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My Favourite Waste Of Time - Owen Paul

This isn't necessarily the bass that you will receive as the seller looks like a drop shipper. i.e. they don't have this bass to sell and will order it from China when they sell one on Ebay. Probably cheaper to go straight to Aliexpress and buy one from there with a Fender logo on it

I very much agree with this. I have a Stomp too, and it’s an amazing tool, but it’s use and calibration doesn’t bring me joy like messing with a bunch of individual pedals….so yeah, got to go with what adds fun to your tonal journal! For sure! Si

The Same Mistakes - Cooper Temple Clause

My opinion on all of this is this it’s more likely an issue with all the drive pedals you have. If you’ve come from playing guitar, then those pedals may not be voiced brilliantly for bass. What effects/drive pedals are you using? Honestly, all the amps you mention are of similar quality and have the ability to get a good tone, they’ll all sound pretty similar with fairly small EQ changes. The Markbass for example, some people talk about the MB ‘character’, but with the filters off, I’ve my LM2 on an oscilloscope, and it’s basically flat. Anyway, all that to say that a preamp pedal likely won’t resolve the issue, not least because not all FX loops are created equally, some are post EQ (great for bypassing the amps preamp and just making use of the power section), but some are pre EQ (like Markbass), meaning a preamp pedal whether in-line with the amps input, or placed in the FX loop, will simply be adding additional EQ to the amps EQ. So, my personal advice, pending knowing what other pedals you’re using, would be to buy an amp that you can take around to all rehearsal rooms, because a consistency here will help IMO. Then review all your drive pedals in the context of that one amp, and start building a tone you enjoy! Si

Musically, pretty solid. What worries me is my bandmates gear - or lack thereof. Our guitarist especially isn't equipped to gig, his pedals are just "every knob turned all the way up" and in a bizarre order, and powered by a daisy chain that feeds back terrible. We run silent stage with in ears and it means he blows out our ears when he stomps on his distortion, the whirring hum sound of it is unbearable. The drummer has 2 cracked cymbals and given how hard he hits them I am worried that the rip he has in one will get bigger and bigger until a shard of metal comes loose and flies at my head. And none of them own their own mic, then complain that the house mics at the rehearsal room aren't the best. Easy solution to that problem folks!

Coming from years of experience with other Dingwalls (including Supers), if this is truly the one thing that’s keeping you from bonding with the SP1, I‘d suggest wiring the bridge pickup itself in parallel (I’d assume it’s in series from the factory to be able to compete with the P-pickup - can anyone confirm?) You will lose output, but gain clarity and highs - which I understand is what you’re missing at the moment.

Could you talk me through the Morningstar? I'm seeing them more and more these days but I'm totally uninitiated with midi

This.^ If it is shelf ported you could run it through the centre, slap new sides on and call it good. That would only work for a tall skinny 210 as opposed to one that is squat with diagonally mounted drivers. You want to maintain the cross sectional area amd length of the ports, half the area for each cabinet. Half the original cab volume each.

Do It Again - Beach Boys

Which mx5 do you have? I have a mx5 nd (4th and current generation) and can tell you that a barefaced 110 cab does fit in, two barefaced 110s will not fit in the mx5 (nd) boot so a barefaced 210 will not either. Some 112 cabs may fit but I would definitely check first if you can. I would expect that many 112 cabs would not be able to fit in. I believe the nc boot is a little bigger.

Actually Music Ground was a pretty good shop back in the day when it first opened just outside Doncaster in Stainforth. A old Co-Op shop, it was rammed with guitars and amps, new and s/h. It then moved to Doncaster town centre, then some of the staff left to establish Electro Music which was IMO the best music shop in Yorkshire / The North.

A good one. That's both sets sorted. They threw some unexpected arrangements at me tonight and I had to cope on the fly. We finished by jamming Need Your Love So Bad. Typical Peter Green song - sounds like a standard 12 bar blues but is very different. Amazed myself by anticipating the chord sequence and even managing a bass solo - I've never played it before. TBH that's as good as it gets 🙂

I’m mostly a P guy all the way and wanted to try the P+J settings both in series and parallel on my SP1. I just couldn’t get along with it, sounds very humbucker-ish to me vs a more traditional PJ(for reference I like the Yamaha BBP35 PJ tone). J tone solo I got no problem, I can get a nice fat Jaco-ish tone. It’s just the PJ setting. Anything I can do to make it sound at least closer to a traditional PJ? Will changing the config to vol vol tone make a difference or do I have to change bridge pickup that has different character which I don’t mind.

I'm not sure which of my basses is 'the best' but I tend to take a couple of my JMJ mustangs to gigs as they sound great, are easy & comfy to play, and I probably wouldn't notice if they picked up a ding or two. My Ric 4003 and Gibson non-reverse thunderbird would probably be considered better basses by some, but I'd be gutted to get either one dinged.