Frank Blank

Hmmmm, I’m not sure about the controls being on an iPad. Is my desire for knobs (steady) and switches dinosaurism? I use iPads but it seems... ...oh, hang on, I control Logic from my iPad, doh.

I’m thinking exactly the opposite way mainly down to you!

Actually I like this idea, but I’m worried that I like it for the same reason you do, trying out loads of preamp pedals. Anyway, so if I were running two preamps, how would the chain go, bass > pre 1 > pre 2 > line switcher > QSC? Excuse my ignorance, I’m a proper newb to this. Also you say “...if you only want one lead to the QSC”, I thought you could only use the line b input for instruments?

*waves*

I hear (of have heard) bad reports about the quality of Behringer gear?

The Behringer XR12? We are (as you suggested earlier in this thread) then we are heading towards mixer/IEM territory. I was unsure about this route but after discussing it with my musical partner, who is interested in this route, it seems we might head this way. So could I, using such a piece of kit, put both basses through but switch between them with a foot switch? And could we (as in my duo) put my basses and my partner’s acoustic through this and then send to the desk from it and then monitor from it via our powered wedges or IEMs?

Like this..?

Cheers @Muzz! Just looking at the Bassbone OD, it appears to do exactly what I’m looking for.

I’m afraid I’m very much the ‘straight to the luthier’ type, I’ve never lifted a bonnet in my life.

I was wondering about that, taking the gloss off the neck. I prefer a Matt finish.

Having finally settled on an FRFR set up that’s is, by far, the best amplification solution I’ve ever used, I have now bumped into the next hurdle, which, to be honest, I should have considered before buying the preamp. I play an acoustic fretless bass through a Fishman Platinum Pro and into a QSC K12.2 and it’s exactly the sound I’ve been after for, well, decades really and that would be fine only I need to play my fretted four string through the same set up. Playing live or whilst rehearsing I alternate between basses, obviously the settings on the preamp need to change yet the Fishman has only one channel and obviously I don’t want to be altering the eq back and forth as the basses change. Are there preamps with the ability to save different eq settings and switch between them? Or is there another solution to this? I am hoping the only answer isn’t a Kemper or a Helix but as ever I’m open to persuasion @EBS_freak...

That’s what freaked me out so much, they have such a beefy tone, I was genuinely shocked. So much so I began playing along with Hanson, PMT Southend, there.

The one I played had none of the neck issues yours had, I think you might have found a duff there.

What do you play now?

But will it be as good as Orienteering With Napalm Death?

I realise it’s a crap reason but I just dont like the look of these sort of bridges, never have, just a personal taste thing I think. My only real preference is to replace it with something black! I might make it a stealth project.

Exactly this ^ I too consider it part of the initial cost of any instrument I buy.

Has anyone modified a Gretsch Junior Jet with a new bridge? Liking these basses but not the bridge.

I never owned any of their records but saw them a few times.

This maybe a stupid (if I could build instruments I wouldn't suggest it) but I always hanker after a scratch plate made of wood, or at least appearing like it, in a different shade but with the same finish, still showing the grain, is that odd?

I'm such an ar53, I clicked on this thinking I was going to find fretless basses constructed of metal....

Gulp. It's thirty seven years since I saw Subhumans, brings joy to my heart that they are still going.

That’s cool but I want a new one for some inexplicable reason.

I’m with @Andyjr1515 when it comes to the ‘clash’ between the scratch plate and the f hole. I keep imagining the bass in the bottom pic with another f hole just where the curved metal (is it called a control plate?) piece is.

Does it come with the ‘surprise’ snapping neck?