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I'd love the fender for my jazz deluxe if its still going - will gladly cover postage costs

[quote name='fonzoooroo' post='1131306' date='Feb 17 2011, 05:30 PM']Did you get this sorted?[/quote]

I did thanks Fonzo well, I know the problem, atleast..
sorry for the late reply, been really busy!

basically the higher gauge strings I used previously somehow degraded the groove in the nut where my A string sits, so I need a new nut.
I'll have to wait around 5 months til I can afford one tho!

these have now gone

Hey guys, doing a little clearout.

I have 55 toy cars, most of them are hot wheels. I used to love spending my pocket money on these when I was a little younger, haha

Would make a great addition for either a collector, or for a young son.
all yours for the price of postage - which I would say would be around £6, maybe

heres some pics:

Selling some PC parts as I got a new PC
All are in full working order, and thought I may aswell put my links here incase a Basschatter needs them
PLEASE if you do bid, make sure you know if they are right for your PC or not, if in doubt message me I may be able to help.

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He had a little fiddle with it, he said he wanted to.
He changed the intonation to spot-on, which is great, but now the action is HORENDOUS to play on. I literally odnt wanna play my bass anymore, and I dont wanna take it back to him because tbh he just isnt my cup of tea.
And I got horendous fret buzz JUST on the A string, I never had any problems before.

Can anyone be kind enough to tell me how I can fix all these issues? I am a slightly (very slightly) hard player, and he slackened off the truss rod so I cant play how I usually do.
He has changed the action via saddles, changed their lenghts and adjusted the truss rod.
I am so annoyed!

And I remember after I had given it to him that he did once before warp the neck on my old Yamaha, this was ofcourse too late as he had already gotten his hands on it!
Since I get A string buzz, my neck isnt warped, is it?

Selling this combo amp
Comes with the Footswitch also
Asking price: £120

collection from Meiden Veil, Mansfield
or will post for £15

Yeahh I have quite a few pedals anyways, but it says in my enrolement letter its getter to have a POD than not have one..
I may just go there without one for the start and then get one out of my grant money, that would seem the most logical thing I think

This has raised a question for me for a while back now, are they even good effects units?
They seem to be the most popular effects unit, if not the most popular item, that sells in the For Sale section.

What is bad about them that people seem to sell them off all the time?

I was planning on getting one for uni, I am taking a 3 year course at a Bass Academy in Guildford and its not a requirement to have a POD unit, but its useful to have one for masterclasses and lectures and such.. would it be worth investing in this unit or a different Line 6 model?

[quote name='fonzoooroo' post='1112077' date='Feb 2 2011, 09:56 AM']you can check nut groove rattle by pressing a fingernail down directly on teh plaing side of the nut.

go over the whole instrument with a screwdriver and jsut check everything's tightened right up.

if no improvement, check if there's any tension in the truss rod... if it's completely slack, give it a tweek until you just start to feel the nut "bite"... it'll make no tangible difference to the setup, but will stop the rod nut/rod rattling.[/quote]

I just put my fingernail down in the nut slot where the A string sits, and this pretty much stopped mostthe resonating, there is a TINY bit but there always wil be a tad I reckon.. so I think this may be the problem
I guess a new nut may be needed.. althought I really wouldnt be comfortable doing this myself.. Do you think if I go to get my bass a decent setup that they would do this for me for an extra cost? The most suitable place I can think of would be a music shop called Sheehans - I dont know of any private people that do anything as such.

I've also just tried pressing down REALLY hard past the nut, so that an A# is produced and this solves the problem, whereas tuning the string to A# does not..
So im thinking the string needs more tension, possibly?

I've tightened all the screws on the bridge, and made sure the legs are completely sitting..
but still, resonation city!!

im thinking it may be the truss rod like someone posted, I did just downgrade from a heavy gauge string to my beloved mediums (I used heavy for a project I was in but just left).. this may very well be it?
if so, any thoughts on a fix?

Hey guys, a part of my bass, right near the bridge, resonates when I play some notes, even with only a small amount of force - particularly the open A string makes the most racket!

does anyone have any idea what it might be that is causing this??

I have tried holding down my bridge with one hand and plucking with another and it still happens, tried holding down my strap pegs, the battery plate on the back, the control plate on the front.. even the springsthat are on the saddle's and I am lost! maybe its a saddle itself I am unsure, but its really annoying!

