What do you wish existed?

[Killing Floor]

^^^It's so dumb. I've got eye contact with the drummer. Just say go. I got you.
I can hear the high school marching band from here. That metronome blasted through the speakers, tink, tink, tink for 3 hours.

 

[thabassmon]

I wish there was a string company that only packed balanced sets and presented their products according to average tension. Also making single strings available for further customization, but the actual sets are balanced.

Typical types, Roundwounds, Flatwounds, Tapewounds in a bunch of configurations. Stainless Steel, Nickel, Nylon.

A line with the target of 35lbs of tension could have gauges 0.135, 0.100, 0.075, 0.055, 0.042, 0.030, 0.021 plain and package sets of
Low 4 BEADG, standard 4 EADG, high 4 ADGC
Standard 5 BEADG, high 5 EADGC
Standard 6 BEADGC, high 6 EADGCF
Standard 7 BEADGCF

Name them according to tension, type, tuning and string count. 35NR-S6 = 35lbs per string, Nickel Round Wounds Standard Six, while 39SF-S4 = 39lbs per string, Steel Flat Wounds Standard Four.

If they offered a 35lbs, 37lbs, 39lbs, 41lbs lines at first (lighter for the Tapewounds) , in the above mentioned configurations then I think most people would be covered. Later if it was successful, you could introduce a higher tension line, half-rounds, perhaps even a Picollo line because that means you could offer double and triple course sets.

It'd be easier for the consumer, the solution to common issues.

"My 35SR-L4 set feels a little bit light for what I play, I'll get the 37SR-L4 set",

"I want to try flats that are similar tension to my 39SR-S5 set, I'll get the 39SF-S5 set",

"I am finding the feel of these 41NR-S4 set far too tough on my hands, I will get the 37NR-S4 set"

"I want to try tuning my five up a fourth but I am so use to my 39NR-S5 set, I'll get the 39NR-H5 set" etc.

Now that would be amazing, perhaps I just came up with a viable business plan, don't really know about making that reality, but first I guess some market research.

Who would be interested in a company that presented sets according to tension, produced balanced sets, in varying string types, and configurations?

Printed on the back of the packet a 7 column table with the tension for the intended tuning in the center in bold, the resultant tension of tuning up or down by a minor second, major second and a minor third printed either side of center.

 

[Dincrest]

Are they built into any instruments? 'Cause that's what I'd like to see

I think USB-charger battery packs are built standard into some of the new German Warwicks.

Otherwise, yeah, they can be retrofitted into instruments. https://www.fishman.com/portfolio/universal-rechargeable-battery-pack/ Though I would like to see some of the instruments with Fluence pickups stock have the battery pack standard too, someday!

 

[dr doofie]

I’ve just never owned a lefty guitar or bass where the tone knob doesn’t act as an on/off switch. There’s no option for just a little bit of tone rolled off, etc. I’ve read that it’s because most manufacturers use righty ones wired backwards, but I’m not sure.

That is a very good point that I’ve never thought of... I would automatically go to the amp to tweak...
I assumed all the knobs were like that and that basses just didn’t have the tonal intricacies of the tender blessed g*****...

 

[Vinny_G]

I have been waiting for someone to make an “every-tone” bass sort of like amps with classic amp settings. I doubt I’d like it because I don’t really like that digital sound but I imagine it’d have an emulator preamp system and a rotary switch, P, J, Alembic 1&2, Wal, Fodera...

Line 6 Variax

 

[Outbush]

Line 6 Variax

Well, stone the crows! (popped on the headphones - didn't like it...)

 

[5StringBlues]

Heat vision!

 

[callofcthulhu]

Something I just thought of yesterday, watching a few pedal reviews. Bassists have to be careful with pedal effects, because you don't want to mess with your fundamental bass frequencies too much. Full-range distortion changes your mix to emphasize treble, other overdrives can chop off the low end completely (expecting a guitar that the pedal then shoehorns into the full mix), and pitch modulation (chorus/vibrato), even at very subtle settings, can push you out of tune.

The usual fix for the "bass version" of an effect is either a dry blend or, for effects like chorus where the effect is already a wet-dry mix, an HPF feeding the effect with a full-range dry signal. This allows you to bring back some low end, or keep the effect from messing with your lowest frequencies in the first place.

So, here's the idea; why not put those controls into a loop pedal? Put the effect(s) you like the character of, but don't like the effect on the low end, into the loop of this pedal. Now in addition to the new pedal being a loop switcher controlling the basic on-off of the looped effects, you can either blend some dry signal back in, or HPF the signal sent to the loop, or both. Now any pedal can be a "bass" pedal, imparting its color to your tone while giving you the tools to keep the root pure. Throw in a buffer/TB switch for the pedal's own switching and I bet you'd have an audience.

There's a few different variations on that theme out there. Here's one:

Blender 2EQ : Wounded Paw, Bass and Guitar Effects and Blenders

 

[swink]

I wish Sterling by MM would make a short scale left handed bass. I love the MM sound but they only make right handed short scales.

Have you ever considered a left handed SBMM SR5 or an SR BEAD?
I play them as 11.5 inch short scale on the 5th fret, with the extra notes in the lower register as the icing on the cake.

 

[swink]

That fourth one... yeah maybe not anytime soon

I've never seen lightning with wires

 

[Iristone]

Roto flats or Roto rounds, in no particular order.

 

[Jaygetsreal]

Has anybody wished for a drummer who can shut up between songs? Or just end the song with everybody else? Or just do a 4 count instead of a 1-2-1-2-3-4 count as if to say I'm too stupid to keep up with just a 4 count?

"Just end the song with everybody else" Should be the first sentence in drummers' job descriptions

 

[Iristone]

Roto flats or Roto rounds, in no particular order.

I'm sorry, I replied in the wrong thread...
But I wish there were a Ric with potted RWRP pickups.

 

[dbsfgyd1]

here ya go.
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[zontar]

I’ll start. A music accessory subscription service. Kinda like those monthly clothing boxes you can order online. You select your instrument, and a box of picks, strings, capo, etc. shows up each month.

They have that--I forget the name/site/etc though--I've seen it at various times over the last couple of years.

 

[Vinny_G]

They have that--I forget the name/site/etc though--I've seen it at various times over the last couple of years.

See post #40 What do you wish existed?

 

[Ihaveshingles]

There is. Well, a pickup system that works this way, anyway: the Fishman Fluence.

 

[NeonVomit]

I've never seen lightning with wires

Lightning zapping around a closed space, what could possibly go wrong?

 

[Lagado]

Common sense.

California fire caused by explosive at gender-reveal party

 

[zontar]

See post #40 What do you wish existed?

Yeah-- I thought someone would have posted it, but I didn't want to go back through all the pages.