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Panicked at Rebellion when setting up, no volume from the bass at all, due to start in less than a minute. Hadn’t pushed the jack plug from my lead fully into the tuner.

So, some compression chats are expanded...

This bass simply demands a crank handle.

What if it's an instrumental?

Just my two pennies. In one of his videos, Billy Sheehan said he would spend some time every day just noodling around on an unplugged bass, learning something new about the instrument, technique, etc. every time he does. I've been following his advice since as much as I can. I think it works. It doesn’t matter how good (or bad, in my case) one is at playing the bass, or understanding what exactly they do. It may well be just playing four notes per string or the like. I reckon, it’s a good way to get a feeling of the instrument. I'm sorry if it doesn’t sound very understandable. Another thing is to learn how little of pressure one needs to do with their fretting hand. Someday, I started to play some passages like Tony Franklin (it wasn’t my intention, it just happened somehow), with the thumb of the fretting hand under the neck. It might be considered as a bad technique, but it helped me.

It annoys me that they don't all come with one, I got very lucky on here and found a discontinued RokSak bag for my BH800 which fits perfectly, everything else I saw (and I looked for ages) was slightly too small or way oversized.

@Bluewine @dclaassen @Mustangbass87 amongst many others

I get that. One small step at a time

Finally sanded by Xavier Armenta.

The Artefakt seems uber cool. I've been considering one myself. NOTHING gets the tone of the foogers though... but they're also massive, colour your tone even when bypassed, have awkward power needs, cost a fortune, have temperamental foot switches and and and a million other downsides. But they are cool

every time ppl start talking about moogerfoogers it makes me want to start collecting pedals - they are just cool. I have the past-fx 101 clone - and am tempted by a SA Artefakt that can do most of the functionality of most of them.. maybe not them all together

It’s a bit quiet over here, just @Baloney Balderdash so far…. Mine’s on the way, taken on a life of its own really.

It's more of a tremolo, that adds various harmonies to your sound. It's similar to an arpeggiator, but due to the tremolo depth (if set deep), it cuts your core tone up into strange choppy textures. It's a thing you need to hear in detail to explain. Here is an old track, from the band that used the massive board I shared earlier. This track uses the old 2-pedal slicer (in the intro and again later, but more subtle). I share this because it uses the same filter-y octave tone as the one in the video, which is why I think it's a slicer. The depth on this one is low, so the bass tone underneath isn't being fully chopped up, but you can hear the similarities. Badcode Babble - https://ourhelicalmind.bandcamp.com/track/barcode-babble-ft-duke01

its a tremolo basically over the notes you"d get from something like an arpeffiator and its super hard chop square wave if you want it to be

Great spot thanks. I'm not at all familiar with the slicer pedal, but it does sound pretty cool! In what ways does it differ from an arpeggiator pedal?

The Clusterflux is the one I miss the most. That whole ‘time slow down whale noise’ it can do with some knob twiddling (or expression), is utterly next level. Best Chorus I ever used by far.

think your right and i two miss my moogs! might need to bring back the Clusterflux tbh

Some stuff I heard at Rebellion last week: