Recent content by Oldscoolfool

Yeah, I can dig that. I played for 25 years or so without ever touching an effects pedal, I just thought it cuts though the mix better and was really more about letting skill take priority over tone, but I've become more experimental lately and was just wondering what other people did with the...

These finger picks are made for banjo and lap steel guitar players. I ran across them on Amazon. I wasn't sure how well it would work for bass strings, like whether they'd stay on if playing fast on bass strings, but they work great. Only thing is, I am using them upside down, the opposite way...

Thanks that's good advice

This is off topic but I see that your name implies you play a bass with dual outputs, and mostly I've seen people saying on TB that even though their ric has stereo outputs, they don't use it. I use mine, I run the neck pickup through a origin effects bass rig preamp pedal (the black onethat...

I was changing he strings on a rickenbacker 4003, from the strings it came with to some new stings that were "down-tuning strings" where they are a bit thicker so they are able to be tuned way down and still sound good. The A string was too thick for the nut, and it popped off. So I held it on...

Sean Malone of Gordian Not, Cynic , and Liquid Tension Experiment is pretty much a beast. If you want to hear a good example of a fretless used in a metal band, Cynic is probably one of the best examples for thatCynic is very experimental, Gordian Knot is more accessible, as is LTE, whose first...

I have a couple of candidates worth mentioning. The Ibanez Sh05 (it's called something very close to that, I forget exactly) is a semi hollow body bass, I used to have one, and with tapewound strings, it sounds pretty close, it sounds a lot more like it if you play with your right hand over the...

I hVe a rickenbacker that separates the bridge(treble) and neck(bass) pickup, signals. I run them each into different origin effects pre amp, the treble goes to the supervintage SVT and the bass goes to the Bassrig fender preamp this works well because the Bassrig preamp is warm and low, and...

Does that mean they can handle more power?

Complicated indeed. And these days shopping is online so you don't get to try them out and all that, so the consumer is trying to judge by stats, and if course, it's not that simple.

Do I need a headphone Amp in addition to my bass amp? I didn't consider that cuz I was thinking that I had the Amp situation covered

I understand that two 8 ohm cabs makes 4 ohms and that kind of thing. But I've noticed headphones have pretty drastically different ohms. I've seen some that are very high priced that have a great deal more ohms than some cheaper ones. I want to say is 128 ohms vs like 32 or even 16 ohms. How...

I have the tt 800 mesa Amp, and indeed, if it is plugged into a cabinet, the headphone jack does not produce sound. When you uplug it from the cab, works fine. Is it supposed to be that way or is the tt 800 same as the rest of the subway seris in regards to the headphone output? I thout this was...

Here you go, sorry about that. This should take you there, if it doesn't I have no idea how to do this, maybe you can help me. Tricks to memorize notes on fretboard