Recent content by Barghest

It's part of a whole line of mutes and dampeners they're doing that are all made of the same material. Right now, there's the guitar mute noodle, bass mute noodle, and string dampeners for tailpieces, tremolo springs and headstocks. It wouldn't surprise me if they're being injection moulded on...

A cable is a passive LPF essentially, there is no cable in the world that'll add high end, it can only cut. OP's Monster cable doesn't extend his high end, it's just that his crap backup cable cut his high end, meaning that he'd have achieved the exact same result by just rolling the tone off...

I think the part of Keef talking about the instrument moving around is a moot point, because I don't know about the rest of you, but I tend to keep my hands on my bass while I'm playing, which makes it incredibly convenient to move it wherever I want it. I don't position myself relative to the...

I got a fair amount of use out of mine during my uni's musical theatre societies production of Addams Family. Being a uni student, I don't have an upright, nor the money, space or skill to play one. Sticking this on and rolling back the tone, then playing up close to the neck got me close enough...

It depends how heavy of an effects user you are. ToneX is a very good platform from what I understand, but its primary purpose is amp sim and drives. The website itself makes basically no mention of pedals aside from distortions. Personally, I'm an Anagram user, and that does it all, amp sim...

My two pence, I prefer two separate signals if you're doing a clean/dirty blend. I can mix your clean to be the typical bass, and push your dirty to step into that rhythm guitar space if you don't already have one. If you're trying to send me two clean signals, why bother?

Generous to compare AI slop producers to craftsmen.

How about we don't use AI slop in our gear instead, and rather have actual people do the work.

Very nice, when I was touring with my old rig, I had a similar solution, though different in the execution. I found a hanger that was basically a wall hanger, but it rotated freely in the wooden block that you'd normally screw to the wall. So, I took a pair of them, screwed one to either side of...

As an engineer, I'm HPF'ing the whole system, probably around 30Hz, maybe higher if the subs are under-specced for the room. Simply put, even the big-boy subs that we know and love on the big shows aren't going down quite that low. For instance, the last show I did, I was running d&b Y Subs...

Yeah, I use a similar cable, while also using an expression pedal, couldn't be easier. Just remember to get your tip and ring jacks the right way round in the loop.

Hey guys, I'm aiming to have my Anagram set up, along with a MIDI footswitch, like so: Presets on the Anagram footswitches Scenes on the MIDI footswitches But I can't get the scenes to switch when I've got the presets on the Anagram, is there a way to do this, or do I just need to put up with it?

I've got the 5 string version, it's my main bass these days, sounds great, feels great, I love it. For anyone who's taking the guard off but wants to do something to fill the holes, I used black M3 panhead allen screws to fill them in. They blend in quite nicely. I also swapped the shiny chrome...

Sure, if the builder is up-front about CNC'ing it, that's fine, as long as I'm going into it fully aware. It's not hand-made though. If I pay hand-made prices, I want hand-made goods. I can do CAD work by myself, I'm paying an artisan because I want that artisans hands and skills doing it. Is...

It may be that I'm in a minority here, but for near enough 6 grand, I wouldn't expect there to be any CNC work, and I sure as hell wouldn't be buying from any shop charging that much for CNC parts. If I'm putting down that much money for a bass, I want something that an actual luthier put blood...