What are your irrational prejudices? I have some bonkers ones...

[prowla]

5 minutes ago, razor5cl said:

Someone here mentioned separate volume knobs and it's currently driving me mildly loopy. Just had the electronics swapped on my Jackson Kelly and I have two active EMGs with no preamp so separate pots it is.

 

How does one deal with this? Having played for almost 9 years now and gotten used to having a master volume to quickly mute/unmute my bass with. I can quickly turn both down easily enough but turning them both back up is a faff.

 

It's especially annoying since one of my band's tunes has a part where I do a volume swell up on a big power chord. So far I've been doing it with just one knob and then turning the other one up once it's already ringing out at full volume but sometimes I forget to turn up the other knob (like on stage this weekend oops!)

You need a volume pedal!

 

[razor5cl]

2 minutes ago, prowla said:

You need a volume pedal!

 

 

I'd consider it for practice or in the studio but on stage I have an irrational (heh see!) fear of using pedals during a performance. I'm just paranoid that cables will get tangled or me or someone else will step on it by accident or unplug it. My tuner and distortion pedals live in front of the amp at the back of the stage and I strictly forbid any of my band mates from going anywhere near them lol

[StingRayBoy42]

1 hour ago, razor5cl said:

Someone here mentioned separate volume knobs and it's currently driving me mildly loopy. Just had the electronics swapped on my Jackson Kelly and I have two active EMGs with no preamp so separate pots it is.

 

Is having it wired up with a blend pot not an option?

[razor5cl]

38 minutes ago, StingRayBoy42 said:

Is having it wired up with a blend pot not an option?

 

It is an option I think but I'm not 100% sure. EMG seems to have thousands of wiring diagrams on their website and it seems that in addition to the handful they provide with the pickups there are also other options that they don't tell you about. They do sell an active blend knob I think but I'd have to check.

 

Basically I'm too lazy to check their website, buy the parts, and figure it out myself/take it to my tech 🤣

[StingRayBoy42]

2 minutes ago, razor5cl said:

 

It is an option I think but I'm not 100% sure. EMG seems to have thousands of wiring diagrams on their website and it seems that in addition to the handful they provide with the pickups there are also other options that they don't tell you about. They do sell an active blend knob I think but I'd have to check.

 

Basically I'm too lazy to check their website, buy the parts, and figure it out myself/take it to my tech 🤣

 

Just take it to your tech and let them figure it out!

[Cosmo Valdemar]

3 hours ago, razor5cl said:

Someone here mentioned separate volume knobs and it's currently driving me mildly loopy. Just had the electronics swapped on my Jackson Kelly and I have two active EMGs with no preamp so separate pots it is.

 

How does one deal with this? Having played for almost 9 years now and gotten used to having a master volume to quickly mute/unmute my bass with. I can quickly turn both down easily enough but turning them both back up is a faff.

 

It's especially annoying since one of my band's tunes has a part where I do a volume swell up on a big power chord. So far I've been doing it with just one knob and then turning the other one up once it's already ringing out at full volume but sometimes I forget to turn up the other knob (like on stage this weekend oops!)

Think of the neck pickup volume as your master volume, and the bridge pickup volume as the "hollow twang" knob and you'll be ok leaving it turned down.

Under no circumstances should the "hollow twang" knob be turned up on its own 😆

[casapete]

4 hours ago, razor5cl said:

How does one deal with this? Having played for almost 9 years now and gotten used to having a master volume to quickly mute/unmute my bass with. I can quickly turn both down easily enough but turning them both back up is a faff.

This 100%. One of the reasons I always prefer Precisions over Jazz basses. 

My P-Lyte (PJ pickups) has a single volume plus a pan control which works fine for me.

[ghostwheel]

5 hours ago, razor5cl said:

 

It is an option I think but I'm not 100% sure. EMG seems to have thousands of wiring diagrams on their website and it seems that in addition to the handful they provide with the pickups there are also other options that they don't tell you about. They do sell an active blend knob I think but I'd have to check.

 

Basically I'm too lazy to check their website, buy the parts, and figure it out myself/take it to my tech 🤣

https://www.emgpickups.com/parts/bass-accessories/abc-2.html

[Boodang]

9 hours ago, Mokl said:

To be fair, this thread was intended to be about irrational prejudice.

Fair point. In which case I hate 5 string bass!  

Edited 1 hour ago by Boodang