Gareth Hughes

9 minutes ago, P_bass_1983 said:

Damn looks like I missed this!  Been after one for ages… knew I’d regret selling the one I used to have! 

Exactly the same with me. I have two Precisions that I love, but I still miss this one.

And here's a video of Danny playing the bass before shipping it out to me.

Hey Folks - up for sale is a Bacchus WL434 in Metallic Green. Colour is like a sparkly Sherwood Green, with a little bit of teal in it. Bass is in 9.9/10 condition. NOW £575

The details:

34inch scale

Rosewood fingerboard on maple neck, with matching headstock

Smaller jazz body - like a Sadowsky or Warmoth Dinky J

Single Coil pickups

Passive vol/vol/tone with their Turbo Boost on the tone pot - pulled up puts the pickups into series mode

Weight is a hair over 3.8kg

Comes with unused Bacchus gigbag 

Only recently bought - sold three jazz basses in the last 12 months and started missing them, but I'm just accepting that I have turned to the Precision side of life for my fretted needs. Bought from Danny at Bass Japan Direct. In his opinion, and I agree, he feels these are on par with Fender Japan build quality.

Haven’t owned one, but I did play on a few in a shop in Japan a few years ago. Beautiful necks, can’t remember much about the weight - though the body is slightly smaller/slimmer, that probably helped with the overall ergonomics. I do remember coming away being really impressed with the preamp - and I don’t like onboard preamps at all. There was something very integrated about it, like it was really a part of the sound instead of just hyping certain frequencies. And quiet too. I have their TriLogic II and III pedals, the same preamp that’s in the basses. Quality stuff.

The FX loop is great for a volume pedal - my main need for upright bass - and would work on something that can pad the input. I just found it too hot for the overdrive pedals I have.

39 minutes ago, Jus Lukin said:

The Fishman Platinum Pro EQ has a tuner and one knob comp in one standard 9v unit. It also has EQ with HPF, and a notch which is handy for feedback issues, and a variable boost, which may or may not be useful to you.

I keep recommending these to people- it's about time I bought myself one, I think! 😄

Plus one for the Fishman Platinum Pro. A truly versatile unit. Perfect for my upright needs, and almost perfect for electric. It loses one point for me as I want my overdrive after the compression. Yes, there is an effects loop that comes after the compression, but the output level is pretty high making light overdrive near impossible.

Still, for a clean electric bass sound, the 4 band eq plus the HPF is great. And the tuner can be calibrated. 

And for one final really useful feature - there’s an input boost on the side which is really helpful for basses with low output.

This thread under yours just now might be worth reading:

This might be of interest to you bass/Bach folks. On upright bass, but you’ll get the gist.

http://www.chrisfitzgeraldmusic.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/Bachrilege-Prelude-complete-score-1.0.pdf

I was futering with mine last night and noticed the same - it does require a solid push to turn on and off, more so than other pedals but not enough to cause concern, IMO. As for the click - I have it at the start of playing, and then after turning on/off multiple times in the course of playing it disappears. I’ve had many pedals do this over the years so, again, no cause for concern, IMO.

How are you finding it? Is the quack to your liking?

As much as I have a thing for white basses, that new paint job is lush. Job well done.

Love the grunt out of that. Very impressed indeed.

1 hour ago, Dood said:

 

Ok, cool, I'm on it.... 

Some serious arm twisting needed there Dood 😀

Hint. Hint. 😜

I’d be very interested to hear this on bass.

1 hour ago, paul_5 said:

The single best bassline for testing envelope filters, although ‘sir psycho sexy’ is a close second.

 

 

Ha - I had considered ‘Mellowship Slinky in B Major’.

Forgot to add the signal chain - Fender Player Precision > Ditto Looper > Nano Q-Tron > computer. No eq or compression (not that that isn’t obvious 😀)

9 hours ago, Quatschmacher said:

Clips please. 

And here you go. Rough and ready but hopefully enough of an idea of what's going on.

29 minutes ago, Quatschmacher said:

Clips please. 

Can't - having much too much fun playing to stop and record something

I'll try figure something out over the weekend - not the most technically minded here.

Oh, and on a side note - my Nano Q-Tron arrived today.

In short: YES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

1 hour ago, Quatschmacher said:

By that token I could buy another bass as I sold one last weekend. 

Exactly!!! And the defence rests its case.

7 hours ago, Quatschmacher said:

Actually maybe not as I’ve signed up to the gear abstinence thread. 😱

But if at the start of this week you have, say, 10 pedals - then you sell one and buy the Q-Tron, then at the end of the week you’ll still have 10 pedals. I think that still qualifies for abstinence club membership. 😀

I still look forlornly at my Mini sitting on the shelf and have to resist the urge to plug it in. My speakers would never forgive me.

2 hours ago, Happypants said:

Anyone got one yet?

Thanks for the reminder - just ordered.

I’ll be the odd one out and stick the tuner at the end, so COMP > DRIVE > PRE > TUNER.

The tuner as a mute at the end is like a comfort blanket for me. Doesn’t feel that way if it’s at the start. I do know there is zero logic in that.

You could go Modern Vintage 😀

Check out the reviews from Ed Friedland and Hondo Felder. Ed’s video is about a J but it’ll give you an idea of quality. 
 

I have a Modern Vintage Fretless Jazz - all good, and feels plenty old and worn in - the neck really is a beautiful thing.
 

9 hours ago, DawnPatroller said:

Offensive metal lyrics is just art and theatre. Nothing more. Don't overthink it, it means nothing. It's just music.

Slayer's Sex Murder Art is up there with the Cannibal Corpse stuff for offensiveness:

 

"Take my fist and violate every orifice"

Well! I thought you'd never ask 😍

Just goes to show how some things others deem offensive can go over your head. I’ve been listening to ‘Sex Murder Art’ and all things Slayer since I was 10 in 1987 - for that particular lyric I’ve only ever heard the line from ‘violate…’, never once noticed it said ‘Take my fist’. 

While we’re on Slayer, I’ve never found them offensive in any way. And in ways that they could be seen as offensive, I think it’s no different that watching something like ‘Schindler’s List’. I don’t find that movie offensive at all, but I’m certainly never watching it again, it’s so damn disturbing. But there lies the point - it brings out attention to the truly disturbing things in real life, same as ‘Angel Of Death’ or any of the many serial killer songs Slayer has.