Kev

3 hours ago, Cosmo Valdemar said:

As a potential buyer I'd certainly like to know more about the necks 😆

Apparently, the Modulus made early necks were a myth (rrp of a modulus neck was almost as much as the rrp of the G Bass), and they are not actually carbon necks as marketed, they have a maple core with a carbon wrap.  

Still cracking basses for the money of course, but really interesting marketing choice from Peavey; the manual literally says it's a Carbon Graphite neck with no mention of it being mostly wood.  Crazy but there you go.

Still want it!  

Nice one for accepting the return and being upfront with the new listing, goes a long way to add a sense of trust to the community!

Hopefully nothing that a decent luthier couldn't improve.  I had a similar issue with a Warwick bass that got fixed up nicely.

4 hours ago, Okabass said:

 

Lost them, ordered new ones.

 

That must be quite a story, where did they go?! 

What was the situation with the replacement neck too?

1 hour ago, martthebass said:

Bass Direct requested I use my own Luthier and had EBMM send the replacement part directly to me. I will of course request reimbursement of costs….

Seems like an expensive way of doing it, BD used to use and introduced me to a guy based in Coventry for repairs and ive used him ever since, but as long as they do actually reimburse! Surprised EBMM don't have authorised repair shops in the UK.

9 minutes ago, martthebass said:

Because the vendor isn’t fitting it Kev.

Trying to keep dirty laundry private until it's resolved, or is there another reason why you're having to arrange your own repair for an under-warranty ~£3k bass?

41 minutes ago, martthebass said:

A new pre is now on its way from EBMM via UPS (so fingers crossed…..). Mr Shuker has agreed to fit it so here’s hoping it’ll be fit and ready soon.

Why are Shuker getting involved?

21 minutes ago, kodiakblair said:

You're confusing the G-Bass with the B-Quads.

 

Neither the G-bass nor the G-V had carbon graphite necks, it's a slimmer maple core with a carbon wrap. 

 

My old pal Ronnie was still chief engineer for Peavey when the necks got shipped to Bell and Carlson for wrapping.

Don't believe I am, different colour but the necks on the earlier ones looked like the one on Reverb here: https://reverb.com/item/48796534-peavey-g-bass-green-sparkle

Definitely carbon, I thought the later ones were carbon too but painted, not sure though!  The manual also confirms carbon necks.

Pretty certain this is a carbon/graphite neck, just not made by Modulus like the earlier ones?

Always wanted one of these, lovely looking bass.

1 hour ago, Sibob said:

I’m not sure I quite understand your first sentence?! In that case, you’re not making the amp break-up, you’re just introducing a drive circuit before it, which is then being amplified. 
The test would be putting a significant clean boost in front of the amp capture, and seeing if that drives it.

 

With no horse in the race, I too would not expect an amp capture to break-up, as it doesn’t have the information to do that in the same way a dynamic, controllable effect does, it’s just a snapshot of a single sound. I’d probably expect digital clipping (bad) before you achieved anything useable. But happy to be proven wrong of course.

 

Si

In terms of QC captures, I think there is a lot more to it than capturing a single sound.  Its effectively machine learning, the QC sends all kinds of signals into the device it is capturing for several minutes and "learning" what each signal makes the device do.  So, in effect it absolutely does capture amp break-up and reproduces it rather well.

I think the F# tuning is what many going for a 6 string NG would likely tune to over regular tuning to be fair!  But I agree you may want to look at removing the vinyl cover (or at least checking it can be removed cleanly) as its a little niche, don't remember seeing anything like that before!  

Sounds like at least another month before 3.2.  

On 06/05/2025 at 14:58, Dazm66 said:

So I'm interested in buying a Warwick. Either a Thumb or a Streamer SS1. There's one of each currently for sale that look around the right money, reputable sellers etc BUT they're  both around a 2 hour drive from me (in different directions).

 

Full disclosure is that I want a Streamer or a thumb based on the usual, super important and logical GAS reasons:

• they look really cool!
• They'll make me play and sound like Stuart Zender/Jack Bruce/any other fabulous Warwick endorsee!
• They sound great on all those YouTube reviews
• They use only the best tone woods
• They produce that legendary Warwick growl (whatever that is!)
• I don't have one
• Did I mention they look really cool!

What I've never actually done of course  is play either! I did have a 5 string Corvette, but these are different beasts.

 

Now I don't fancy driving 2 hours X 4  to find I don't actually like em, so I'm wondering whether there's anyone in my locality (Colchester and surrounding) who has either of these who would be happy for a fellow basschatter to have a noodle on it to find out if he really does want to part with a load of cash for either of aforesaid basses.

 

And then it occurred to me that this could be something that Basschatters might be happy to offer generally. I know that I would be ok with the occasional visit to try my gear.

I think you definitely need to try and find a way of trying them both.  They are really different basses, the feel very different to play and sound quite unalike, particularly the 5's.  No Basschatter will be able to help you with that stuff.

You can't go wrong with an SSI (think Spector, only with character ) but the Thumb is my favourite.  But they're unique marmite basses, for sure.

