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I consifdered the MPC keys, but then realised the stuff I needed was preprogrammed so got an MPC Live!

Rockin' all over the world? Not if she's in the band, you won't be.

I like some of the other basses in that link . This one though ,looks like a copy of a 1960’s Tesco bsss imho. A bit more glossy . Not for me . Each to their own etc .

I have had two basses from Jabba, but only one now and I will have to sell due to ill health. I would like to contact Mr Gut, so wouldn't mind some help, Please

Just depends what you’re doing with it. If I’m doing a dep gig and there’s stuff like Thriller/Another Part of Me by Michael Jackson or I just can’t get enough by Depeche Mode (these are examples that I’ve used this pedal for in the last month) but you’re just hired as a bass dep, then nobody will expect (or want!) you to turn up with a key synth unless specifically asked for, but it’ll almost certainly be better received if you can play the bass part sounding more authentic with this. If you’re in your own band and have the time and willingness to do all that then I don’t think anyone would argue that an actual bass synth like a Novation or something would sound better, but where its not practical or where you need to just play bass I think this is excellent, but you have to ask if it’s really necessary to carry/setup more equipment when you could get 80-90% of the way there with a pedal, and just use your bass. For me if I turned up at a Dep gig (or even a regular gig) with a keys synth to play a few synthy parts I imagine I’d just be told not to bother, and told nicely to stick to bass 😁

Aye. Until you get some perv trying to upskirt you.

Oh yeah, you guys would be the first in line It's a very nice bass, a pleasure to play and very bright sounding. The only downsides are that I don't play the low B as much as a proper 5 string player and that it's a heavy bass. Otherwise, it's an absolute beast.

Looks like that's going on my Xmas list then!

Do you know I can't remember what I put inside, it's a cab I built live at the SW bass bash last year and 'finished' off with a coat of Tuff Cab when I got home. It still lacks a grille. I'll have a look inside when I get time. I've a particular set of views on waddding which is itself a complex and controversial issue in the design of hi-fi cabs. Go and read Colloms: High Performance Loudspeakers if you want to come out more confused than you went in. I generally favour using a fairly dense wadding stuck to the panels which reduces internal reflections within the cab and can also damp panel resonances. I'm thinking thick carpet felt or mineral loaded plastic foams here. the problem is extra weight which you don't want in a portable cab. I also use the white polyester stuffing you see in commecial cabs and which I rescue/repurpose from old pillows and duvets; such a skinflint I tend to staple this in to break up standing waves inside the cab so it fixed in the middle of the cab not hard against the panels. You need to make sure it doesn't end up covering the end of the vents in a ported cab though. If I have time I tend to use an iterative process of trial and error. If I hear a resonance or see it on a frequency response I'll see if I can kill it with wadding and i'll liten to the cab with and without wadding to see which I prefer. I have to confess to not having done this with this cab. Sorry 🫣

Yep, Vanessa Warwick. She was married to Ricky Warwick of The Almighty at the time.

I like playing Bass synth on a bass guitar and can certainly see the attraction to pedals like this and am tempted - but the more tempted I got the more I've look into it and am finding it difficult to look past the advantages to a small synth keyboard, something like the Korg Monologue, Novation Bass Station, Yamaha Reface CS, Behringer MS-1. I know it's an extra thing to take to a gig and probably needs a stand and the faff of wiring up to the PA etc. so there are definitely downsides, but on the other hand the upsides are they're just so much better at playing synth sounds (physically with the keys - playing chords etc and having on-hand parameter editing, and also sounds available etc), and most are a similar sort of price to the MXR (especially second hand). So I think personally, I'm going to go for the classic envelope filter + octaver + distortion + modulation pedal combinations for my synthy sounding bass guitar, and a small synth keyboard for pure synth sounds. (Then it has got me considering the MPC Keys 37 to also have drum loops and production stuff....but that's a whole different story!)

Or a rawk version of Strictly?

Very nice indeed! If you ever need to find a new home for it, you know where to come 🙃

Thank you so much man! Yeah the neaunaber is lovely. I use the wet or the tune down (chorus) and it sounds amazing so it isnt going anywhere 😎

Yessir! You don't want to know how much I payed for this, it was a steal!

What @tubbybloke68 said. I rarely need my second Monza but it is nice to have it for outside gigs to provide masses of clean headroom. It looks cool too.

people pay extra for the relic look 😉 not me, send it back. pretty shocking that it would be sent out in that state.

Thought I'd find an old D'Angelo clip.

decent amps have them built in; certainly don't need one with my PJB kit.

Yes - I use a pitch shifter all the time to cover off singer requests to "do this one x semitones up/down" - I ain't relearning songs, and I'm no getting a 5 string either!