Had Enough, almost went full Basil.

[Chiliwailer]

Almost had a Basil Fawlty type moment while recording, though just about spared beating my Jazz Bass...

 

 

Best not take it out on the bass when other factors are at play too, just took me a bit to realise 😂

 

Edited 20 hours ago by Chiliwailer

[Mrbigstuff]

1 hour ago, Chiliwailer said:

Almost had a Basil Fawlty type moment while recording, though just about spared beating my Jazz Bass...

 

 

Best not take it out on the bass when other factors are at play too, just took me a bit to realise 😂

 

Bad sound or playing?

[Chiliwailer]

13 minutes ago, Mrbigstuff said:

Bad sound or playing?

Sorry, I should elaborate - I was getting a terrible hum, really standing out on a quiet part of the track. But wasn’t get it so much on my Ray, I put it down to single coil issues and home electrics,  but then realised the culprit was in the chain and the different setting I use for each bass didn’t come into my mind at the time, doh 🙄

 

Ended up using the Ray anyway, but good to know as it’s been nearly a year since I gave my Jazz a good work out. 

[Mrbigstuff]

27 minutes ago, Chiliwailer said:

Sorry, I should elaborate - I was getting a terrible hum, really standing out on a quiet part of the track. But wasn’t get it so much on my Ray, I put it down to single coil issues and home electrics,  but then realised the culprit was in the chain and the different setting I use for each bass didn’t come into my mind at the time, doh 🙄

 

Ended up using the Ray anyway, but good to know as it’s been nearly a year since I gave my Jazz a good work out. 

Different basses hum worse than others. I had an 80’s Tokai which had it really bad even when going straight into a DI.

[Lozz196]

I’ve told you once, now you’re going to get a thrashing!

 

Classic Fawlty moment, certainly had my fair share of them.

[Elfrasho]

I always worried about these things until the isolated tracks of famous tunes started to get released online. They're a bit of an eye opener and it made me rethink what's actually important about recording!

 

Saying that, I'd never send a track to a studio if I'm doing a sesh if it's full of noise from my home setup, but if im on location doing recordings and theres some noise, I wouldn't go nuts about it.

Edited 19 hours ago by Elfrasho

[Chiliwailer]

1 hour ago, Lozz196 said:

I’ve told you once, now you’re going to get a thrashing!

 

Classic Fawlty moment, certainly had my fair share of them.

Yep, classic Fawlty with a mix of classic Homer afterwards, a nice big doh! 

[Chiliwailer]

1 hour ago, Mrbigstuff said:

Different basses hum worse than others. I had an 80’s Tokai which had it really bad even when going straight into a DI.

Really glad that it’s not the bass after all, I was already stumped with what to replace it with while I was in Basil mode… 

[crazycloud]

Good thing it wasn't a Warwick...

[HeadlessBassist]

I had a similar issue at a theatre on Saturday. The in-house lighting guy had put one of those automated turning and tilting round LED multi colour lights right next to where I was playing. Every time I moved to the right, my Jazz Elite's preamp started whining & hissing like crazy! I thought it was unusual at the time, as that bass is usually as quiet as a comatose mouse. I've attached a picture here - you can see it through the legs of my Fender Stool.