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Post subject: A-string losing tone
Posted: Sun Feb 22, 2009 8:13 am
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The other night, I was playing a gig with my band. Did my soundcheck, got my tone I wanted and everything was set to the way I like it. Played maybe the first 2 songs fine but after that, my A string started to become muddy and very "trebly" (maybe its not a word?). My E,D,and G strings still had the tone I liked, nice low bass with a little treble but my A string lost all its bass to it, even lacked the volume of the other strings. On stage between songs I did try working on the amp knobs, fooling around with the Bass and Middle Tone knob but nothing seemed to improve the A. If it helps, I use a Ibanez Soundwave 65 amp and the knobs are Gain, Bass, Mid, Treb, Presance, and Volume. Maybe those are not set right? It is also a Standard Jazz, 2008 made. Thanks guys.


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Posted: Sun Feb 22, 2009 8:23 am
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How long have those strings been on your Bass?

Sounds to me like the string went dead, time for a string change.

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Posted: Sun Feb 22, 2009 8:38 am
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Its actually a brand new bass, bought it about a month ago and I am the original user of the bass since its a 2008 model. Now I do need to change the strings since its the factory strings on it so maybe that is the cause?


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Posted: Sun Feb 22, 2009 8:40 am
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Changing the strings would be the first thing I would do.

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Posted: Sun Feb 22, 2009 9:07 am
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This may be a stretch, but it is something that happened to a colleague of mine about two years ago.

The previous time that he played at a particular venue, everything was tone and timbre correct. However, the next time that he played the same gig with the same equipment on stage, there was something that just wasn't right. After some basic checks, they fired up the laptop and went to an on-line bass tune website with the audio from the laptop running into the vocals stage monitor. When he set the web tuning output to "E", everything was fine. When he selected "A", the sound coming out of the vocal monitor went flat - just like his Precison Bass and Rumble amp output had done. Strange phenomenon, but they found that during the time that they were away from that venue, the side stage curtains had been removed and wooden mural decor put there instead. They finally just set the side wall angles differently on each side of the stage to change the ambient resonance, and the "flat" sound from both the monitor and his Rumble amp went back to normal as heard all over the stage in several test locations. It was a tuned-stage-resonance issue and I'm just mentioning that as a last resort check for you to do if all else fails.

Hopefully it will a string or possibly even a bad pickup issue for the "A", but keep the other posssibility in mind. Is your bass still in warranty? Best of luck...

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Posted: Sun Feb 22, 2009 9:58 am
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Yeah, the bass should be under warranty. I havent damaged yet (unless this is considered me damaging it). Would you happen to know the name of the website?


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Posted: Sun Feb 22, 2009 3:26 pm
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Yeah, the bass should be under warranty. I havent damaged yet (unless this is considered me damaging it). Would you happen to know the name of the website?


I bookmarked it a couple of years ago when I got the email from my colleague...

Try this one...

http://www.tunemybass.com/

When you get to their main screen, select your string configuration and then the design protocol. The next screen is a string image that matches your bass. Set your cursor over each string and listen. It also helps if your PC speakers have good LOW frequency response so you can hear the zero-beating of the two audio sources as you tune your bass; the PC and your bass amp. Just listen for a zero null ( no wavering between the two audio sources ) and you're there. Good luck and keep us posted on how things turn out.

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Posted: Sun Feb 22, 2009 8:32 pm
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i had a problem with my A hopping out of the nut when I got it. After alot of work, i found that the A is the string with the least amount of tension on the nut. The E is so short between the peg and nut and the D and G have a brace to hold them down. Even after a neck adjustment, bridge work, and some fileing on the nut, i found that my best tactic was to over wind the A string when i change them. i cut it a turn or 2 too long and wind it on. It's prolly not the best idea, but it works everytime. Somthing like this could be your same problem and may be fixed by the same method.


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Posted: Mon Mar 02, 2009 6:04 pm
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sorry i havent been on in a while guys. Well I was putting new strings on came across the bridge being set a lot lower compared to the other strings, so i played with the heights of each string and got them all EQ's right. Guess that must have been a problem i overlooked.


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Posted: Wed Mar 18, 2009 2:54 pm
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Ive got the same bass, and have the exact same problem. Ive had it just over a year, and whilst practicing and gigging the a string has been making less and less noise, so that now it just doesnt seem to exist when im playing. ive tried adjusting the bridge, adjusting the pickups, and ive replaced the strings twice(Rotosound Swingbass), even tried using effects pedals, but none seem to work. Extremely frustrating... anyone have another solution?


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