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Killed_by_Death
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I was commenting to passive pickups to a pre-amp, generally the volume pot is between the pickups & the preamp.
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I guess, if people like 'warm' sounding instruments, the stiffer the better for me, I don't want 'warm'.
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too rigid is a thing?
IME the stiffer, the better
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17 minutes ago, Kiwi said:
Neck woods on a sweet spot of rigidity (which isn't easy to measure)
The closest I've come to measuring neck stiffness is by setting them all up the same & then changing the tuning, wait a day & measure the change in neck relief.
Ironically, my cheapest bass has the stiffest neck, I can set it up for E-Standard & down-tune all the way to B-Standard, & it remains playable.
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4 hours ago, Chienmortbb said:
If its a passive bass with a conventional Volume and Tone controls, turing down the bass volume will also affect the tone.
A lot of active basses still have passive pickups & the volume pot will affect the timbre in the same way as a fully passive bass.
Some will use an active volume & blend, but they're in the minority.
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If you don't need overdriven sounds, just turn down the Gain.
I remember trying a T.E. Elf & with the Gain turned up it was too loud even with the volume just cracked a wee bit.
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I play when I'm home alone, & now I'm rarely alone, so...
We have gotten a mic. & do at-home kara-okay/bass singalongs, but those generally only last 30 to 45 minutes.
In the beginning I was announcing to all & sundry that the lockdown wouldn't affect me, because I'm a recluse anyway, but I went stir-crazy & my nature of being a complainer 'blossomed' into pure angst that got me canned from a large bass forum. Ah well, such is life when Winter depression hits!
On the bright side, now I'm less likely to be staring at my computer screen when the 'good stuff' is happening on television. Yeah, I missed a lot by 'multi-tasking'.
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OTOH I've developed a callus on my fret-hand index-fingertip, probably more about the dryness of Winter
it broke last night, in bed of all places
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I feel like I should warn you about buying Ibanez 'Standard' machine-heads, because IME they are crap since 2011.
Find a luthier supply in the U.K. (or Europe) that sells GOTOH. GOTOH is what Ibanez use on the higher-end stuff.
BTW, Mein Shop in Deutschland has a drop-down menu that lets you select Great Britain.
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12 minutes ago, SpondonBassed said:
That's a bit like asking smart 'phone users to take photos and videos in landscape.
Some local clowns went to see a band at a nearby arena, & they were FB-Live broadcasting the show in portrait. What a waste of bandwidth, you couldn't even tell who the band was if t wasn't for their logo behind them.
Most of the screen was of the backs of the heads of the crowd & the area overhead of the band.
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My advice is to buy all new GOTOH Res-O-Lites:
https://g-gotoh.com/product/gb350/?lang=en
If one of your machine-heads broke w/o provocation, any one of the others could go at any point.
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stop refrigerating your chili sauces while we're on an adjacent subject
Any chili sauce worth having is its own preservative.
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It's not even about price, but we are led to believe we NEED an expensive instrument to be a pro or to find The One.
TBH I 'could' do everything I needed on this one I put together for $200 USD:
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Folks in developing countries have difficulty finding The One.
It's not exclusively 1st-world, not being wealthy enough to buy all that you're interested in & trying them all until you find The One.
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I've owned a guitar with a roasted neck & it was incredibly stiff for such a thin neck (Ibanez RG).
I could not FEEL a difference from a non-roasted one, & TBH the 'feel' parts makes zero sense to me, since it's finished with the same poly as a normal neck.
The local luthier told me that his largest volume of work on roasted things is putting them back together after people split them, for instance tightening the machine-head nuts too tightly.
I've seen two instances of the roasted necks on the new Ibanez EHB series cracking at the headstock for no good reason. It just happened w/o any provocation.
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My EHB is The Most Comfortable instrument I've ever owned.
no more tennis-elbow
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Years ago I measured the difference & even though the UTP & Wi-Fi connections were rated the same, the UTP was 10x faster!
My Smart-TV & PS4 are wired, but my laptop has no UTP port.
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I had a similar experience around the holidays, people were selling iPads like mad after they were gifted new ones.
So I grabbed one for $60 USD, 'used' it for a single day & sold it before the weekend was over.
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I had The One for years & recently found a new The One, so now have a #2 that's damn fantastic, but the #1 is more comfortable to play, has a stiffer neck, & has split-coil humbuckers.
After a week of negotiating with SweetWater, I got it for $1,350 USD (there's 5.8% sales tax, BUT I got 5% cashback to the card I used to pay)
IME, you should not settle for 34" scale for a 5-string, get a multiscale:
https://www.ibanez.com/eu/products/detail/ehb1505ms_1p_01.html
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Correct, the steam-out trick only works for unfinished wood.
I got a spot out of a Rosewood fretboard that way easily, when I dropped my multimeter ON the board 😲
Didn't work at all with a ding on the back of the body (natural finish) or the back of the neck, however.
Finding "The One"
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Paul Reed Smith does a Ted-Talk where he says that the woods & components don't impart a tone or timbre, it's all a process of subtraction.
Stiffer & harder components subtract less from the overall timbre. I want ALL the spectrum of the timbre I can get & then I'll subtract if I want 'warm', which is rare.