Members mlwarriner Posted September 20, 2005 Members Posted September 20, 2005 so in case you missed it, i now own what used to be Rowka's JAF. very nice bass, extremely well built. EMG pups and pre. i got it on thursday, but was busy over the weekend, and was unable to play it until tonight. plugged in, tuned c-g-c-f just like i did with the stingray, and went into the first song. something didn't sound right, but my guitarist is a tuning freak, so i knew he was on. after the first song, i went back to the tuner and retuned. c-g-c-f, just like normal. still wasn't right. went to the guitarist's tuner (mine's a korg rack tuner, his is a boss pedal tuner). both tuners agreed that i was right on, but it still wasn't right. i had to play everything up one fret to sound right. went back to the tuner and tuned c#-g#-c#-f#, and now all is well... anybody here ever have this experience with EMG pups, or have any idea why this might be happening???? please and thanks!
Members sunburstbasser Posted September 20, 2005 Members Posted September 20, 2005 EMG pickups, regardless of how much they color your tone (or don't), will not bend the pitch a half step. No pickup can do that, that would require something like a digital whammy. One way or another, your guitarist either somehow got tuned a half step sharp or something just flat out weird is going on with your tuning. This sounds like a mechanical anomaly to me, and not an electronic one. Are both tuners calibrated to A 440, or at least to the same A or Bb?
Members mlwarriner Posted September 20, 2005 Author Members Posted September 20, 2005 i can't speak for his tuner, but AFAIK, mine is calibrated correctly. it worked just fine last week with my stingray. it worked fine for 2 years with my ibanez. it didn't work with the JAF...
Members Sixgun77 Posted September 20, 2005 Members Posted September 20, 2005 been using EMG's on and off for about 13 years and never ran into that.
Members mlwarriner Posted September 20, 2005 Author Members Posted September 20, 2005 bump for the morning crew
Members fretless Posted September 20, 2005 Members Posted September 20, 2005 hmmm , so if you tune to C and he tunes to C you are flat , sorry I don't know and it sounds odd to me , did you do a setup / new strings etc. ?
Members mlwarriner Posted September 20, 2005 Author Members Posted September 20, 2005 Originally posted by fretless hmmm , so if you tune to C and he tunes to C you are flat , sorry I don't know and it sounds odd to me , did you do a setup / new strings etc. ? no new strings, no setup. just pulled off the e and replaced it with a b. then tuned c-g-c-f. did the same thing with my stingray and it worked fine. some reason, the JAF it didn't...
Members fretless Posted September 20, 2005 Members Posted September 20, 2005 I don't mean to imply the bass needs a setup either , I just can't understand how strings tuned on the same tuner can be 1/2 step off . though I have experienced an active pickup with boosted eq not reading very well , did the tuner act normal or was it all jumpy and missing the note ?
Members mlwarriner Posted September 20, 2005 Author Members Posted September 20, 2005 Originally posted by fretless I don't mean to imply the bass needs a setup either , I just can't understand how strings tuned on the same tuner can be 1/2 step off . though I have experienced an active pickup with boosted eq not reading very well , did the tuner act normal or was it all jumpy and missing the note ? it may very well need a setup, but i doubt it. it came from Rowka, and I think he's pretty particular about his basses. i don't understand it either. the tuner was working just like it always does. maybe just a very very small amount more jumpiness, but nothing i was concerned with. and the guitarist's boss tuner was fine. not jumpy or "missing" at all.
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