TimR

I've seen reference to this several times now. What is a 'painted' neck? It sounds like something from Roger Mellie's Profanisaurus.

Guitarists.

Drummers.

Yes. Scoop? Set the gain as high as you can to eliminate noise. Watch for clipping, unless that's what you want. It also controls sensitivity so will affect your playing dynamics. Too low and it will be all or nothing, too high and every little unevenness will be exposed. Then use the Master to control the overall volume level.

Aren't they foam backed and so damp the strings automatically. Hence - take them off if you don't like the sound.

If you put the screws in the holes, unless you leave them proud, the holes will be made bigger, so when you come to replace covers, the screws will have nothing to screw into. 🤷‍♂️ Put them in a bag with the covers.

I'm very disappointed. 🤣 That was less than 2 hours! I've spent weeks/months on it! Go back and have another go! 🤣

Recievers will attempt to salvage a trading company before declaring compelte bankruptcy by running an insolvent company in administration. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Administration_(law)

Yes. Good luck. I've tried all the usual electronics sites. RV16AF-41 25R 3 B150K is as much of the Alpha Tiwan part number as I can work out. The minimum order is 2000. Finding one will be like finding hens teeth. Ibanez would have ordered them in bulk and don't stock them as spares now.

There's a ton of sheilding paint. The shaft is 25mm long, 8mm dia? and the knob is 6mm dia. 150kohm linear. I've looked everywhere and even thought about putting a short shaft one in and putting flying leads in, but there's not enough space. The one I ordered ended up being 6.5mm dia. It's 25 years old, and it's done its work. These things don't last forever. Cutting my losses for the sake of £30 and a half hour swapping over.

“But it was about the intent of making music as a band, without that digital safety net. It’s a wonderful thing to have limitations in your creative process, because you have to decide, in the moment: ‘Is it played well enough? Do we move on? Do they play it again, or do we cut those pieces together?’ I just think working in analogue is such a beautiful way to make art. It is a romance, because it’s a physical medium. The joy of tape editing is that you’re making something, in the truest sense of the word.”

Sounds like they called Flea and Navarro in and only gave them the vocal stems, and they did a one take hit and run. RHCP track live, and for a reason. They're not going to be spending all day finessing individual bars and timing. https://www.soundonsound.com/techniques/inside-track-red-hot-chili-peppers-black-summer

Piano is a full range solo instrument capable of being the only accompaniment required. My dad has been playing piano for 75 years. When he calls me for backup, he says, its great to have a good bass player who understands chord structure, I can't be doing that driving left hand stuff all night. 🤣

Yes. It's really 'noisy'. They're all 'youngsters' and clearly having fun. I'd say when you have big powerful PA behind you, you can afford not to smash your instruments hard and reign in the passion a little bit. It may be that the arrangements aren't that far off, its the loudness wars and exuberance that may be pushing the envelope. The drummer is also hitting lots of open cymbals. There's a balance between musicality and full out punk. Love the violin, but that also needs to be arranged around so everything else doesn't crowd it out. Make it a feature, everyone else doesnt need to be louder than the violin. Hopefully this is positive criticism. Its about having a mature outlook to what is the feature instrument, or vocal, at any point, and what are backing instruments.

He always sounds like that.

We play this. Can't say I'm ever particular about getting the tone 100%. We only have guitar, bass and drums. No one has ever said to me "Great song, but you need to be playing a jazz with the bridge pickup on full". Play hard. In fact, we get people up and singing along to this without fail.

OK. I've listened to that and in my opinion that song works really well arrangement-wise amd sounds really tight with nothing wrong. So I went in search of more examples and found a live one from a few months ago. Others can search if they're that bothered. 1. The keyboard player has a full size 7 octave stage piano! 😳 In the video I've watched they're really bashing out the same notes as the bass, with double octaves. I think they're used to playing alone and have a bit to learn about ensemble work. In that situation the keys needs to chill, absolutely no need for those notes, and playing like that will clutter up the sound space because they won't be exactly in time, and any 'groove' (playing ahead or behind the beat) from the bass player will be lost. Especially when the drums are joining in. I suspect the video you have posted was recorded with protools and has had all the notes quantized and aligned. So live it probably sounds quite a 'mess', and that's probably more the problem. So yes, get the bass and keys to meet up separately from the rest of the band and have a sensible chat about bottom end arrangements. Is that a 5-string bass there as well?

The keys and bass need to meet separately to work on an arrangement that works for both of them. With experienced musicians this can be done on the fly as they both will adjust using their ears.

The problem with active/passive is that the control knobs will be different values and part of the active circuitry, so not just a case of switching off the amplifier bit and keeping the volume. Would need a bit of thought. What about balance and tone controls?

I haven't. I think by the time I have purchased pots and wiring, had them delivered, soldered them all together, it would just be quicker and just as expensive to fit the pre-amp, which would only require soldering the existing barrel jack in.

Have lost the will to live with my Ibanez SR400 volume pot. Its a non standard pot that's soldered to the board. There's no equivalent pot that I can find, or a pot that will fit, and have the same diameter shaft that will fit the existing knobs. So I have two options, ditch the electronics, make it passive, blank off two holes and go that route. or Replace the pre-amp. A shadowski pre-amp is probably more than I want to spend. So thinking of taking a punt on the Artec. Anyone used one of these? I figure it must be better than a 25 year old Ibanez stock. I have the DXP and DXJ passive pickups. https://www.thomann.co.uk/artec_se3_basselektronik.htm?gad_source=4&gad_campaignid=1581403900&gclid=CjwKCAjwy7HEBhBJEiwA5hQNotlg5qVmdkmIFXkIzrbymxNpJCwbkNKlg38RMUSnd83RC-nDuTX3CRoCxZYQAvD_BwE

I thought the first post was a complete over-reaction and someone blowing up over a delay in getting into a studio, and losing their temper on the support line. 1st world problem. I thought Meta referred to a 'Karen' style rant on Facebook.

Karen from Sheffield...

We were taught as kids in the 70s how to search for a fire. Is this no longer taught? 😕

Under "breakages" I have ordered a new volume pot. The old one crackles like mad amd no amount of Servicol switch cleaner will resolve. It's going to be a bit of a mission to replace as the new pot isn't a straight swap. The old one is soldered to the preamp board and is much longer. This one will have to be fitted to the bass body and have extension wires to the preamp.