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There is no shortcut . Sell all your electric basses and put up with having to cart around an instrument the size of a small car . I like to think that I can get a reasonable sound out of most things but even a piezo equipped hollow body with HPF etc aint going to cut it . The electric bass...

All right guys, I am in awe of guitar players and their swells during church worship. I'm getting close with bass effects but no where near close to where the elec. guitar comes to this. My pedals are POG2, TranzFormer, and have a reverb/delay coming and sustain/freeze pedal. Anyone have...

Just a few hours ago I was setting up my Cort P-Bass and I took the neck off because I had to add a shim to the neck, when I bolted the neck back in place everything looked good and straight and there were no issues, however, when I put tension on the neck via the strings, I was treated to a...

I'm just getting back into home recording and am currently running the latest edition of Logic. The only plug-ins I currently have are those that come standard with Logic. Does anyone have recommendations for good plug-ins? Drums/percussion, keyboards, bass mostly but some horns and strings...

Have any of you gigging players ever done a Sofar show? The idea is a "secret" show with a mystery location that is revealed to the audience (you buy tix in advance) a couple days prior. It's a fun idea, and every show is always sold out, but otherwise it's being executed poorly. My band has...

Hi guys, I'm new here. Thanks for having me! I'm a guitar player who just dabbles on bass around the house and at the occasional jam. I have a couple of old P-Basses and a fretless Jazz Bass. I'm not into what would be considered "modern" bass tones, and I don't need a ton of power. I also...

Buddy sent me this link It was a surprisingly long time before I could tell what song it was

I've recently got an acoustic bass and found out that wherever on the fretboard i want to play F# note it sounds like it's heavily muted or dead even. Is there something i can do about it or the instrument is just broken?

I've tried a bunch of solutions with the nut...changed strings to brighter strings...different bridges just to name a few I'm new to this site so if anyone wants to be a dick and respond with pissy comments about that fact just be cool and save it. For everyone else...you are awesome for...

Bass was gifted to me 9 months ago. And a few weeks ago went through rehearsal just fine but noticed that I couldn't hear it while playing during church service. I got busy and didn't have time to practice and didn't play a couple Sundays. So I didn't realize something was wrong and I completely...

Hi Ya'll, Looking to restring my maple neck, Peavey T-20. Original Rw's are @ 10yr's old and sound GREAT! except the e-string is dead and lacking output. I've been trying different strings but can't find the right set. D'Addario halfrounds were essentially flatwounds. Elixer's - not bad but...

I have installed a new set of Elrick Nickel 50-130 strings. The EADG strings are fine. When I tune the B string to pitch according to my tuners (tried three different models), it sounds sharp. Tuning by ear improves things quite a bit, and the tuners read the string a good eighth step flat. If...

Our video guy made us 2 videos, one with the recording off the board and another with the audience blended in. My band uses In Ear Monitors and I don't really hear much of anything except what comes over the IEM. This audience reaction kinda shocked me! Never knew we had this level of reaction...

After playing several EBMM SR5HHs in stores- and falling in love, I came across my dream color combo on eBay last February. Tangerine pearl metallic with a maple neck. So I bit the bullet. It came in OHSC in virtually mint condition. Felt great. Whatever strings were on it were somewhat dead...

I did a search and couldn't find anything. Although my search skills aren't great. Yeah... and I know the 4 string has one less string so it sounds different! ;) I'm actually suggesting that a bass with 4 strings as opposed to an identical 5 string sounds different... maybe because of the neck...

Not sure if I would rather play or watch. ✌️

sound good in the mix. After spending most of my gig money on preamps and and amps, in an effort to acquire a unicorn, I mean achive the perfect tone, I’ve resigned myself to the fact that it is a fools errand. Long story, I’ll try to keep it brief...skip the next paragraph, you’ll thank me...

Heard this song a while back and love the fuzz sound, has anyone played a pedal that can get close to the effect that's played in the beginning and throughout different parts of this song?

So, I recently purchased an Ibanez bass tube screamer, and knowing it would really only work with tube amps, I assumed it would work great with my ampeg svt 3 pro, being as its preamp tubed. It sounds like fart noises on my ampeg, but sounds friggin amazing running through my computer.... why...

Hi. I have a problem and I dont know how to deal with it.. (EMG PX) My bass started doing some weird scratchy sounds, like when you squeeze paper. .. I´m playing with emg px. I tryid to reconnect wires, change battery.. nothing works.. I will gladly accept any ideas, how to solve this...

