Recent content by Leocapri

Congrats on your new JCB! Looks veeery nice in this burgundy red! I bought the gold one at the end of 2018. This bass just SCREAMS for flatwounds! My suggestion for strings are the Fender 9050L's. Rub 'em with vaseline and there you go! Also consider changing the tuners to the GROVER 142s. Made...

@phillipkregg would you please elaborate on your point in the Elite preamp? I noticed the battery life is ultrashort (pun intended?), roughly 80h plugged in and I think this very bad for a 2k instrument. Why were you swapping the preamp in the first place?

Okay, but shouldn't the battery last longer, if not used? I understand that the circuitry is "closed" or "connected" as soon as the cable is plugged in, but if the preamp is not working in case of eq-ing or boosting, this shouldn't drain the battery faster, yes? I did not by the bass used. There...

I bought the Fender Precision Bass Elite and was wondering why my batteries die within 3 months of playing the bass for roughly 7 to 10 h a week in passive mode. Upon contacting fender-germany, they said it would be normal that even in passive mode the batteries are used?! And that the playtime...

Wow! Thank you for all the great (and fun) answers. Every aspect of my question got covered. The answer that "hit" me the most was from @And I ! It makes me question my whole approach on how I used the EQ on the active Stingray. If I play the stingray "flat" or "not boosted at all" it gets so...

Hi talkbass-community, I don't know how to search for my questions, so please inform me, if it was posted before. :-) My questions are: 1. Do passive electronics require more "work" to be done from the amps or preamps and are active electronics simply "overloading" or "double-boosting" the...

Here you go, just change the extension to .prg. :) Talkbass doesn't let me upload the FI-Patches.

But the decay is at 0 or 1 overall?! I don't get it. The setting on the pedal itself is on 5. Did I get the function of "decay" wrong? *sigh*

No, I refer to the tracking in general. Maybe I don't mean tracking directly, the main "problem" I have with it is that it often takes the note that was played before and jumps to the next one within a millisecond. Even in the demo of Nathan it is audible at 1:03. I looped the bassline I want...

Really? Hm, this is interesting, because it does not sound "that" good for me... But I'm happy for you that you like the pedal as it is! :-)

@maisbass Maybe I should upload a line I want to record with my best playing possible, post the settings to the patch I used and you can show me that it can be done with great tracking... only if you would like to start the experiment "again". :-D

Thank you all for the time to answer me! This is indeed a great place for bass-players. :-) It doesn't matter what I try: compressor (I already have the great Keeley in line), nickel-strings (I already play them), flatwound, roundwound, soft and hard playing, nothing seems to change a thing…...

Hi @all. I just don't get the FI to track well for me. It doesn't matter what bass I use: Precision neck-pickup with flatwounds, tone rolled off, Precision with bridge pickup with tone rolled off, Stingray with EQ cut, roundwound strings... It is exactly the pedal I was looking for, but the...

Great tip, thank you! But some basslines do this "octave bouncing" which is not quite usefull coming out of the FI. (Standard-Patch 16) Do you mean the distortion within the FI editor or should I distort the bass signal before going into the FI?

... well put. IMHO: There are a lot of nice brands who take the original design and make some minor changes, have better production quality, add some fancy colours... but in the end they are just a "copy". So why should I play a copy (of a copy), if I could use the real thing? If you hear a...