Audere and series/parallel

[joeyl]

That was the case with me as well. I have two now and prior to these I was the 'anti-preamp' guy ...

I'm not with you on the needing two pickups in series to cut through though and for precisely the reason you mention - this is me the sound guy talkin' ...

Sound checks are for getting the balance - once I have the balance - I don't f&ck with it...

So now that the band is balanced and the sound stage is set - I did all that with your amp by the way ... If the performance requires that I need a dramatic shift volume wise - I step on the boost switch for my Bassbone ... see there I have a control to determine how much boost this time ... I also use it for the second bank of tone controls so it's at my feet. I don't have to visit my amp except to turn it off after the set ...

I dinked about at length with a series parallel setup. I didn't like the volume jump and I didn't like the resultant tone - big tone change ...

Me - I get enough tonal and volume flexibility with the BassBone and with the Audere and it's z-mode. I really don't feel like I've fully grokked the z-mode, blend and EQ combinations yet. it seems like I can find something new every time I play with it ... mostly it stays flat EQ wise and I ride the blend and z-mode.

My advice - as you can guess - is get the Audere in place and then think about the S/P switch ...

wow man, I am almost convinced not to go series. Only difference between me and you is that I am still an anti-pedal guy

 

[4Mal]

life is long ... we still have time to fix that The Bassbone is the single most useful item I know of for someone out gigging. My pedal board shrank from 4 or 5 plus tuner, plus bass bone down to tuner, bassbone ... though I'm playing with a Compulator and kind of enjoying that.

I really like having a tuner at my feet. Those nights when the strings are just a shade too new - very helpful. I also like that during a sound check I can wander out 20 feet from my mic. Mostly I've played places where I provide PA as weel as my bass rig for the last few years. We did our own sound from the stage. Nice to be able to get at least that far away ... and I'm too cheap for a really good wireless.

I've played a few places that were just tiny. If I put the amp behind me, I couldn't step back and the sound just blew past my knees ... couldn't move, couldn't hear. So I started putting my rig on the other side of the drummer - no quick adjust w/o climbing over the drumset - of asking Stan ( Hey Stan - wouldja drop the freq on my low mids a bit ? That the - lemmee see, fourth knob from the left, bottom row - or is it the fifth ... ? (It was an Eden Navigator at the time ...)

So having the Bassbone and tuner on a small plank tucked into the drumkit made life easier. Need a little bass or a little less mid ? no worries ...

The BB - totally not sexy - does nothing for a studio guy - doesn't make any weird noises or suboctaves or glurp sounds or ... anything but man - incredibly useful ...

 

[allenhumble]

Each pickup has a single, series, parallel switch ahead of the pre.

Is it possible to wire both pickups to 1 switch or should I just go with the 2 switches?