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I approve of those choices, except for the sunburst/black combo. Mid-to-late '70's Fender is a rational prejudice as far as I am concerned. I hope you didn't pay a lot of money for it!😄 If you like I could be really annoying and ,regail you with what I could have bought that bass for back in the eighties (£200 tops).

I thought that it was a good feature that if you wanted it can be used as a guitar/bass tuner, and use it live for the amp sims and effects (including xy screen), so could feasibly be a decent enough guitar/bass multi fx for one gig and with a different band use it for samples etc. Feels like they are nearly at the point of being able to do it all.

I’m thinking of maybe having the dots like this on my bass. I’m visiting Overwater next week so I’ll make my decision while I’m there.

I certainly don't see that with the Akai (I have a Live 2) - all the jack sockets (it has quite a few) are full size and it is pretty solid (ie, you could injure yourself on it), and although it does have a 2 pin power connector, it does have an internal battery with > 4 hour life so its good for a gig. It has full size USBs and normal protected SD slots, and 5 pin midi sockets. I would have no problem using it live (and thats what I have it for), and I would note that Akai MPCs are used very routinely by touring groups. Ultimately I am not sure what you would do for it from a bass point of view, I can't see what that brings, even if I can plug my bass into it (which obviously I can), mine is there for triggering samples, sequences, even whole sections of music, which i would do either by midi for a sequence of by hand on the pads.

Tort, white, black, gold aluminium - you pays your money and takes your choice. Some folks will love some of these and others will hate them.

As anticipated, there is about to be a new Nord Electro 7: https://www.musicradar.com/music-tech/clavia-unveils-nord-electro-7-with-fully-fledged-synth-section-redesigned-interface-and-much-more Looks good, main thing being a synth section and Organ sound updates. I'm still very happy with my Vicount Legend One choice though, not least as it is £1k cheaper.

Still laughing at the Carol Kaye crack!

Nice one, it's a shame these don't seem to be quite there for live guitar/bass stuff. (and if you decide to sell the 404 Mk2 give me a shoult as I'm interested in it from a sampling and drum machine perspective). As the MPC and the SP 404 Mk2 both have guitar inputs and live effects - including guitar sims they seem in theory to be almost there, and the new KAOSS pad has guitar input so they have at least given some thought for how it can be used to live process the guitar/bass. I wouldn't expect any of them to be as good as bass specific multi fx for that specific thing, but with them being able to also work for effects with keyboards, vocals etc and for the MPC and SP to also work as samplers and drum machines and sequencers has me interested. I expect though that with this current hardware it is still probably cheaper and more efficient to get a bass/guitar specific multi-fx with footswitches, and if I want a hardware sampler or drum machine then to get them separately just for that specific use. It doesn't feel too far off that there will be something that does cover all of the things well enough for live bass effects, they seem to basically have the processing power to do it - it's just how it is accessed, a simple way of adding midi footswitch integration to change through presets would be important.

Nice, good to see that it works, I was considering doing the same with mine, but was worried how much it'd stick out from my ear, didn't want to look like a pillock. Assume all good?

Yeah, fortunately neither are peeling yet, and I think given the lack of any kind of heating, cooling or humidity control in the gear store where their trunk is parked, if it was going to happen I'd have maybe seen the signs by now.

I checked with moderator Ped if posting this is okay. Thank you Chris for the green light. The Best sounding bass pickup of all time is the Gibson low impedance stacked humbucker that was used in the Les Paul Bass between 1968 and 1979. At least in my opinion. 😉 I really think they're amazing. Extremely silent. Magnificent dynamic response. Tight low end. Chrystal clear top end. And very versatile. For years I roamed Ebay and Reverb to score them to put in various bass guitars. But last few years they've become as rare as hen's teeth. And when you finally do find one the prices are astronomically high. Many times I tried to find a pickup maker who can replicate it. And many of them said they could. But in the end they all had to admit they couldn't. Until recently! I joined forces with Mike Rose from Gemini Pickups in Wales. I sacrificed an original and carefully dissected it. The pickup revealed its very unusual architecture. And step by step we reverse engineered it. The Brooks Gemini was born! I installed the Brooks Gemini into my Epiphone Jack Casady Signature bass. The bass previously sported an original Gibson lo-z humbucker. Here's the video demo of the Brooks Gemini bass pickup: a faithful replica of the low-impedance stacked humbucker that Gibson used in their Les Paul Bass between 1968 - 1979. Bass played by Dutch rock royalty Ivo Severijns. Straight into the desk. No compressor, No amp, No speaker, No speaker simulator. Just an honest registration of the sound of the pickup. What you see is what you get! Enjoy!

I have a Candian built Super PJ. It's fvcking phenominal! Plays like a dream, feels amazing and sounds brilliant. My only slight niggle with it is the P bass pick up is just a little too polite! But I do like dirty sounding P basses. I've thpught about selling it a few times as I don't play it as much as I used to, but everytime i pick it up i change my mind! This is my actual bass being reviewed, I've porbaly posted this on here before!

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I have experience of the Boss SP404sx , SP404 mk2 and an older kaossilator . These are really for home use into a computer imho , or clubbing DJ’s FWIW, I started off on the Boss SP202 which I still have . Love it for its direct simplicity . I then purchased SP404sx which is still easy to use and has lots of great effects , plus loads of sample time . Still looking for original 1 gb boss sound card . I then purchased the SP 404 mk 2 ..and haven’t used it ! Only to update it last April ! It’s too much for me , but is fantastic if you have patience and enjoy menu diving ! Boss give free software updates on the 4/4 annually. I should really give it ago as it has usbc , works with iPad and pairs with the iPad koala app ! As for the older kaossilator , I won it in a bid on eBay ! No power , and seller soon had it returned ! It looked cheaper , and felt cheap and nasty and left me disappointed . Well it would have done , but luckily I dodged a bullet and got refunded in full . Cheap plastic rubbish