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On my bass pedalboard I have a Boss BC-1x compressor as an 'always on' pedal, and specific songs have distortion from a BB-1x. On one song I use an organ sound doubling the bass which I achieve with a SY-1 synth with CEB-3 chorus. I also have an AW-3 dynamic wah on the board which I like to noodle with but don't currently have a specific use for in the set.

Cool! Curious to know what those are used for - especially the one on the left?

These are Chinese made and, as people have said here, will need new strings and a setup. At £200 that’s doable. I usually recommend buying a bass that has been sorted (like the one I sold). A 4/4 is marginally bigger than a 3/4 but there’s no real set size for DB (I have two very large 3/4s, I’ve owned a 7/8 and a 4/4 and there’s little in it).

@HeadlessBassist exactly! Pay no attention to the RRP though. It usually sells more around £130-150.

That’s what I noticed - I would have bought the 3/4 size if that was reduced, I might still buy this full size one although I suspect it’s going to be too tall for my summer house/man cave where all my music stuff lives

I meant the super festival....doh

I would think the power module used in the TE 1200 is the same as the Peavey minimega amp....just an assumption.

Thank you. It is my original, Maruszczyk, custom build (33" scale, passive). It fell out of favour for about the last 3 or 4 years, as I was not digging fretless (except upright) at all, especially that MM fretless tone. However, I took it to rehearsal as I was feeling a bit sorry for it and, in a band mix, with some drive, it sounded awesome, bordering on Ric like. Since then I've used nothing else live. It's the easiest neck to play of all my basses and with the drive always on, I just ride the tone control for different tunes for everything from reggae and Motown, to full on The Jam, treble heavy, aggressive tones. I'm (currently) a very happy bass player.

Yep, mine were extremely sticky and a pain to use. Now they’re not.

I've been using the Melvin Davies preamp pedal since Summer for our duo sets when I don't use a combo. Creates a great sound overall, although you do need to be careful with the treble and bass controls when using an active bass. I haven't done any of the computer connection stuff as yet. It all sounds very complicated to me! But as a basic preamp at a relatively low price, it's hard to beat.

hey Do you think that the pedals released in 2025 will have the same hardware as the first models? Will the micro USB connector issue still be a problem? thanks

Ah interesting. For some reason I thought Helix allowed parameter assigns? Do you know if that is the case, if not be very easy to check with @BigRedX who is a bit of a Helix expert?

I'm not familiar with that specific A&H but, aside from the compressor that you say it doesn't have, is there anything else in that post that's out of the question? Personally I am not a fan of using, or even starting with, in built presets on digital mixers. I find that they really tend to over egg the pudding and I spend the first bit of any soundcheck just undoing what they all did. I just find myself wondering how awful the source has to be to need that much doing to it? In fairness the only mixers I really have experience of are my Behringer XR18 and several local venues that use the A&H Qu/SQ stuff so I am not an expert on multiple desks and perhaps other presets are better.