What do you wish existed?

[dan55128]

I’ve been on a little meandering thought path, and you’re invited. Is there anything (bass related) that you wish existed? A product that no one makes? A service that no one provides?

Who knows? If you post something, maybe someone else can point you toward the thing you never knew existed. Or one of us goes on to invent something successful.

 

[dan55128]

Insta-Chops. In easy to swallow pill form.

 

[mb94952]

A time machine...

You stole my thunder ! That was my answer, too !!!

 

[mb94952]

They DO make that. Buy a good Chromatic Peterson Tuner. They are not just made for guitar, being used for bass. They can’t be beat. I love these:View attachment 3970677

My playing isn't worth that much, LOL ! I mean I'm good, but not $1000 tuner good

 

[knadles]

A new Mesa head with the EXACT Bass 400 preamp (I know they make one with a "Boogie" channel now, but the pull shifts on the original produced a growl I've never been able to duplicate) and a "presence" control ala the old Fender brownface amps.

Pete

 

[hollowman]

I’ve been on a little meandering thought path, and you’re invited. Is there anything (bass related) that you wish existed? A product that no one makes? A service that no one provides?

Who knows? If you post something, maybe someone else can point you toward the thing you never knew existed. Or one of us goes on to invent something successful.

YES! A pickup with a volume and tone control on each string.

 

[Jaribu]

A digital pedal cross-brand standard for passing digital signals between multiple digital pedals. One pedal does the A/D early in the chain, then passes ADAT or SPDIF or AES/EBU to any other digital pedals, then one at the end of the chain does the D/A. Because really, how many times do you want these conversions happening in one signal chain? More than one conversion is way too many, so I don't use multiple digital pedals. Big argument in favor of a single multi-effects box, I know, but I like the idea of great modular specialized digital pedals, just not repeated conversions.

A digital pedal cross-brand standard for passing digital signals between multiple digital pedals. One pedal does the A/D early in the chain, then passes ADAT or SPDIF or AES/EBU to any other digital pedals, then one at the end of the chain does the D/A. Because really, how many times do you want these conversions happening in one signal chain? More than one conversion is way too many, so I don't use multiple digital pedals. Big argument in favor of a single multi-effects box, I know, but I like the idea of great modular specialized digital pedals, just not repeated conversions.

Thanks. It never occurred to me that more than one digital pedal means multiple D/A conversions. Hmmm, is that something you can hear (artifacts etc)?

 

[hollowman]

Genuine honest question: does it matter? A circuit designed for bass frequencies would detect pitch more accurately than one designed for guitar frequencies? I have a handheld tuner with a bass/guitar switch, but never noticed any real difference.

I tune using 12 fret harmonics. Tuner seems to enjoy that more.

 

[getting old]

A phantom power switch on my amp and an active preamp on my bass. No more batteries.

 

[Bartrinsic]

Thanks. It never occurred to me that more than one digital pedal means multiple D/A conversions. Hmmm, is that something you can hear (artifacts etc)?

The A/D is conversion is sampling, so we lose something each time and the D/A is typically not bit perfect so ditto. Also a tiny bit of latency is added, though most latency probably comes from the filters that are applied to modify the tone. Digital fidelity is high so I doubt it sucks tone to the degree of say, an isolation transformer. Any audible degradation probably is on the top end, so if its not bothering guitarists, maybe I shouldn't be worried. It just seems to me digital devices should have digital I/O.

 

[Jaribu]

A version of the Strymon Iridium for bass. A version of the Spark practice amp for bass (bigger speaker).

 

[tony caskey]

A reliable tuner designed exclusively for bass. I see a lot of Boss TU-2 and TU-3 tuners on pedal board photos posted here, and I've heard folks wax poetic about the Peterson stuff. But to me, it all seems like "electric guitar stuff that also works great for bass guitar." Are we such a small percentage of the overall market that we don't deserve something better? Or is plus/minus 30 cents now deemed "good enough" for bass?

korg pitchblack. just got and luv it

 

[-Adrien-]

My talent... ah ah and currently more test videos with a bass plugged in the chase bliss preamp mk2...

 

[amper]

A reliable tuner designed exclusively for bass. I see a lot of Boss TU-2 and TU-3 tuners on pedal board photos posted here, and I've heard folks wax poetic about the Peterson stuff. But to me, it all seems like "electric guitar stuff that also works great for bass guitar." Are we such a small percentage of the overall market that we don't deserve something better? Or is plus/minus 30 cents now deemed "good enough" for bass?

The Boss TU-2 is rated accurate to 3 cents, not 30. The TU-3 is accurate to 1 cent. The Peterson StroboStomp HD is accurate to 0.1 cent.

The tc electronic Polytune 1 is accurate to 0.5 cent, and the Polytune 2 and 3 models are accurate to 0.1 cent.

The 22-year-old TU-2 is plenty well accurate, even though the TU-3 is technically 3x as accurate and the latest models from tc electronic and Peterson are 30x as accurate.

3 cents is the difference in finger pressure every time you fret a note. There are 100 cents between each semitone. You are talking about 1/30 of a semitone, 1/360th of an octave. If you think you can tell the difference between an instrument tuned on a TU-2 and a Polytune 2, you're wrong.

 

[amper]

A powered, bass-specific wedge-shaped speaker that could be placed on the floor in traditional monitor wedge position and has a cabinet shape that allows two of them to be stacked vertically behind me in traditional bass amp position.

MESA/Boogie®

 

[amper]

A tab and lyric site with no popup ads, directly linked to the songs in Apple Music (or equiv)

Given Apple's prominence in professional audio production, I have to say that I'm actually surprised Apple hasn't entered the music education field directly.

 

[amper]

At that price, I can probably get Yo-Yo Ma to come to my house, tune my basses by ear and perform a concerto!

My dad's cousin is married to Yo-Yo Ma's older sister, Yeoh-Cheng. I wouldn't dream of imposing, but I'd love to hand him my Warwick Custom Shop short scale Corvette Proline with cello strings, and see what he makes of it.

 

[Rich48]

I came to this post a little late and did not read all 16 pages. I’m sure these have been mentioned but here’s mine.
A magic pedal to make any electric bass sound just like a good upright.
A magic pedal that could change my tuning on the fly and not sound like an effect (this could make 5 strings obsolete)
A magic pedal that could correct timing mistakes and always keep me locked in. ( I know... I really need to practice this and not need this pedal)

 

[amper]

Clean electric power in old commercial buildings.

My 110V service is pulled from one leg of the 440V 3 phase service that comes into the building from the street. When someone else in the building starts running a small universal motor like a router or a Dremel, my pedalboard and amp start making noises like Alvin and the Chipmunks in a brothel with an overnight line of credit.

2400W 120V Power Conditioner Automatic Voltage Regulation AVR AC Surge Protection 6 Outlets (LC2400) | Tripp Lite

 

[amper]

I just want someone to put a tuner in the freaking amp. Basically every amp on the market has extra knobs/buttons/functions that no one uses but the only amp I have with a built in tuner is a desktop guitar amp

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