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 9 hours ago by Boodang

[Leonard Smalls]

12 hours ago, Boodang said:

A bit like 5 string bass players who haven't first learnt how to play like Pastorius. Outrageous. 

But Pastorius obviously never got good enough to graduate to a 5 string!

😁

And on the drums thing, I've played with too many drummers who have more than 3 toms, plus another 4 cymbals. It takes 'em ages to set up and it takes up most of the stage (unless you're in a proper sized venue). I could forgive said drummers if didn't then bash every one of those drums as hard as they could without listening to how they fit in with the band, and especially by tw@tting the ride cymbal constantly giving just an unpleasant wash of high frequency that obscures just about everything else... If they could just do the groove thing with the snare, hi-hat and bass drum we'd all be much happier. And funkier!

[petecarlton]

1 minute ago, Leonard Smalls said:

But Pastorius obviously never got good enough to graduate to a 5 string!

😁

And on the drums thing, I've played with too many drummers who have more than 3 toms, plus another 4 cymbals. It takes 'em ages to set up and it takes up most of the stage (unless you're in a proper sized venue). I could forgive said drummers if didn't then bash every one of those drums as hard as they could without listening to how they fit in with the band, and especially by tw@tting the ride cymbal constantly giving just an unpleasant wash of high frequency that obscures just about everything else... If they could just do the groove thing with the snare, hi-hat and bass drum we'd all be much happier. And funkier!

What’s irrational about any of that? 🤣

[Boodang]

25 minutes ago, Leonard Smalls said:

But Pastorius obviously never got good enough to graduate to a 5 string!

😁

And on the drums thing, I've played with too many drummers who have more than 3 toms, plus another 4 cymbals. It takes 'em ages to set up and it takes up most of the stage (unless you're in a proper sized venue). I could forgive said drummers if didn't then bash every one of those drums as hard as they could without listening to how they fit in with the band, and especially by tw@tting the ride cymbal constantly giving just an unpleasant wash of high frequency that obscures just about everything else... If they could just do the groove thing with the snare, hi-hat and bass drum we'd all be much happier. And funkier!

Hihat for groove, ride for swing. And one of the reasons I mostly use a dry ride is to give some space. Drummers just tw@ting everything as hard as possible all the time is one of my pet hates but I wouldn't call that irrational. 

[SimonK]

17 minutes ago, Boodang said:

Hihat for groove, ride for swing. And one of the reasons I mostly use a dry ride is to give some space. Drummers just tw@ting everything as hard as possible all the time is one of my pet hates but I wouldn't call that irrational. 

 

Possibly not an irrational prejudice: china crash cymbals should be banned.

[ProjeKtWEREWOLF]

6 minutes ago, SimonK said:

 

Possibly not an irrational prejudice: china crash cymbals should be banned.

How would we have Deathcore breakdowns without them? 😶

[SimonK]

1 minute ago, ProjeKtWEREWOLF said:

How would we have Deathcore breakdowns without them? 😶

 

When you say deathcore breakdown are you meaning what happens to the drummer after they have been forcibly mated with their chinese crash 🙂 ?

[Terry M.]

4 hours ago, Boodang said:

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

That's a very strong word to describe one extra string 😁 I hope you've never been in a situation where you've been forced to play one or even lost work because you refused. Funnily enough when I started playing I didn't understand the G string,I was like "how is this even bass?" This is probably why even though I can, I don’t play 6 string bass.

[Boodang]

5 minutes ago, Terry M. said:

That's a very strong word to describe one extra string 😁 I hope you've never been in a situation where you've been forced to play one or even lost work because you refused. Funnily enough when I started playing I didn't understand the G string,I was like "how is this even bass?" This is probably why even though I can, I don’t play 6 string bass.

5 string low B is just an indistinct fart! So I should have been more specific and said I hate 5 string strung low B..... and yes I have lost work because I won't play low B but also I'm more of a 4 string fretless guy so I just stick to what I'm good at. As it happens I do play a 5 string but high C.... and yep, get up the dusty end of the C string all the time, but then I'm not playing death metal.

[Terry M.]

6 minutes ago, Boodang said:

5 string low B is just an indistinct fart! 

That's hilarious 😂  It's not my area to convince you otherwise so of course just play what makes you happy 👍

[Woodinblack]

27 minutes ago, Terry M. said:

That's a very strong word to describe one extra string 😁

 

Not in an irrational predjudices thread it isn't!

[Leonard Smalls]

3 hours ago, ProjeKtWEREWOLF said:

How would we have Deathcore breakdowns without them

Easily. Bass solo instead!!!

😁

[ProjeKtWEREWOLF]

27 minutes ago, Leonard Smalls said:

Easily. Bass solo instead!!!

😁

That's one of my irrational prejudices.  

[kwmlondon]

99% off bass solos suck.

Jaco Pastorius bass playing isn't enjoyable. Better to study and learn then listen to for enjoyment.

[Geek99]

34 minutes ago, Leonard Smalls said:

Easily. Bass solo instead!!!

😁

You’re trying to drive your audience away? Why exactly would a bass solo help ? 

Edited 2 hours ago by Geek99

[Terry M.]

3 hours ago, Woodinblack said:

 

Not in an irrational predjudices thread it isn't!

Then by this parameter I guess I hate the sound of the high C string. How that belongs on an instrument known for providing low end is beyond me.

Edited 1 hour ago by Terry M.

[Leonard Smalls]

31 minutes ago, Geek99 said:

You’re trying to drive your audience away?

Of course! Never liked crowds...