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foam mute or not??
- Thread starter bearpaw
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Ended up pickup some of the weather insulation foam at the local hardware store today, 5/16" thick by 3/4" wide, 10 foot roll. Experimented with placing it under the bridge cover as well as underneath the strings right up against the bridge saddles. Seems to work better placing it under the strings although I did add foam on top of the E string as well as that string rang out more than the others. Played along with some Motown tracks and couldn't believe how much better my bass sounded than before when all the notes used to ring out! Should be even better when I get some flats installed.
IMO, mute certainly gets you closer but flats will make a much bigger difference in getting you closer to the Motown thing. Also great for lot's of other styles and $25 it's like having a new bass.
In anticipation of a mail delivery tomorrow or the next day - I tried to play the VM-Jazz with the mute material in and out and in the same fingering positions I should be able to hit with the chrome guards on the bass.
I can honestly say that controlling run-away sounding strings by plucking hand or left-mute is a lot tougher than having the neoprene in the bridge position.
I believe it will stay once the bridge cover is on.
I can honestly say that controlling run-away sounding strings by plucking hand or left-mute is a lot tougher than having the neoprene in the bridge position.
I believe it will stay once the bridge cover is on.
There are some on the market - they are rather expensive, but I have heard they are quite worth it.
eventually i found a piece of dense foam and after cutting out a few blocks of it i am happy with the result now. it kinda changes the attack and the tone, even more than the sustain. i still wanna get the sustain shorter, but thats probably the strings - i got ghs flats, 40-100. tomorrow i will install the la bella 670Ms, i hope that'll do something to it. i'm very curious!
i am capable of playing palm mute, be it thumping or picking but that doesn't do the same thing IMO. i am in the lucky position of having a enough basses to set them up for specific purposes. my tokai harduncher (which cost about a 20th part of my 62 p-bass) is a nearly equally great bass and serves as roundwound-rock P bass. that one gets palm muted like hell
i am capable of playing palm mute, be it thumping or picking but that doesn't do the same thing IMO. i am in the lucky position of having a enough basses to set them up for specific purposes. my tokai harduncher (which cost about a 20th part of my 62 p-bass) is a nearly equally great bass and serves as roundwound-rock P bass. that one gets palm muted like hell
hey guys,
a week ago or so i got the la bella 0760Ms and put them on my 62 p bass... they obviously sound quite fresh now, which i hope changes soon. i roll off the tone control for now. i find it quite hard to get the intonation on the e string on pitch. when i saw that the e on the 12th fret is way too high, i adjusted the bridge thingy (sorry, my english...) to the very back but still, when the low e is in tune, the a on the 5th fret is already very sharp. have any of you had similar experiences? is it possible that the e string is broken? or is that just the price you have to pay for the jamerson sound?
apart from that, i have to say it needs a lot of left hand power to play with those strings on. right now i play 2 to 3 hours every night and it feels like bodybuilding for my fingers
cheers, peter
a week ago or so i got the la bella 0760Ms and put them on my 62 p bass... they obviously sound quite fresh now, which i hope changes soon. i roll off the tone control for now. i find it quite hard to get the intonation on the e string on pitch. when i saw that the e on the 12th fret is way too high, i adjusted the bridge thingy (sorry, my english...) to the very back but still, when the low e is in tune, the a on the 5th fret is already very sharp. have any of you had similar experiences? is it possible that the e string is broken? or is that just the price you have to pay for the jamerson sound?
apart from that, i have to say it needs a lot of left hand power to play with those strings on. right now i play 2 to 3 hours every night and it feels like bodybuilding for my fingers
cheers, peter
hey guys,
a week ago or so i got the la bella 0760Ms and put them on my 62 p bass... they obviously sound quite fresh now, which i hope changes soon. i roll off the tone control for now. i find it quite hard to get the intonation on the e string on pitch. when i saw that the e on the 12th fret is way too high, i adjusted the bridge thingy (sorry, my english...) to the very back but still, when the low e is in tune, the a on the 5th fret is already very sharp. have any of you had similar experiences? is it possible that the e string is broken? or is that just the price you have to pay for the jamerson sound?
apart from that, i have to say it needs a lot of left hand power to play with those strings on. right now i play 2 to 3 hours every night and it feels like bodybuilding for my fingers
cheers, peter
This MIGHT be a twisted string thing too. I've seen some strings make the intonation go off the page for reasons that neither make sense nor can be logically corrected.
I would also tend to put it down to bad string(s), bad bridge position (rule that out if there was any adjustment left to the position when you had the other strings on the bass) and possibly just Murphy's Law Of Improbable Outcomes To Generally Nice People Who Don't Deserve Bad Outcomes.
