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Turn down the active P volume (emg should not change in tone as much as passives would) or just use an outboard preamp to boost up the J volume (eg sadowsky) - imo easier than any bass modifications.

If you're in London highly recommend you take it to Guitar Aid in Putney, for them to fix it...

pm'd and working up prototypes with mr jebroad

I would agree with above, if you are looking for one-off video, you'd probably spend less time/money/hassle and achieve a better result if you hire someone to do it. As a shameless plug - let me know if you want any location recording of audio. I have just finished setting a full, pro level location recording set up to record anywhere.

Hi - sorry, not sure if this is the right forum. Not really an 'items wanted' - and am specifically hoping one of the basschat builders may be able to help me with a small job Basically, I would like to make a set of Acoustic Pressure Equalisers for my omni-directional microphones. Basically these would focus high frequencies somewhat and should help me record orchestras a bit better ;-) Here's a professionally made set, for a different pair of microphones: Unfortunately I can't order them directly for my set of mics, so what I am thinking of doing is: - buy 2 Delrin spheres, e.g. from here https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Single-Delrin-Plastic-Ball-Metric-Sizes-1mm-to-50mm/372119091645 - have a skilled member of basschat drill them (I expect this would require a drill press / forstner bit drill). Probably will need to be 40mm balls originally, with 21mm hole. I think this video shows a possibly simple way of doing it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BH5CfA3NClc (optional additional steps: spray paint them black; come up with tight-fitting mechanism around edge of capsule*. something like a ring of felt seems to have been suggested on forums. But if these could be bit more fiddly so I could tackle them myself) * they need to be taken off / put on with relative ease, but need to sit very tightly around the microphone (21mm tube) - especially at the the edge, around the capsule. I will pay for balls and all postage costs, plus a fee to cover your time (hoping it wouldn't take much more than an hour for the drilling? - but do correct me... Obviously would be a bit more for spray painting and coming up with mechanism for them to fit tightly around 21mm tube - little more of an engineering challenge). Hoping this will be a small but rewarding project for someone with the right tools! Please PM me if you're interested, or just reply here for a bit of general discussion around how to do this... would be grateful for any thoughts or advice. Thanks Roman

Re: mic choice, don’t be afraid to try an omni small diaphragm condenser (one in Happy Jack’s video looks to be an Earthworks one). Mic doesn’t need to be physically big to have a big and deep sound... maybe quite the opposite

This is what I did when I had a Warwick streamer... img_20150813_193639-jpg.13190 img_20150813_193728-jpg.13191 Just need patience and a circular file :-)

looks nice, but can't quite picture how the string alignment will work out between nut and tuners! Look forward to seeing this finished!

stunning bass!

Neve 1073 is a really classic design - sounds warm and phat to my ears. Works great for mixes, but probably with a less crisp high end than some of the other active DI's (then again it's called bass, right?!). Luuuuvely transformer to gently tame transients too if you push it ;-) A number of decent clones exist, too - GAP Pre73, Warm audio etc etc... BAE is top of the pile of the new stuff probably :-)

I suppose nothing stopping you from trying channel A as overdrive, and channel B as clean...

OK in that case I think what you are hearing is not difference in channel A/B voicings, rather it's the difference in how the tube preamp responds when higher level of signal (Gain) is put through it. I think it's intended by design to let you have a cleaner and a dirtier sound via the two channels :-)

When you are comparing, do you have gain and volume settings set exactly the same on both channels? I thought it was the same circuit for both channels, but you could just control the amount of tube saturation via the gain control, changing the tone (and reduce / increase output volume accordingly)? Happy to be corrected though....

Or from '91 as per serial number and ad! ;-)

yup looks like it!

Unless there is a specific reason (e.g. label wanting to make 96k files available for high resolution downloads), 44k should be fine in most cases. There is much discussion on relative merits of higher sample rates and whether or not people can hear differences... I stopped bothering with the 'audio quality' side of the argument when I realised I couldn't reliably tell 88k vs 44k files apart. Unless there is a production reason, IMO extra system demands and hard-disk space is not worth it.

I bet it sounds like a$$..... I'll get me coat