Baloney Balderdash
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I got that one's bigger brother the Tube MP Project Series preamp, that among other stuff also features a switchable HPF, fixed at 40Hz. And I can attest that it easily drives a poweramp, plus will give you some tube warmth, as well as some nice tube grit if you wish, depending on how high you got the gain turned up. I'd recommend swapping the stock preamp tube though, which is a cheap Chinese one that is a bit thin and fizzy sounding, swapping for an EHX 12AX7EH tube was a notable improvement in sound.
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War Ensemble - Slayer Damn, too late... Severed Lips - Dinosaur Jr.
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The Custom Distortion Pedal of Your Dreams?
Baloney Balderdash replied to Baloney Balderdash's topic in Effects
Does sound extremely useable. I suppose you might be able to get something somewhat similar from the Source Audio Ultrawave Bass Distortion with the right settings though. Otherwise sounds like a job for TC Electronic, seems like it would fit right into their Toneprint concept, and they haven't done a stand alone digitally based drive pedal yet. -
All the basses I've ever owned in chronologically listed: Aria Pro II Laser Electric Classic Rickenbacker 4001 Jerry Jones Neptune Longhorn Bass Westone Violin/Beatle Bass Dan Armstrong Plexi Bass Warmoth, 28 5/8" scale 4 string bass made of Warmoth baritone parts Ibanez GSRM20 Mikro Bass Ibanez GSRM20B Mikro Bass Ibanez GSRM25 Mikro Bass, 5 string Egmond, short scale from the late 60's (not sure if this really counts, but I did own an Ibanez SR306EB, 6 string bass for a very short while, that I after much pondering back and forth ended sending back just before the 30 days full return guarantee ran out) Harley Benton GuitarBass, take on the Fender Bass VI concept The ones in red I don't own anymore. Really regret being stupid enough to sell the Jerry Jones Longhorn and the one build out of Warmoth baritone parts, also regret selling the Dan Armstrong to a lesser degree.
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The Custom Distortion Pedal of Your Dreams?
Baloney Balderdash replied to Baloney Balderdash's topic in Effects
What do you mean? I think my question is pretty clear, if you could have a custom distortion pedal made that would fit you exact preferences for bass distortion what would it be? I assume the footswitches are on/off for the two drive sections respectively and then a master on/bypass footswitch? Would the two channels be connected in series or parallel, and in case of the former which order then? -
So what would the ultimate custom distortion pedal of your wildest dreams be? Mine would be a standard Rat, but with a Vintage/Turbo mode switch, and a post gain stage adjustable Bass boost/cut control, a standard Metal Zone, but with a 3 way Mod switch, the 3 modes respectively being: original stock, the Keeley mod, and the simple no soldering, cut a couple of components out of the circuit, Simple Dog mod, and then a Clean/Dry section with a 1 band semi parametric EQ (that is a wide range sweepable frequency control and a boost/cut control) and an adjustable LPF, all blendable in parallel with a separate volume control for each of the 3 sections, and just a single on/bypass footswitch. *) Edit!!!: *) Oh, I forgot : I came up with this dream custom pedal, because what I use currently as my high gain distortion setup, is a Boss LS-2, with a Mosky Black Rat, RAT clone, in Turbo RAT mode in one of the effect loops, and then blended in parallel with a Joyo Orange Juice, low gain overdrive, stacked into a Boss MT-2 Metal Zone, in the other effects loop. But before all that as part of my high gain distortion setup as well, is a TC Electronic Sub'N'Up Mini with a customized 1 octave up Toneprint, stacked into the Boss LS-2, so I was thinking that my dream custom distortion pedal should have some kind of adjustable 1 octave up effect build in as well, first thing after the input of the pedal, fed into the RAT and Metal Zone circuit, but probably not affecting the clean tone, and I was thinking perhaps an analog octave up effect might be able to do the trick.
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Hard to do double thumbing and classical guitar style finger picking with one of those on though, so would be a no go for me, as I tend to alternate between those two techniques, along with traditional 2 and 3 finger plucking and flamenco style index and/or middle finger flicking technique, when using my fingers to pick. So wouldn't work for me.
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Have You ever tried to uppercut Your bass ?
Baloney Balderdash replied to nilorius's topic in General Discussion
I played in a noise rock band at some point where I frequently slammed my closed right fist into the upper part of the body above the bridge with high gain distortion engaged, but it wasn't because I was angry but to get the strings to rattle violently and produce a sort of an explosive noise, and it wasn't technically really an uppercut either. -
Don't spread knowledge! Everyone knows ignorance is bliss! And you just ruined it for me, you monster!
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Well, thumb picks are normally used in the context of classical guitar finger picking style where you would usually only do downstrokes, so I suppose thumb picks are usually not designed with upstrokes in mind. Of course that doesn't mean that you can't do it, but as noted by songofthewind it won't be straight ahead and probably cause some issues. Some types of thumb picks might work better than others though. In any case can't harm to give it a shot.
