Hot answers tagged electric-bass-guitar
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For windows:
The bare-bones way is to use the microphone or the line-in. I found the line-in to be a better choice, but either way, you need to reduce the amplifier volume to avoid clipping. This volume level will be pretty low, and it is specific to your equipment. After you adjust the amplifier volume, you can then adjust the overall volume on the ...
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The classic Höfner "violin bass" design, from circa 1958, is a hollow-body archtop instrument with a spruce top, like an archtop guitar but without F-holes. It has a "floating" wooden archtop bridge. It has a short-scale neck which is small and has a narrow fingerboard width and string-spacing. It should be strung with the original-specification flatwound ...
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Yes. The "split coil" pickup (actually two separate pickups placed close together under the strings) is a humbucking, noise-cancelling design. These have been standard on the Fender Precision Bass since the early 1960s.
Split-coil noise-canceling design
However, the original "vintage" Fender Precision Bass pickup is a single pickup with a single coil, ...
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I would focus on hardware, not so much on software. Get a decent digital audio interface; you can find some for under $200 USD. You can use pretty much any recording software, such as Audacity which has already been mentioned. I use an Alesis io|2 for example; very simple, just 2 analog channels, midi in/out, and connects to my laptop via USB. With this ...
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The pickups could be clipping the input gain stage of your amplifier. I doubt it has anything to do with the knobs, since active electronics can give out a very hot signal. Can you give us more information on what you're using for an amplifier? What active electronics are you using, specifically?
I doubt you'll kill the speakers if it is input clipping ...
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Just dealt with the same problem. Had a very bad rattle on my squier jazz bass, but only when playing an open A. I could hear it when unplugged, but it didn't come through the amp. It sounded like it was coming from either the body of the bass or somewhere in the neck. By accident, I happened to put a little pressure on the A string between the nut and ...
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For a lot of this track it sounds like Paco has a synth effect on his bass, but that isn't that relevant for this percussion effect.
What he is doing is muting or damping with his left hand and using the right to act as a tom. The movement of his hand up and down the fretboard gives a tonal change (fractionally) but this is basically a percussion ...
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I think this can help you.
But notice, that making a bass tab from guitar tab is like covering sb's cover of sb's cover :) It probably will work, but can be unplayable and inaccurate. The best adaptation would be the one you'd do from original music sheet.
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Yes - any hollow body guitar will feed back much more than a solid one - the difference between the bass and the guitar will just be which frequencies are going to feed back most.
You can use your hand to control feedback, but other options include:
Using an equaliser to roll off the frequencies you find feeding back too much
Moving further away from, or ...
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If you're using active electronics, as silly as this sounds, verify that the battery isn't dead. I had a similar issue with my first bass, and it turned out to be the 5 dollar 9-volt battery-swap fix. After verifying that, as stated in the previous answer, see if you can pad the input somehow to make sure that you're not slamming the preamp.
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Sounds like you are overloading the pre amp.Just as a guitarist would when turning up the pre-gain.To clean up that sound, he would turn the volume down at the guitar.At that point, the guitar volume pot. becomes a sort of distortion control. What's wrong with leaving the bass guitar volume down enough to achieve a clean sound, and turning up the amp? On ...
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If it's anything like an acoustic bass I used to own, yes. You don't specify if it's the note you're playing or one of the open strings. These need to be damped by spare fingers or part of the plucking hand. If it's the played note, a change of tone, moving away from the speaker or as above, playing less loudly are your options.
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