Tips/Tricks/Hacks/Etc.

[Danny G]

I routinely lug around my body weight in bass gear. Very mindful of my back and how I lift/move it. Not a spring chicken anymore...


An old Marshall trick I stumbled across by accident is try a 12at7 for V3.

Lowers the gain a bit but sweetens up the amp's overall response


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[Jake]

This might not be applicable to a lot of folks, but here's a ghetto-yet-functional hack I did to a string saddle on a Tele Deluxe.

I could not get the low E to intonate properly for the life of me. It just needed to be pushed back further than it physically could. After a frustrating and fruitless online search for a shorter saddle or any other way to get it scooted further back, I just put the damn thing into a vice and squished it. I used a hammer and chisel to guide the bends, but it was all a very indelicate process. It ended up working great and it intonates nicely now. Results below.

[Lumpy]

Crazy Train...

[Corey Y]

This might not be applicable to a lot of folks, but here's a ghetto-yet-functional hack I did to a string saddle on a Tele Deluxe.

I could not get the low E to intonate properly for the life of me. It just needed to be pushed back further than it physically could. After a frustrating and fruitless online search for a shorter saddle or any other way to get it scooted further back, I just put the damn thing into a vice and squished it. I used a hammer and chisel to guide the bends, but it was all a very indelicate process. It ended up working great and it intonates nicely now. Results below.

Whaaa...gruhhh....ohhh...

[RacerX]

That's known as the "accordion saddle" mod.

[liquidsmoke]

Nice mod!

[mutantcolors]

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Only way more brutal.

Welcome to the fret board.

edit - also, learn major and minor thirds and use 'em within yer scale. Instant "I know what I am doing."

[Lumpy]

edit - also, learn major and minor thirds and use 'em within yer scale. Instant "I know what I am doing."

Major scale with a minor third sounds "dark but transcendent"

[VOLVO)))]

It makes you sound like every nu-black metal band?

Sign me up.

[Lumpy]

Major with minor 3rd is kinda Eastern sounding. But Trad. Black Metal prolly stays all minor, no?

[mutantcolors]

Labeling your band as some offshoot of black metal because you have one dissonant trem picking riff, that must be some kind of hack since everyone is doing it now.

[agent of change]

[VOLVO)))]

Labeling your band as some offshoot of black metal because you have one dissonant trem picking riff, that must be some kind of hack since everyone is doing it now.

Yup.

[liquidsmoke]

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in riffs with normal power chords. It's like I've got one more low string. Makes the bass accompaniment a bit more complex though.

[mutantcolors]

You hear that one in High on Fire quite a bit.

That chord at 3:34 and 3:38 are the clearest examples that come to mind.

[jibberish]

find various  plastic bags, like the ones that new electronics come in as dust covers for keyboards and any control surfaces/mixers etc.
I like clear bags so I can sort of see the stuff, but a garbage bag stops the dust too.

when you use the gear, fold bag up and shove it underneath. when finished with project cover gear again.

may sound dumb, but when you grow an ocean of doo-dads with user-surfaces, they get gnarly seemingly in no time if always left uncovered. mixers with upward facing jacks really fill up with shit. i'm actually contemplating making dummy plugs just to fill unused holes on the mixer that I use like every day and it never gets covered. pretty lame having to try and vacuum out a mixer

alternately, the stuff could be stored on its side, but I would rather leave it all set up and just pull the covers-n-go.

[RAGER]

I use old bath towels for this and an old contour sheet works great for drums.  It just hugs around the cymbals.

[Lumpy]

Bagging seldom-used electronics seems like a good idea. I've got remotes, keyboards etc with a film of sticky crud, and it's a pain in the ass to remove.

[Jake]

mixers with upward facing jacks really fill up with shit. i'm actually contemplating making dummy plugs just to fill unused holes on the mixer that I use like every day and it never gets covered. pretty lame having to try and vacuum out a mixer

Very true. I've found that popping those cheap earplugs into unused 1/4" jack holes is a nice (and non-conductive) way to plug them up.

[RAGER]

^^Great idea!

[James1214]

I give you the greatest mod ever accomplished with electrical tape alone.

[VOLVO)))]

Seen and raised.

[Jake]

Although not nearly as clever, this is my hat hack...bro.

[mutantcolors]

Bass is guitar and drums at the same time.

Whoa man.

[MichaelZodiac]

^^ lolzz

When I first started playing bass, the advice I got was: "Do what the guitarist does but in the rhythm of the drummer."