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@ordep nice to see someone else with a GP-5 and MXR Bass Synth on the same board 😉. I can't see the wiring, do you have them in a chain? I do at the mo, but am going to build an experimental compact, nofrills 2nd board where they will be in parallel, not series, having got a couple of small AB/Y switches to do the job. I want to be able to blend the two sounds independently, without either pedal processing the audio of the other. Am I right in guessing lots of BCers have done this with two (or more) independent chains? @javi_bassist sure, its a simple and cheap** way to add PRE bass to my IEMs with, or without, the band IEM mix. Specifically the headphone amp (MA400) blends any incoming IEM signal (from the band IEM mixer or FOH, if available) on Monitor Input with a PRE bass signal direct on Mic Input from my GigaPro wireless receiver (it has 3 identical jack outs + DI XLR). Via the back patch panel, my board outputs PRE and POST over DI: usually POST to FOH and PRE to the band IEM mixer. As my IEM transmitter has stereo inputs, theoretically I don't need a mixer, because it could be bass on L and band on R, but that wouldn't be anywhere near optimal, as it would offer no personal mix control and some gigs there is no band IEM signal. Here's a schematic of the audio flow. ** cheap The personal IEM TX/RX was a second hand "the t.bone" off eBay for £65 and the MA400 mixer was £15 new.

I'll try them, thanks. Yep the J-Tone has a passive mode switch, which works really well and has saved my bacon a couple of times. Oddly with the passive on, active off, a jack in the socket still will drain the battery.

I use Procell batteries for my motorised TRVs (heating) and they are excellent. Luckily I'm retired now @tauzero, hence the high hours. Making up for lost time!

Personally I'm loathe to cut a big hole into my bass for a battery socket, if that's what you mean. If you mean a charge socket, then yes, I'll be seeing if that's viable: * try a rechargeable to see if it can power my preamp without significant noise * If it can, then fit one of these into the body, discretely * If not, stick with disposable batteries and swap in a known sufficiently charged battery for every gig.

For now, rather stick a brand new battery in for every gig, I'm keeping one "gig only" battery and swapping that in for gigs, then out again afterwards for non-gig batteries. All other times outside gigs it's no big deal if a battery dies, so changing my process might just solve this for me, but I'll give the rechargeables a go. If they don't work out in the bass I can use them elsewhere in electronics projects and tools.

Hey C, playing wise so far I've had to pay attention to playing cleaner, with no unintentional touching of other strings. Also fast descending runs can lose tracking after a notes, so I've been careful and made small adjustments to the bassline to avoid that. I've l not a great deal of experience with different pedals having relied more on the natural tonal range of my basses, preamp in one, the backline EQ, etc. However I've got into multipedals (tried out and stuck with a B3, now a GP-5) for simplicity and chaining them together didn't sound great, so I'll be gigging next with the Bass Synth on its own signal path, then recombine with the other tone (I'll be using two AB switches to achieve this).

Thanks all. I play 20-30 hrs a week, so maybe 15-25 weeks on a decent battery then. It seems like less, so maybe I'm playing more than that The bass is switched off when I'm not playing it (the preamp turns off when the 1/4" jack is removed). @tauzero I'm glad you asked! I'd not looked deeply at the capacity before, many sites didn't give them. I've tried a variety, my last set are these Thomann batteries and they seem to last longer, though it is hard to tell objectively as I don't log my playing hours and daily it can be 0 or 16+ depending on deps or gigs. I'll try John again. I'm playing, approximately, 15 times more than you per week, so maybe lasting a couple of months sounds reasonable. I've got a couple on their way to test, just in case. I suspect they will add noise, but it they miraculously don't, then I'll consider making a small hole to accommodate on bass charging.

Yep, what @tauzero said. Now you mention it I'm tempted to put one of those battery holders in the back, but I'm loathe to do any kind of customisations to the wood of the bass.

Hi, I go through batteries a lot (yes, I take out my cable when not playing) and am thinking about putting a rechargeable battery in and carefully routing an approriate USB-C extension cable through the body with the socket tidy and flush with the bass surfece, intending to simply plug a powered USB-C into the socket. It would be handy to simply and fully charge the battery before each gig without the faceplate screw dance everytime. I'd read before somewhere that for some the electronics within these USB-C chargeable 9V batteries can interfere with the active electronics. Has anyone tried this? The bass I'm thinking of doing this to is a Lakland JO5 with a East J-Tone (Volume / Blend / Tone). It's my main gigging bass so I'm being careful.

Setup for 80s covers band gigs in pubs to big halls (400). 2 recent gigs with it and it performed as well as expected (better than me 😂). My first big board and I'm pleased that the effort to route into a patchbay at the back helps operationally (19" audio rack panel with d-series cutouts, am waiting on the TRS module, hence the temp solution). Only two effects pedals! 😆. The rest is wireless bass receiver and IEM transmitter, battery, headphone amp and tuner. It can be totally wireless without the XLR FOH feeds (bass out, band IEM in) when I use a pair of low latency 5.8GHz instrument dongles to reach my amp. The pedal switcher has triggers that I use to control the presets on the MB301.

This is what I've found so far after a couple of weeks with it and two gigs with an 80s+ covers band. Also maybe 🙏 BCers will share custom presets (like Ian Martin Allison 😜) that match bass sounds on our favourite and gigging songs?[1] Plusses: * fantastic giggable presets (though I'm not yet a fan of 6 or 7) * highly configurable * intuitive controls (saving personal customisations to a preset) * when adjusting a preset (whether you meant to or not) that preset blinks, alerting you to a change * the footswitch to change presents works great, I configured a trigger on my pedal switcher to use it. Minuses/Drawbacks: * no functionality to save presets or settings off the pedal, eg to backup, share with other players or to clone another pedal. Bluetooth or USB-C will surely need to be added to the next version * the current position of the knobs has no relation to the just loaded preset, but may limit the available variation at that moment. I tend to set all the knobs to noon, prior to changing preset. * a slim, high pitched whine with my pedalboard gear (I'll be troubleshooting this today) [1] it'll be a challenge though, maybe a photo record of the knobs of the ordinary and secondary settings added to a description.

Yup, I've found the octaver poor, but luckily the mix is adjustable and can add just a tad.

Yup, mine did from BassDirect. To check the polarity (my pedal board runs on battery) I needed to photograph it as the writing is very small and faint.

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.