LukeFRC

that's cos G&L pickups are crazy high output!

Interesting test - on a passive bass see if your tone control reacts differently depending on if you're using the active or passive input on the amp

That's a true statement but I don't think what Woodinblack was getting at.

well thats the important detail covered then

It's a big wide hairy Trace... I think the discussion you need to have with the other half is what is acceptable to keep in the house - something more modern and not as wide might work better

I picked up a Mesa walkabout 1x12 combo - sounds alright but importantly it's got green tolex, brown leather corners and a sand coloured grill so it looks good - the wife doesn't even mind if it's left in the front room. Now if I sold that and replaced it with a hairy black cab and head I think she would - regardless of size. I had a GK 2x10 combo for a bit and that wasn't a looker at all!

random Q - how much "worse" are the Zoom compressions than stand alone units?

you built one? Im tempted to

I'm on a selling group where the guy who runs it tried to have a £1 member fee and it all kicked off - I thought charging for groups was against FBs t&cs?

Similar - ever since I started playing I wanted one of those Status T basses - I had the money and went to bass gallery where they had two in stock... and left with my money as they sounded uninspiring to me.

Me neither - memory fail

Styling it looks like they are copying bergantino

you got the religious politics GAS?

I have "my bass", and then another bass (or two) which I can swap to try out all the things I want to try out. I've mostly tried everything I want to now. Recently I sold a bass I wasn't playing much and with the money picked up a bass (L1000) that I wanted to try. I had tried one out for 5 min while buying a acoustic guitar years and years ago and it had stuck in my mind based on the way it sounded and felt. It's now probably my number one... along with the old one. So I'm not moving anything on to try new things any more. TBH the "I want to try one of these" left on my list are all more money that I care enough about trying them out. Back a few years back when it was free to stick sale posts up I probably would have floated some of my current ones, but it's too much effort, just want to play the things!

I go and play bass mostly at church on a sunday, tried it in Lidl and it didn't go down as well.

They were only released (to much acclaim) 4-5 years back weren't they?

Stilletos. Less likely to hit the lower switch if you're wearing them. Thanks... I'll duck back out of this thread

google, esp on talkbass - I think I remember a discussion about what the drivers are where someone said what they were relabelled versions of. AgedHorse on there used to work at Genz and now at Mesa and can be quite helpful. How tired are they? Is that a euphemism for "I've overpowered them" or is it a euphemism for "I want a different sound/to something louder I can hit with more power" ... either way it may be easier to sell them and get something that suits.

I don't mind sifting through the options

Oh that's good. It's good to be specific, far better than having it and then going around looking for an amp it looks right on

Hmmm thanks for sharing. food for thought. The DIY pedals are an idea I've got.... currently pricing it up, may end up being not that economical. I built a bass last year (well the body from a lump of wood and all the parts) and it was really fun, but by the time you price it up it wasn't the most amazing idea ever. The idea is a DIY compressor -> copy of the Caitlinbread SFT, which is itself a FET version of the SVT circuit. Made one before on vero and it was amazing -> then into a DI preamp kinda loosely based on stealing ideas from half an API mic preamp. The problem - you get to research a nice compressor pedal you could make, and then price it up and it's more than a secondhand Spectracomp... and then you go through the bits and you could buy some secondhand pedals, try out the idea and then sell them if it doesn't work out... but then you need to power them, and mount them on a board... and by then I've become one of those people with a pedal board, and will start GASing for nicer pedals with more valves/transformers/transistors in them ( something like @ordep posted last tue in the "post your pedal boards" thread) ... and by that time I've become the person I quite like not being currently! (not saying theirs anything at all wrong with pedals, give me more disposable income and I'm there with you) - so in that case a Zoom B3 or B3n could be the ticket... This added to what Muzz shared makes me think I should pick up this part first... I can use it when I gig with the IEM (gotta be better than the DI and the sound guys' cloth ears) and then if I start picking up regular gigs where a FRFR speaker would make sense flog the walkabout and do that. I think I would go fir B3 or B3n over MS-60b as I would use the headphone socket. sorry guys lots of external processing going on here. I'm not killing Rock n roll, just squashing it and probably being too 'pop'

sure if you want. I've just corrected the spelling of Speil! The "how it is" combined with passion is really watchable - I've sat and watched Alex Claber talk for 30 min plus on a cab I'm never going to be able to afford/need just cos his passion, combined with knowledge, is really interesting.

@dood - that is an amazing video - you spend ages reading on forums about what the pedal can do and how it works ... but to have a decent player make a high quality video about it is just what I want. I enjoy the fact that you reveiew stuff and talk about what you want rather than sounding ike you're reading the marketing speil. Thanks