Owen

Feeling the joy?

I am looking to vol/bal, bass/lo mid, treble/hi mid. This will fit onto a 3 pot MM control plate + jack socket. I could do 4 pots + side jack. But I do like a jack on the front of a bass.

I am about to plumb Bongo electrics into a MM Stingray. When I say I, I mean someone is for me. This will involve routing for alternative pickups and installing the preamp. I originally thought to put new pots on the pre to move to a 3 pot set up. I looked at the pre this morning and realised that it is pots soldered on to the circuit board. Is this a problem for a competent electronics bod or should I leave it as is?

I have downloaded it but not got stuck in yet. It looks like a VERY useful plugin.

1. Recording to a metronome click is a discipline in itself. Recording to a drum machine pattern which is suitable for the groove you are looking for is MUCH easier. There is so much more information in it. 2. Something is making you hear your part as not right. It is entirely possible that you are not right (sorry, it happens). But it is also ENTIRELY possible that someone else on the track is not right and you are.

It is one gig. 98% of people will not even notice. And the other 2% will say "flats, funky" and then carry on with whatever they were doing. Do it.

Wow, those prices are not static are they!

The real problem is that it is two different mixes happening at the same time and REALLY needs two different people doing it. We run an A&H Qu mixer (what a lovely piece of kit it is) which would enable one hardware mix in the room and one mix on the ipad in another room with isolation from the main room. This super easy until you get to the part of the equation which needs two people who are not already doing something else.

A fair question. Thanks. Sadly, my playing these days does not necessitate a hard case so not a huge issue for me. If that world tour does come through, then I will take another bass. I have too many.

I have unilaterally stopped our music hitting YT. Getting a good mix is a lot of work for an experienced engineer, let alone a volunteer who also doing the room. And if the mix is poor you can guarantee that it is the weaker aspects which will be heard.

I wish I had used ACS earlier. Make sure you get the moulds done with your mouth open. It gives a better seal. Get them with strings on. Otherwise you will lose them. Get them in a hard colour. Easier to find. And less "yellowing" to happen. Eugh. Do not skimp on your ears. You cannot buy new ones. I know, OP, you are looking at them for general attenuation, but hearing damage is super easy to fall into. If you get ACS ones you can buy different rated valves as well.

Ain't THAT the truth!

They come. They go. No biggie.

I have almost been sucked into the QC vortex several times. This will let me mess with the concept before dropping more than my car is worth on something to put on the floor.

I am afraid that you lost me when you started using techincal words (former). However, Mark has reached the prototyping stage and here they are. I launched into a new thread where I though it might get a bit more traction. When it is all said and done, I am sure he will be happy enough to make them for others as well.

I must admit I am not worried about grip. Once I have tuned a bass I very, very rarely - if ever in fact - find myself drifiting out of tune. And I am such a slave to aesthetics that I will put up with any slight extra work on grippage.

I knew that would get your attention. My local tech bod is very gracious with me and humours my ever wandering mind. I have a Shuker which I love dearly, but I have taken an irrational dislike to the machine heads on it. They do their job fine and dandy, but there is something about them I just do not like. I often look at my daughter's acoustic and wonder why I cannot have nice machine head buttons. Then I thought that spheres would be a very nice thing. Mark is cnc'ing some for me. Here is the first prototype. Eventually they will be made out of Ebony. I thought others might like to see.

If they were a surefire thing, I could quite happily use an ordinary guitar strung BEADG but an octave higher on occasion. Thanks for an unexpected hit of GAS.