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chitoryu12 posted:Got something weird happening with my Gretsch. When tuned to E Standard, if I play the open G string while holding down the 7th fret of the A string, I get a high pitched buzzing noise. This only seems to happen between this fret and those two strings, and only when the 7th fret on the A is firmly pressed. What could possibly cause this? It sounds like the fret is raising when you depress it at the 7th on the A string. Bring the guitar to the guitar center and have them fix it by gluing down the fret better or filing it (for free)
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Thermos H Christ posted:Wow my pbass tone knob sits at 10 and sometimes gets dialed back as far as like maybe 7 or 8, with rounds and a pick and treble/high mids boosted on the amp. But I’m trying to sound nasty and cut straight through the mix. Love me some rattle and clang.  clang clang clang
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I would simply try the different cabs with a similar brand/model head in-store and see what you like. If you are concerned about 4x10 weight look at neo cabinets as mentioned. Regarding heads, Class A amps are ofcourse heavy af and that Aguilar is 3U size.
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Seventh Arrow posted:I just bought a GK 700RB head and I'm probably being needlessly nitpicky but does it matter which speakon output I use? Or will it blow up the moon Head, any. Cab left is usually in, right is out. Check your manual and speaker manual to be sure.
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Are there any heads/cabs that aren't entry level that are built in the last 20 years without Neutrik NL4 connectors now? My 2001 SVT 3 Pro has them, so does my mid-90s SWR Goliath III 
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Schwza posted:Ended up going v/v/t. 
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baka kaba posted:Yeah PJ has a P (but not usually in exactly the standard place) and a J in the bridge, gives you some tones to play with and it's probably a 3-way switch instead of blending the pickup volumes like on a jazz Some PJs have the correct P location, some do not. OTOH, the J might be 60s or 70s J location. YMMV
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Rifter17 posted:Fender's Aerodyne bass is a jazz shape with PJ pickups. The Fender Precision Bass Special is what you want, MIM deluxe series, passive models were 98-03
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Vintersorg posted:davie504 released the Italian voice video and it is every bit as amazing as I hoped. Yes, worth the wait. He’s also taking quite a liking to his ray34 playing it almost exclusively since he got it in the summer. Stingray supremacy
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What are your guys thoughts on buying off of reverb? I ordered something specific so I could get a colour I like and with a maple fretboard which never seems to pop up locally.
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I’m not buying new on reverb, only the finest excellent or mint quality used instruments. In this case mild belt rash on the rear lower horn on a 2 year old sting ray is half price. I have an amplug, it’s not the best quality for sound. Regardless of headphones, whether good quality monitoring ones or 3 other pairs it sounds honestly bad to me. Sounds nothing like a practice amp and a 10” driver.
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So FedEx INTL delivered the bass in 2 days. This is a 2017 so 9v Sting Ray, so much honk  
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Re-tube and re-bias your svt 3 pro without cooking the power stage? Solid loving win. Saved big money on labour. Fresh off the win you plug in a random bass and realize the output jack of the bass needs to be replaced... 
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Wowporn posted:Hi bass thread, I recently got back into playing guitar after a long pause and I would like to try plapping around on a bass. Honestly pick something you like the feel and look of so you keep interested and playing. For your genres I’d check out the squire p, squire vm jazz, or maybe a sbmm ray4. They will cover your genres very well, if you’re looking for a bright sound probably the jazz or ray4. If you want the thick bass sound something with a P pickup. The gsr200 is a cheap option but I’d take your time to pick the right one. Someone else mentioned yamaha but checkout the trbx series too.
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Death Panel Czar posted:The Musicman/Sterling/S.U.B. talk on the last page convinced me to ignore my dream of a goofy fanned fret thing in favor of a 5 string ray, because I’ve never owned any rays and definitely prefer spending $300 to $600-$1500. The name really sucks, look at the Sterling by Music Man - Ray35 vs Ernie Ball Music Man - Sterling. Such a word salad, double ego stroke that it is the Ernie Ball (era) Music Man - Sterling (model which was designed by Sterling Ball)  Then there’s poo poo like the SLO special (model) which despite the catchy name, they are all made in SLO (place) 
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Death Panel Czar posted:The SUB StingRay is everything I ever hoped it'd be. Also super fuckin heavy! You got the 5 yeah? How are you liking the tone so far?
