MoonBassAlpha

Playing in a 3 piece band does give you more room to be noticed, and I often get positive comments about my playing, but I'm not really sure why. One Beardie old fellow said he could hear the influence of Percy Jones, which I took as a massive compliment! I rarely get comments on the sound, and think my sound is quite ordinary.

How about a slightly loose tuner peg? It's surprising how much buzz they can contribute. Sometimes you do get a frequency dependant resonance, but some do it all the time on pretty much any note. I'm borrowing an EUB at the mo with a very loose tuner peg (it has had a whack at some point) I've wrapped a hair scrunchie round that peg and the next one as a temporary cure.

I think I've been incredibly lucky, over 40 years playing in bands, all bar one have been pretty much up together and ok players, some very good. The one that was flakey used to smoke a lot of weed, didn't have a drumkit (in this country), was a day late for a gig once, and also lost all the money he had taken out of the cash machine for the weekend in the course of a 200 yard walk from said cash machine to the venue.

With regard to chucking the guitar off the back of the stage, I'm sure there was his guitar tech there to catch it for him, after all it would be more work for him if it got smashed up! Everything else in their set was so slick and on-point, I'm sure that would have been too...

Maybe you're getting a build up of wax in your ears!

Let us know the outcome either way. Sometimes if you rap your knuckle on the back of the neck you can hear the rod vibrate. I've a couple of basses with carbon fibre reinforcing that make the neck very stiff. At various times I've found that I've had to loosen the truss right off to get the right relief, and the whole thing has subsequently buzzed like a ***********r, so I've had to compromise on either action, string gauge or relief.

A little bit goes a surprisingly long way. It's good stuff.

It sounds a bit like the truss rod is vibrating in sympathy at certain notes. Might be worth tightening the truss rod so the board is [i]more[/i] flat.You can raise the saddles a bit to stop the buzzing. I had just this on a Rickenbacker 2 weeks ago, it turned out the truss rod on the treble side was very slightly loose, so I nipped it up almost imperceptibly, and the weird noise was gone.

Looks great. Much more distinctive that boring old black!

There's some great dinky little amp modules on 41Hz, some of which can run off batteries. May need some kind of a preamp too though.

[quote name='GregBass' timestamp='1466688939' post='3077912'] I went from a full MB rig - 1x15 and 4x10 - to a pair of Big Baby 2s. It took a while to sort out the eq, but my rig has never sounded better. You won't be disappointed! [/quote] Just out of curiosity, what exactly were your before and after settings?

The Vintage brand with the Wilkinson hardware has a very good rep for the money. They've been around long enough to find second hand aplenty.

This may seem an odd query, but just because a band uses low tunings generally, why does the bass need to tune down? I must admit I don't really know the styles of music that use low tunings. At all.

How about getting plain covers for your pickups? Say goodbye to string-polepiece alignment misery!

A single cable from the head will carry ALL the current to the cabs. If it were Speakons I wouldn't worry but with Jack sockets I would rather split the current between the two. As OBBM says, if you have a cable or cab fail open circuit, you'd still get some sound from the other one.

They're ok until you break a string

Not played with any of the settings yet, but it seemed very jittery and didn't lock on to notes well for me (with bass). Any tips to make it work better? I use an old old TU12, and that's fine.

My introduction to Zappa was round at Jakko Jackzyk's (King Crimson) house,where he played me St. Alphonso's pancake breakfast off Apostrophe, and I was hooked. His band at the time sounded like that, so clearly a big influence (64 Spoons, if anyone remembers them...)

[quote name='blue' timestamp='1466134859' post='3073576'] Your dropped off at your assigned stage at least an hour before start time. The stage manager gives you all the particulars. Big dressing rooms, food and fun people. You do your 90 minutes and your off and the next act is up. My only concern is sound for the non headliners seems poor compared to the sound the 10:00pm headliner gets. Blue [/quote] What exactly do the "fun people" do ?

I like the Fishman pickups. My guitarist had a Rare earth which to my ears sounded more natural than piezos, but not as bright at the top end. It had some sort of pre-amp with a tiny volume control that mounted discretely inside the sound hole. I've got a Neo D in my parlour guitar which again sounds nice, but the output from it is really quite low compared to a normal electric guitar pickup.

Dimmers will emit more interference when they are dimming than when fully on if it's an old school triac based one.

Ah, the Tom Jones truss rod nut.