Downunderwonder

FOH is going to dump compression on you if they feel like it, whether you like it or not. My sound is already fairly compressed thanks to the BDDI set to overdrive when I dig in. I heard them riding my fader at the last gig so I guess they didn't compress it or couldn't compress it enough to catch up with our ability to play ppp as well as fff without shagging the tone.

People who are 5'4'' always make it look like hard work when playing full size bass guitars.

It's 30 years ago now. I would be blowing holes in it left and right if you gave me a job today.

Sarcasm is the new (old) anti woke woke.

Those sorts of terrible is what my OP was about. One time I went to a fools on stools after work and the guitar player was retuning his standard tuning for every song. W T H! He would chang chang on the new root chord and it would be ''out of tune'' so he would 'retune' sorta, to sorta suit the new chords. My poor ears. Of course his saddles were all over the place. At the break I made him borrow a screwdriver from the barman and we fixed it. He was very grateful! Side note, every used bass I have gotten has needed intonating. I deduce far less bass players than ideal are aware.

is what it's all about! The purists like to tell you it's a fail, but near enough is good enough for me. Then they tell you it's it's own thing, enjoy. Whatever, get your best tones!

I'd say one at a time and only a very little at a time. You always want to be able to get back to where you started. That's a lot easier with one variable.

Mine is the BG scale version. Leave in all the mids and cut the bass a little for more uprightness.

That is the logic of a luthier I know. Tape up the bass case and hope the courier isn't a belligerent idiot.

You are thinking in terms of pedals that are always on. I am thinking of switching on and off without a care about blowing out the level.

In addition to exploring the touch sensitivity around just breaking up on distortion pedals another request... Test if it be possible to set up so ON is only fractionally louder than bypass. A pedal that can only do its thing 10dB louder than clean is no use to me.

The bottom 4 of a slightly lighter 5 string set methinks.

Way less than half the musicians I know could whip up a recording session in the next hour, me neither.

YouTube fubar here too sometimes.

I thought there was a Leonard Cohen song about that.

Most solid state amps sound like whatever preamp you are using.

Luxury yachts are probably the best example of the one eyed views on ''trickle down theory''. On the one hand it's the rich pissing on the poor. On the other hand luxury yachts employ a lot of skilled tradesmen to build and maintain them. That's a big industry here in NZ.

Speaks to brand value. It's a thing.

don't do squat to low frequencies , neither do iso pads unless you share the floor. Piano is loud and percussive with it. You better hope your neighbours like piano! My through the wall neighbours can't hear my bass practice amp but they can hear if I get too rowdy with the rig. I never hear their TV, just an occasional thump from kid banging around. Gibraltar board multilayer fireproof wall also good for serious noise reduction!

Your microtonal stuff is following its own rules.

If it did I wouldn't have a job! What I am aghast at is deliberately detuning wood chimes as if it's something nice to hear when the natural sounding ones would actually have done quite nicely.

Bingo.

The Rolling Stones.

The Travelling Wilburys.

New question. Why does this thread default to ''Most Votes'' every time I open it? Very annoying.