stewblack

First board all ebs pedals in a lovely case. Bought ready assembled using insurance money after having my gig box nicked. Sold after very little time, just overwhelmed by the possibilities, unable to see the wood for the trees and unwilling to put the time in to learn. Bought a camera with the cash, camera long since obsolete and virtually worthless. No pedals for the longest time. Now utterly hooked. Home use at present but have tried a couple of gigs with different set ups. Discovering the importance of pedal chain ordering at the moment.. currently have three boards, two full.

While you're at Thomann look at this baby https://www.thomann.de/gb/harley_benton_powerplant_iso_2_pro.htm Very good YouTube reviewer who has exposed other HB power supplies for being mere daisy chains in a box assures us this really is an isolated supply.

Beds are Burning?

http://freebasspart.pv24.pagesperso-orange.fr/Aretha_Franklin.htm

(still have never heard Yes beyond the odd single maybe? Did they do something with someone else once? I don't know. But I'd be happy to take a recommendation from someone.)

You raise a really interesting point (and thanks for sharing the article) about Foxton. I loved his bass playing and my mates often told me I was trying to be like him. All except this one friend who said my style was more like Chris Squire's than any other bass player. What confused me is I didn't listen to Yes, didn't know anything about him. However BF and JJB influenced me hugely so it makes perfect sense that I was channelling him through them.

I posted on another thread on this very topic only recently. I was a budding guitarist, or so I thought. I just couldn't make the thing do what I thought it ought to. Then I bought Peaches by the Stranglers. JJ Burnel's clattering, cataclysmic bass riff sent me wide eyed in wonder. I picked it out on the guitar, the first thing I ever worked out for myself and from that moment the die was cast. I realised it was bass that called to me not the guitar. I've never looked back.

Or Triggers Broom as it has become known

I didn't take offence. I thought you raised an interesting philosophical point. 😉

Funnily enough I've just bought a Joyo/HB/Ammoon American Sound pedal to achieve a similar result as that the OP is after. I'll let you all know. As to tube/distortion helping clarify the sound - yes absolutely in my limited experience it does. I wound up the Grind setting on my ABM (basically controls the valve in the pre amp) at the weekend in desperation having tried everything else (playing to a field, no PA support with a flappy cab - more about this elsewhere!) my sound was not great and certainly not cutting through. I was stunned what a difference it made. Compressed the sound somewhat, and cut like a hot knife through melted butter. Didn't sound particularly distorted either, strangely enough,

This thread has sent me on a wonderful musical trip down memory lane. My Sunday evening soundtrack:

Met Hugh Cornwell once, a quiet unassuming guy. The Stranglers punk? Well at the time I supposed so. But now they have more of the Doors about them to my ears, than say the Damned or the Pistols. As with all these things bands get pigeon holed and swept along with whatever is exciting at the time.. Don't forget Elvis Costello (a country singer) was seen as punk! As were The Blockheads (a jazz funk band) and I even remember the Boomtown Rats being described as punk rock. Think of Britpop. What do Pulp and Ocean Colour Scene have in common? Very very little I'd say. Peaches b/w Go Buddy Go was the first 'punk' single I bought just to see what the fuss was about. Bought it in one of two record shops our tiny town then boasted. It sounded like nothing I'd heard before and at the same time very much like rock n roll. The bass line to Peaches made me wish I played bass instead of guitar, so I guess you could say JJB has had an indescribably big impact on my life.

Sorry to give you that impression. I like everything about it except the weight. So I thought it was a chance to try maybe fitting a new body to it, you know as an interesting exercise, or to lighten the existing body. The neck is great I would have preferred it if the previous owner had not cut the headstock down, but again I don't hate it just thought it would be fun to see if it could be enhanced. As to having to love something or not but there being no other options, well, that's an interesting perspective and I shall think on it.

Hi about 8.8 - 9lbs

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So I tried again... Much more successfully this time. slimmed things down and used sparingly.

Who's turn is it?

Great fun, thanks for sharing.