Is everyone on TB going stereo??

[Bob E]

Stereo sucks.

 

[FFEJY]

Oh come on.

99% of the bassists here never move any knobs away from noon regardless if that setting is flat or not.

Parametric eqs confuse them.

Graphic eqs REALLY confuse them.

Dual channel amps are seen as pointless.

Any amp over 5lbs might as well be an SVT.

A stereo setup could quite literally make their brains melt.

To do so, a knob might not be able to be set at noon!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[Peterson]

My rickenbacker 4001had a stereo input

 

[daveman50]

My rickenbacker 4001had a stereo input

Well..... Not really. It has a "Ric-o-sound" output that places each pickup in a separate signal path. Not the same as stereo. I have one and I never use it, too much trouble for too little benefit. ymmv.

 

[brianrost]

Not now, not ever.

 

[Phlipper]

Bass going stereo? Whatever next?

Cats and dogs living together .... frogs ... locusts ... plagues of biblical proportions!

Next, they'll let women drive and vote.

 

[jdh3000]

Not everyone...

 

[Axtman]

WHAT?!! Everyone is going to stereo?! Why the heck am I always the last one to find out?!

 

[daveman50]

WHAT?!! Everyone is going to stereo?! Why the heck am I always the last one to find out?!

That comment has a definite Napoleon Dynamite vibe.

 

[tmvt]

 

[Astronaut]

Where is this thread going again?

 

[StereoPlayer]

Where is this thread going again?

It’s a general hate/troll thread about bassists doing what they want.

 

[Iristone]

I talked about running each PU into a crossover ...

Phase cancelling is because you have the same frequencies coming from different pickups. Neck and bridge pickup both producing 800 Hz tones, but not at the same phase. With my crossover idea, you'd cut the highs out of the neck and lows out of the bridge so that you would't have phase cancellation because each frequency would come from only one pickup.

Well, technically, in the region near the crossover freq you'd have some, but it would be much less than normal.

This can be done crudely with a Ric-O-Sound, by engaging the low-cut 'vintage' switch on the bridge PU, and rolling off the tone knob for the neck PU. Mostly I just do the former, though, and it eliminates most of the phasing issues for me.

 

[Peterson]

What Is Rick-O-Sound? Demystifying Rickenbacker's Unique Output Jack - inSync

 

[Astronaut]

It’s a general hate/troll thread about bassists doing what they want.

What I thought.

 

[Hambone70]

Modern arrays can have a wider ‘sweet spot’. I have heard stereo imaging used to good effect live with something like a swirling B3 Leslie, or panning delays at the end of a song. Nice when it’s not overdone.

 

[Michedelic]

I guess I'm finally becoming an old curmudgeon. But I'm sometimes weepy that the newest generation will only appreciate 'prefab' music with autotune and cubicle-written tunes and will never be exposed to the kind of musicianship and vocal awesomeness that we grew up with. They are missing out and don't even know it.

Have you checked in with everyone in the ‘newest generation’? Know of all the newer bands? Whoever was featured on the Grammys is absolutely no indication of what’s going in, and it hasn’t for decades.

 

[Michedelic]

I took a quick look and apparently I'm the only person who thought of Phoebe Cates when I saw this thread. Guess it's just where my mind is.

There was no phase cancellation there.

 

[dalkowski]

We sounded like a bunch of angry bees flying around.

In some cultures that's considered entertainment.

 

[DJ Bebop]

In some cultures that's considered entertainment.