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#113,201
fasterpussycat said:
Truth here ... I reckon I have fairly good ears. Most of the time I can't really discern much difference between distortion and stacked distortion. Add in drums and a loud and distorted guitar, and you can hear what? You have a valve amp, already breaking up, you throw in a dirt pedal, pushing it further and adding more compression and some (odd or even order) harmonic content. But everything is still going through the the same output valves and transformer (and possibly the same valve rectifier). Add another dirt pedal and you are in the land of diminishing bass fx returns (ha).
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don't really care for the term "valve" since it essentially depicts a device's property to control a flow of certain matter through it. Since the term can be applied to both semiconductor technology and fluid mechanics (with equal sovereignty) it's just a mere analogy, not a synonym of a vacuum tube......but that's just me...:thumbsup:..
 
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#113,202
Chucky Stiletti said:
cringers...hmmmm...."Girls Like to Have Fun"?..."Walk Like an Egyptian"?....the bandleader told me to look at the crowd and not the Giants game when playing these:oops:.......I can't stand weddings...
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Listen to Your Heart by Roxette, St Elmo's Fire by John Parr, Hit Me with Your Best Shot...
 
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Mike.C. said:
Our guitarist asked after our next open mic to retire a song, to which (since I am the default BL) I replied no problem but we have to replace it. No going backwards with song count. The other guitarist then asked how many songs we need to learn b/c there are only so many hours in the day.

I didn't respond to that one.



My Epi VP has a funny thing in that when you turn both PU volumes down you can still hear them. I asked my tech about it and he asked me if I liked the sound of it when I have the volumes set. I said yes. He said then don't F with it.
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Killswitch...
 
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Chucky Stiletti said:
cringers...hmmmm...."Girls Like to Have Fun"?..."Walk Like an Egyptian"?....the bandleader told me to look at the crowd and not the Giants game when playing these:oops:.......I can't stand weddings...
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"Walk like an Egyptian" just works for us, you just have to drive the song hard on the bass, un like the original.

 
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Just bec(aaaaah choo!)ause.
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#113,212
dagrev said:
The bridge PU is up as far as it can go without touching. Too close maybe, I don't know.
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Just picked up my BiCen to check relative volumes. With both pickups at the same distance from the bottom of the strings the neck is substantially louder than the bridge (one pup full ON, the other full OFF).

I just raised the bridge pup about 1/16" above the neck and output is closer. Maybe lower your neck pup.

Generally proper setup on a two pickup bass is to get the height of the treble pickup where it sounds best and balanced E-G (usually slightly closer on treble side than bass) and then match neck pup output by adjusting its height.

f you value highest possible pickup output above all else this doesn't work. But getting EQUAL output from both pups increases tonal options without having to constantly fiddle with amp knobs.
 
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Dadagoboi said:
Just picked up my BiCen to check relative volumes. With both pickups at the same distance from the bottom of the strings the neck is substantially louder than the bridge (one pup full ON, the other full OFF).

I just raised the bridge pup about 1/16" above the neck and output is closer. Maybe lower your neck pup.

Generally proper setup on a two pickup bass is to get the height of the treble pickup where it sounds best and balanced E-G (usually slightly closer on treble side than bass) and then match neck pup output by adjusting its height.

f you value highest possible pickup output above all else this doesn't work. But getting EQUAL output from both pups increases tonal options without having to constantly fiddle with amp knobs.
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Bookmarking this post....
 
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All this talk of pros and cons of doing song requests reminds me what I love most about not gigging anymore - I can play whatever I want, as often as I want, and as wrong as I want, and (while my wife's not in the house) as loud as I want and nobody cares.

My observation is the whole request thing is largely driven by the venue. In a small club, wedding or dine and dance setting it's not uncommon to expect requests. Not so much when you're on an elevated stage where you're expected to perform your versions of covers or original work. I guess the closer the audience the more they feel like they can approach the band with requests.

These days about the closest I get to requests is when I'm working on ear practice. I just set Pandora on random play and anything from Bach to the Zombies pops up, there's Reggae and country and big band and polka and classic rock and disco and metal and rap (have to admit I fast forward through the rap) and swing and jazz, etc. Definitely keeps you on your toes.
 
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