My $$ was odd!!

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Played a couple of gigs over the weekend. On the second one my $$ wouldn't sustain which was really annoying.

I had to keep picking so the note could be heard. It was mostly the E string around fret 7 and 8. Friday night it was ok. Saturday night it wouldn't sustain for half a bar. I don't know what this should be put down to.

Any one have any idea what might cause this and how I can get around it?
 
!?

Only thing i can consider is a bad installed compressor.
 
sounds like a drea spot on the fretboard if it only affecting a few notes
 
but deadspots don't come out of nowhere. If there wasn't any such problem during the first gig... and... Warwicks with deadspots?! :shock:
 
boebl said:
but deadspots don't come out of nowhere. If there wasn't any such problem during the first gig... and... Warwicks with deadspots?! :shock:
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I never heard a Warwick, or any other bass, 100% free of dead spots.

All basses have dead spots, even basses with composite necks.

Some basses have dead spots much more audible than others
 
Might be the battey, put a new one and see :D

hope this helps :P
 
Finally got round to changing strings. Having played them in a bit I can definitely say that the sustain is better but still not quite so hot on the 8th fret of my E string.

I don't know if it was due to the acoustics of the room but it wasn't like the sustain faded quickly but it literally died.
 
My guess is that there was a resonant frequency that was basically phased with the note, which cancelled it out.

I played a gig with exactly the opposite problem, hit a certain note and it almost sounded like boomy feedback. I just moved my cab around a bit until it stopped. Quite often moving kit will radically change certain frequencies as the resonant nodes don't get a chance to build in the same way.
 
No matter how funny it sounds maybe it's not problem with your bass. As TK276 mentioned before it can be that frequency of your bass is "fighting" in that particular setup-up with something else. Or maybe it's problem in some other part of your equipment.

Or if you didn't have your eyes on your bass all of the time maybe something really strange might have crawl out of nowhere and messed up your bass :D


Do you have the same problem when you're playing your bass acoustically?

Have you tried it on some other amp?

Does it happen on both pick ups and with different settings on your bass equalizer?

Nevertheless when you discover what the problem was let us know!
 
Erm.

Playing it earlier I discovered that acoustically the sustain totally sucks on that particular fret. Amped up and having been playing around with the bottom dial on my x-treme as well and general things like that, it fades quicker than other notes.

However I did discover whilst mucking around that the sustain from that point on and up the neck on the E string it really isn't that good. Maybe half a bar before the note would be lost in the mix, yet the same frets on the higher strings sustain for approximately 2 bars. I did notice that further into the second octave of the neck sustain is reduced on all strings, but the E is the worst.

I am beginning to think being in drop C might be a slight cause of it. But even in strait D it is only marginally better.

I'm gonna try this on my other $$ and see if it's the same or not. I don't play it as often as I have it set aside as my back up bass (yet some how it has acquired more chips and scratches than my main bass!).
 
try dropping the LAN on the low note side just a little, and then raising the saddle on the E-string...
 
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