fretmeister

The OC-5 is excellent. If you can find one. Worldwide stock is very low due to supply chain issues.

The jump between notches on mine is far too much. Maybe they are all a little different?

Sonny T (Prince, Cory Wong etc) started that way. Now he has a custom Warwick left hand, strung the wrong way. B on the bottom.

Rehearsal this morning went very well. It wasn't quite the workout I wanted as our drummer was missing due to covid, but it's still pretty loud band. Very happy with the tone. On board compressor is fairly crap. Probably better if I was sticking to 1 way of playing but as I swap between fingers, pick and slap the differences are too big for the single knob compressor to deal with. So I'll keep taking a pedal. And after some more research it seems that swapping the notched volume control for a smooth one is 5 mins easy work. Definitely be doing that as it's annoying. Great sound though. Pre Shape OFF, Slight scoop with the EQ, and just a smidge of drive. Very happy!

I did! I thought about blowing loads more on the Berg HP, but then I thought - I'll try something a lot cheaper and with legendary customer service first. I have a rehearsal tomorrow - can't wait to try it out.

I've had a few chats with Dave over the years - I'll send him an email and ask.

I've got EMG's 1mm from the strings. It's quite a high output! I only got it this morning so I need to figure out how to set it up properly. Lovely sounding thing. I'd love to swap that notched master volume for a normal one though.

Why is there a (I think) Green LED behind the VU as well? What is that for? Or is it just for flashy nonsense?

I now have a lovely RM800 Evo2. What the smeg do I do with the VU meter? EDIT: has anyone swapped the notched master volume for a non-notched pot? It’s a bit fiddly if I want it halfway between notches.

Put a wanted ad up. I gigged a pair of One10 for ages and it was excellent. I wouldn't want to mix and match

I was lucky enough to see him live. One hell of a show.

I love mine, and I love my parallel fret basses too. it’s all good.

What a lovely thing!

9 year old thread bump. Weird.

i use an Audient iD4 interface into my ipad pro, and then Amplitube for the sounds / play along app. with whatever headphones are closest at the time.

The Sandberg Basic is active, but it has a bypass and one of the knobs turns into a normal tone control when in bypass. It's a very good system.

Sandberg do a passive VS as well as the active one. Musicman do 2 The Joe Dart - just a volume control Mike Herrera (that has 3 knobs but they are dummies)

I bought Andy's Ampeg Compressor and it's very nice. Arrived very fast and I took the risk of using it at rehearsal on the day it did. All good! Thank you.

In that case I wouldn't bother at all (unless you just want to have the amp because it's fun!) Go direct - use one of the many Ampeg plugins and tweak as much as you like after you've recorded the part already.

What's the rest of the recording set up? 99% of bass recordings are direct, with plugins these days.

I quite like the look of these. Demos sound really good.

I've asked no end of dimension / weight questions to a variety of shops and the only shop that always goes out of their way every time is GAK. They've been ace for that sort of thing.

I'm silently judging you for not getting four 8 ohm cabs to do it properly.

I'd caveat that - if I'm actually getting a proper pay packet then I'm happy to be staff.