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Although a humorous answer, this isn't a bad example. Even if you bang a big wooden box, play the strings of a cello, acoustic guitar, mallet the notes on a glockenspiel, they all have certain characteristics in common where you should be able to tell that said thing is made of wood. (Unless you're the amateur sound engineer I encountered who seemingly couldn't hear anything above about 1khz..) Therefore, it wouldn't be out of the realms of possibility to suggest they have a 'woody tone'. And all have a lot going on in the mid-range frequencies, over, say, hammering a lump of steel or slapping someone around the face with a kipper. Yes, don't get pedantic, there's always the odd exception to the rule and as I said earlier, the rest of the signal chain can make a big difference too, but, isolating the instrument alone, those woody frequencies are in broadband mids. Another trick is to roll of the very low bass frequencies and have a gentle roll off in the treble. The Bergantino B|Amp has both low and high pass filters on it that are brilliant for carving the ends of the frequency spectrum. Brilliant!

The all important mid frequencies on bass carry a lot of the timbre information and that would be where the “woodiness” tones live too. As low as 300hz and up to 800hz depending on the instrument and signal chain configuration. Being careful to find which regions impart boxiness or muddiness. There’s a balance to be had, because, for example a speaker cabinet may have a big dip in it’s mid range, making it sound “lower” and deeper, however it will mean there’s more to be pushed in the mids to get them back. So, I suppose I am starting from a “plug the bass straight in to a studio monitor” sort of place. Actually that’s not a bad way to learn what your bass actually sounds like before it enters the signal chain. (I play my basses through big @$$ studio monitors every day, which frankly, dialled in is an absolute joy.. all those lovely rich details coming from such a sublime instrument….) *someone get Dood his meds, he’s off on one again…

Wow, have i really had my ‘76 this long? To think how many instruments couriers have lost and broken in that time, it’s truly scary!

Huh? Whut? Did someone say something? 😂 Blimey that's an OLD video! I look young!! I think GI are recycling previously released material - which is no bad thing. Not that I earn any more for reusing 'em!

Ah! I see. Shame about the latency issue! I can understand why you’d choose a hardware option now. I have an aging Mac (well according to Apple it’s old now!) and run many plugins either within a DAW or, like the Cory Wong, stand alone. Latency is negligible. For double bass and electric bass, the EBS Stanley Clark is a nice lil preamp, but I love the Bergantino Super Pre!

I've only really zoomed through the thread, so you'll have to forgive me if I have missed some pertinent details. I thought I'd just chime in regarding the teaching aspect: As yet, I've never needed an additional 'bass preamp' before my interface. However, if I felt the urge I do have a few on my "shelves of pleasure". I just made that up, on reflection it sounds way more dodgy that it's supposed to. I digress. A decent interface with a higher enough inout inpedeance isnt really that different from the input of a "transparent" bass preamplifer. So, rather than worry about getting my tone with extra boxes, I have always shaped the sound with a really good plugin. My teaching favourite for absolute clean (and totally dry) to mildly driven sounds is the Neural DSP Cory Wong X - in the DI/Channel strip setting. No amp sim, no cabinet. It is bonkers good when you get it dialled in and I'd highly recommend that over messing about with additional hardware. *unless the interface being used can not accomodate the output needs of the instrument. (Which I am yet to find on anything with more than two inputs). Just a thought! Oh, if you're on a Mac and you are using OBS or similar for online lessons you'll have no doubt come up against the issue of getting "computer audio (plugins/DAW/usic palyer) and microphone out to the other party" and this is also fixable.

Absolutely and utterly beautiful!! Congratulations! You’re a lucky man!! I was smitten when I played one of Jon’s JJ CarbonLite models with the carbon fibre necks. A bass that if I could have, I’d have bought then and there, it was just delicious in every way. That man has golden paws. I’m hoping to one day have a Shuker P, I’ve a bunch of ideas that I’ve had lurking in my noggin for a while, that would also suit the viewers of my reviews too. Brilliant news @hiram.k.hackenbacker, I’m chuffed to bits I was able to help in a small way and your new bass is just what you’d hoped for 😊 I love to see others happy and winning at bass

Wait! What are us bassists even doing up the dusty end! North of the boarder without our treble passports!!

The one in the video has 21 frets, the one extra note that every other copy, like the orginal is missing. 👍

I can't comment on the Behringer, but, adding distortion (which is lots and lots of gain) after a noisy source will only make the noisy source way more noticeable - think running a bass with a single coil pickup in to a dimed RAT alone or similar. Lots of noise! Try it, I'd be interested to hear how it fares, a pretty good real world test!

Been up for a week or so now 👍 Release date, 27th August.

Monaco vs Silverstone II - Up in front of the 4K cameras this week. Thank you @stevie for the opportunity to review LFSys. I’m looking forward to putting this video together. #LoveBassGear

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Thank you! - I'd agree, there's definitely a difference between the stock pickups and the new E4W's. There's some really nice depth to them over passive, obviously extra output and a really clean and sweet top end. I really like them and Nords are without a doubt a great pickup, no knocking. I feel my bass sound was more controlled with the EMGs.

Ahead of the Nick Smith Memorial Charity Gig on Septermber 7th (Where you have the opportunity to WIN this incredible bass designed by Nick and @Grainger guitars,) Darren and Gavin arranged to bring the bass over to me to put it through its paces. It was quite a surreal experience and not without its emotional moments off camera as I was sat playing the bass Nick would never get to play. Thank you to Darren and Gavin for the opportunity to show it and at the same time, for me to give something to our community in remembrance of our fallen hero, friend, brother and loved one. I put together this video for the Charity Raffle, but don't worry, there's a full in-depth video review coming up later too. I would really appreciate it if you could take the time to watch the video, like, share, subscribe to my channel and follow, as well as giving the video a positive comment for Nick's family to see please.

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