Don't raise your action unless you have fret buzz. Lower the pickups away from the strings.
Good point, Meant to include that. I had buzz though too.
Also I just prefer a high action.
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Good point, Meant to include that. I had buzz though too.
Also I just prefer a high action.
I think in this context is is assumed that distortion is overdrive caused by the preamp and clipping is the power amp exceeding the capabilities of a clean output signal.
In it's most correct use, anything that changes the original signal is distortion. It does not "have" to be clipping. Intensional boosting or cutting of frequencies without clipping the waveform is still a distortion of the original signal. Clipping is a form of distortion.
I'm sure at this point semantics is distorting the topic
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Gain staging, look it up. Solid state bass amps are basically a preamp feeding a sterile power stage with an attenuator.
Works for me.
The bass playing world moved on from 1955.
Gain staging, look it up. Solid state bass amps are basically a preamp feeding a sterile power stage with an attenuator.
Works for me.
Oh, since 1955 definitely, since 1975, I'm not so sure. Except for speaker technology. "Solid state bass amps are basically a preamp feeding a sterile power stage with an attenuator", pretty funny, since modern bass amps sound far more sterile to me than a '70s Sunn or Acoustic.
You could claim MV was wasted on any and all amps made before 1975 and you'd still be wrong.
Not sure what you mean by "wasted", but off the top of my head I can't think of a bass amp with a master volume from before 1975. Possibly silverface Fender Bassmans had a master by then.
I guess I just come from a simpler time when bass amps had just one volume control. That's the way it was and we LIKED IT!
Most distortion is brought about by clipping one stage or another in the signal chain. Distortion achieved by running the preamp hot into the power amp is clipping in the preamp. Distortion achieved by playing very loud is clipping in the power amp. Distortion in a stomp box can be any of a number of things digital or analog, though the simplest ones drive a transistor circuit into clipping. Calling the EQing of a signal distortion is a stretch and most folks won't see it as such.
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noun dis·tor·tion \di-ˈstȯr-shən\
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Yes most people don't view tone controls as distortion, but to say distortion is clipping is false.
I believe a distorted signal does not have to be clipped, but a clipped signal is always distortion.
Well, that is true as far as it goes. A signal that is, for example, ring modulated is by just about anyone's definition distorted and that distortion is not made by clipping, and I've answered my own question. But any distortion you can make by twiddling the volume and gain controls on an amplifier comes from clipping some gain stage in the chain.
I think this comes down to the proper, technical definition of distortion, mean anything about the output, other than amplitude, that is different as compared to the input. Yes, even a small eq adjustment would fit that definition.
Then there's the musicians definition of distortion. Aka, grit, grind, growl, overdrive, fuzz, farting, buzzing bees, or any number of adjectives.
All distortion isn't bad distortion, but it distortion in some form.
Then there's the musicians definition of distortion. Aka, grit, grind, growl, overdrive, fuzz, farting, buzzing bees, or any number of adjectives.
All distortion isn't bad distortion, but it distortion in some form.
To continue beating this dead horse...
Not necessarily. Consider a pure 100Hz sine wave. Run it through an EQ and cut 2000Hz 10dB , look at the input and output on an o-scope. No difference. Now cut 100Hz by 10dB. The only difference you will see is that of amplitude. No distortion in either case.
But of course, nothing we have beat to a bloody pulp in the last 4 or 5 pages of all this oh so intelligent discourse has anything remotely to do with the OP's original problem. Such is life out on the internet.
Ya know, you have something of a point there......that would apply to someone playing sinewaves.To continue beating this dead horse...
Not necessarily. Consider a pure 100Hz sine wave. Run it through an EQ and cut 2000Hz 10dB , look at the input and output on an o-scope. No difference. Now cut 100Hz by 10dB. The only difference you will see is that of amplitude. No distortion in either case.
But of course, nothing we have beat to a bloody pulp in the last 4 or 5 pages of all this oh so intelligent discourse has anything remotely to do with the OP's original problem. Such is life out on the internet.
Something like a synth maybe?
You're right, especially talking about a single frequency test tone going into an "EQ". That is about as far off topic as one can get
Be sure you use real butter, not that margarine crap. Vegetable oil and chemicals can't be as good as churned cow cream, no how, no way.
You're right, especially talking about a single frequency test tone going into an "EQ". That is about as far off topic as one can get
Thank you. <bows>
