bassman7755

Surely if all you want is this minor EQ tweak then its better to achieve it earlier in the signal chain (pickup mix, instrument tone controls, an EQ effect, amp tone controls etc) - the speaker is surely the worst place to do it as your wasting power and efficiency.

I practice at home using my B4-1 into my hifi setup.

True, there an ability level above which this doesn't happen so much but that accounts for a fairly small minority of players and bands in my experience.

To explain what said before a bit further, what I've observed in the past is that bands than don't practice/rehearse (at all or not particular songs which "everyone knows inside out") experience "drift" rather than actual mistakes i.e. the songs change over time and usually for the worst. Nuances get lost, songs degrade from having their own unique groove and edge to song-x-played-in-the-generic-style-of-the-band. I imagine at some point we've all seen a really boring covers bands where the chords and melody change but not much else throughout the whole set. Of course that's an extreme example but a lot of bands suffer from this to some degree. Its a trap I've fallen into myself thinking "oh this song is so easy I/we don't need to practice it" and then having actually listened to the original having not done so for years sometime I'm actually quite shocked at how much essence of it has been lost and how much a travesty of it our version of it has become.

This is a good explanation of how to check the truss rod tension, essentially you just fret the bottom string at 1st and last frets at the same time and check the gap, too big a gap (at its maximum point) between the string and fret means the rod is too loose, no gap means its too tight: Also I think you need to take the string change out of the cost equation too, as you will probably want to put new ones on anyway at some point (and if you dont then theres no reason to do so for the setup). Plus you might buy a new bass and in a years time it have the same problem as the neck has settled and needs readjustment.

You probably need something thinner that that, a bit of thin paper as an experiment. If that is the problem I then it should be a very easy fix to raise the nut slightly: heat gun or iron to release the glue, glue a thin wooden shim underneath and re glue nut. You can even build up an individual string height using superglue and some filler like cotton wool. Theres loads of youtube vids on both.

I too have never experienced this phenomena of gigging acting as rehearsal, my experience is that faults in the way a band play a song tend to become worse over time not better, these are not "mistakes" as such but deviations of how the song is supposed to be played that creep in over time. Usually to do with things like exactly which chord changes should be syncopated (e.g. change a half beat ahead) vs not. The only way I can imagine this happening are a) every member of the band is a top tier players with great attention to detail b) noone give a stinky poo if the songs are a bit ropey as long as roughly the right thing was played and vocal melody as more or less right. I actually do know of one or two bands in the former category but they are originals outfits and I generally don't "do" original bands.

The epi 310 is like a 750w rms cab with fairly decent sensitivity as I recall having owned one some years back, I played in some pretty loud bands and never scratched the surface of what that cab was capable of TBH. If your after more volume I'm pretty sure the cab isnt the limiting factor.

Yeah the original pickups are emg selects which I think are blades, but I was specifically looking for something with more old school sound so wanting to try something alnico V based.

Hum cancellation - you've essentially got a humbucker but with one coil inside the other.

Your amp does not have two 4 ohm outputs, it has one 4 ohm output with 2 parallel output jacks wired to it. Which is why ... ... is the formula you are looking for.

Sorry had to be done ...

Great thing about this tune is it easy to transpose, you know incase the singer cant be silent in tune on the high notes.

Your likes and dislikes will be related to the specific cab designs, not the fact that they are 15's or 10's. I guarantee you that there plenty of 2x10s that you would love and 15's that you would hate.

What have I started ?? 😉. But yes there is some very tasty major pentatonic riffing going on, and then it ends on those pumping octaves. Such great playing deserves to be done justice, busking it up is just sacrilege really.

I didnt say it was not a potential one-listener for someone with decent ability. Rather I used as an example of a song that you could not play convincingly by busking it from just knowing the chords e.g. by just following the bands guitarist, having never sat down to listen to it (even if only once). Another example would be Run To You.

Same here for really tricky bits but I'll will always learn the tune first before trying to play it.

So let me throw this into the mix - when I have a learn a new song I listen to it repeatedly until I can hum/sing the bassline by heart before ever picking up the bass. Discuss 🧨

Well of course that what I meant, I mean really have you nothing better to do than such nitpicking ? (and no this doesnt work for the song in question).

Try playing All right Now "just playing the chords", that would be amusing to watch.

+1. If I take the trouble to go and see a band I expect them to made at least some effort to learn the songs properly, I'm fine with a reinterpretation, not fine with someone obviously busking it having never sat down and learned it.

Plus everyone gets to hear the same tone, you and the band and the audience through the PA (where appropriate).

But as you can see the middle string is way out of whack and measuring the output with it seemed to be slightly lower, not by much though, if I couldn't see it I probably wouldn't even notice. But your right in that its a case of 80% aesthetics 20% function probably in this case. I also fancy the idea of trying to make a concentric coil humbucker, wierdly there seems to be zero info on the net about building such a thing. The idea being that you reverse wind an outer coil (that has slightly fewer winds to compensate for the increased diameter).

Well the comparison is really with the modelled stuff you actually use since the stuff you dont is of no value, but even there it usually wins.

Yeah I urge everyone to try it, at least once. Its the lack of fatigue of both ears and brain that was the revelation for me - instead of feeling knackered at the end of the gig I felt like I could go right out and do it again.