Oldie But Goodie

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I remember reading the BXR-series amps were designed by one of the older Ampeg design engineers that'd moved on to working for Fender. I cant remember his name, but I remember him posting some pretty cool info about the BRX amps here in the amp section like around 10 years ago.

I bought a used BXR 300 rack-head for $100 from an old Pawn shop that was liquidating/going outta business like 20 years ago. I wasn't ever very impressed with it as a bass head, but it's still working & faithfully serving duty as a poweramp for one of the vocal monitors in my home studio. I just patch into it's fx-return jack.
 
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anderbass said:
it's still working & faithfully serving duty as a poweramp for one of the vocal monitors in my home studio. I just patch into it's fx-return jack.
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Brilliant!

Also, as an update, I had another practice last night and solved the frequency roll-off issue. It turns out I just wasn't loud enough! The guys finally decided to let me know, and sure enough, as soon as I stepped out of my little pocket in the corner, all the mids and highs disappeared. So, I kicked it up a couple notches and all is well! Lots more tone now.

Its important to point out that Bass is my second instrument, and I'm still working on wrapping my head around everything. My high school band instructor always said, "Rhythm first, structure second, and pitch third" when rehearsing/practicing. So I still follow that philosophy. Working on the rhythms before diving too deep into "molding" my sound.

How do you guys tackle new instruments or songs? What's YOUR process?
 
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I was thinking about this pitch thing the other day - if an instrument is out of tune in the the band, even tone deaf audience members will know something's wrong and will say the music sucks even though they don't know why. If you miss a note here and there but you're in tune, they'll never know.
 
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Some short scale bassed can be out of tune up the neck. You can pull notes to compensate, it isn't always easy if you are playing a fast passage. But out of tune is more common than many want to admit to. Then again, depending on what you are playing, an out of tune thump thump can be felt more than it is recognized.
 
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