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  1. Amps are nice as they have lots of knobs and lights, but cabs don't. Cab is that big, cumbersome box that has a sound of its own. Put some time especially to the cab. Check the space you have in your (or drummer's) car. What is the max output you need - in dB, not watts. The music you play may also affect the choices you have. My uneducated guess would be something like 2x10" or 1x12" for light weight and size. 2x12", 1x15" are the next steps, and 4x10" to 4x12" if space and weight are not an issue, but you need lots of volume. Two similar cabs usually have the best performance in sound and volume. Two eight ohm 1x12" cabs offer you portability (only one needed) and volume (take two cabs along). Check Barefaced and similar units, and if possible, do some side by side trials, and let your ears decide.
  2. If you use very small DC voltage range, you can find phase: Connect the pickup and hit (touch) it with a screwdriver. If the voltage goes to + side, the pickup is in phase. And vice versa.
  3. D'Addario and others give you direction, but you need to do real life trials to find the right strings. Yes, it costs somewhat, but then you have done the work, and have found the best set for your ears and fingers.
  4. But they do! When you order bigger amounts of magnets, you specify material, shape, size, and strength. Any pickup manufacturer could include details of magnets, coils etc. Why not? Should we ask them?
  5. https://www.daddario.com/globalassets/pdfs/accessories/tension_chart_13934.pdf
  6. The field/strength is the word here. An AlNiCo may be weaker than an Nd. The material specifications are dependent on the production process. Therefore the strength cannot be read from the type. Otherwise it would be like the car manufacturer "Ford" equals fast and tractor brand "Lamborghini" equals slow. Measuring requires expensive equipment. As long as people are not able to measure components, these text based descriptions live.
  7. Things have changed considerably. Instruments are no more treated the hard way. Only if the instrument was very old and would contain those very rare species that a Hofner does not contain.
  8. I am making an educated guess: these will be highly sought after when some star "finds" one. Quality, sound, what else you need? (Oh yes, that star.)
  9. itu

    Ibanez Porn

    The next one to fill the collection is a half fretted one: MC-924H AJ10 (Alphonso Johnson, 1981).
  10. Strange logo seems to be on both sides of the bass... it has to represent the great big Luminairos. (The coat, where was it?)
  11. Alembic brown bass. White Moon. Fretless StingRay. 3 string fretless StingRay. 2 string fretless played with a slide. The first 5 string Modulus. 5 string Parker Fly. Koa Pensa-Suhr. Carved Rickenbacker. Double neck Rickenbacker. Pink JayDee. Fretless Klein bass. Six string Ken Smith -> six string Yahaya. Peavey TL. Peavey Rudy Sarzo. Jack Daniels. Star bass. Höfner. Manson. Kubicki Ex-Factor. Zon Hyperbass. Hagström The Swede. Overwater C bass. Yahaya Attitude. Whichever of these would certainly sound different in my hands, but never mind. These have been the basses and players in my youth, and still are. Of course there are others. (I'd like to find someone to Mosrite, Atlansia, Ibanez [well, Gerald Veasley is already there], Burns, Danelectro... and if someone does not know the players of the basses mentioned, I think I can add them later on.)
  12. Some things may (or not) help: - string choice (do several trials*) - pickup height adjustments - bridge adjustments (in connection with the previous point) * Try very different gauges. Thin is not always worse!
  13. 4) Do you really need the blend when you are already in deep with all parametres? I don't see any benefit with dry signal, when the levels, and processing can be tweaked with such finesse. For me ON is 100 % ON, and therefore I have used the blend knob for other parametres. After all, by compressions nature, signal level has usually areas, where compression is not present at all. 6) I have not seen this happening. Sounds strange if everything is set only to different places. Have you really checked every function and value there is?
  14. Again, @Boodang wrote some very good notes. I want to add that as long as you use any passive, hi-Z components in between the pickups and the preamp, the response is sacrificed. Any pot, be it blend, vol, or tone, will degrade the original sound. You want pure sound from the pickup, connect it directly to the preamp. You have two pickups, you should use some non-loading circuitry (Noll Mixpot or similar) between the two, or use two preamps, one for each pickup.
  15. Low drain is the right choice. Your bass should consume something like 1 mA. Not like torches (tens or hundreds of mAs) or similar.
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