I've been fascinated with retro synths and chiptune to a lesser extent, so taking another stab at getting my pedal board equipped to create some of these sounds. Right now i have the following Tuner Darkglass super symm Future impact(On order) MXR Bass octave IE Subterannea IE Oxide IE Polytope...

Hey folks. So I found this video recently. I never have seen a comparison between the 4. I know it is just one riff but it let you hear the basic differences between all of them. That Ray has some big balls, the classic Stingray is fabulous, the newer Stingray I´d say is between those two, still...

A recent thread about bands got me to thinking. One of my favorite sounds ever is the four clicks of drum sticks that start the first song of a show. All the travel and setup and practice and training and preparations and putting on your stage outfit and hydrating and marketing and tuning and...

I'd like one. I'm assuming Ibanez and Dean are what I'm looking at if I want inexpensive. Are there others? Five strings would be nice. I don't really care about the acoustic volume or tone. I just want something playable that sounds decent ampified.

Not too sure how to have worded this since I just bought a bass guitar and got it at a pawnshop so I'm wondering if the pickup position above the A string is maybe something defective with the pickup there. The E D G strings sounds all OK. I have the split coil on the neck pickup and regular...

As my pedalboard arsenal keeps growing, I can't help but to ask questions about certain pedals.. What's the main difference of an envelope filter compared to a compressor? I know a compressor compresses your low and high tones to balance the sound flat out...so with that said, a compressor makes...

Hello! I like the Zoom B3 very much. However, the drum sounds get boring after some time. Is there a way to replace them with other drum sounds? I don't need more rhythms, I'd just like to hear different bass / snare drums. :-) Thank you!

Since the LH5oo's preamp is based on Fender's Showman/Bassman circuitry and uses the "Tone Stack" type of eq I really like it's sound. None of that Hi-Fi sheen I call it. A not so warm clarity that you can't eq out. Before the LH500, I tried a Eden Time Traveler, a Euphonic Audio, a Genz-Benz...

Hello, I couldn't find a similar issue here in the forums, so here's my post. I have a fretless Ibanez BTB series bass, and over the last few months a problem developed: when I place a finger on the fretboard and play a note, on a single string, I hear two notes. It sounds as if the pitch of...

I’ll try to make this as short as possible... Started playing for a new (to me) church. They are all about sound control, as most churches are. No amps or monitors on stage. Only personal mixers for all musicians. My signal chain is Fodera>passive DI (church provided)>FOH. We use Allen and...

So my band was jamming tonight and we stopped to take a break. Flipped my amp into stand by (Traynor YBA200-2). Came back and flipped the stand by switch. Started making a geiger counter ish type of noise. Still has clear sound and volume but the noise won't go away. Tried a different speaker...

I love the SWR sound. Cabs and amps. I use a SWR Headlite and Amplite with SWR Son of Bertha (1x15) and Goliath Jr III (2x10). This is the tone IMHO. It's that modern punchy, hi-fi, yet full and round tone. I'd love to find a cabinet that cops the SWR tone but that is lighter weight. I'd...

I came across this cool video of a guy doing a live off the floor playing review of 30 or so different basses. I'm not always a fan of "chopsey" bass reviews but this cat has some insane and tasteful chops. As a rule I generally prefer more straightforward bass lines to highlight the tonal...

I was at a local gig on Sunday afternoon. The bass player had the best sound that I've heard for quite some time at a cover band gig. Lots of clarity with the only issue being a bit of a low frequency burp occasionally when he really dug in and the PA was obviously being pushed hard. Their PA...

This bass has some serious tone going on...

I made this video this AM. 4 different P basses run through the exact same amp, all basses set with tone and volume all the way up, same crappy bass player playing the same line. I know this is not the best, most scientific thing ever, but humor me if you will.

Hello, Just had a basic set-up professionally done for my bass. When I play it now, the 'A' string sounds dead like it's been on there for awhile. The rest are fine and sound as they should. I supplied the tech with the strings that I have been using forever. Has anyone ever encountered this...

Hey Guys - So I got myself a Les Paul Tribute for Christmas. One of the oddities of this model is that it doesn't come with the little pokerchip switch surround. Normally the switch surround says "Rhythm/Treble". But I was remembering a guitar a friend had back in the day that had...

Letting this one go to generate funds for my custom order. The neck on this one is special -- flatter and faster than other Standards I've owned! Please send all questions and trade offers by PM. (I will not do business with TBers who ignore this request. Pls don't troll.) Condition: 9/10...