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How about a noise gate? I have a grey HB gate with 4 adjustments, and it can be used like a swell pedal.

6 hours ago, ahpook said:

I hope the drummer doesn't speed up at the gig 😯

Don't worry, he will.

I bought a metronome to our drummer. He even wrote the bpms to a paper. Life is now a lot easier.

I bought a new 5-string Clevinger in the early 90's. There were three models in the shop 4, 5, and 6. The fretboard had a bad slope, but a luthier fixed it. At the moment it sports the second set of strings. Low action, wonderful sound.

9 hours ago, Baloney Balderdash said:

...but it isn't done by simply applying a different steep narrow BPF to each of them.

I think I didn't literally talk about narrow band pass filtered stuff where every source is strictly separated from each other, did I?

If you sit behind the desk (I am not talking about personal instrument monitoring, because that is a totally different thing) and make - even very rough looking - filtering, the end result may sound surprisingly good. This has a lot to do with masking (check some theory about hearing). That is a technique used in audio coding to lessen material that cannot be heard. That extra material only consumes quite a lot of power and bandwidth.

Bass has pretty limited frequency response. I have measured some magnetic pickups, and anything beyond 4 kHz is practically non-existent. The response has fallen a lot far before that. I might say that 1 kHz would be very high stuff from bass. Because ear is sensitive in that area, vocals (naturally) contain far more interesting stuff there, and those g-word players are also there among keyboardists, brass and so on. How do you think a bass would have any interesting stuff to say there? In the middle of that chaos?

I do understand your worry, but we are not buried under anything. We support the whole system, the band. We represent the base and the rhythm. Everything on top of us should be part of the foundation we build. (Although we play frequencies our equipment is actually unable to produce! Only our hearing builds those lowest frequencies that cabs cannot push out.)

I tried many, many B string gauges in my MG Quantum 5, but .120 (GHS SS RW) was hands down the best sounding one.

4 minutes ago, Dan Dare said:

£100 is having a laugh for three CTS pots, a cap, socket, plate and a few inches of wire. 

True.

And CTS is a plain carbon track pot, not a plastic track or a cermet. And even then a decent price should be less.

After all these years...

Isn't this about separating instruments to their respective bands? Why should a singer use low frequencies when the bass or keys are the ones working there? Bass drum wants to be the lowest, let's not put bass there. Otherwise lots of power is consumed to nothing that could not be heard.

Audio codecs do that as well as skilled mixing personnel.

It is most likely done so, that the mixer can push levels to its max (headroom), which is around 0 dB in this case. There can be some extra available, depending on the technology: analogue mixers may be able to push some more while digital units do not.

It is pretty common way of telling you where the max is, as digital units reach their 16/24/whatever bits. Anything over that will result distortion, because all headroom is used.

This is something like you dive to -50 m and the surface is at...

All links direct you away from reverb. Come on: step + reverb + com or eu + de + stor? But if you think they are fine, you can deposit £2000, no £5000 to my account on number GB12 3456 7890 1357 90, just in case...

1 hour ago, admiralchew said:

 

Pretty big one! Is the weight closer to an X-wing or a Death star?

I listened to Marcus Miller quite a lot. As a sideman, super player. His solo discs, meh. He is not a composer to me. With Wooten and Clarke trio, his work was the best of those three when he took the supporting role. Right notes at the right time. Others were more or less playing a lot, but aimlessly. I would have loved to see a structured act.

A virtuoso player, and an interesting composer, that's a complicated equation.

3 hours ago, tobiewharton said:

In electric bass terms, 4-string P to 5-string modern super-long scale is a bit of a jump. The transition can be helped by opting for tighter string spacing.

I had lots of issues in my transition just because my muscle memory did not like that narrower (17 mm) string spacing. Now my fivers have 19 mm spacing, and I couldn't be happier.

True about those scale lengths: my old five string MG Quantum Custom became far better when I found the right B string (.120"). I thought fatter would be better, but no. Be open and do trials.

I do not see an issue if it is in two parts. Like @3below mentioned, you can glue the parts together. Only if the parts are de-magnetized, you have to re-magnetize them with electric or magnetic field.

How the magnet is broken, then? De-magnetized?

You have a P with 34" scale and 19 mm string spacing. You say you want a 35" scale and probably get something with 17 mm string spacing?

A small bodied 5 string, well your equation is not the easiest with your current budget.

Similar ergonomics here would help you with the change. Do trials based on the ergonomics rather than pickups, or eq.

8 hours ago, Baloney Balderdash said:

I don't mind that it isn't the exact same strength as the old one, as I have no way of measuring it...

I know there aren't too many measuring units around. As the measuring units are rare and the usage is even harder, how to get a similar magnet? I have no idea. Besides if the distance from the coil and strings is slightly different... (But we talk about "close enough", which means you need to buy a few pickups and do trials.)

Nile Rogers, ABBA, songs with sax/piano solos like I'm so excited.

1 000 - 10 000 h.

Whenever a tube/valve (similar to incandescent lamp) is turned on, the current spike is the harshest to the component. Less ON/OFFs is always better. If the unit has a soft start of any kind, it will most likely lengthen the lifetime of the part(s).

If you consider any external thing that has a positive effect on audience is low lights. People seem to be braver coming to the floor when the levels are low. If there are some coloured light effects, even better.

(I also love, when the bar isn't too far away, because if people hear and see the band well from the bar, audience may become wild from the start.)

Furthest away from drs, perc, and g. My ears hate the highs they produce.

Leo never thought P and J could cost that much.

26 minutes ago, BigRedX said:

I'd have my favourite setting hard wired into the bass and no controls at all.

2 switches: ON/OFF, tone

or

1 rotary switch including previous choices.

Finding phase:

- connect the pickup to a voltmeter

- choose the lowest DC

- hit the pickup lightly with a screwdriver

- if the voltage goes up, it is in phase

I would suggest another 2x12". Then you have a monitor in your tower. If your head is "not powerful enough", I suppose that you are standing beside the cab. All sound goes to the space, but not straight to your ears.

My 2x12" pushes quite some out, but only in big spaces. In a small room the lowest frequencies do not come out too well.