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Moved the focus to an owners club, here

With this being the most popular at launch bass-specific pedals for a long time, I'm surprised how little chat there is on BC about it, given how many of us either have them, or want them, or have already sold theirs! * in Sept 2025, I put up with a 2-month delivery with Thomann, then they pushed out out another 2 months then weren't sure. Luckily in Dec, it turned out Bass Direct had some and they delivered within a day or two. * as, of this post, there are 10 sales in the BC effects classifieds. They are going like hot cakes, even second hand - meaning also that some BCers have reasons to let them go. The thread that announced the pedal here... My first early attempt to generate interest (this will be the second and last - someone else may have better luck 😉, but maybe this might prove useful🤞) https://www.basschat.co.uk/topic/521054-mxr-bass-synth-sharing-custom-presets-experiences-tips-settings/

Memory's a funny old thing, innit? I honestly have the world's worst memory for names, faces, facts, lists, situations etc. You name it - I'm crap at remembering it. I even went to a hypnotherapist many years ago in a desperate attempt to improve it... fortunately, I did remember to go😉 but, It didn't help! However, I can remember trivia and... song arrangements (thankfully). To the point: As has already been mentioned, "repetition" is the key! The best method (already mentioned), which I'm certain will work for you - record your rehearsal and then go through the songs at your leisure, at home. You'll be amazed at how quickly the arrangements will be etched in your brain. Personally, I wouldn't rely on charts - you may find yourself over reliant on them... a kind of psychological crutch. But, use whatever method gets you confidently through the gig.

My KZ ZS10s worked much better last week after buying the foam ear tips from Amazon as recommended on the IEM bible thread. Finally was able to reliably here the kick and certainly a low E - will try them with the five string next week although imagine it will be fine now.

Oh yeah duh!

Au = aurum = gold. Rok = Rok!

Funny but its become a popular song in our gym with several people of all age groups both male and female singing along. Weird but also good to hear it played. Dave

Now that was good. Impressive guitarist. Dave

reminds me off this! Does it play like a $6k bass....Errr

In Blind Test, Audiophiles Unable to Tell Difference Between Sound Signal Run Through an Expensive Cable and a Banana. https://futurism.com/robots-and-machines/blind-test-audiophiles-cable-banana

Behind Blue Eyes - The Who

Hmm.. tricky one - not really got much new that is interesting. Obviousy I have my £62 jazz, and a polyshifter XS1.. I guess I will have to bring some older stuff unless (perish the thought) I buy anything new

My wife sings lead vocals in church and I play bass, we found all the KZ phones to be not sounding great, or in my wife’s case far too big for her tiny ears. So we bought the Sennheiser IE100 Pro IEMs and they are really small, lightweight and seal really well. Not cheap but I got the ones with the Bluetooth option so you can run them wired or wireless (for just listening to music) so they are pretty versatile. I know everyone recommends the KZ range but they won’t suit everyone.

Ta. I've edited it with my updated details.

Quite a show on Saturday night, I played with a symphony orchestra! A local symphony had a "Swingin' With The Symphony" concert at a lovely theatre in North Bay and our band was part of it. The first half was just the symphony playing arrangements of some swing tunes and jazz medleys and then the stage was rearranged and set up for a big band in front of the symphony musicians. The seven members of our band formed the core of the big band and it was filled out by symphony players and some community musicians so we had 4 trumpets, 4 trombones, 5 saxes and a 3 piece rhythm section. We played 9 songs and what made it different was that the orchestra director actually took 7 of the big band charts and wrote complete orchestrations so on most of the songs we were a BIG band with the full orchestra backing us...fantastic sound but for us it was odd hearing bassoons and tympani parts in swing tunes. The audience of about 600 loved it and although I had one senior moment I managed to get most of it right, no room for mistakes when you are reading orchestra charts. The conductor occasionally sings with our band and that is how this whole thing started, he put in an enormous amount of work writing all those orchestra parts but they all worked well. I used my Shen SB100, NuX wireless to a Schatten Design preamp with volume control and my Traynor SB112 amp and because of the excellent acoustic qualities of the hall I didn't need anything else, I had plenty of volume even at the loudest orchestra parts. Good music, good players, good hall added up to a memorable night, I'll remember that one for a long time.👍😃 Edit: The first photo was just prior to actually playing and it looks like I play lefty but I was just standing in an odd position.

Yeah he's a great player. I like the idea of stacked tone/vol for each pickup

Sonicake Levitate, the delay/reverb they do. I got it for £30 from Reverb and I am genuinely surprised at the overall quality, sound and build wise are great, not just for the price bracket! Simple and easy, a little simple but can get some lovely spacey/ambient tones 👌