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A 50w combo with a 10" driver like a fender rumble, or DI through an interface if you already have one.
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warplain posted:Amp chat It does 500 @ 4ohm and 250-300 @ 8ohm, match the ohms and have equal or more power in the speaker cabinet. Do you like a particular artists sound? Check out their gear pages to see what they play through and check those out. Otherwise, you could bring the head with you to test some cabs, but these are trying times so maybe youtube? e: also checkout the difference between speaker sizes, 8 / 10 / 12 / 15 on youtube Risky Bisquick fucked around with this message at 19:48 on Apr 19, 2020 |
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It’s loud enough to keep up with 10-20w guitar combos mainly and generally the 50w range have 10” drivers.
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If you play with a pick, it's usually loud enough to practice acoustically without amplification. Headphone amps don't really have a great sound ime, I own the vox bass one it's really thin sounding. If you want/need an amp get a used practice amp from your local classifieds, they should be cheap as chips. Looking into getting a used 5 string jazz style bass. Looking at a Lakland Skyline 5501 or G&L Tribute 2500. Can't play shows but w/e
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Yeah echoing their thoughts, you don't want to develop the bad habit of not muting the strings. I take that for granted that you need to learn to do that when starting. Use the existing interface or get a practice amp.
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I use the headphone amp with audio technica mx40s, the sound quality is not great ime. If I was going to use headphones I find i'm better off using an interface. Once you are already using the interface, you can then play with any number of drum tracks from youtube or whatever drum samples or sequencer you have.
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odiv posted:Okay, last question for a bit but is something like this Duality bass amp sim from Audio Assault a good thing to pick up and use to get some different sounds out of since it's only $7 right now? No aspirations of anyone but me hearing this, so I don't care from a production standpoint, but I thought it might help with variety. You can get GK Amplification 2 LE for free if you don't want to spend any money.
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Turbinosamente posted:I have a fender professional II jazz bass and it is the favorite child, even though there isn't much difference over the player's model. And yeah I did notice the little stuff like a deeper heel cut, string through, and different pickup behavior even though they sound identical. Probably not worth the $1000 more but it makes me happy. I still hold to the maxim that after 2 or 3k it's diminishing returns on guitars and basses though. I agree with your sentiment and it goes for other manufacturers too. I have a ray 35 and a stingray 4 9v, and they sound pretty similar, voicings are not identical but many players would probably not be able to pick them apart when solo'd let alone in the mix. The Ray35 is very good value for the money compared to the new 18v stingrays at double the cost provided you are fine with a heavier bass. Things really do diminish above 2k imo.
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When are they expected to hit stores? I'd want to try it out against a regular jazz to see, but looks really nice. Otherwise, good to see pastels are coming back, here is a powder blue pre-2018 Stringray 
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Echoing the above posters, check the bridge saddle screws are in the right position. Failing that see if the centre of the neck aligns with the centre of the bridge. E: looks like the saddle is flipped backwards on the EA strings, just flip them over and use the other hole like the 3 posted images here  
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Buying used instruments  So I bought a used '14 MIM arctic white Jazz with a maple neck in dirty condition over the holidays. Visually it looked good, minor dings, slight buckle rash, corrosion of some hardware, straight neck, high action, but with a working truss rod. More or less what I expect played instruments to look like when not taken care of, but not to the point I wouldn't be interested in purchasing it. The price was on the low end of the spectrum but the issues all looked relatively minor jobs to fix. However a couple things were raising some eyebrows during the transaction. The neck backplate was curiously labelled Squire, the owners story was that they liked the backplate to be engraved and the previous one wasn't engraved so they swapped it. I know MIM of the same vintage have chrome blanks because I also own another MIM instrument which are either blank or say CE on them. I will check the neck pocket to ensure the story matches reality so I'm not too worried atm. When looking up the serial number off the neck the specs matched the bass I was looking at so I had some confidence in the story at hand here. The previous owner had replaced the original bridge with a Fender branded high mass bridge, that's a plus for me. I didn't bring an amp, and they no longer had an amp so I had to take his word that it played fine (more on this later). He had some new EB strings of unknown vintage still in the package I could have for free, so I took them because why not. Cosmetically it was in good condition, but it was dirty, so dirty. The pickguard was warping, and it looked like the previous owner was