I have an American Fender Jazz Deluxe if that helps diagnose this error!

Medium's sound beaut!
you should just use them

put your OD before the Sansamp, Sansamp say this is the best way themselfes anyways in the manual and tbh I have to agree
a lot of low end can get lost when using dirt effects like OD's (I use a lot of fuzz personally) and the Sansamp helps bring it back into the equation, which is a bonus.

Also, by having it before your kind of modelling the OD aswell as the clean, not just modelling the clean to make the OD sound different on its way out of the Sansamp which means you'd get more control on your EQ in a way.
and then have your limiter at the end of the signal path.

so - ODB-3, SA, LMB-3

[quote name='dood' post='1063615' date='Dec 19 2010, 03:29 PM']Cool


Ahh doesn't matter, it's still the hardware (and driver's) ability to receive, process and output a sound. Again, what card are you using?

- Yes I would very strongly advise using an ASIO/ASIO2 driver for it. IF the card you are using doesn't have a proprietry ASIO driver, then try ASIO4ALL - an open source project which covers most sound cards inclusing the 'EMU' processor types.



Yes, the MIDI clock *isn't* the tempo track for songs etc - it simply synchronises devices. The way that you'd get all your devices to change at the same time is simple - you just need to make sure they are connected to your master sequencer and slave from it. The Sequencer can be configured and programmed so that each slave device receives on a seperate MIDI channel - this means that it will only accept messages designated for it - ie, channel 10 could be a drum machine, receiving the drum midi track from a sequencer. MIDI channel 5 could be the output of an automation track from the sequencer (or DAW) to control the MIDI enabled lighting rig. Really, you can go as in depth as you like!

Going back to the likes of Guitar Rig etc - using a low latency soundcard, you could just plug your guitar straight in to a laptop and have the DAW software switch patches in time with your MIDI backing track.

To answer your question, there are a number of ways of daisy chaining devices - the most obvious is to use MIDI IN / MIDI OUT / MIDI THRU connections - though you'd have to look in to seeing what the limitations of chaining multiple devices are, as I've never tested the theory with more than two or three connections.[/quote]

I am using a builti-in soundcard atm, my PC is pretty dated! until I go to uni in July and then I am buying either a very high spec laptop or a mac pro, but I am unsure which atm, a windows will get me much better specs for the same price but a mac gives me freedom over two operating systems with boot camp.. altho I am thinking of windows atm.


so in essence, your saying we can have a master sequencer running on a PC, and then have the master PC hooked up to other PC's and control them?
and by sequencer, you do mean Cubase or another DAW, correct?

ahh right, CC messages now make sence!

well I wasnt actually using any MIDI device and getting latency.. I was using an on screen keyboard that is built in to one of my synths.
I dont have any ASIO drivers, though.. so im gonna be getting them for now, which will help a lot lol.

also, dood, obviously as im aiming for a band format, how will we make sure that all the synths for all the band members are in time? we cant all just press play individually, it would have to be solid.. I know there is a thing called a MIDI clock which acts like a click track that can keep synths in time together but I dont know how that would press play on the transport area in Cubase with the automation laid down.

[quote name='dood' post='1062364' date='Dec 18 2010, 12:20 PM']Hi!
I think in most cases including the receptor, you will need an external sequencer of some sort to trigger patch changes or control CC messages to the host.

Ok, so what program are you using at the moment? As long as your program can receive and can be controlled by MIDI implementation, then yes you can either control it via a sequencer or possible via a external MIDI controller like a footboard. It depends on the level of implementation that your software contains - but as an example, I have some free looping software that I can controll just by using a USB>MIDI interface and plugging in my Roland FC200 straight in to my laptop.

As for sequencers, most DAW software is capable of outputting MIDI data along with audio and say, a click track. I use REAPER and think it is brilliant. But other DAWs such as cubase could also present an external device with patch change messages and CC updates etc etc.

I have seen bands go out on tour with just a PC or Mac running sequencing / Virtual Instrument support AND backing tracks.. however, when it goes down... you're stuffed unless you have a back up!

