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#116,401
BklynKen said:
Sorry to hear that. I do sysadmin as well.
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I figured there would be more lurking around here than just me. It fits with my admittedly very unscientific maxim that bass player are typically techies while guitar players typically require someone to write a script to pull files off of a cd for them to use since they keep getting the warning that they are read only when they try to open them directly :D

This is offset of course by their ability to handle more than four strings at a time...we all have our strength after all.
 
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#116,403
Count Bassie said:
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Lower left, Master Vol.
Lower right concentric, outer ring is Pan, inner ring seems to be a not very effective tone control.
Upper left, neck p'up tone.
Upper right, bridge p'up tone.

I think.
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Not positive, but you might have a Seymour Duncan preamp. Which does have a mid control. Check this out..
Seymour Duncan STC-3PSB - Best Bass Gear

Edit: cut and pasted from their website...
The STC-3PSB provides bass and treble controls, a midrange control, a master volume, a blend control, and our special frequency contour switch. This preamp was voiced by Steve Bailey to have three bands of focused EQ, together with a switch that engages a frequency contour optimized to bring out fretless harmonics as well as mid-range boost. The frequency contour is engaged by pulling up of the volume control. We even added two small trim pots on the circuit board can be tweaked to preset the frequency contour EQ just the way you want.
 
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#116,405
GonePlaid said:
I'm aware you've been trying some bi-amping. It made me remember that in the 80s, I would double sax or flute in our group and the keyboard man would play my Kee Basstm through the 2nd channel of my 'blue line' SVT. I s'pose you could do something like that with the channels EQd differently. 'Course no bass amp I know of has 2 separate channels any more. Ramblings of a confused mind.
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Channel gaining/jumping is a great idea, yeah too bad that seems to no longer be an available option.
Nope, that was clear thinking alright!
 
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#116,406
PillO said:
CTS Sucks. Have the surgery. It is fairly straightforward and is curative. Have a plastic surgeon do it - they leave scars that are barely visible; some surgeons leave scars that make it look like you tried slicing your wrists.

Some of us struggle with our mediocrity, the rest of us celebrate it.



Post a picture on the thread here. It is just easier than PMing a picture to each of us... :D
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LOL gotcha. Despite the B3n on the floor I haven't used it for the Tbird except to tune after fixing the godawful setup it arrived with. The versatility and tone of this is bass stands on its own. My Riot4 sounds good clean mind you, but not like this baby.
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#116,408
badgenes said:
I figured there would be more lurking around here than just me. It fits with my admittedly very unscientific maxim that bass player are typically techies while guitar players typically require someone to write a script to pull files off of a cd for them to use since they keep getting the warning that they are read only when they try to open them directly :D

This is offset of course by their ability to handle more than four strings at a time...we all have our strength after all.
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Yeah, I hate it when the brandlesnift doesn't sniggle with the fremulator and you get the anti-margulation warning...
 
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#116,409
GBassNorth said:
Not positive, but you might have a Seymour Duncan preamp. Which does have a mid control. Check this out..
Seymour Duncan STC-3PSB - Best Bass Gear

Edit: cut and pasted from their website...
The STC-3PSB provides bass and treble controls, a midrange control, a master volume, a blend control, and our special frequency contour switch. This preamp was voiced by Steve Bailey to have three bands of focused EQ, together with a switch that engages a frequency contour optimized to bring out fretless harmonics as well as mid-range boost. The frequency contour is engaged by pulling up of the volume control. We even added two small trim pots on the circuit board can be tweaked to preset the frequency contour EQ just the way you want.
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Dude I think that's it. I'm sitting here with the bass reading this, and pulled up the master vol knob... frikkin' cool man, thanks for looking that up!
I'll have to plug this thing in and try that out! Tomorrow though... I'm toast. Need sleep bad, lol.
Thank you again! Cool, I'll chime in on what comes of this tomorrow.

I'm still going to need strings, got a muttley non-set on it now- 3 w/red silk and 2 w/out.
 
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Count Bassie said:
Dude I think that's it. I'm sitting here with the bass reading this, and pulled up the master vol knob... frikkin' cool man, thanks for looking that up!
I'll have to plug this thing in and try that out! Tomorrow though... I'm toast. Need sleep bad, lol.
Thank you again! Cool, I'll chime in on what comes of this tomorrow.

I'm still going to need strings, got a muttley non-set on it now- 3 w/red silk and 2 w/out.
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I've played that preamp before, it's a tone monster! I have no doubt you'll be able to dial in as much bottom end as you want.
 
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#116,414
GBassNorth said:
I've played that preamp before, it's a tone monster! I have no doubt you'll be able to dial in as much bottom end as you want.
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Psyched. Betwixt that and being able to set a bottom-line p'up balance, yeah sounds hopeful! Man I was kinda disappointed up to now!

Thanks for the pitch in you guys! Much appreciated!
Now I can get back to my Tbird... :)
 
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#116,418
Mike.C. said:
Great track and great tone! What is your band process for adding a new song to y’all’s setlist?
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Thank you guys!
Usually the new song process is me ruling the rest of the band with an iron fist, while telling them all that it's a democracy. Most of the time they don't *really* think about what they're suggesting and I shoot them down on it. This song is an exception (I've always really liked the song but didn't think if fit due to tempo and lyrics) in that our drummer suggested we try it and Jackie said she could sing it. We ran through it a couple times and it was sounding good.
 
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