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(Boss) dist/reverb/X-over pedal for bass. Very small footprint vol/exp pedal that you can push down with your feet instead of those big rocker pedals. A spring loaded unit.

A shop full of headphones. Start from the most expensive. When you hear a difference in sound, take one step back. There you go. But hey, an emphasized bass? Maybe you should start from the cheapest, and when you don't hear that exaggerated bass, take one step back?

12AX7 = ECC83.

As you said you play a lot, use quality batteries. Duracell may cost a bit more, but it has more chemically packed electrons than most other brands. Cheapo batteries are a total waste just like cheapo basses.

Good intonation: - pro setup - (at least relatively) new strings - good touch (behind the fret, even pressure) If you want to dictate the accuracy of the intonation, buy a fretless. If you want minimal noise, remove instrument's pots and caps from the signal path. Use your recording equipment to make adjustments to the sound.

What I have seen through the years I'd say that for most the drugs and booze didn't do good. I knew very few that could be stoned and creative but very very few. Most of the users had serious problems after some time. Even the ones who survived hard use, seem to be teetotallers more or less. This creative thing has some sort of aura in many art circles, although the hardest working successful groups did really much work, ABBA, Beatles, Rolling Stones... The drug use has been, shall I say, glorified like creativity, but are the amounts that big after all? Can you do lots of work if you are stoned all the time, I doubt that. One record is most likely a nice accident, but five or more requires organized work for a long time.

The board pushes out lo-Z (low impedance) signal which is less prone to interference. The bass is naturally the first antenna in line. Is it shielded?

These suggestions are only common practises. May help, but not guaranteed.

Berry (Gordy - Motown).

PC is a noise generator. If you have any extra cables there, they act as antennas. Disconnect every cable that is not in use. You can try another wall outlet and some distance. If your instrument cables are not up to date, buy Sommer or Cordial with Neutrik plugs. FX board in use? That and the PSU can be antennas, or noise generators, too.

Start with a good cartridge. I prefer MM, as you can change stylus. If the turntable is steady runnin', you need think about the options: - speeds 16/33/45/78 - automatics (record size [7/10/12"], end stop, fully automatic...) - pitch adjustment is sometimes nice if you play along with records in standard tuning If your collection is LP/EP/singles, a simple 33/45 turntable with end stop would most probably work very well. Buy a good antistatic carbon brush! And I hate dust covers without decent hinges. 78 rpm records would benefit from a special needle and cartridge.

OK, I studied acoustics and electronics in the university. Worked in a broadcasting company. Did a digital audio and video testing handbook to the service personnel in the company with some help from BBC, as well as wrote a short handbook about MPEG-2 in the 90's while very few of you had even heard about audio coding or audio codecs, like MPEG-1 layer 3 (MP3) which is included in the MPEG-2. I may understand sound and perception a little bit, thank you.

Vigier Passion with: - carbon neck - 5 string wide neck (the same spacing as the 4) - 4 string size body - lightweight (as I already own a 4 string Passion, double these with Delta metal fretlesses)

Let's put it this way: 1) I want to change volume and volume only. Not tone. 2) I want to change treble and keep it that way, no matter at which volume, or blend setting. List goes on. If any adjustment affects other adjustments, it does not work right. Tonal flexibility means that I can rely on what is happening when I dial my sound from the bass. Would you buy a mixer where changes in level and balance make changes to the equalizer? [If "passive" means £5 parts (excluding pickups), and "active" means £10 tone stack and a £2 battery holder to the bass, me want more. A. Jackson removed all sound degrading components between the pickup and the studio board for reason.]

Beautiful hands!

Paint pen, nail lacquer... extra resistor in series with the LED. A trimmer would let you dial in the right amount of light.

The point is that with the buffered mixing you get the sound of individual pickups, not their electrical interaction. No matter in which position the pots are. I see too many variables in hi-Z blend+vol, and the tone on top of that. EMG has a few circuits of which the cheapest are just pots. But their systems include active mixing, too.

As long as the blend and vol are hi-Z, they act as tones, because of their nature. That's why I love Noll Mixpot which has buffers and level adjustments for both channels. Pickup sound doesn't change.

Usually only some part of the electronics is battery powered, like the tone stack. Therefore the only "active" part of the system is the tone, while everything else, pickups, vol, and blend is hi-Z. There are very few systems that are active from pickups to the output. As an example, systems that have an active mixing instead of plain blend pot are very few: John East, some EMG sets, Noll...

pickup - blend - vol - tone stack - output 1) remove the blend 2) connect the pickup to vol where blend output was 3) put back a stereo output jack and wire it like: Tip - output from tone stack Ring - battery -9 VDC (black wire?) Sleeve - gnd

I have a Status MM4 neck that Rob and his team customized the nut to accommodate BEAD tuning. I couldn't play it that well. Just changed the set to an ordinary EADG set and the bass plays like a dream. Try a thinner set first. If you meet any issues, see a luthier.

FX loop, connectors, cables, dirty pots... if all of these are fine (try different cables), then take the amp to a technician.

Toss those g-words, and you have plenty of room for a DB. You shouldn't play them anyway.

You may have an idea of how you sound, but a looper is very good tool to reveal details from your playing. Instant playback, cheap units are really cheap.