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Incredibly, yesterday I called up Bass Direct and they assured me they had some in stock, I ordered one and it just arrived today as promised. Colour me impressed! Thomann still can't guarantee a delivery date after having been paid for the pedal two months ago - they just agreed to process the refund. Now to get to grips with the pedal!

Good idea and it works! I did the same for a Zoom B3 a while back. As for the price it seems fair as it's recent enough from launch so likely as new.

Where'd you find it and how much was it Andy, if that's not too personal a question!? My Thomann order status still says 3-4 weeks (I paid for mine on 12th October) as it has been for over a month and when I chatted with them today they now pushed out the "we get stock" to 9th of Jan. Well it was Nov, then early Dec, then late Dec. How long is a piece of string with these guys. So I googled the pedal out of desperation and it said the usual, that these pedals were available from multiple UK vendors, so I clicked on a few (to find out they haven't got any), then tried one more for luck and Bingo! The magic words "In stock" appeared (it feels odd to be excited by those two words, but it's been a long wait and rigmarole). A quick phone call to them confirmed the good news and they had my order in a few mins. What surprised me is that Thomann with all their pull couldn't get any or enough (they assured me, that only those presold to customers before me had gone out in the past two months, so at least their queing system is working, just maybe too many people bought in hope there) whereas Bass Direct said they got 30 of them recently. It's a lot of money for a single pedal though and new territory for me (as I've gone only for inexpensive multipedals before, Zoom B3 and Valeton GP-5).

Thanks for the tips. A week ago I installed replacement Lakland pickups and had the opportunity to reseat the new cables, check the jack socket wiring etc. I'm not keen on replacing batteries so often, even when they are fine, though I will do it for the more important gigs rather than take a chance (it would be not cost effective to put a new battery in for every gig! - hence thinking about rechargables, ideally if they can be charged in place, from what I see that is not possible with NiMH (more stable voltage) unless I get some funky wiring set up, but would be with Li-ion.)

No Tim, I always unplug (and rarely forget) when I stop playing. I do play every day. What I meant by that, is even short terms breaks in playing (going to the loo, making a cuppa, answering my wife when she interrupts me 😉) I take the cable out.

Hi, about a year and a half ago I bought and installed a new (version: Volume/Blend/Tone) J-TONE into my Lakland JO5. Although it's been stable and I can mostly get the sounds I want, I'm pretty certain I'm not getting the best out of it yet, nor is the battery life great. If you have or have had one, what are your impressions? How much tweaking did you do? Do you use Passive often and when do you? Are there some pedals or other things in your chain that doesn't like Active being on? Things I'm considering getting into rechargeable batteries and installing a permanent charger extension cable neatly into the bottom of the bass through to the cavity fully trying out the various adjustments that can be set, interoperating my amps and IEMs frequency wheels plug-in tone cap bass control (boost/cut or boost only)

My J-TONE preamp eats batteries like noone's business! Maybe 10 in the past 18 months, I've lost count. I do use that bass (Lakland JO5) a lot though and try to limit battery drain by removing the instrument cable at every opportunity. I bought good quality batteries from Amazon and Thomann, but still they seemed to last a couple of months at most. I'd like to give rechargables a go. has anyone installed a USB extension cable, neatly, into their guitar so you can simply plug a 5V power cable into the body? If so, any tips? reading through the answers it seems good quality NiMH 9V batteries help reduce noise and maintain 9V for longer than Lithium Ion, is that what people are seeing now with recent batteries?

Really high quality synth sounds, the kind I'm looking for too. Will see how the MXR handles them. A crazy thought, but is there any way a lightweight, affordable system could use light, electronics or EMR to be a superfast way of pitch detection based on finger placement, touch etc that could be input into the synth engine?

Just watching it from my feed and wanted to know about this guy and basschat is up there in the search results. His tone and playing is sublime. It takes some balls to do this as well, a whole orchestra behind him, wow. The music flows into some really cool sounds with beautiful chords and rhythms.

Anyone bought one recently? Thomann just pushed back delivery again of my 12th October order, to end December.

Yes @Al Krow a couple of bass pros I follow use synth bass and it would be handy for ultra-funky lines (eg Stevie Wonder, Soulive) for the attack and very short notes. I'm right handed and would use my right, so a short KB would be fine and would be fun. As others have mentioned already the extra gear is off-putting and definitely not necessary for the dep gigs I do, which the MXR Bass Synth pedal should be more than enough for. As it is my compact pedal board will need reorganising which I didn't plan on doing, but want to get two signal chains combined (synth & non synth) so will have to get a new board anyway. Need to adapt my playing to get the best out of the pedal, which will be a challenge, but hopefully won't take long.

The sellers are having unexpected problems getting hold of these and sorting out who gets them. I ordered one on the 12th Oct with Thomann (exp 3-4 weeks), then two weeks later I checked and it said (exp 1-2 wks) which was on track. Last week it jumped to (exp 8-9 wks). I called them up and was told they have a longer list of people who've ordered them, than what they are getting in. Some will get there's sooner, maybe me too. It seems they've not got their automation sorted, given that they have all the data - and a friendly phone call might be just the thing to ensure that you don't get bumped down the queue, by any carelessness. Still I'm looking forward immensely to getting to grips with the pedal and using it on dep gigs especially. Like others, have considered a bass synth keyboard but my regular bands don't think we need one yet.

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I ended up going the splitter/mixer pedal route and just ordered one of these... Thanks for the tips. I'll be keeping a watch out for phasing anomalies.