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Good gig, weird crowd. First time out for the Godin Dorchester, an absolute beast of a bass, massive pickups, massive output, I really had to turn it down. A fun night and a long two hour set, so we were cooked by the end of it.

I've had my MXR synth pedal for about a month now and I finally got the time to try it out last week 😆 It's a great pedal and so much fun. I really wanted it for the Michael Jackson presst which is great but I adore the Hdrbie Hancock and Stevie Wonder presets more. The Sledgehammer preset is also really useful. However, despite it being an awesome pedal, I don't really have much use for it. I play fretless and I'm too much of a traditionalist with my chorus, octave and bit of reverb. So mine will be up for sale soon. Brilliant pedal though and very clever.

I ordered the whole lot new already, it’s worth it ! it’s too old anyway, the pots are also sticky/difficult. I know more about the pickup after dismantling it. so, the electronics are original, the serial nr indicates a special product for someone ? I’ll know more about the pickups after dismantling it. The battery is new, the output level is low. I do notice that touching the neck pickup/coils below the D and G string creates a big 50 hz hum. Which the other strings on that pickup and the bridge pickup don’t have, so some cabling could be damaged?

I saw it too. Limelight made me one a couple of years ago and it's really good.

Thanks @NickA and @SimBass really useful info. I think for at the moment, I'm just taking my EUB to an open mic/music showcase thing and playing for 20 - 30 mins so the Fishman sounds like it will be better suited for my needs. The main purpose is to act as a DI to the desk and the EQ. Having a tuner is a bonus and saves me needing to take one.

Is that with the string pressed down at the highest fret or unfretted? If the latter it's probs too close. If the former then that's about right.

That's just my point. Never mind the crackles, pops, etc. What does the music sound like? Look, I get it. You don't like vinyl. That's fine. Others of us do. We're happy for you not to. Why can you not be content for us to like it without trying to prove you're in the right and we're wrong?

Save Me - Queen

Guardian - Alanis Morissette

Thanks, will open it up sometime and have a go… I did give fx loop jacks a good clean a while back, and plugged them with these, but worth another look! Thanks!

I'd be very interested to know how these reissue Aria SB100 basses compare with the originals. I notice these Cliff Burton models are made in Indonesia rather than Japan where the regular SB1000 basses are made nowadays. Are the pickups and electronics ect the same as the original ones and do they sound the same? I'm showing my age now, but the SB1000 was a new model around the time I started playing and it was an iconic bass for me in those days. There were three (one in each finish) in a local music shop. I used to love to look at them, especially the one with a red stain finish. Oh, how I longed for one, but alas they were way beyond my pocket. Lots of top players like Jack Bruce were using them and reviewers (in the back pages of mainstream rock music papers like Sounds, not really any specialist UK guitar magazines in those days) said they exemplified stellar Japanese build quality that was putting companies like Fender to shame. Aria used to be a byword for quality in those days.