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I put these on my US Fenders, they certainly work and they give me peace of mind when changing strings that I`m not going to end up with a rattler. I may well have one that I`m not using, if interested PM me and I`ll check when home from work.

It's just another thing to buy and make room for. The solution I outlined would work better for me.

The first time I watched the video, I wasn't sure what I was watching. But I read your description, watched again and I get it! Impressive, and an interesting way to make music. In a way, not so different to our church band, except we have no tech, and play standing around the MD's piano so we can hear his instructions but the congregation can't.

You can add a small switch to cycle presets, I don’t really see the issue here.

DM me the address for the DCX and I’ll get it out this week, you can have it until someone buys it 😂 Bass Synth I’ll update you on when I know more.

That's my only gripe at the moment too, I may get one to 'set and forget' for a more generic synth sound, and then use my Future Impact to able scroll through more specific sounds easily.

Aw thanks! I really appreciate that.

Aaaah, so that’s what that is… cool. Beyond the limits of my feeble, aged musical brain, though. Though, TBH, I didn’t really see what that synth bass added to the arrangement that you couldn’t have achieved just as well by switching to a clean bass tone and playing sustained notes. Never seen the attraction of doubling on synth bass. In my old church, when we did EDM type worship songs a bass and some well chosen OD, filter and modulation pedals worked perfectly well for me. I guess that a Sub-Phatty has never been lurking in my future…

Well I’ve got the DCX for sale. There will be a lot of this, buying pedals I’ve wanted to try but have no intention of keeping, so the video and sell them on. It’s been quite fun even if most of the comments are…. Not really my sound but thanks 😂 I’d try the Lusithand Rosa next as I liked the tilt eq of the diamond but don’t really need the compression. I do love how these top mounted jack pedals look on a board though.

Sounds great Chad 👍

I can send you a DCX Bass and maybe the MXR Bass Synth (I’m in the process of buying one but not in the UK again until end of August)

I've been thinking about getting one of these for my US P bass for a while, the only place that sells it for a price I would pay is Thomann, but you've then got the £10 shipping fee and I don't really need anything else expensive enough to get it to the free shipping level. Anyone have one fitted to their bass? Is it worth having? I'd be putting it on the A string to try and get rid of the weird rattling overtone noise.

Yes, I watched some of her vids where you can hear her talkback feed. A lot of US churches I see bass cams from seem to simply programme the songs into Ableton (or similar) and just follow the robot voice and click track. It’s clear from those vids that she’s actively MDing a live band, calling repeats and transitions, calling dynamics, controlling some sort of tech with those buttons to her left… all very impressive. And so it’s music with the ability to flow as needed rather than just follow the pre-programmed, rigid karaoke track. Watched one where the voice was more audible than on the Revelation Song video above and she was giving instructions along similar lines of, “…repeat that section… …again… …OK, take it to the one chord and hold… …build… …c’mon, build… …chorus, two, three, four…” I love the organic nature of that band leading and the flexibility it gives to work a tight arrangement but allow some spontaneity. And yes, only 24 years old 😮

Nice vid - it’s tough to do compression vids on YouTube as they add so much compression themselves when you upload but you get a sense of what the Diamond is about from this. I’m gonna buy one of these or another Lusithand Alma next time I’m feing flush and one comes up for a good price. I fancy a DCX Bass too, but I may just buy a Valeton GP-5 for £68 and run the NAM captures from Tone3000 on it 😁

Origin Effects DCX Bass With the flat wounds this is a very subtle effect with very little being affected in the high end (mainly because I don’t have any). I quite like the eq mode, od mode doesn’t really do it for me, but it’s a pleasant enough transparent drive. I have another video I’ll try and post tonight where I use it to really push the Diamond compressor and get some really squished tones with a bit of grit and that’s really nice. And that’s probably the thing, on its own it’s a bit uninspiring but it plays well with others if that’s your thing. With the other stuff I had lying around I’d grab the Kasleder Freaky Stone for it’s eq over this and the Beta or Beta V for overdrive sounds. So all in all 🤷🏻‍♂️ yeah

This guy - https://northwestguitars.co.uk/products/hipshot-style-string-retainer-for-bass-guitars (odd that they refer to it as "Hipshot style" when it's nothing like a Hipshot string retainer, but let's gloss over that). Just thought I'd throw this in there in case you had pre-existing screw holes - this should drop right in...

The discontinued version of the Diamond Bass Compressor Jr. I have it running at 18v, I maybe notice a slight difference between 9v and 18v but it felt quite heavy handed with the compression so I upped the voltage. Listening back I think it sounds great, I can still hear that envelope of attack to the compression. I’ve since been able to get similar out of my Punchline but I can also get more subtle limiting with that. It’s definitely something I’d consider owning again but at the moment I’m not a huge fan of compression outside of a studio setting and if I need it for tonal purposes then the Punchline scratches that itch (and sooner or later I’m going to stop trying to replace it 😅)