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This! Always expect having to do a setup on any new guitar or bass no matter what price class or which store you bought it from in order for it to play optimally for you. In other words: Do yourself the favor of learning how to do a proper setup, it's not exactly rocket science and there are tons of great guides only one Google or YouTube search away.
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What are you listening to right now?
Baloney Balderdash replied to Sarah5string's topic in General Discussion
Danish jazz band, Baryl : -
I thought the Helix had an XLR line out, is that not the case, but if so why then use an additional DI box?
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Nice. I have had a keen eye on the regular tiny Warwick 200W@4Ohm/130W@8Ohm Gnome, and if it wasn't because I rely on an "amp-less" setup I would likely already had acquired one. I am not really in need of more power than that would be able to handle, but I applaud Warwick for coming out with a more powerful alternative for those who does. As is I am going to soon snap the Harley Benton GPA-100 micro poweramp, which is just about the same size as the regular Warwick Gnome, and able to handle just about the same kind of power, but for about half the price, for my ampless setup, to replace the way too heavy Peavey SS poweramp that I use currently that weight about a ton. This would of course only be viable for an "amp-less" setup, or at least if your main tone comes from a preamp in some form, for a full preamp + poweramp amp in a tiny package the Gnome does seem quite amazing though, and as said had I been in need of such I would likely already had owned one.
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Not only do you have ears, but apparently you got whole 3 of them. Must be what this 3D tone talk is about.
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I have never had any issues with returning stuff to Thomann and getting a full refund, whether it has been due to something not working as it was supposed to or me just getting second thoughts and regretting my purchase, and I've returned quite a few items over time. And they have always provided excellent customer support whenever I have been in need of such. Though it does sound like either a currier or a Thomann employee snapped the amp for themself. Edit!: Ah, just discovered your update. Good that it got sorted. But very strange. Indeed one wonder what actually happened. Might be for some reason the Thomann employee that handled the parcel for some reason forgot to register the amp, and they somehow finally found it after looking actively for it thanks to your inquiry. Things like that shouldn't happen, but wherever humans are involved mistakes are bound to happen sometimes anyway.
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Do U-BASS? - A ukulele bass appreciation thread
Baloney Balderdash replied to SamIAm's topic in Bass Guitars
I love my 28.6" scale 4 and 5 string Ibanez Mikro Basses, so much that the 4 string has been my main for the last past 10 years, and at the moment I am exploring the 5 string, which otherwise haven't got much love. But that's also about where I set my limit of how short a scale a bass can be for me to feel comfortable playing on it, and for it to sound proper, though I am aware that you will have a different opinion on this, but I like my tone to have some zing and snap, and those Uke basses just have a bit too fundamentals dominated and smooth tone to my liking. In fact I even string my Mikros with relatively thin gauge strings and tune them both, yes also the 5 string, to F# standard tuning, the is 2 half steps above regular 4 string E standard tuning, to avoid thud. I should probably make clear that my point with this was not to be that guy who budges into threads/topics where they don't belong to tell everyone that they are wrong, it was really just to say that I have a love for sub short scale basses too, just not that short. To each their own, and more power to you folks for loving you Uke basses. -
The finish/wood grain of the body looks no short of astonishing. Genuinely beautiful bass! A late congratulations to you for this find. And definitely the yellowish hue/cream pearl pickguard fits it perfectly!
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As explained above you just need a stereo jack socket, and I too recommend the one suggested above.
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And my 5 string, just 28.6" scale, Ibanez GSRM25 Mikro Bass, made in Indonesia on the Cort factory January 2019, with a Poplar body and Maple neck with Jatoba fretboard. I wired its 2 stock J pickups in series directly to the output jack socket, and strung it with Elixir Nanoweb guitar strings of the gauges .080 - .062 - .046 - .036 - .026, tuned to F# standard tuning, that is 2 half steps above regular 4 string bass E standard tuning, or like the bottom 5 strings of an 8 string guitar. Here is is: This is an older photo though and the fretboard has somewhat darkened a bit since then and taken on a browner hue, which Jatoba is known to do.
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It is 5 string pickups, they are just the same size as 4 string J pickups, or that is the length of a normal 4 string neck J pickup, but with the screw mounting ears in the same position as of a normal 4 string bridge J pickup, as I wrote in the OP. But yes, strange why Ibanez chose to use completely non standard dimensions for these pickups.
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Well, yes, the body of the 5 string Ibanez GSRM25 Mirko Bass is that same size as the body on the 4 string GSRM20 Mikro Bass, but I don't see what that has to do with anything? The neck and neck pocket is obviously wider on the 5 string Mikro Bass, but it also features 2 J pickups, whereas the 4 string Mikro Bass feature a neck P pickup and a J bridge pickup, and not located in the exact same spots either.
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Well, I kind of needed to know which would fit before it would make sense to look for one. I figure then my best option would probably be to find a 4 string blade/rail J pickup, just not a lot of those on the market. Any suggestions for such?
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That would be the stock covers? So the inside of regular 5 string J pickups will usually fit inside covers the size of regular 4 string J pickups? I am not sure I understand your reply, and how exactly it answers my question? If your answer simply means "if it fits inside the covers it will fit" then I figured as much myself already.