storing additional picks under the pickguard during shows, why. The skunk stripe was ever so slightly protruding to the touch, but it was still firm when I flexed the neck so to me it was a non issue. Fixing the skunk stripe can get dicey, and be expensive, so buyer beware. So I bought it  Onto the cleaning and fixing; Fixing the pickguard was easy, heat it up and flatten it out. I only had to do this once and its very flat now, not new flat but close enough. No more storing picks under the pickguard, we don't do that here. The fretboard is covered in lacquer so none of the The screw hardware is all corroded, I don't want to deal with screw heads breaking in the future so I just opted to replace them because they are very cheap. The skunk stripe needed to be lightly sanded, I sanded the protrusion with 600/1200/2000. Now it's totally flush and fine, slightly different texture on about 1/4" on the bottom side of the stripe. I cleaned the pickups that had lots of grime and corrosion on the pole pieces. Without unwiring them I took them out and placed them upside down with a shop vac basically on the pole pieces as I I used a pencil eraser to get rid of the surface corrosion, and then lightly sanded off the rest that I could within reason. They aren't buffed and shiny but not rusted and grimy like before. I checked the wiring, and it looked okay, all the pots were from Korea. I used contact cleaner to clean them out. One turned a bit more freely than the rest here  I replaced the chrome neck plate with an engraved F plate for $15. In doing so I checked the pocket and the story about the backplate turned out to be true. I wasn't that worried because I met them at their residence so I know where they live if they sold me some partscaster kind of instrument. It's nice that people are honest, at least sometimes. Onto playing it, it felt great to play but the bridge pickup was very quiet Not dead, but quiet, definitely not fine. I checked with the multimeter, bridge measured 6.7k ohms, the neck was 6.2k ohms, both consistent values. This is very good, no open coil or other pickup repair shenanigans. Looking at the wiring in more detail now, no cold solder joints everything looked okay (ground was run using the chrome baseplate here). Checking the multimeter read off the input jack, I checked the ohms off the volume pots individually while turning them. The bridge pot, the freely moving one, had nearly the same same value read the entire time, consistent with being nearly turned off with an ever so slight change. The likely culprit is the pot being bad, the wiper makes almost no contact it seems. So we're off to the guitar store, I grab a new 250k CTS pot ($7) and wire it up. Now the volume issue has been fixed, and I ran a proper ground wire across the pots. I do a quick setup with that new pack of unknown vintage EB strings and get to the playing, it sounds very, very good. All in all, I got a moderately played and gigged Jazz priced at the price of a new Squire classic vibe. Granted I had to spend an extra $12 (+ $15 for the chrome backplate) fixing it. It came with an okay condition wood hardcase, and a fender himass bridge. I still want to replace the strap buttons with locking ones but that would happen regardless. I think I came out okay here, the pot being bad was a surprise but relatively minor and cheap to fix. Post fix/cleanings Jazz 
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Regarding pedals, I use 3, being a tuner, compressor and dark glass (specific moments/genres) You will always need a tuner, whether clip on or through your signal chain somewhere. Apart from the tuner it really depends on what you're going for. The compressor is very subjective to some players (  but what about my tone dynamics) but if you ever go through a soundboard they will slap compression on you no matter what so might as well get it consistent the way you like it. In general the less complex the signal chain the less you have to worry about live.tarlibone posted:Yeah, I don't see someone faking a Fender by using a Fender neck with a Squier neck plate. If they are going to the trouble to replace the logo on the headstock, they'd probably toss in a cheap neck plate as well. Yeah it's all sorted and good.
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muike posted:what do you guys consider the "standard" string gauge. like how for guitars it's usually 10s for gibson scale and and 9s for fender I think most people use 100/105 when playing in E standard. 110s are usually for lower tuning but perhaps some people like the feel or extra tension. Personally, I'm using Super Slinkys E standard 2834EBs 45-100, and 2824EB which are 40-125 D standard 2831EB 55-110
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Discussion Quorum posted:I went to Guitar Center to unload a MIDI controller that has been gathering dust and isn't worth the trouble and expense of trying to ship. I saw a Squier Affinity Jazz on the wall and realized it was only $40 over my trade-in value. Had no obvious-to-me mechanical issues and made the requisite bass sounds when plugged in. Impulse control: defeated. Speaking of Julia, amazing musician, incredible to watch her play. I feel like Julia is the the Youtube successor to Marta (If anyone remembers her) https://www.youtube.com/@martabass92. Both of them play and feel the music, and its always a treat to watch musicians who enjoy the music they play. The Science Goy posted:Stick a ring on it before they realize that guitar has less than six strings Isn't this the truth. I've always heard  "Why don't you just play guitar" Babe how is the band going to make the crowd feel the music without someone playing in the sub 200hz range.