Lovely sounding bass, but the only thing I could think about is how much of a nightmare that paint job is and how hard it will be to keep clean and not gloss up 😅

Nice review though man!

2 hours ago, attackbass said:

Very much considering selling my QC, if I can get the right price.

 

I use a patch with a compressor, drive, delay and a phaser for most live stuff I do and then a patch that I use fro practice. It does seem crazy to me that I'm using so little of its potential.

 

It does sound amazing though but I watched the IMA video and some of the things he mentioned were things I felt about the QC.

So would the exercise be a way of getting some cash back but maintaining functionality you need, or are you looking for something else from the Anagram?

I've snapped back to my senses somewhat and realised that the QC does everything I need and risking a switch to a lesser unit on the basis of its size and bass specificness would be a bit of a risk.  I'd definitely buy the Anagram out of the two if I didn't have the QC, but i've not seen anything yet that would justify a switch.  I'm more just frustrated at the lack of bass focus with the QC.

1 hour ago, Terry M. said:

Sorry to dig this up again Kev on a Friday afternoon but what about nuances like pickup placement? Can you or anybody explain how acoustically you can tell if it's in P,J or Musicman bridge position without plugging in? I've not lost any sleep over this but I've just been in Andertons and played a bass acoustically until a staff member handed me a cable so I could,you know,plug in,and it came back to me 😂

Oh you can't really.  I mean if you're like me, your brain will fill in the blanks on that when you can see the pickup and where you're playing, but nah all I'm talking about is the general resonant quality of the instrument.  The more it resonates, the better it seems to sound unplugged, and that often translates when amplified.  Visa Versa, if a bass sound and feels dead unplugged, pickups don't do much to help. YMMV!  

11 minutes ago, MacDaddy said:

Interesting how "AI" is being blamed, rather than computers.

Those of a certain age may remember when computers became a thing in the workplace and the jobs that were lost, and disappeared, as a result.

 

And 2 things that should always be remembered in an discussion about AI:

 

AI is a misnomer, there is no 'intelligence', and it is definitely not sentient.

 

There is not one AI, it's an umbrella term for lots of different computer applications that do different things in different ways.

Indeed.  I can't remember anyone complaining in this vein about Neural Amp Models, or Quad Cortex Captures, amp plugins etc, yet all AI based.

I don't even know where the line is these days, in what is truly defined as AI.

35 minutes ago, binky_bass said:

I suspect you're probably the only person to 'download to try' then go and spend money on the same thing you've already downloaded. 

 

If you could provide the evidence for stating that illegally downloading music etc. factually provided income for the industry, I'd love to see it! 

It likely did, in the same way Spotify does now, given that we're reminded continuously that they pay naff all. 

People more switched on realise streaming services aren't about making money, they're an EXCELLENT free marketing tool, and invaluable for grass roots music.  But, like AI, that's another subject people get upset about.

42 minutes ago, Beedster said:

So @Kev, you're a moderator yes? Just checking

Last time I checked, forever appreciated

Just on the topic of my little joke that I presume you didn't chuckle at, it does still open an interesting debate as to why it is OK to accept an individual deliberately copying another person's/company's work for a profit without license, but a computer doing it anonymously for free is somehow abhorrent?  (presumably it is free and people aren't paying to do this, I haven't tried making a muppet me, as indeed I am already too much of one as it is) 

8 hours ago, 2pods said:

is this really just a cut down Quad Cortex for bass players ?

 

I'm just wondering if it's worth it along with an already purchased QC ?

FOMO is strong with this one, but i echo that running both wouldn't really be a great solution to get behind.  Cutting down to it could be anytime option, but don't know what the used market is like for QCs.  I'd want a good chunk of money spare at the end of it.

1 hour ago, Twigman said:

Do you count Squier and Epiphone as cheap copiers?

Where would you draw the line?

Not really, where would they even scan?

Sincerely hope none of the members crying IP Theft have ever bought a cheap bass copy before  

5 minutes ago, simisker said:

 

 

On a related note, why are all multiFX param controls knobs that can only be operated by hands? Why hasn't someone come up with one that uses rollers that can be operated with the feet?

 

 

With modern multifx controllers, they are very much designed to not need adjustment mid performance, scenes/presets and whatnot, so i'd imagine there's no market for that.

44 minutes ago, TRBboy said:

I would almost guarantee though that if you put the same pickups, in exactly the same position, and preamp and strings on any other bass, with the setup the same, you wouldn't tell the difference on a recording.

Big nope!

Unless they're EMGs  

It's getting dangerously close to a tone wood argument I'll admit  

28 minutes ago, Terry M. said:

I promise I'm not being deliberately obtuse here but I've heard this before and genuinely can't understand the point of testing a bass unplugged other than to get the feel of it. It doesn't mean you're wrong however so don't take it that way.

I guess its how the woods and general build of the bass resonates.  If its dead acoustically, that transfers through when amplified.  If its loud and alive, that seems to too.  The effect diminishes with active preamps and especially active pickups (I find anything with EMGs in the same positions sound the same).