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Hello everyone, hope I'm posting in the right section, it seemed the most appropriate. Anyways, simple question: I want to mix the monitor/aux signal coming from our band's mixer with my bass ("more me" kind of thing). My current setup is Passive bass -> VT bass -> amp. I was thinking about...

Hello! I just installed a new pickup on my bass along with an extra volume pot for it. The current configuration is Volume-Volume-Tone. Problem is, when I turn both volumes down I can still hear a very low sound coming through. I'm not sure what I've done wrong, as the volumes do actually work...

Hello everyone, Some months ago I switched necks on my P and my J basses. I haven't been using the J (now with a P neck) for some time now, and I just got back to it today. I noticed that the E and A strings sound a lot different from the D and G. I'm not sure whether I've done something wrong...

Hello everyone. I've got a squier Matt Freeman P-bass and a Vintage Modified J-bass. I wanted to switch necks on these two basses but I found out that the screws are a little different. The ones holding the P-bass neck are a little bit larger. What should I do? I can either: -use P-bass...

Hello guys, I've been reading lots of CV vs VM posts on talkbass recently. What most threads don't consider though, is the fact that the VM goes for around 300€ here in Italy while the CV goes for 400€. With the 100€ I save by buying a VM, I could mod it with new pots and some new pickups...

(wasn't sure whether to post here or in the Recordings section) Hello friends! I've been mesmerized by a few songs lately, stuff like this and this. They do sound like jazz basses or similar basses to me. I've watched quite a few live performances of these two songs and it looks like Focus'...

Hello everyone, I can't help noticing that I like the sound on higher frets (frets 12 to 20) better than I like it on lower ones: it sounds punchier to me, and I like punchy. I was wondering if this depends on the tension of the set, and whether I have to look for a lower or higher tension for...

Hey everyone, I recently checked out a video of the eko 995 and really like the sound. (This one in particular : Invalid Link Removed) Being totally unexperienced with these kind of basses, I was wondering if there are any modern basses that sound something like that. I am not sure whether I...

As the title says, I can't really tell if the bass player is playing with a pick or with his fingers. Invalid Link Removed

Hey everyone, I never used a compressor and I wanted to buy/try one to see if I could get my bass sound a little more punchier. I've read some articles and reviews about compressors, and about how making the attack slower can add punch to your tone. In particular, I checked ovnilab.com and...

Hey everyone, I'm sorry for bringing up another "keys and modes" thread, but after searching for other threads I still have doubts about this: I was playing Heard it Through the Grapevine (by Marvin Gaye) and noticed it started with a Eb and had both a 3rd minor and a major 6th (3rd and 6th of...

Hey everyone, this is the song I'm talking about : I totally dig this sounds but I'm not sure how he gets it. According to wikipedia, Ray Neapolitan played bass on that track, but I didn't find much info about him and his gear. How does he get that sound?

Hey everyone! I've fallen in love with almost every Doors song lately and was trying to investigate more on their bass sounds. I wanted to ask if you could help me out to identify the effects used in these two songs: Strange days: this is probably just some EQ? The note always...

Hey everyone, I have a 1200$ budget and I'm looking for a Precision bass. What I'm looking for is a good build quality, since I already have a Fender vintage P pickup I previously bought which I totally love. I've looked for days on the forums and found loads and loads of threads, with most...

Hey guys, I'm trying to get into organ and keyboards lately. I was wondering if there's an equivalent for these which is similar to studybass.com or if, in general, you could reccomend some nice tutorials or sites where I can start messing around with my keyboard a bit. So far I've only...

Hey guys, I'm trying to get the "70s tone" out of my bass, I'm not totally sure on how to describe it properly, but some of its features are: -you can't hear the twangy highs or fret noise -it's kind of "punchy", as in low-mids boosted Some examples of what I mean could be: Starman, by David...

Hey everyone, got a problem that with my tuners that looks really scary to my eyes. The tuners (only 2 out of 4 though) are "coming out" of the headstock by a few millimeters. Why is this happening? What should I do? Any tips? Thank you in advance. :) One of the tuners looks bent on the...

Hello everyone! I need to solder wires to frets on my bass for a project I have in mind. I'm planning to do this on a cheap 90$ dollar bass I'm planning to buy on purpose, but I'm concerned about the negative effects on heating the frets. Is it bad for the neck? Will the frets bow or lift...

Hello people! I notice a huge difference when listening to music on my mp3 player as opposed to listening to it on my pc. Basically the mp3 player "hard pans" the audio, thus putting the right channel from the audio file 100% on the right channel and 0% on the left. Same goes for the left...

