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Bass is too quiet for recording through interface to pc, please help ;c

#161
TrevorR said:
Nope. I suspect that it’s just that Ian Waller was an electrical engineer and electronics geek and felt that separated power and signal circuits was more “proper” or clean or elegant, or something. It was a feature from their earliest active basses in the late 70s.

That switch is kinda a thing of beauty, isn’t it!
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yea, absolutely it is! Someone mentioned that EBMM does something similar too - I didn't see that on the USA Sub that I owned long enough to open up, but then I may have made a quick assumption when I saw a TRS plug and battery wires without thinking to myself, "hey, I wonder if they use some cool switch here based on the movement of the jack pin, rather than using electrical conductivity between two points in the trs jack?"... and that bass is gone now, so I'll never be able to tell. Unless I buy the local one on craigslist..... No Self, don't do it. Nope... don't do it self...
 
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#162
TrevorR said:
No, THIS IS THE ANSWER! In the videos it’s definitely a TRS Jack...
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On most active basses the active circuit is switched on by the barrel of the jack socket closing the power supply circuit. With a TRS jack the power to the preamp is never switched on. I new standard tip-sleeve guitar cable will cure this issue. No wonder they sent the same bass back, there’s nothing wrong with it!!! You’re getting no sound because your electronics are switched off!
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Good eyes! I was straining to see what he was doing with his knobs. And it was the cable that was the culprit all along. Dude said the cable was good - didn't even think to check if it was TS vs TRS. Rookie mistake!
 
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Liko said:
That's such a general statement it's bordering on wrong by definition. Not to mention it's obviously not the case for the OP.
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k, again, I couldn't edit my post after once I realized it wasn't worded right. I replied elsewhere in this thread about it... all good. Also - it's so general because, in my case, it has pretty much always been true. Even my high output guitar pickups are lower output than every one of my basses -..... but all of my basses are active. Anyhow - that is hardly worth commenting about yet again.

However, in the OP's case, it probably will be true - he has a les paul - a mid output guitar, generally, and an active bass.... probably higher output from my experience, which was my point.

And in the OP's case.... there was a problem with the cable.... the bass wasn't getting power to it's active electronics.
 

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