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1 band - Artec 2 band - tce (hard to find, expensive) 3 band - WMD, Empress... 4 band is already a rack unit, like tce 1140, or Tascam PE-40 et al.

Neither is superior, both can be designed well - and not so well. They are a bit different, but both are complicated to design.

Could you consider parametric eq? There are one, two, three, and four band units available. I love fully parametric ones, because they are very effective.

Well, the right term is buffer. The pickup has a built-in buffer, which also amplifies the signal a bit. EMG puts less wire to its pickups. The frequency response is wider, but the basic output is also lower, thus buffer. Once more: EMGs are ordinary coil-magnet pickups. But as the buffer is built-in (integrated / epoxied) to the pickup, we can use the word "active", although a better description is "low impedance" (lo-Z). You can also say, that practically any electronics which incorporate batteries, are lo-Z. As the buffers are built-in, there is no possibility to drive the pickups in high impedance mode (passive). EMG Hz is a series of ordinary hi-Z pickups without built-in buffers.

I have a Soul amp, too. It used to be in a Soul Combo, but the set weighs a lot. I bought a 2 x 12" cab and put the amp to a carry on rack case. To me that 440 W is enough; I play in band with 13 players/singers. I think the Soul is loud enough, and one very good sounding unit it is. I would not worry about the power. Power is not the same as loudness.

No, but sold. Good looking bass.

Meet your local luthier and ask for a smaller body. Rhonda Smith (one of Prince's bassists) talked about this in some Bass Player mag. My fretless 4 has 36" scale and a compact body. Light weight, chambered body by a local luthier.

I would recommed a mono case but I should also understand your use cases (sorry).

The first ones I saw were in the Guitar Player long ago, before Bass Player. This company had a headless g-word and a bass. There was a system that enabled folding the neck against the body. It was not a success. Company could have been Canadian or Americain. I would make this happen with a CF neck. Wooden ones tends to move quite some after the bass has been in folded position for a longer time. I am very interested to see this happen, though. Travelling without a bass is seriously missing something.

I use Neutrik. I do not have to send anything back. Just plug (s and cable) and play. Yes yes, I had one defective silent plug, but that was maybe ten years ago. Or more.

The bass produces very low frequencies only through handling (B is 31.5 Hz). It is possible that while playing the instrument is hit, and handling fills the channel. This may affect some effects a bit, but I do not think this is very crucial. It is also feasible to understand that the frequency response of many units is limited from both ends (like 30 - 8 000 Hz). To remind you, a magnet-coil system is a BPF. Some effects like octaver can go very low, and that's why the HPF is doing the most as the last in line. As stated before, if your comp is at the end, the HPF can be before the comp. From the technological point of view, comp is refining the end product (i.e. sound), just like the HPF. But as said before, try and find the most suitable to your sound.

Many, many years ago I tried to blend a Status and a bartolini J together. I got good sounds from G and D but very funny sounding E and A. Out-of-phase? No worries, I will just change the wires and a minute... Now, it's there! I have very sturdy E and A! But what happened to G and D? Status was a parallel coil humbucker. This is not common, but possible.

No, there was no gig. They arranged it, and said yes, please. Then they had a meeting and no, there was no gig this night.

Leduc pretty much copied that 1961 Gretsch idea. OK, Bikini was a g-word + bass double neck. There are only few pictures in the web, as only around 50 instruments were made.

Do agree. But when people change cabinets, watts and decibels behave depending on the efficiency, frequency response et al. just because the cabs are different. Bass response and cabinet volume and efficiency are related, as we all know. If I want to equalize two different cabinets to match each other for similar sound (response), watts play a role, but then watts are not automatically equal. Similar loudness may need substantially different amount of power. This is why I do not see the relation being very strong. Watts do matter, but how to compare rigs, if the loudness (dB) is unknown? Yes, we should know some vital specs from the amp and the cab. These are not published often, i.e. we are not given enough data to be able to compare different rigs. We need decibels, but marketing department says: "Watts!"

Looking at the pot hats? They do not tell anything about the actual power level. They tell that they are set to certain direction. Nothing else. Once more, if the amp was able to push power without limits, the cabs should be connected parallel until the impedance was something like a fraction of one. But... When the impedance is getting lower, the current is rising in the amp. This heats the power amp. When the current is rising, at some point the amp reaches its limits and can not push power anymore. It may even melt. This may equal that the sound is affected, too: transients aren't sharp anymore, no more attacks (ADRS, anyone?). By the way, the attack is super important to instrument perception and sound. Once more: If you think the impedance (from amp's point of view) is like nail, and the current capacity of the amp is your thumb, you get the idea of what lowering the impedance (nail getting sharper) means to your thumb (ouch!). It starts to hurt pretty soon, when the current rises while the impedance gets lower. Of course you can lower the impedance as much as you like, but the amp gets really hot while not producing any decent power anymore. One thing that people tend to mess up is that W is not directly the same as dB, although they are faintly connected. The difference of power seems to be hard to understand, because the difference of 100 W - 1 000 W is very distinctive 10 dB, while 100 W - 200 W is only 3 dB. These things are not linear, my dear Watson.

Correction: Austria. https://www.spaltinstruments.com/contact/

Alembic in the early 70's, Westone Rail bass, a German Viper bass... g-word players are pretty much slower with their "novelties". Found it: Spalt vViper is that German instrument.

To the transistor amp the bigger impedance is usually easier load. Think it like a nail against your thumb: the smaller the Z, the sharper the head. As our grand old man Bill F. already told us, please use one amp / cab, and your amp will love you.

Slightly reminds me of the style of A. Laboriel. Well played.

- fretted 5 (Genesis, 35", 19 mm) - fretless 4 (custom, 36", 19 mm) - fretted 4 (Passion II, 33.8", 19 mm) - fretless 5 (Affirma, 34", 19 mm) - eub (Clevinger) Some others are lurking from the closet. These are played the most in this order. I think I should find my camera, because this thread is...