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Post subject: Re: A. C. Sig. Jazz
Posted: Sat Apr 27, 2019 3:18 pm
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Oh yeah, I remember that band. Paul Gilbert was in it, as well. They were usually mentioned somewhere in guitar magazine ads, usually Ibanez, or something like that.

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Post subject: Re: A. C. Sig. Jazz
Posted: Sat Apr 27, 2019 3:52 pm
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Yeah. Usually in the Shrapnel Records ad on the inside cover of Guitar for the Practicing Musician. Big hair and fast playing. I kinda get a kick out of him going from being John to being Juan.

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Post subject: Re: A. C. Sig. Jazz
Posted: Sat Apr 27, 2019 9:44 pm
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I used to get that magazine all of the time. It's hard to believe that was like 30 years ago. Sometimes, it seems like another lifetime, though.

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Post subject: Re: A. C. Sig. Jazz
Posted: Sat Apr 27, 2019 9:48 pm
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Yeah me too. I actually learned "Terminal Beach" by Stu Hamm for a Berklee summer program audition from a transcription in GFTPM.

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Post subject: Re: A. C. Sig. Jazz
Posted: Sat Apr 27, 2019 11:56 pm
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Speaking of Stu Hamm, and sort of tying in to your new amp purchase, he has his own signature Mark Bass head, now. https://www.musiciansfriend.com/amplifi ... s-amp-head

Oddly enough, some parts of it remind me of those old Hartke HA series amps, like he used to use. The separate knobs for tube and solid state gain, and the graphic EQ.

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Post subject: Re: A. C. Sig. Jazz
Posted: Sun Apr 28, 2019 1:29 pm
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It's funny between Stu Hamm, Marcus Miller, and Richard Bona 3 of my favorite players from different periods of my life have their own models on Markbass. Also Hadrien Feraud has been playing their stuff for years.

I also tried out the Alain Caron and Jeff Berlin models and it seems like the entire line that I've played sound great.

Now for a bit of nifty trivia. The original Hartke design with the bendable tube and solid state preamps were directly inspired by Jack Bruce. If you want to get close to his sound with those Hartkes the trick is to set the graphic to a "frown". I haven't been a fan of scooped mids since the 90's. If I knew then what I know now my hearing would probably be better. Your hearing response is a natural bell curve with the mids being the most prominent. The whole heavy metal thing of boosting the lows and highs while cutting out all of the mids and turning up loud so you can hear it is kind of stupid if you think about it.

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Post subject: Re: A. C. Sig. Jazz
Posted: Sun Apr 28, 2019 10:40 pm
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I've read if you really want your bass to cut through, boost the 400 Hz in the EQ, if it has it (some don't.) That Stu Hamm head has it. I have an MXR Bass Preamp that has 400 Hz on it, which I do that with, when I've recorded.

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Post subject: Re: A. C. Sig. Jazz
Posted: Sun Apr 28, 2019 11:09 pm
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400Hz makes sense. Also our hearing response also hears around 4kHz well. The theory has to do with evolution the female voice is in that 1-4k range. When we were in the more primal stages of development and our mothers had to take care of our safety and well being our hearing and safety depended on how well we heard that range.

After I learned how to use a parametric EQ I've found I can't go back to graphics. Since most graphics don't have a 400Hz slider every parametric EQ does have it in their sweep.

I have a Boss PQ3B in my pedalboard you can usually find them used on Reverb for about $100. How I set mine up is since I'm pretty much a bridge pickup Jazz guy which can be noisy in and of itself into a Pigtronix Bass Envelope Phaser which is kinda noisy, into a tc Sectracomp which is kinda noisy, into an Ashdown LoMenzo Hyperdrive which is kinda noisy, I put the PQ3B in after those 3 with all of them turned on and zoomed in on the noisy frequencies and cut them out.

You can train yourself to hear what 400Hz sounds like on bass with a DAW and an EQ plug in. Record your bass into it and sweep the EQ until it says 400Hz and get to know that sound. Incidentally that is just south of tuning A (440Hz).

Every once in a while I check out Death Metal and have noticed over the last few years there have been quite a few players in that genre using fretless basses. I think it may have to do with playing with scooped down tuned guitars and the fretless having a naturally midrange heavy sound. It seems like that's a good way to fit the bass in the mix by putting it in the frequency hole so to speak.

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Post subject: Re: A. C. Sig. Jazz
Posted: Mon Apr 29, 2019 8:39 pm
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It doesn't seem like a lot of amps even have a graphic EQ on them these days. Maybe a couple here and there.

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Post subject: Re: A. C. Sig. Jazz
Posted: Mon Apr 29, 2019 8:52 pm
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That seemed to be a big thing in the 90's. You don't even see them on stereo systems anymore.

Like I said after I got the PQ3B I abandoned my Boss 7 band EQ pedal. There are so many variables with Graphic EQ's like frequency centers, bandwidth, boost/cut range, how many octaves etc that finding the right one is kind of a pain. Granted they are good for tweaking those frequencies that are between the tone controls on your amp. With a parametric you may only have 3 bands but they aren't at fixed frequencies like a graphic so you get more control and can really get in there.

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Post subject: Re: A. C. Sig. Jazz
Posted: Tue Apr 30, 2019 12:06 am
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I just looked up your pedal. It looks like it's from the same era as a Boss Bass Chorus pedal I had. Same color, and all of that. That was a tough $@! pedal. It had beer spilled on it and everything else and it wouldn't die. I'd probably still have the thing, but it was lost with everything else I had when I left Florida 16 years ago, due to certain life circumstances I had to go through. Those pedals are built like tanks.

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Post subject: Re: A. C. Sig. Jazz
Posted: Tue Apr 30, 2019 5:39 pm
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Yeah it's one of my 3 "Always On" pedals (the other 2 are compression and chorus). They are built like tanks and honestly give you more tonal control than a graphic. It is the one piece of gear that I recommend to anyone.

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Post subject: Re: A. C. Sig. Jazz
Posted: Tue Apr 30, 2019 8:46 pm
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I just wanted to add that I hardly ever see those pedals on the used market. Either they didn't make many of them or the people who have them hold on to them. If you find one snatch it up.

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Post subject: Re: A. C. Sig. Jazz
Posted: Wed May 01, 2019 4:12 am
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They had them on the market for about 4 years. I found this out from this site: http://www.bossarea.com/boss-pq-3b-bass ... equalizer/ They didn't say how many they made, though. I don't recall if I ever saw any in the shops back in the day.

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Post subject: Re: A. C. Sig. Jazz
Posted: Wed May 01, 2019 4:04 pm
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I remember seeing one in a mail order catalog (I think it was American Musical Supply) when I was in High School. Had I known then what I know now.........

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