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 yesterday at 13:39 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 yesterday at 15:35 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. 

 

[Mrbigstuff]

8 hours ago, HeadlessBassist said:

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. 

 

I think you’ve been mis-sold a jazz elite 😉

[tauzero]

Years ago, I was doing some recording straight into the studio desk. My Antoniotsai active bass was picking up lots of interference and the engineer offered the use of a Precision that could have been used at Agincourt, the neck was so bowed (and it had one string too few). Fortunately I also had a passive Peavey Zephyr with me and that proved interference-proof.

 

When I thought about it afterwards, it did occur to me that I could just have gone into the studio away from the racks and racks of electronic gear and used a DI box.

[jd56hawk]

On 07/09/2025 at 08:42, 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 😂

 

Just watched all twelve episodes this past weekend...can't even count how many times I've rewatched Fawlty Towers.

Still funny.