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Hmm, interesting. Just played a bit more - my Precision is massively more mid heavy than the Jazz, which goes someway towards explaining it.

No point starting a new thread! Just been playing around with mine, and was surprised to see someone describe it here as mid scooped. Does anyone else find this? I was messing around trying to get is as close as possible to the Ampeg Fliptop model on my Zoom B3, and found I had to pull the mids right down and the treble and bass full up. I had no reference so my ears and brain were lost by the end I'm sure, but I found myself preferring it with the mids down low - it didn't sound to scooped to me (but as I said, my ears not have been best placed to judge it by then!) So, currently: Gain: 9 o clock, Treble: Max, Mids: Min, Bass: Max - using an American Special FSR Precision with fresh LaBella flats (I'm preety sure the freshness of the strings contributes to what I don't like!) and an Orange SP212 cab. We'll see how it goes with a band tomorrow.

If I was looking for a mic to cover bass cab, acoustic and vocals for £150 I would almost definitely be looking at a large diaphragm condenser. I use a Studio Projects B1 (around £80) for all those 3 scenarios - often by choice and not by necessity. The Audio Technica AT2020 (£80-ish again) is also very highly regarded as a budget mic, though I've never used one. I might be wrong here, but I'm sure I read somewhere that an AKG214 is more or less 'half' of a 414 - i.e a 414 that can only function in cardioid mode, which is most probably what you need anyway. They're around £250 however. I really like condensers on bass cabs - you're very unlikely to encounter problems unless you're recording at silly volumes. Bear in mind that dedicated 'bass drum' mics and the sort often have a rather fierce EQ engineered into them. Personally I don't tend to like them for recording (on bass drums or bass cabs), though they can sometimes be useful live for a 'standard' live bass drum sound. Large diapghragm condenser are almost always the go to for vocals, so you'd be covered there as well. Small diaphragm are perhaps slightly more in favour for acoustic guitar, but it's a matter of preference more than anything (small diaphgragms give a slightly more accurate sound, but this isn't always what's needed. I often prefer using large diaphragm condensers on acoustics. A decent large diaphragm condenser really will have you covered for bass, acoustic and vocals. The same could be said about a small diaphragm though (I'd recommend the Rode M3 on a budget), but people seem to prefer singing into a larger mic! Aled

LaBella and Fender flats here.

glad to hear it's all fine. Aled

Ace!

Good idea, keep us in the know!

Yes when using the XLR out. Have you tried it again just to double check? If nothing comes out of the speaker with an XLR plugged in, but everything returns to normal once you take the XLR out there's probably something wrong. Could it be that you just didn't hook the cab up properly at the rehearsal? That can happen easily when you have other things to worry about! Speakon cable not properly inserted or something? Aled

Hmm, that's strange. The XLR out on mine has no effect on the signal to the cab. Did you use the XLR out or the 'send' jack? I assume the FX loop is in series so taking a feed from the Send output would most probably kill the signal to the speaker. Aled

[quote name='hamfist' timestamp='1360140406' post='1965302'] The neck is definitely more P than J. Still quite chunky. [/quote] Quite. Wider and shallower than my (MIM) Jazz.

Why not try connecting the iPad to a small stage monitor/powered PA cab?

Great, will have a read of that new. I bought it as I was looking for a compressor a pedal and a subtle room reverb for bass, and realised that the Zoom was cheaper than two decent pedals. I have a few songs in sets requiring and octaver, and one with spring reverb/tremolo, and the Zoom seems to have that covered as well... so I sold my tuner, octaver, Boss FDR1 and a few other pedals, bought the B3 and I'm a good few quid up! As much as I'm loving the Fliptop model, I didn't buy for the amp emulations, it's just that I haven't got round to plugging into my gigging set up yet (Orange OTB and SP212). I don't think I'll need the models for live work as I like the Orange. For direct recording though, it's looking to be ace!

Cheers! So far, I think it's bloody great, and I haven't really moved from the Ampeg Fliptop model, and barely any effects!

Just found this [url="http://forums.fender.com/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=56497"]http://forums.fender.com/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=56497[/url] Seems I'm stuck with. I'll check my Jazz one just in case that'll fit.

Afternoon, i've just bought a pickup cover for my new Precision, as well as a gold anodized scratchplate. Both are genuine Fender parts, but the cover is too big for the holes in the scratchplate (the plate has pre-drilled holes for the cover and a tug bar). I think the plate is a 50s spec one - did the use smaller pickup covers back then? Where do I get them?!

...and a quick bash with the looper. These toys are fun! [url="https://soundcloud.com/#melynwy/bass-looper-demo"]https://soundcloud.com/#melynwy/bass-looper-demo[/url]