Recent content by clickclack

When working with fets, it's almost certain that you will continue biasing and thinking about what different models will respond like in your dreams. When you're finally happy that you got a beautiful balance and tone and then it all gets f***ed up in the mix by someone who thinks(doesn't know...

Having built many preamps including several HAZ clones, some with slight mods, I like the early saturation and compression of TonePump more. Not just TP I guess, I like the discrete jfet designs more overall despite the extra work you have to put in not just in design stage but also as a player...

Just want to mention my fav opamp, the TLC2262 for bass & guitar fx. Low power, low noise, rail to rail(more swing / headroom with lower voltages). Surprisingly overdrives gracefully if you design it to. Disregard distortion and slew rate. Much much worse opamps on paper are in legendary status...

Go in with the chisels and fill the excess cavities with poly putty. You don't even need to paint the area. Just cover with more stickers.

Without buffers after each pickup, blending passively never works as intended. That's the real problem if you want to fix something. :P Otherwise, just get two wires switched and call it a happy day.

Volts and Ampers people. Efficiency aside, you can feed with megaamps capable supply with the correct voltage output. It doesn't matter as long as it IS NOT LESSER than the current draw.

These have actually decent fast necks. Pickups are dual rail mini humbuckers, so, no pole pieces and no trouble aligning them to look or sound better. 5 string models use the same pickups. Bridge tone isn't bad, neck tone, not as good as a Precision pickup. But again, nothing sounds like a P...

Hi. Use a compressor of any kind. Software or hardware.

I even made my FET overdrive and optic compressor on-board. :P You have to know the EQ curves of your preamp. As mentioned earlier, most preamps are the shelving type and that's the worst type for boosting bass as it boosts all the way down to mud city. Better for cutting treble. Also, don't...

@RustfeatherBass The only effective method that works is turning this into a hobby. Keep the passion but don't be the consumer only. Learn how all those circuits work; the real technical differences between stuff and go deep. Build them yourself, modify them for yourself. It's got some learning...

Use a preamp for non-active basses. You can build a simple buffer/booster/preamp with low z output or use something ready like a Vox Amplug and use the headphone out.

Nothing is perfect. Cars and houses get old and require repairs and people die. You need to acquire some basic practicality to solve basic problems like that simple toothpick fix. What do you think a luthier will do when you bring the bass in to fix that? Inject some unknown magic in there? Some...

Do NOT buy a cheap USB interface/soundcard thinking it's a good deal. Absolutely not a Behringer. Very poor drivers(if the model has even one!) and terrible hardware design. Issues right and left, non-stop. I had to exchange my PreSonus for a friend's Behringer for a project for a short while...

I'll add this, which basically applies to everything we do through our motor neuron functions. We need time for our amazingly strong background processing yet kind of slow on the frontend brainies to process new abilities in the background. Sleep on it after learning something new and try the...

I'd replace that power cord. Sounds like it was damaged while resting under there. Blame the drummer? :p It will happen again when you least want it - guaranteed!