Double Bass It's just a silly Phase I'm going thru...

[Jefenator]

I've often found that changing the phase has a significant impact on the character & timbre of my double bass w/ piezo. One setting usually works quite a bit better, and of course it varies.
I would have never theorized or predicted that to be the case, but I definitely get why so many of the better buffer preamps have a phase switch. More "essential" than a notch, graphic or parametric EQ IMO/E.

 

[james condino]

I can't offer any more on the phase thing, but....this is also a scenario where I absolutely love having a magnetic trapdoor in the C bout of my bass. D string too bright or overpowering the other strings? No problem. Pop open the trap door, adjust the soundpost so the D is less pronounced, close door. Problem solved in less time than it took me to write this and I do it for almost every room I play. An unexpected, extremely useful consequence of my lifelong mucking about with every instrument I have ever owned or built.

 

[Chris Fitzgerald]

I can't offer any more on the phase thing, but....this is also a scenario where I absolutely love having a magnetic trapdoor in the C bout of my bass. D string too bright or overpowering the other strings? No problem. Pop open the trap door, adjust the soundpost so the D is less pronounced, close door. Problem solved in less time than it took me to write this and I do it for almost every room I play. An unexpected, extremely useful consequence of my lifelong mucking about with every instrument I have ever owned or built.

Do you detention the strings when moving the post in this way?

 

[Povl Carstensen]

I can't offer any more on the phase thing, but....this is also a scenario where I absolutely love having a magnetic trapdoor in the C bout of my bass. D string too bright or overpowering the other strings? No problem. Pop open the trap door, adjust the soundpost so the D is less pronounced, close door. Problem solved in less time than it took me to write this and I do it for almost every room I play. An unexpected, extremely useful consequence of my lifelong mucking about with every instrument I have ever owned or built.

With an adjustable sound post, or a regular one?