The Whatever Thread .. For Gear!!

[goroth]

Mids eat scooped mids, as anyone with a big muff in a two guitar band will attest. But try it and see!

[leaves turn]

Dual amp rig, not necessarily for stereo but more for "mid-to-high frequencies" and "mid-to-low frequencies" or "clean-ish" and "dirtier"...

like Fugazi!

[phantasmagorovich]

I should stop looking at bass guitars on EBay. Well, or at least wait until I know the difference between a Preci and a JB.

[rustywire]

Dual amp rig, not necessarily for stereo but more for "mid-to-high frequencies" and "mid-to-low frequencies" or "clean-ish" and "dirtier"...

Fan of such methods, esp with 1 American and 1 British amp

[rustywire]

I should stop looking at bass guitars on EBay. Well, or at least wait until I know the difference between a Preci and a JB.

Immediate physical diffs:
P Bass: Single "split" bucker pickup in middle position, wide C-neck.
J Bass: Dual single coil pickups in middle & bridge position, "fast" neck. Offset body.

Immediate tonal diffs:
J Bass is brighter, with more complex midrange and treble (obv) and has rep for being preferred among finger-pickers. A fretless J Bass is and a transcendent experience.
It covers more sonic ground than the P Bass...but the P Bass is aptly named. Very well-suited voicing for more complicated band setups with multiple guitars or keys...and vocals.
Each one rules. I like J Bass with flatwounds and P Bass with rounds. Both love fuzz.

I own a marked fretless J. I'd like to get a P at some point...but anytime I see a Tele or Stang bass they sing to me like Sirens.

[fever606]

Dual amp rig, not necessarily for stereo but more for "mid-to-high frequencies" and "mid-to-low frequencies" or "clean-ish" and "dirtier"...

like Fugazi!

Fan of such methods, esp with 1 American and 1 British amp

My people!

[DarkAxel]

I should stop looking at bass guitars on EBay. Well, or at least wait until I know the difference between a Preci and a JB.

Immediate physical diffs:
P Bass: Single "split" bucker pickup in middle position, wide C-neck.
J Bass: Dual single coil pickups in middle & bridge position, "fast" neck. Offset body.

Immediate tonal diffs:
J Bass is brighter, with more complex midrange and treble (obv) and has rep for being preferred among finger-pickers. A fretless J Bass is and a transcendent experience.
It covers more sonic ground than the P Bass...but the P Bass is aptly named. Very well-suited voicing for more complicated band setups with multiple guitars or keys...and vocals.
Each one rules. I like J Bass with flatwounds and P Bass with rounds. Both love fuzz.

I own a marked fretless J. I'd like to get a P at some point...but anytime I see a Tele or Stang bass they sing to me like Sirens.

it's so strange for me that I keep reading people say J's have more complex midrange and stuff like that...
I just always feel that J's are boomier and actually have LESS mids than P's. J always feels scooped to me smoother around the midrange with more snappy highs
P to me feels like having a lot of agressive, growly and cutting midrange, more "dry" tone Almost like a mirror image, frequency-wise, to a Jazz Bass

i think it's a big difference because of the way the pickups are wired. I play a P/J and mostly play just the P pickup or perhaps about 50% of the J blended with it. When I go 50/50, I really do feel like I'm getting more high end focus but less mids and that the tone is getting this smoothness but less of that midrange impact which I usually prefer

[BoatRich]

With my bass vi it makes a huge difference for me to use both a bass and guitar cab. It adds a ton of body to the sound and lends to that like big guitar feel

[goroth]

I should stop looking at bass guitars on EBay. Well, or at least wait until I know the difference between a Preci and a JB.

D.o.S. really helped me understand the difference between the two.

I'm now in the market for a pbass

[UglyCasanova]

Where can I get short XLR (male+female) to 1/4'' Jack (male) cables? I don't need them to be 1 meter, which is the shortest I've found.

[Uncle Grandfather]

Where can I get short XLR (male+female) to 1/4'' Jack (male) cables? I don't need them to be 1 meter, which is the shortest I've found.

These?

[UglyCasanova]

Oh, wait... Do I just stick a normal male to male jack into the top of that thing? I'm an idiot.

[Uncle Grandfather]

Oh, wait... Do I just stick a normal male to male jack into the top of that thing? I'm an idiot.

Yeah, if you're thinking about using that dba delay with 1/4" cable I would get a set of these adaptors and just plug in your regular 1/4" cables into them.

[UglyCasanova]

That was my idea. I don't know how it will react to it, but you know...science. Thanks, buddy!

[waltdogg]

I straight up modified my cables to right-angle plugs when I added a Radial Twin City ABY (output jacks on the back) to the end of my board but modified them back to straight ended plugs when I realized I could only face my board directly towards or directly away from my amps. As you're limited to only coming off back and to the left.