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I could tell you stories… I actually like the p/j as long as you don’t expect the world from the bridge pickup.

Do you still have the pentabuzz?

Hard to find though…(the radio station)…what scares me is that young ones think that’s how music is supposed to sound

Sounds a bit extreme to me…I’ve never had a complaint.

Kinda my point…most consumers are listening through some pretty crappy gear…so crank up the kick bass and forget about everything else.

But almost everyone ends up with the same uninspiring mix

Actually, I prefer tape….

Okay…granted. However, we also listened to a huge amount of music through a mono am radio speaker. we have an amazing capacity to record and produce music…why do we accept tone production that is worse than the 1960’s?

I would respectfully disagree. The modern bass tone is very midrange dominant and three are a lot of folks on this site that own and use a compression pedal. We used an eq light on mids and with boosted treble and bass. I guess what started all this is messing about with vintage tube amps…felt and sounded like home. I learned sound mixing from the guys who mixed the Greek Theater (Stanel Sound) Start with the bass tone and work your way up. So, bass tone fundamentally impacts total sound.

Okay, but I also hear the same mid-heavy and compressed sound when listening to anything streamed at home on my desktop studio monitors or the main room 15’s. I have a pretty good tonal memory, having been a band and choir director for 41 years. One example…you hear the guitar riff in Mr. Robinson…in no way would you equate this with the live sound. I vividly remember my musician buddies when we listened to our first CD…everyone had the same reaction…clean but thin. Add now the modern trend of mixing the vocal and kick drum twice as loud as everything else, and it’s almost unlistenable. Surely we can reproduce sound more evenly and realistically….

Old guy rant warning… So, I was listening to some older music on Prime Music in the car. “Superstition “ came up, and I was really struck by how thin the sound was. I remember the depth of sound on the vinyl original…and this was not that. All compression and lots of midrange. So, I started listening to other tracks with an ear out for what was missing, and the results were grim. Then, I reflected on how some you fine folks set your sound…all midrange and compression. Is that really the sound you want? It’s definitely not the sound I am after….what am I missing?

Luxury! We had our whole family, aunts, uncles, distant relatives living in a wah-wah pedal…

I like to use my gigging amp when running through gig music. Other times, it’s just the bass, which is really easy to hear unplugged. I find I can hear different things this way.

Isn’t that the same stage as was used for the Euro semi?

I’d love to get a pentabuzz, but don’t play enough fretless to justify it. It’s hard to explain, but Pedulla just keep getting better the more you play them

Totally agree about getting a fretless that sounds different than your fretted bass

In lol my years of playing, I’ve never seen this attitude of “you can’t tell me what to do” help a band get better.

Let’s see…since 1973 Basses cheap semi-hollow body 68 fretless P Gibson RD Artist Electra MPC Outlaw 63 jazz Mexican P currently own… Pedulla MPV 5 Spector Spectracore 5 lined fretless Amps Casino 12 Yamaha 100 1x15 Musicman head/Bullfrog 1x18 currently own… Hartke kickback 12 Fender Dual Showman w/ 4x12

I would ask, “why not?”…oh, I forgot about folks ready to be disturbed/offended at every turn. Lighten up and let the rest of us have some harmless fun…please!

I really appreciate your response. Back in the 70’s - 90’s, it seemed that everyone was using 1,2 or4 15 cabs. Most I knew used single 15’s. Then the trand moved to multiple smaller speaker cabs, which it seems lots of folks still use. I would love to compare single vs multi speaker cabs in gigging situations..

I stand corrected

This one has switchable speaker resistance, But the original cab is 4 ohms

Okay, thanks….wondering then why so many of us use 4x10 or 4x12 cabs…I’ve always used a single 15, or, at one point, an 18.

I did, and understand the concept. It seems that the most profound instances of comb filter effects are found using multiple cabs. I also understand that 4 speakers placed in the same cab also can show effects of comb filtering. My question regarded the specific effects unique to this cab.

I guess I don’t know enough about this to understand your point. Specifically, how does this Fender rig produce more of a comb filtering effect than other 4x whatever cabs? I’ve always used single speaker rigs before.