adding center detents is a great idea, good feedback...
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Ashdown......Duran Duran.....John Taylor, what's there not to like?...all day....
That really was a good band.
Ok got a crazy problem and I hope to solve it ASAP .. I've got a Marshall 8x10 cab, a 1990. I need to know how to wire it, and apparently it's loaded with 7442 15 ohm speakers.
Do we have a doctor in the house?
Thanks!...
Do we have a doctor in the house?
Thanks!...
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Doesn't take it away, I'm just saying that the emphasis from your amplifier can make easy or pretty difficult to make a mix work. You don't have to dial out the bass- also your foh guy can bring out the low end once he's gotten it away from the stage.
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FOH. Ha! (haven't had any since 2015)
Leon used to bi-amp and from what I recall they were set very differently (meaning more than I expected). I was right in front of him a couple of times and never thought to pull out my smart phone and snap some picks of of his settings.... He should have been called Low-end Leon. Thunder Wilkeson. Still don't know how he did it. Massive low-end--no mud.
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Gaolee
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The Jackson fiver got out in front of an audience on Saturday night for the first time. It badly needed a setup, which I did Friday night. It also got restrung with EBCFs, which I stupidly wound the wrong way on the pegs. Putting the G on first meant that it looked like they should go one way. I got to the B and it was pretty obvious it splays way out. Oh, well. It worked anyway. In the room, it sounded really good with those strings. It had a bright Precision sound to it that I wasn't expecting. There was plenty of low end. It doesn't sound especially active. No matter. It works. I'll probably do a bit more work on it and string it properly over the next week. There's still a bit of back-bow to the neck that needs to come out, and the intonation isn't quite right with the strings lowered like they are. Sometimes, you just run out of time and have to go with what you got.
I got all screwed up on the second half of Civil War because I got tangled up with the B string and kept defaulting to thinking it was a four in drop D. 40 or more years of playing four strings is pretty much imprinted. The fifth string keeps confusing me. My hands get lost at times, because the string I think is A, is really E, or sometimes D, and then everything goes sideways. It's quick enough to recover, but then the guitarist is looking at me like I just landed from Mars, which might actually be more true than not.
I got all screwed up on the second half of Civil War because I got tangled up with the B string and kept defaulting to thinking it was a four in drop D. 40 or more years of playing four strings is pretty much imprinted. The fifth string keeps confusing me. My hands get lost at times, because the string I think is A, is really E, or sometimes D, and then everything goes sideways. It's quick enough to recover, but then the guitarist is looking at me like I just landed from Mars, which might actually be more true than not.
Thx, band practice can help....ran into Susan in Capitola the other day...
First look in sunlight; found a couple thin spots where the edge rolls over the radius that need touching up before clear can start, but otherwise I'm pretty happy.
If I had it to do over knowing what I learned yesterday I would have done it a bit differently, but I didn't, so I can't.
As with so many things, by the time you get it reasonably understood, you don't need to do it any more.
If I had it to do over knowing what I learned yesterday I would have done it a bit differently, but I didn't, so I can't.
As with so many things, by the time you get it reasonably understood, you don't need to do it any more.
Glad I'm not the only one. I had a 5er for several years. Once I got used to it, it was not a problem. I picked up a 5er in a store a couple years ago and it might as well been a 7 1/2 stringer. I put it back before anyone got to thinking I was a drummer.
you want 8 Ohms or 4?
Lol, oh yeah- 8 ohms.
Thanks Chucky!
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I agree - bass is always bass but where/how it sits in the mix is specifically tailored to the genre. Upper mids for funk/slap, mid-centric for modern/progressive rock, 'more bass' for soul/R&B/roots rock and sub-bass for Reggae, Dub and Electronica. Different flavors of bass for different types of music.
Gaolee
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I have to get used to it, because there are a couple of songs that need to get below a drop D. And I use the high end of the board, too. Oh, well.
It's fun to rumble the floor, though. A low B doesn't do much, because the amplifier is a bit underwhelming at that frequency, but it starts to make its presence known at low C and above.
There was a guy in the audience who is also a bass player. He was amused by it being a cheapo Jackson. He's got a fiver that he bought decades ago for a lot of money, and it's still some kind of fancy Fodera or something. He said the cheapo Jackson sounded really good in the room. It's active, but I have everything at the dead center detent. I have messed with the EQ a little, and everything except dead center sounds a bit awful. It's a bit of a one trick pony, unlike a real Thunderbird, but that's fine. It sounded a whole lot more like a Precision than I was expecting.
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Just don't turn it up from your amp/stage monitor. You can still get plenty of beef/heft from 80 Hz to 150.
