{"id":164,"date":"2024-07-28T22:20:22","date_gmt":"2024-07-28T22:20:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/willkolb.com\/?p=164"},"modified":"2024-08-24T21:38:39","modified_gmt":"2024-08-24T21:38:39","slug":"i-bought-a-broken-bass","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/willkolb.com\/?p=164","title":{"rendered":"I bought a broken bass"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I bought a bass with rusty pickups without testing it. The guy I bought it from seemed like he knew it didn&#8217;t work so he threw me a t-shirt on the way out (probably as some moral compensation). Went home, plugged it in, no sound, bought pickups, swapped pickups, no sound, plugged in cable half-way, sound. I found out that this bass 1.) had bad pickups and 2.) had a improperly soldered line out. Already fixed the pickups and the line out was a polarity swap, so I fixed that just by swapping to a mono cable.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"718\" src=\"https:\/\/willkolb.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/MeBass-1024x718.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-168\" srcset=\"https:\/\/willkolb.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/MeBass-1024x718.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/willkolb.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/MeBass-300x210.jpg 300w, https:\/\/willkolb.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/MeBass-768x539.jpg 768w, https:\/\/willkolb.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/MeBass-1536x1077.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/willkolb.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/MeBass-2048x1436.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">&#8220;Ol&#8217; three string himself&#8221;<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Next tale here is that abelton has a built in tuner so I jacked into my focusrite and went to tune up the provided strings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"395\" height=\"195\" src=\"https:\/\/willkolb.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/image-56.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-166\" srcset=\"https:\/\/willkolb.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/image-56.png 395w, https:\/\/willkolb.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/image-56-300x148.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 395px) 100vw, 395px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p> I saw my E string was F so I naturally assumed that it was an octave lower (I had music playing so I wasn&#8217;t really &#8220;listening&#8221; to the strings). The second I turned it, snap, annnd I broke the E string. The rest of the strings ended up fine, I do have replacements but I was too anxious to get something recorded so I went <strong>hard <\/strong>with just ADG.  (By hard I mean as hard as a 16 year-old who just picked up a bass).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-soundcloud wp-block-embed-soundcloud\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"BandByGarage by Will Kolb\" width=\"500\" height=\"400\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"no\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?visual=true&#038;url=https%3A%2F%2Fapi.soundcloud.com%2Ftracks%2F1883193600&#038;show_artwork=true&#038;maxheight=750&#038;maxwidth=500\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Fun fact: this sounds like probably 3 \/4 of the last things I made just done with a bass instead of a synth<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I bought a bass with rusty pickups without testing it. The guy I bought it from seemed like he knew it didn&#8217;t work so he threw me a t-shirt on the way out (probably as some moral compensation). 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