Hey guys, let me start off by saying this is more of an electronics project. I study electronics and telecommunications at university, and whenever I can I try to find some sort of connection between this and bass guitar, somehow. Anyway, I want my bass to output a MIDI signal, and I'm looking...

Hey guys! Wasn't sure where to post this thread, I figured out the "bassist" section would be the closest match. I really like the sound on the song "Love me two times" by The Doors and most others by that bassist () and would like to know if you could give me any advice on how to get a...

Hey everyone. I tried Guitar Rig 5 at my friend's house and I found some cool equalizer, and was wondering if you had schematics to build a similar, diy version, parametric equalizer for bass. Here's the one I'm talking about:

Hey everyone, I've been searching on the internet about this topic since a few weeks ago and most of times I don't come up with any cool example I can study or analyze. First, every "How to EQ your bass" articles tell you that boosting some bass will help you in this, boosting your mids...

Hey everyone! I'm having some trouble finding out the tabs for this one, does anyone here play that song?

Hey guys, I just exchanged my bass for a new one, and this one came with a vol-vol-tone-tone wiring configuration. ...It was all wrong. As some of you know wiring like that in parallel with no resistors makes a huge mess: if one vol pot is set to zero the other one won't work, and tones don't...

Hi guys, got a question for you (as usual): If possible, do you play over Sympathetic resonance coming from unmuted strings, and only mute the ringing strings when not playing anything, OR Do you mute ringing strings even if you're playing something else? ---- Not even sure if...

Hey guys! I'll start off by saying I've found lots of sites discussing about 4 to 5 conversion but nothing much about the exact opposite. I'm not sure where to start or if there's anything that I have to pay extra attention about, or if this is even doable. I'm not a pro at these things...

Hi guys! I've encountered a problem with my floating thumb technique. This happens: I'm playing on the g-string in the above picture (also notice my great paint skill). At some point my thumb fails to mute the E string. Ever countered this problem or is it just me and my weirdo thumb? Maybe...

Hello guys! I usually use the moveable anchor technique on my 4-string since I just can't handle the floating thumb on it (doesn't feel good when playing the E and having the thumb with no other string below it). Now, I'd like to try this technique out on a 5-string as well so that when I...

Hey guys, I just lowered the action on my bass a few weeks ago by lowering the saddles on the bridge. I've searched on the forums and there are loads of threads about truss rod adjustment but none addressed my issue. My question is: do I need to adjust the truss rod? Is it an adjustment which...

Hey guys! I need some advice. I was planning to restyle my cheap cort action that I seldom use. I wanted to give it a more "classic" look to it since I don't really like how it looks right now (too metal-ish). By "classic" look I mean something that resembles basses like fender Ps and Js or...

Hello! I've searched the forum for like 30 minutes just now but I didn't find any information about whether or not raking with a pick is "good" or "bad". By raking with a pick I mean not alternating upstrokes/downstrokes when moving to nearby strings. Example of "raking": upstroking on...

Hey guys, I'm having some problems muting with my left (fretting hand), sound problems. Very simple to explain: say I'm playing an A on my E string (5th fret) and I want to mute it with my left hand. What I do is I lift my finger a bit so that it still touches the E string but it doesn't push...

Hello everyone does any european bassist know where to get strings online? I have tried local shops and also ebay but couldn't find what I was looking for (e.g.: 5 string flatwounds!! ) Any advice?

Hi friends! Just a simple question: I've got a 5-string bass and whenever I play a B on my G-string the B string vibrates. This also happens with other string/note combination. Is it normal? A friend of mine suggested that it's because of my cheap bass (cort gb75). What do you think?

Hi guys, just wanted to show you this: Is it just me (could probably be just me, woke up not too long ago) or there's something wrong about this? The tab shows 0, which should be a D# but it is written as an E in the standard notaion. What the heck? Oh by the way, there's only a single #...

(I just wanna start by saying I'm not sure this is the right section for this post, I just couldn't find a better one so I decided to post it here) Hi everyone! Last night I just couldn't sleep, so I started thinking about a DIY version of the famous V-bass system by roland. (for those who...

Hello everyone! I don't like playing on my high strings much lately (D and G) and if I can i usually play the same tune on lower strings (B, E, A). Reason I do this is that high strings produce a trebly tone I don't like much. Because of this I was thinking on getting/trying heavier gauge...

Hello everyone! Yesterday i decided it was time to shield my bass due to the almost unbearable noise that came out of the amp when i turned the tone up a bit. So what i did was take the strings off and shield the bass. When i placed the E string back everything looked fine, but as i started...