Quatschmacher

My discovery of today:

I might sell mine at some point…

Breath-controlled distortion pedal sounds like a great idea. This could easily be done with a Source Audio pedal and a MIDI breath controller.

How will these fare with touring musicians who need to fly? These are going to look funny in the liquids bag!

Finally a pedal designed to sound better when an audience member spills beer on it. Visions of a male guitarist visiting A&E with one of these attached to his Netherlands trying to explain that he was indeed only trying to fill it with liquid as he was “experimenting”.

Check your bass is set up properly too and you haven’t got really heavy strings on and/or really high action/high neck relief. There will be some discomfort until your fingertips build up some hard skin. I’d really recommend using double bass fingerings in the very first frets (fingers 1, 2 and 4 over a 3-fret space) as it’s a much more comfortable spacing, especially if you have a small hand span.

Any news on this @hiram.k.hackenbacker?

Some pedals track much better than others. Digital octavers track better than analogue in the main, but digital ones usually have a bit of latency compared to analogue. There are certain common dead spots on Fender-style basses, with C-Eb on the G string being the worst offenders; these cause tracking to be fairly iffy. The best-tracking analogue octavers I’ve tried are the MXR Vintage Bass Octave and Bass Octave Deluxe; Red Witch Zeus was also pretty close.

I know of another UK stockist who has one at £95, toying whether to buy it.

There is a tiny bit of audio bleed even when the FX knob is at zero; small but worth noting.

I participated in that thread. I like this one because it has a bit of relevance to the bass’s ubiquity and people’s attitude to it. I’m not averse to smut though.

I used Chromes on my Sterling for about ten years - the same set - which I loved. I had GHS Precision flats on the Stingray I sold recently and they were a wonderful match.

GHS Precision flats were like this too, the E string sounds nicely broken-in from the outset, whereas the others take a few weeks before they lose the zing.

“Cut any aśś rimming” is at the politer end.

The ones for “Musicman Stingray” are absolutely amazing, but many of them wouldn’t get through the profanity filter.