LukeFRC

I imagine Stevie went for cheap, available as a short length and nationally easy to buy as the main considerations

Sounds awesome - can’t wait to see it come along @funkle is the build thread in the build forum or am I going blind?

Cable?

Surely a wee tin humbrol enamel would be simpler and easier?

South west France I think, not NYC?

GSS use Pascal power amp modules I think? They are supposed to sound good.

I think 'live' is better description than loud. I've had instruments which sound amazing on their own, but get lost in the mix. But something like a Precision sounds a bit rough and harsh on it's own... but comes alive in a live setting. I've also had very respected sound engineers who for live sound would prefer the bass be be in the traditional tonal palette that a Fender style bass is in. I have owned, and still own, a wide range of basses, but there was a penny dropping moment for me a year or so back moving towards a more Fender sound, and it was just so so much easier for me, the sound engineer and the band to get it to sound good and fit in the mix. It made me sound good in the genre I was playing in. For me, a good Fender or Fender type bass (whoever makes it) has a place. That's very much not to say it's the only way, or even that that quality is particularly virtuous. Music is pushed forward by folk doing new things with new sounds on different instruments that don't quite fit into the mainstream and people should just play whatever it is that makes them happy and sound good. I like my sadowsky metro will lee. It's black and I don't like black basses much at all. But I like my one as it sounds good in almost every setting. It sounds great, the fretwork is great, it's super even across the fretboard and gets really gnarly if you dig in hard. It's got it's own variation of the classic Fender Jazz sound. I don't like black basses, heck I don't even like Jazz basses. No I dislike jazz basses and have got through quite a few as I periodically have forgot that... I got my Sadowsky in a trade as I figured it would be easier to sell that the bass I was trading... But It's not going anywhere and became my go-to instrument because it just works. Even if it is a Black Jazz bass! On the flip side I've tried some rather dull sounding Sadowskys in shops before. In fact the same is true for almost every manufacturer.

So it looks like they have a 7 days return policy, which isn't really right as it should be a 14 day one under distance selling regulations. But they look like they have a return policy outwith that 7 day period that they have the restocking fee on. So I presume the fella you are referring too had had the bass more than 7 days. Less than 14 then naughty on the shop... but more than 14 then it's not a bad policy for them to have from the buyers POV.

Yeah don’t rush Funkle for our sake

Nae pressure @funkle....

That’s where I’m finding it a useful thread - if I buy this well reviewed pedal - whAt will it struggle with, or get to 80% or 90% close to a specialist pedal. Whats interesting is If specialist boutique solution is 100% ... what % is your helix and also what % is your cheaper individual pedal

+1

I wonder if DJs have soft bags for carrying records, with an extra bit at the top

@2x18 has one with the Walkabout he’s selling... 2x18 - what do you use?

There was a guy who lived near where I used to live and he had a Peavey midi bass, each fret was split so that he was getting the midi signals that was then fed into whatever actual synth he wanted. It was awesome.

This is a genuine question... at what point in your synth tone quest do you actually erm you know put the bass down and pick up a synth? Well not pick it up, it would be better on a stand beside you. Unless it's a keytar.

Does that extra resistance add anything to the sound? Like gentle compression of some kind?

Maybe a less contentious question would be - what’s the limits of synth or whatever a helix can do, and what would you need pedal X for? Like if you are a complete SVT junkie you’re unlikely to use a multi fx to do it, or if you are really really particular about some random fuzz tone pedal made by a guy in Japan between 1978-81 then a helix is unlikely to scratch that itch... but for a lot of us if it gets 95% there then it probably is good enough, while most folk won’t doubt that it’s probably not ‘the best’. The most interesting comment in the last few pages of this thread was when someone was talking about how the tracking struggled with fast lines, which is something more solid than abstract “better” or “worse”

Cool I probably have more than I need then but they aren’t all wasted!

The ones I got from blue Arran were the 30mm hex screws - they should be good for the main driver. Even if @stevie said 25mm you’re only a hacksaw cut away from there...

So do we, but I’m not sure about black ones

Aw are the screws on the list wrong then?

Having made a bass body last year I can offer this advice... learn from the best on here. you may end up spending as long making your router templates as the rest of the bass, especially the neck one and the radius. Test test and test. Cheap pine is fine for that as you don’t need to test it to any great depth.... drill out as much as you can you are using the router for the edges. triple check you’ve locked the height of the router.

You can do this with your stomp... play something with no compressor on. Then turn on that block and see if it makes a difference.... then setting compression to best effect is as much of a skill as creating killer bass synth tones but this might be a good starting point http://www.ovnilab.com/articles/setup.shtml the downside of a stomp or most other multi effects as far as I can tell is they don’t have much in the way of metering in terms of visually seeing what the gain levels are and what the compression levels are- Which is one of the reason compression patches aren’t going to be super useful to share as we all hit the strings differently on different basses with different sonic signatures.

Yes. Every time it came up for sale I wanted to buy it, but couldn’t ever decide if the fact it was a single cut would have meant I never gigged it. I’m super happy it’s got a good home with @The Greek if if you are an exclusive bridge pickup man @Chris2112 would bridge pup and piezo be a more interesting combo?