My last gig was a week ago and I thought I sounded a little distorted compared to before.
I had changed the pedals ony board, so I assumed it was down to the Locobox Compressor, which only has Level and Sensitivity controls compared to the Level, Attack and Sustain on my Belcat, pushing V1 harder in my Sound City.
My next home practise without the pedalboard proved me wrong. I reduced pickup heights a bit and ordered a CTS pots and Jack socket kit from eBay.
The CTS gear arrived today and the pots are bigger than the previous Alphas (I had to widen the holes in the control plate too) and feel a little more robust to turn, but they sound much the same.
And the mild overdriven sound is still there, so it may have always been there. Perhaps a pickup upgrade is next on the agenda, but that will be a long way off unless that are about to fail
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The JB101B pickup is fairly overwound compared to either the JB101N or the own brand versions.
The DuncDes JB101N is supposedly based on the American-made Seymour Duncan/Basslines SJB1N. The JB101B is a halfway house between the SJB1B and SJB-2B.
Erm, how old are the valves in your amplifier?
The issue is definitely not my amp, leads or pedals as I have plugged via a Beringer BDI into my interface and PC for personal practise since I noticed the issue at the last gig.
If the problem is in the bass it can only be something like a crackle caused by a bad connection (which could be in a pickup, but won’t be both of them so if turning off the neck pickup doesn’t stop it, it’s not that) or something like a whisker of wire wool on a polepiece - that can sound like distortion. Sometimes they’re quite hard to see.
"Take these three items, some WD-40, a vise grip, and a roll of duct tape. Any man worth his salt can fix almost any problem with this stuff alone." - Walt Kowalski
"Only two things are infinite - the universe, and human stupidity. And I'm not sure about the universe." - Albert Einstein
"Take these three items, some WD-40, a vise grip, and a roll of duct tape. Any man worth his salt can fix almost any problem with this stuff alone." - Walt Kowalski
"Only two things are infinite - the universe, and human stupidity. And I'm not sure about the universe." - Albert Einstein