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Breaking The Law - Judas Priest

Thanks, interesting about the pedal, might look into that

Smash It Up - The Damned

I Love The Sound Of Breaking (the speed barrier) Glass - Nick Lowe

Supersonic - Oasis

This awesome...

Over the years, I've video reviewed or tried out pretty much the entire EBS range, sadly not a Fafner! I think in terms of clean tone, they may be quite similar, but the Fafner II does have a separate drive preamp' section wheras the 802 does not. The EBS MicroBass III takes those elements from the 2 channel Fafner and squeezes those in to a pedal, so I would assume that having an 802 and MicroBass III would do just the right amount of damage. I do really rate the MB3 too. {edit} then I scrolled back up to the top of the post and reminded myself you have the Fafner I, so, in that case, I'd ponder that the 802 can "get" the Fafner tone along with all the other extras on board. I have to say, I love the two semi-parametrics in the pre, rather than just the one on many amplifers. (My favourite amplifer has 4 making it happy with every bass a throw at it)

Yes, me too. I have a 34” scale Sigma ABG and have the same issue of being 2 frets sharp if I’m not concentrating. The answer for me has just been practice and regular use at our weekly village guitar club where I back local singer - songwriters. I’m usually doing a mixture of playing by ear and watching their hands as I don’t know the songs so it takes my mind off focussing on myself and I’ve just got used to it over time. I doubt a short scale would give me the tone & volume I need acoustically.

They strike me as a sort of bastárdised Bellowhead/Fisherman's Friends mashup without the appeal or the ability of either. And they make for quite horrifying reading.

That 802 looks amazing, much of a difference to the old Fafner do you think?

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For IEMs, I prefer to have a limiter in the chain somewhere before noise hits my ears too, especially useful for those bands that get louder and louder as the night goes on! Your ears will thank you!

Ultraviolet - U2

I love my Trace Elliot, it just won't do both my cabs at the same time, I was looking at using a PPA300 and the preamp out from my AH300, too much hassle though, and that's when I came across the Fafner. I'm just getting used to the settings on it, I backed off the drive at the last gig because I prefer a clean sound, think I have the mids where I want them and it sounds pretty good to me now. Not too bothered whether the red light works or not, if it packs in I probably won't worry about replacing it. Any brand of tube you'd recommend for the preamp? I have a feeling I'll only have enough room for the Super Compact at tonights gig so I'll see how it goes into 8 ohms, I'm pretty sure it'll be plenty loud enough!

I cut my strings at a random point somewhere near (but not too near) the end. I hope that helps 😀

This little guy arrived earlier today and I'm already in love! It runs a 6AS6 valve and sounds great as a drive, a boost, etc but I reckon I'll use it more as an always-on pedal when going direct to add a bit of warmth. Ordered from Netherlands on Thurs and on my doorstep Saturday morning, not bad! https://www.singularaudio.nl/shop/tubedrvepedal/

I’m late to this but have just stumbled across the SP1 5 string on Bass Direct’s website so I’m looking forward to playing one. I also need a light bass - just under 9lbs ideally - but this is ticking a lot of boxes for me.

Thanks all - this is good stuff. I like the idea of filtering out the clatter!