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That's his very old rig from 13 years ago. He now uses a Helix for the drives / fx. The Helix will take to entirely different signals and can process them separately. Billy even lent his favourite Pearse Preamp to Line6 so they could model it and include it in the Helix for the rest of us too. He runs the helix into amp heads - often those Hartke ones, but sometimes whatever the local backline company has available, and into a bunch of Hartke 1x15 Hydrive cabs. Of course the cabs are really for onstage monitoring. The Helix can supply straight to Front of House at the same time as feeding the amps. It can even send different versions of the signal. So no cab sim to the amps and real cabs, but add cab sims on the feeds to FOH.

The parts for my P with a J neck project are slowly arriving. The last thing I need to get is a neck. There are loads of 20 fret Fender Jazz type necks about that will fit a standard Fender pocket but I would really like 21 frets if I can, just so I can have that high E. It's quite useful. Can anyone recommend a suitable neck? Already fretted and with a nut. I'd prefer not to spend Warmoth money if I don't have to. ta

I've done this with a Yamaha Attitude that has 2 outputs automatically and with a Status that I heavily modified to have 2 separate pickup systems. Different outputs on the bass going to different amps. My original rig for this was a Hartke HA3500 head with a Marshall VBC412 cab for the highs / FX, and an Ashdown MAG400H and another Marshall VBC412 cab for the lows. The highs had a wah, drive, phaser, filter, compressor. The lows had an octave and a compressor. With the Yamaha I used the neck pickup woofer to the the lows and the P to the highs. The status was JPJ and the P went to the lows and the J pair to the highs. The lows were EQ'd to be much like a neck pickup sound on an EB0, thick and plummy. The highs had boosted mids and a lot of low end cut so there was less competition for sonic space with the low amp. I later changed the rig to a rack set up. I had an Ampeg SVP-BSP preamp for the highs / drive that was also able to mix clean and dirty, and then a Line 6 Bass Pod XT for the lows, but that could also do a clean sound with whatever else. So effectively I had 4 different tones, blended in pairs. That lot went into a Yamaha P5000S power amp and into a pair of Hartke 2x12 cabs. I loved both versions of it. Being able to control the mix from the bass was brilliant. These days I tend to use just one rig with pedals that have clean blends but they really are not the same thing as getting a multiamp rig set up right. The secret is note decay. All the blended sounds must have the same note decay otherwise it sounds like different sounds rather than 1 complex one. Compression is the key - making the cleans decay as slow as the driven sounds. That needs a lot of fiddling to get right. It was completely awesome. If I had roadies I'd be all over it again.

This. I have both an Ashdown (RM800Evo2) and a Mark Bass and used them with Barefaced cabs for ages until I fancied a cab change. They both work very well and can sound thick and old school with sensible top end that isn't brittle / annoying.

There are plenty of examples of people educated in the area who nevertheless reject it.

The worst kind of click bait then.

Never heard of that for bass. Only for the expected.

I don’t think an oboe could do it either. That might be the only valid argument for 432 I’ve ever seen. Horrible sounding things!

There’s a huge amount of horseshit about 440 being “evil” and 432 being the natural harmonic of the universe. its bollocks. Tune to whatever reference pitch you like. Just don’t expect pianists, wind guys and just about any other traditional instrument player to invite you to play!

That would be good. They do seem to be on a release spree at the moment with the Klon and the Tone Bender over the last few weeks. Fingers crossed!

https://guitarbomb.com/unleash-brassy-beast-behringer-bass-brassmaster-fuzz/ Nice!

I've had two, a Dingwall ABZ5 with 37-34 inch scale and an Ibanez with 32-30. I didn't find any tonal advantages at all and as at the time I was playing in a big band with transposing instruments and I needed the low C and F quite a lot I found that quite an annoying stretch over the course of a gig. I'm glad I tried them, but ultimately they are not for me.

Yeah, but I recently quit my band so it would just be for the lounge at the moment!

Well, I’ve had it for a little over a month and I’m still loving it. I’m doing a lot less EQ fiddling than I was with my old cabs, most of the time I’m leaving the EQ at the 12 O clock position apart from reducing the bass when I turn it up louder. I doubt I’ll ever need a second cab to have a vertical 4x10 but it would look very cool….

Whole Lotta Rosie. AC/DC. I was on guitar. Would have been in about 1989 maybe 1990.

I got the guitar version as I play both and the clean amp with a compressor is fine for bass. The bass specific version has a drum machine though. I’m playing way more now as it’s so convenient.

Boss Waza Air headphones. Amazing things.

Congratulations!

Nah - that's exactly why phasers are so good.

Very nice! Nice and light too. I really must try one. I only have 1 long scale left now.

There are loads of great options these days. Barefaced, Mark Bass, GR. They all sound a bit different. I've recently come back to Mark Bass after many years with Barefaced. I'm very happy with it - I got one of the new 102 Energy cabs. I was going to get a pair and do a vertical 4x10 but one is plenty loud enough.

Moojerfoojer.

The amp sounds good. The advert writers / director need to have their skin removed and then their flesh covered in jam, and then termites set on them.

J all the way! He must be a drummer.

When I get strings for a 5 I tend to buy a 4 string set and then a separate B in a slightly heavier gauge than would have come with a set. Just to get a slightly stiffer B and have less movement and rattle. Seems to work for me.