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Warning - I've not tried this but as a suggestion, you could use the new MS-3 with a looper pedal to set-up and layer different loops with effect combinations. It's not cheap but it's got a ton of switching options...

Think a few people have been waiting for this... a first comparison with the Zoom B3: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qcnF4tub84U

Good (but brief) demo from Dawsons... shows off a couple of patches and the looper: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IwqwPsnvt0Y I asked in Dawsons - in-store ETA in about a month (as of this post).

It's sort of a neat little model that you go more rootsy as you get older. I think there's less of a scene for rock and you get less credible as you get older, fatter and balder - ramping up the hair-dye, leather and eye-liner to compensate. These factors are less of an impediment for blues and jazz as the more gnarly you are the better... If it were Middle-Earth, Elves would play rock, Orcs blues, Goblins jazz, and Hobbits folk. And the Humans would play prog. Because it's Middle Earth.

Chap here demo'ing some of the presets... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A7tf7AZLKFA&t=5s Can't say I'm terribly impressed... I wouldn't rush to use any of them out of the box... Hoping the unit is better when effect chains set-up to individual preferences.

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Many overdrives for bass allow you to mix the wet overdriven signal with the dry uneffected tone to preserve the low end. Check out the Darkglass Vintage Deluxe pedals or Two Notes Le Bass pedals for example. These provide great always on grit and EQ options.

Right so now Boss have brought out the GT-1B... so less loop switching options but a built-in expression pedal. Hmmm, which one also GT-1B half the price of the MS-3. Anyone know the difference in effect sound quality? See related thread: http://basschat.co.uk/topic/307691-boss-gt-1b/

Came across this vid of some user created patches... best vid so far: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IPMmiSS0pDk

Owner manuals and patch list up on the Boss site: https://static.roland.com/assets/media/pdf/GT-1B_parameter_eng01_W.pdf Looks like a good selection with the ability to change effect order.

Some more vids: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PwzN5BsMW3o https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D20RIGV2fn8 Andertons have it on at about £190.. Demos are a bit iffy - some uninspiring squeelch-o-tones on offer. But looks worth a try.

I live in Leamington, like Hadrien and am keen to support Bass Direct but had a Mug Shot and a Caramac instead. Was he good?

He's doing a social club in Leeds. Hope the members turning out for a pint of mild with a couple of comics, a drag act and then a few strippers are prepared for Stanley's face-melting fusion...

Basschatterers, So... 4 finger pluck propels me up a scalar line nicely up this pentatonic line: E-string: C (RH T), D (RH 1); A-string: F (RH 2), G (RH 3), G# (RH T), A (RH 1); D-string C (RH 2), D (RH 3) All one in two nice RH T123 sequences. What's the best way of coming back down? I'm using: D-string: D (RH T), C (RH 1); A-string A (RH 2), Ab (RH 3) G (RH T), F (RH 1); E-string D (RH 2), C (RH 3) That's seems to carry through the 4 finger RH patter but you have to separate your left hand direction mentally from your right hand. What would Matt Garrison do? What do you do?

What about a Heineken with Hadrien? http://www.bassdirect.co.uk/bass_guitar_specialists/Home.html So many fusion bass players and nights out, and beers... what's going on?

I did say I was a newb on this... I have my looper before my Triple-delay to generate content for the soundscape. That's why even if I switch my looper out, the delay is effecting my real-time playing.

So Effect-enabled BC'ers, I'm new to the world of effects beyond stomping on a chorus or an octaver. Recently I've been getting into creating echo-driven soundscapes with a looper and delays. Currently I record these and then play over/under them. What's standard practise to do this in real-time? I.e. disconnect from the soundscape generating effects, letting them play on whilst switching over to my Two Notes LeBass grit tone for bass/solo duties? Would the new Boss MS-3 be good (expensive!) solution which could give me more options? Please advise...

Andertons peeps review including bass - clean and grunge: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q8AQeY3_t9c&t=1566s And some other reviews here too: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fqxxfPTnH48 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x3c8sL72b_Q https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-JNy5L3yVQY&t=32s Plus some the first couple of a series of set-up guides... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rBaXLCMHt7E https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aX2WB6fUkwg&t=4s

There are some formulas out there... I don't think 'Mustang Sally' is catchy so much as it's familiar and dare I say it even expected of live bands. One formulaic hook I'm hearing all the time at the mo (Katy Perry especially) is the 'yeah - eh -ay - eh' across the 5th and 3rd of a major alternately. See 'California Gurls' Catchy to me is Pharrell Williams' 'Happy' or Daft Punk's 'Get Lucky' which are both seriously good songs. An analysis of the latter here: http://alexbaileywriter.com/why-daft-punk-get-lucky-is-catchy/

So all due respect to some wonderful music brought forward in this thread. Teen Town a special mention. So I get the groove aspect - Patrice Rushen's 'Forget Me Nots' being a great example. What about a longer form line - much, much longer: one that develops into a stunning crescendo against the prevailing music backdrop, one that has humbling musicality that alas we'll never get back: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J6QJ-z6fDEQ

OK so not matching all your options precisely but in the spirit of your question I post this... https://www.premierguitar.com/articles/25611-bass-oddipreamp-pedal-roundup

Prog! Glorious great gobs of righteous melodic and harmonic music: Chris Squire, Geddy Lee, John Wetton; Greg Lake; all the greats... Also Allan Holdsworth; Keith Emerson...

Wow! is there still a musicians union!?

EDIT oops sorry - just read the critical word 'set' so I can't help directly. But try the Strings Direct site as they seem to have pretty-much everything!

Yes stunning guitarist - seem to remember him on Rockschool demonstrating his technique of riffing whilst highlighting certain strings to accent parts of chords. Apparently Bernard suggested it to him. Anyway he took it to immense levels on things like 'Le Freak'. That is a great guitar part and I can't imagine it's easy to play. One thing that gets overlooked with Chic besides their great bass/guitar skills is the chord sequences and string arrangements on the Chic hits (e.g. 'Everybody Dance') which they took with them to other artists when they produced: Sister Sledge's 'Forbidden Lover' and Carly Simon;s 'Why'. Not sure if that's Nile or Bernard or both?