Do I know how? Well yes and no - I know the basics, but it would take a lil bit of playing to figure it out totally. It's not actually that difficult, but takes time to get your tempo track together for the song with all the messages in the right place at the right time. You could liken it to sequencing a drum track in a DAW. You have the individual notes, but the CC messages also control velocity, effects, pitch bend, after touch etc etc etc. Those same CC messages can be sent externally to control say, effect delay time in a VST, WAH pedal control and as you have mentioned, turn individual pedals on and off.[/quote]

At the moment I am using a VST host called Cantabile, for experimenting with what I need to do.
I do have Cubase.

However, Cubase is SO slow with my PC, it takes about a second from a midi keyboard for the osudn to come out, where as Cantabile is instant.. because it is used just as a VST host (dedicated) so it doesnt need any other processes going on or any need to do anything else.
Cubase coming to think of it though would be much more suitable, especially since we can use automation.. I think we would be turing the pedals on/off through automation (or even just the volumes if that) and then use pitch bending and filters with automation.. Contabile is great I just think Cubase would be better for this reason.. I just have no idea where to start with it compared to Contabile!


Also, Dood, you mentioned CC messages, what do you mean by these? are they just midi signals that trigger stuff? but obviously cant be heard.

Just thought i'd post it here, nothing to lose in doing so!

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Thanks dood, that was an interesting reply!

So I'm presuming, that an external click track would inout into the unit and send midi signals to trigger events, if I'm correct in saying this?

As for the muse receptor, pendulum use this. Infact, they have 7 of them on at all times live (one each+vocals).. Would this trigger the vst changes internally or would it again need an external device to do such thing?

The only problem tho is its price, I would need a cheaper, software version of this for now atleast!

The program I have on trial atm can load as many vst's as I want, and in diffrrent racks, and have set-lists too for different songs which is all useful, and I can trigger it to goto the 'next' or previous patch in a click, which I could trigger.. The main pronblem I have with this is it just isn't hands free, or foot free.. And in some parts of our songs we need a vst to turn on for 2 bars and back off again for a while (for overdubs) which would be unreliable for me to do myself.. Do you know if this could be sequenced like you mentioned? And do you know how?

Hey guys

Does anyone know of Dedicated VST Hosts, such as Cantabile..
Basically it holds your VST's (like a DAW such as Cubase would), and you can also midi trigger them to change pre-sets, so to change from FM-8 to Massive via a MIDI trigger, for example.. which ofcourse is VERY, VERY useful. (much like Guitar Rig can do)

However, this isnt completely 'hands free'.. or 'foot free'

Does anyone know of a VST Host that can make this change not by MIDI trigger but rather make it change itself either in time (seconds) or in bars related to a click/tempo..
Or even if you can do this process in Cantabile itself..
I know there is such a thing called a MIDI clock, or MIDI beat clock, but im unsure wether that just keeps the synths in time with eachother, or can also trigger even at certain times too?

Any info would be so grateful as I really would love to know!


Pendulum do this live, they have a Hardware VST Host which changes their sounds for them, hands free.. I basically would like to know how to do this via software please??

Interesting points..


I will be using both pick-ups, yes, so a clean tone and a MIDI tone
And I will be keeping this bass til the death of me, it has a bit of sentimental value to myself.
Clean tone for two of my projects
Clean+MIDI for another project

I guess I'll use my yamaha, I'll see if I can build up some love for it - it just feels so strange to play as om so used to my fender now!
Maybe I'll get a cheap copy or something.. I'll see how my money pans out!

Hey guys

I have a Fender Jazz Deluxe American, it was was of the 2001 factory runs with a candy tangerine finish to it

its one of the two basses I own, and its my professional bass, and always will be my little baby!


now I am really after a Graphtech MIDI interface, and im having a hard time deciding wether to install it into my Fender or my Yamaha RBX A2.

either way, I will need to cut into the body of one of the basses to install this MIDI system, and im just wondering if I was to use the Fender as the project for this and cut into the body, will it change the tone that much? like the natural sound of the bass from the wood..
also if I use the Fender I will be buying their Jazz Saddles, will this also change the sound of the bass?

all in all I will be needing to make a hole in the back of the body, to install a MIDI interface, and then the side next to the jack input to install a MIDI-out.


any replies would be a great help

[quote name='mike f' post='1028489' date='Nov 18 2010, 09:28 PM']Is it true bypass?[/quote]

haha!
that made me laugh

count me in!

Brilliant idea mate!