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Good to hear that a bit of tinkering has made your setup sound better! Orange make good bass amps, especially if you're looking at playing heavier stuff, and they'd be perfect for you at some point. The only reason they likely haven't been mentioned is your budget and current playing situation. If you're just using the amp to play at home then you don't really need more than a small 15w combo. I have a Fender Rumble 15w and it's a great little amp that I'd happily recommend to anyone, it's one of these: https://www.andertons.co.uk/fender-rumble-15-v3-bass-amp/ TBH, anything like a Fender Rumble, Ashdown Studio, Ampeg Rocket, Orange Crush, Laney Digbeth etc will be perfect for home use. Keep it in the 15-25w range as anything else for home use is overkill. If you have your eyes on gigging in the next year or so then you'll need 250w minimum, so it might be worth picking something up that's a bit bigger and louder. The stuff like the Trace recommendation above will be perfect and will sound great, they're just a little out of fashion so tend to go on the cheap side nowadays. I'm not sure what Orange stuff is within your budget at the gigging level, probably not much unfortunately. I had an Orange Tiny Terror head and it sounded huge, so I'd definitely recommended it, but you're looking at £580 new and that's just for the head, so you'll need to buy speakers on top. If you're looking at pedals to add a bit of spice you have a few options. Seeing as you're a beginner then you could pick up a multi-fx unit like the Zoom B1four (£90 new, or £100 with the expression pedal) there are a few benefits to this like - it can be used as headphone amp so your practice setup is nice and compact and it'll have a ton of other effects to play with eg. tuner, preamps, distortion, fuzz, phasers, wah. You might not use 90% of the effects on there, but they're a good introduction to pedals. If you just wanted to stick to a cheap pedal to add some grit (not heavy distortion - but that should be OK depending on what sort of heavy stuff you play) then you can't go too far wrong with a Behringer BDI21. It's £20 new and is a clone of the Sansamp Bass Driver DI, so you're talking Ampeg in a box and you'll be able to get a decent tone for heavy stuff.

The problem is when they insist on pre eq DI only. So, just dry. So, obviously any effects or distortion aren't worth including then. Or, at least in their viewpoint it seems. It always fills me with dread when I see some crap, no name DI box lying on the stage with a sticker with "bass" written on it with a sharpie. You know exactly the conversation you're going to be having.

Lovely! Stacked controls are a nice touch and a great alternative to having more than two single controls. I would probably prefer a pickguard-mounted output socket though seeing as the usual position for one is free.

Use TWO of those Elf amps?

It sounds like a good setup. I don't get the uproar earlier about the soundperson 'dictating' the sound. Nobody said the DI signal you give them has to be devoid of FX and other tone shaping options. I don't recall the last gig I played where I was NOT DI'd. I sometimes get mic'd and DI'd, but the DI is always there. I also have a pedalboard and the sound engineer gets that, no question. So... I don't get what the problem was :shrug:

Nope not clicking a rumble link for the same reason I don't do twitter any more

I doubt that. I went to both a few months ago and BB is a much smaller operation (they're in a smallish unit on a farm site). No disrespect to BB - I bought from them because they had the instrument I wanted and BD didn't - but they deal mainly in used and have much less stock.

I have since found that if I connect a guitar cable between my wireless receiver and the input of my mod dwarf (or boss ME90), it then becomes completely noise free. So it just seems to need the full filter network of a guitar cable to remove the noise!

Frankly I doubt most people will see it, you turn up unannounced on a forum, and post a link to a dodgy website saying 'heres my video', only a very small percentage of people will click it (luckily, no way should you click something like that - I used a browser with all the defenses and private mode on so it couldn't do any damage). Ultimately music is about what you feel, and if it makes him happy then so be it, that is enough for art (although judging by his other videos he doesn't seem very happy), but it is like some people i know that paint who are objectively terrible. it makes them happy to paint, it just makes other people less happy when asked what they think!

I bought some strings for an acoustic bass from Joel and instead of what I wanted he sent house bricks then hid the money in a secret Swiss bank account behind the vengeful wrath of PayPal - then he sent a message full of laugh emoticons entitled “can’t touch this” to Hammer the point home. * never again ** * not actually true ** ditto

Yes, it was formed as a 'video streaming site where videos can't be censored', so basically hate speech

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Is there a dedicated socket for such a footswitch? If not you'll probably have to use MIDI. You will need to check the manual's MIDI implementation chart (usually somewhere near the back) to find what parameters can be controlled by MIDI and what MIDI messages are required.

There was that time someone posted a very competently played funk cover by a bunch of talented Japanese ladies and still only a few people liked it, tough crowd here @aeonspromise

Possibly we are not your target market - average age here is 94, and the grumpy version of it (irony, btw)

We often run sound ourselves, and we'll be using an X32 Compact. Has anybody got a footswitch that could be used to turn a delay on/off and to set the tempo? I imagine that it's possible via midi but I'm quasi-illiterate when it comes to midi.

The shop isn't moving, just the warehouse, a few units closer, and bigger.