Recent content by plf

I'm right there with you-- the sound engineers I work with don't like it when you change the level of the signal you're giving them with no warning. This may be different when you're making gobs of money and melting faces worldwide, but I like to keep things as predictable as possible for the...

I have no doubt that I could give you a pre-EQ, completely untreated signal, and get a result I was perfectly happy with. The same is not true of many of the venues I regularly play, not to put too fine a point on it. So it's important to me to be able to hand over an XLR and get at least a...

Of course; sound onstage and sound in the mains are different animals. My point is that I'd like to at least have a basic idea of what sound the audience is experiencing when I play, which rules out a squeaky clean DI in front of the amp

That's useful information about the 800, thanks! & of course, you can't expect to have exactly the same bass sound out of the mains and onstage. But I think saying it can't even be similar is an exaggeration. If I'm playing, say, an overdriven SVT, then the sound at FOH should bear at least a...

Yeah, that's definitely an option. I'm kind of attached to having what I hear onstage being at least similar to what comes out of the mains. I'm not a huge fan of the straight into the board sound; it needs some sort of shaping/ ampiness to work for me. But that doesn't rule out the Sansamp-type...

The other solution is to carry something like a Sansamp and run into the effects return, effectively using the amp only as a powered cabinet. But I'm hesitant to complicate my extremely simple setup

Hey, all. I've been playing a Rumble 500 for about a year now-- love the light weight, sounds pretty good, reasonably flexible, and did I mention the weight? But! It has a huge problem! The Line Out is post-master. If I need to adjust my stage volume for monitoring, then the FOH engineer will...

That Allparts humbucker is interesting. Do you have any experience with them? Why is "humbucker" in quotes here-- do they not, in fact, buck hum?

The funny thing is, I don't really like "clear" bass sounds. I'm a thumpy-P-bass-with-flats kind of guy. There's just something in the Hot Rails, or in the combination of that pickup with the Bronco, or in above plus the strings on there, that feels unnecessarily muddy. The DP295N might suit me...

That looks sick! Did you make the pickguard? I've borrowed a friend's Bronco, which has a Hot Rails installed, and it plays great, but doesn't sound quite like I'd hoped-- way boomier and less defined than I would like. That's definitely pushing me to look in the direction of clearer, less...

That looks great. Is that just a Bronco with Mustang pickups? Something looks slightly different about the body dimensions

This looks absolutely righteous. Please update once you've heard it! Alright, cool options so far: Peavey toaster, Nordstrand BigBladeMan, Bisonic, EB0 pickup, Thunderbird pickup(s)... P Bass pickups are likely to sound good, but that's sort of the next most obvious thing to a Strat-sized...

I'm dealing with a left hand injury, and consequently, I've become interested in modifying a Broco. I've tried a couple of the newer ones, and like the necks a lot, but I find the cheapo Strat pickup lacking. There's a lot of discussion on this site about drop in replacements-- mostly rail...

Yes, I've managed to greatly reduce the frequency and intensity of painful episodes by making technique adaptations, but I still sometimes have pain/ reduced range of motion during periods when I practice a lot. Bass is a worse trigger than guitar for me

I've been dealing with tendonitis in both wrists since my days in college for jazz guitar. Technique adaptations have mostly solved that problem for me, but playing a lot of bass (guitar, that is-- no upright for me) can still be a trigger. I've recently had another flareup that has me thinking...