Recent content by Petebass

Everything you did about the blend knob positions also applies to my P-Ray :)

My P-Ray. FWIW, whoever told you EMG 40DC sounds like a Stingray had misled you. I have 40DC pickups in an ibanez I modified, and they sound great, but not the same as my Stingrays. I was adamant that the Stingray tone had to be exact, and would be happy if the P tone was ballpark. So I...

Nice. We look forward to a review

Interesting. That opens up some possibilities for sure.

I was in their website yesterday. It says the current BQS is for active EMG pickups only, and the BQS HZ can be used with any pickups. I'll email them to confirm.

Wait..... designed as a drop in replacement, but because they are active, so they won't work with the existing non-EMG preamp. You'll also have to budget for a BQS or other EMG preamp. What if your bass already has a nice pre? If they also made a passive HZ version that would work with any...

FWIW, an ambient mic on stage is the bomb! You can hear the crowd, the chat on stage, and just the overall "live-ness" that's missing from the comparatively dry desk iem mix. I use a Rode Wireless Go 2. I can put the tiny mic anywhere on stage I like, wherever sounds best. I often put in on the...

+1 to use whatever gets the best seal in your ears. I'm old. I started with IEM waaay back with the very inexpensive Sennheiser CX300ii (single driver) I originally bought for listening to music while commuting to work on public transport. I realised my bass sounded good enough through them...

Here's my P-Ray

I have a DR05. I've only ever used the headphone out to check what I've recorded afterwards, and that works fine. The device is only doing one thing at a time, recording, or playback. I suspect when you ask it to do both at once, there's a voltage drop going on that causes the tremolo...

Yes that's true unfortunately. And you can lose more than that... the newest research into untreated hearing loss also shows an alarming link to the severity of age related cognitive decline. The studies stop short of saying hearing loss causes dementia, but note it makes dementia worse. It's...

Good info there Joe, a unique perspective from someone whose actually made an effort to make HAs work. But in keeping with your eyeglasses analogy, you have to remember human hearing is far more complicated. The technology doesn't yet exist to "restore" hearing to what it was in the way...

I feel like I should elaborate on the mixed results from tilting. I hit a couple of snags: I mentioned earlier they small gigs means small stages. At most gigs, I literally have another band member standing right beside me. So tilting to make it louder for me also makes it louder for them. So...

I actually work in a hearing clinic, and I'm a musician. I talk about this often with the audiologist at work, neither of whom are musicians. Their many years of study and training seems to almost exclusively be focused on speech recognition and comprehension, so my probing questions about music...

Backstory: Covid has changed everything. What few gigs I get now are much smaller than before, so I put together a rig for small gigs. I got a combo which sounds nice (Ashdown Studio 15, 300w). But small gigs means small stages, so the combo is pushing the best part of the sound through my legs...