

[quote name='BigRedX' timestamp='1474019099' post='3134938'] So dood, care to enlighten us on the purpose of this poll? [/quote] Ahhhh BRX, the reasons are two-fold! One to generate some proper bass related discussion but also, i wanna try a bass with a huge neck and there's nothing to get my hands on locally to test the theory - Although my local music store is getting a Mike Dirnt Road Worn in for me. Tonally, I would love to see if a big ole bass neck has a bigger low end etc.. Stuart Spector believes that larger necks do improve tone - one of the reasons why he was a little reticent to shave wood off Doug Wimbish's beloved 'number one bass'. A story Doug retold to me. Anyway, I wanna try a big neck and if there's tone advantages, then great. Just wanted to know what the readership thought!

Really good! - A great watch, but I really want to see it again to listen with decent speakers. The bass is fairly prominent in the mix at times and Alex's bass tone is really tasty!

Hmmmmm, I love my prog and great to see VW involved but the clip was too short to get me interested as it kinda sounds like stuff I was playing ten years ago or more.

[quote name='Daz39' timestamp='1473889453' post='3133984'] Duh, of course. Got it. [/quote] Heh heh no worries!

[quote name='Daz39' timestamp='1473886453' post='3133953'] Cool idea - will check it out. Do you just search for the playlist and add yourself to it? [/quote] Click the link in my signature. You'll be able to add to it when it's open in your Spotify

[quote name='Dad3353' timestamp='1473800890' post='3133303'] Try the same, but with a capo at the 3rd or 5th fret. They grow very fast, do kids. Don't get an instrument which will be too small in a year or so..! [/quote] Yes! I've done this too! There's a cool side-effect as well - it can pull the action down too making the guitar easier to play! (If there's a bit too much relief in the neck without).

[quote name='MacDaddy' timestamp='1473768908' post='3132923'] because as a noob, the bell and whistles of non-restricted DAW's just serve to confuse the issue. Studio One Free, is a complete DAW without the frippery. [/quote] I think I'd still nudge you towards Reaper then Could be one of the least confusing DAWs I have used. Studio One (Free) I didn't actually get as far as recording a note as nothing seemed to do what I wanted. lol. Sibob is right though, if it works for you, it is all that matters. Everyone has their own preferences

[quote name='neepheid' timestamp='1473774313' post='3133003'] Can the poll have an "oh no, not this again" option? [/quote] I wasn't aware of a thread that specifically address the size of the bass neck, but yes I do know that 'tonewoods having an effect on sound' has been discussed. So, nope, that option isn't being added :oP

Poll added. Long detailed answers very welcome!

[quote name='MacDaddy' timestamp='1473762198' post='3132818'] Anyone else using this? I've finally got a decent laptop and interface and am going to try to use it, complete numpty and technophobe that I am. [/quote] I installed it, found it to be a massive faff and went back to Reaper. That said, I have friends who love it.

Mid punch = Dimarzio DP122 or DP146 for a bit extra.

I'm investigating the opinion that the outputs need to be separate. I'm a fan of active electronics, so I'm thinking about getting the tone right from the bass first maybe with some sort of custom filtering and certainly active mixing rather than a passive pan pot (yuk). As for the neck pickup, well, inside the casing of EMG pickup soapbars, they are all rail type, so that might be my way forward. You could stick a big fat MM pickup in the neck position and it wouldn't matter about string spacing. Even the passive EMG's, the HZ models are rails too if you didn't want to mess with active units. So I may test that theory. My other current fave is definitely the Aguilar DCB soapbar, just a beautifully sweet sounding pickup. Not surprisingly my ear likes it as the EMG sized model is pretty much the same type as the EMG DC, a big fave of mine. i.e. dual rails. The Aguilar I think has the nicer tone between the two - sweeter, yeah, that's the right word - but the DC is great for cutting through as it has a nice peak in it's top end. Mmmm decisions decisions! As for the Will Power - well, I really love the Dimarzio P style pickup and I have a Will Power P model here to install at some point so maybe it'd be logical to get the matched pair. If someone had a set of pickups from the BB714BS model, with the neck rail pickup, i'd probably rip their arms off as a great donor pickup. I like rails.. rails are nice!

It's alright! Don't worry, we're just happy you're all fixed again!

Nice! - I have a QSC power amp that I really like. A good performer, so something for bass specifically from 'Q'? Mmm very interesssssssting!

[quote name='HowieBass' timestamp='1473629415' post='3131884'] I'd also count a fingerboard as another lamination - there's a glue join there and often a difference in material and density/hardness. [/quote] Unusual for a manufacturer to count it, but you are so right! Just because it's not part of the initial neck sandwich, it is still part of the rigidity I guess!

[quote name='Bassassin' timestamp='1473705071' post='3132446'] Agreed. The worst thing about Djent is the silly name! [/quote] Misha has a lot to answer for!

[quote name='Musicman20' timestamp='1473694260' post='3132333'] I have to admit, I was shocked to see the development of modern metal bands flying the Dingwall flag. I know they don't just aim for that, but for me, I tend to see them as verging off that way now....and modern math metal is just plain dull. How many notes can you play? A lot....great. [/quote] Why shocked? Genuine question

[quote name='wateroftyne' timestamp='1473670848' post='3132033'] This definitely isn't a dig at you Dood, but it's funny how, in this this world of micro amps, we're used to talking about upgrading from 500w to 800w without batting an eyelid. This would have been pretty much unheard of when old-school AB amps were the norm, unless you were a touring pro. There was just no need for it. It makes you wonder what's [i]really[/i] going on under the hood of the Class D's. *cough* TC *cough* [/quote] No dig taken whatsoever! I think when it comes to D Class amp design though, Phil is on to something below. - In terms of power rating jumps, it's worth a mention in the thread generally that our hearing works logarithmically and thus to be truly double in volume we need ten times the power in Watts*. Hopefully I am right in saying this is a volume increase of +6dB. Which if this pans out in the real world verses theory, jumping from 100W to 200W bass amps is utterly pointless? Hmmm! (*Or, to be heard add more speakers) - The original Ampeg 8x10 cabinet I believe only had 35W cones in? So they had to use clusters of them to be heard. [quote name='Phil Starr' timestamp='1473673036' post='3132054'] This is getting to the nub of the issue I reckon. I've no doubt that if you took a 3000W class D PA amp through an 8x10 and drove it from a Sansamp then you'd be happy with the 'heft'. I really don't think there is a problem per-se with class D. There seems to me to be a couple of problems 'under the hood' though. The first is the problem with the power supplies, also switch mode and also lightweight. I think too many of these are probably underpowered and are unable to provide the 500W for more than a few thousandths of a second. Fine for a PA amp where you want undistorted sound but for a bassist regularly driving into distortion it'd feel like the class D amp was running out of steam. Of course there were class A/B amps with underpowered power supplies too. You get what you pay for here as well so it wouldn't be surprising to find expensive lightweight amps have better power supplies and seem punchier. The second thing is that going lightweight only makes sense if you trade in both speakers and amps. It's pushing it to get enough sound out of a little speaker and you need something fairly exotic to get enough sound out of a 2x10. You are going to get an awful lot more decibels out of an 8x10. With a mid-price 2x10 you simply don't have the headroom to start giving 6dB 0f bass boost for instance so if your preference is for that sort of eq you are going to have problems. So I think dood is right, it's the speakers that need some thought, or perhaps the speaker/amp combination or even the speaker/amp/bass interaction. [/quote]