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ProperCoochie posted:I haven't played much bass the last couple of years as I've been favoring guitar and production. Woke up today obsessed with the idea of buying a 32" bass. Spent a lot of time researching the Squier Classic Vibe Jaguar and biting my lip. Never let this thing go, it will only increase in value as it becomes rarer. It seems to be modeled after the Leland Sklar frankenbass 
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Discussion Quorum posted:Speaking of practice amps, is an irig2 + iPad + free Amplitube a decent solution for practice away from my computer, or are the amplug type devices the way to go? I didn't enjoy the tone of the amplug, I'd vote for the irig, and using some decent headphones.
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ProperCoochie posted:So this was neglected a couple years because I moved around. The bridge pickup hasn't worked in a while. I took it in for repair/setup and the bridge pickup is dead. My new problem is finding a replacement bridge P pup is incredibly difficult. 20+ years playing but a noob at pup shopping. If you can find the service manual look at the pickup used and see if a direct replacement exists. Otherwise like the other poster mentioned get a p pickup with a similar resistance to the original with the same magnet type as the original for a close (enough) match. You can reuse the original pickup cover to match in most cases. DIY  If the pickup is dead, using a multimeter from the lead wires, you can measure again where the bobbin copper connects to the lead wires from the pickup to see if there is continuity. If there is no continuity there is likely a break in the copper wire on the bobbin. You can  sometimes unwind the copper wire to the breakage, and then solder that to the lead without losing too many turns of copper wire which will change the resistance but the pickup will work again. If the breakage is deep into the bobbin your tone will not be that great so welp. If you more time time than money you can just rewire the pickup bobbin with copper wire yourself. Keep in mind you'd have to likely repot them in some type of wax as well. DIY is super metal tbh.
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That Guy From Pearldiver posted:What is the neck profile on yours? I bought one sight unseen thinking they all had thin Jazz necks. Nope. Mine is like a 50s PBass baseball bat. I'm personally a fan of chonky necks, but I can see why people would want some variance of Jazz neck. If you arent thrilled with the P neck profile, play a 5 string for a while and when you come back the neck will feel thin and fast. At least this is how I sell playing P necks to my guitar friends who play Jackson guitars. YMMV Sockington posted:I probably won’t share this in the guitar thread as I’m just chugging some chords to play with the instrument volume. I fired up both Traynors and just ran the thing in direct to both. Haha this is childish awesome fun That is a lot of Traynor tubes in one video, very nice.
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Thermos H Christ posted:How come every SVT amp sim I’ve ever tried including the much-loved SansAmp ones just sounds like super muddy, muffled lows and incredibly grating, icepick-to-the-ear shrieking treble with nothing in between? Have you tried changing the cab/mic/mic placement with the plugin, it can change the tone quite a bit. It could be as simple as changing from a vintage 8x10 to a 4x10 with a tweeter. I'm using Amplitude 5 which is decent, not the same thing but surprisingly decent. They have an SVT-Pro head which sounds a bit like my SVT3-Pro I physically have/use.
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Wowporn posted:I'm a huge shithead and I want to graft a P bass pickup into my Sub Ray4. My reasoning is I only want 2 basses so having my bass tuned to C have a neck pickup too will make me not want to get a separate P bass just for that sound, and if I go with guitar fetish I can get a no-solder required P bass pickup and pre-soldered drop in wiring harness for $50 total Weights are hit and miss on the sterlings, you might have a 9-10 Lber. My ray35 is 11.4 lbs 
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Rehearsal places either have heavy drapes or carpets hanging, acoustic panels, or nothing (extremely bad). Pick your poison, some options are obviously cheaper
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petit choux posted:Hey bass thread, not a bass player but I just scored what looks like a half decent bass amp. Ampeg B-15N? Any good? Powers up! Make sure you plug it in with a load, or a speaker cable connected to the right ohm cabinet when you turn it on
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