Recent content by Packinton

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    I just can't figure out how to play staccato with a pick

    For staccato give this a try: Get the pick right back on the string after the attack and mute the string, in the same movement preprare picking the next note resulting in a moment of silence between the notes. Also try to coordinate with the fretting hand, releasing and pushing down the string...
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    Fretless training wheels?

    Use your ears. Compare tones to harmonics in the 5th, 7th and 12th fret and compare/relate to open strings whenever possible. This helps me to keep my mental fretboard roadmap in place on the fretboard. Dots on the side will do fine. As been said by bassbenj it's the key. Singing your parts will...
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    Inlay sticker poll for ya!

    Blacks will connect with the black PUs and the black nut etc. and contrast to the white as said before. Personally dots are fine with me too. Blocks might turn it into an aestetic headdiver ;-) The choice is yours.
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    Need Advise - Looking for an Acoustic bass with decent volume

    Take a look at this one. I love mine and play it acoustically very much. Has a very powerfull and full voice. Indoor it plays up with a couple of guitars and a piano. Invalid Link Removed Mine is a fretless. For gigging you should think of using a mobile amp running on a battery. Invalid Link...
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    My IKEA Gorm Pedalboard Build Thread

    Makes one happy to see. Are you considering selling the idea to Orange Amplifiers? This is a little information on the name Gorm. As you probably know the Ikea company is Swedish and they use Scandinavian names for their stuff. Gorm the Old was a Danish viking king. He's son was Harald...
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    TC Electronics RH 450 Question Help

    You can play your bass along with the music coming in through the aux input. I quess the music wouldn't sound very natural in the bass cabs, so in the headphones you have evrything. Have you tried to take the signal out from the line out and then into another amp, f.ex. some kind of active monitor?
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    Can you ever hear yourself how the audience does?

    Maybe you could try with a (borrowed) wireless transmission to experience the difference in sound from varying postions in the room? When I stand clos to the speaker I hear more treble. This will spread and fade, and the bass will remain. Again. when your in a venue, the sound changes from...
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    TC Electronics RH 450 Question Help

    It is written on the front panel of mine: 'speaker muting headphones' And the manual. which you can download from tc-electronics, states that signal coming into the aux input on the rear panel, is played back in the headphones. Link Removed Looks like you can't have both. Anyway it's a...