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I've only gigged it once. Used it with the 'ring' switch on. Very nice, tight, funky sound. It's slightly quirky, which I like, not in a crazy glitchy way, just enough to give it a little character. The bass switch cleans and warms up the sound giving a nice low synthy vibe. The only drawback is the volume is a little lower in bass only mode. But, and I mean this, it looks so very cool, and that's vital.

Harley Benton I know. PSU in general, not so much.

Yes but I also have no life so.....

Just need to wire it up now

In my basket already

Took my new pedal out for coffee It was too pretty to leave at home.

Bet that kicks out some righteous noise

This weekend after the Sunday night Bandeoke I received glowing compliments for my sound. Not from the sexy barmaid of course but her pasty male sidekick. Naturally I assumed he was a bass player, and naturally I was correct. Still, I'll add it to my book of compliments received over my 40 year career (I think this makes it six in total) and very nice it was too. I glanced back over my shoulder and thought how pathetic the rig actually looked. Anyway he plays an Ampeg tube head through a big old Ampeg cab so take a bow, Barefaced, Harley Benton, and Behringer pedals 🤷🏻‍♂️ That's the rig circled in case you missed it.

Oh my god. That is one GAS inducing, beautiful bass. I'm drooling here man.

(No one ever asks, but let's pretend.) People are always asking me how I build my pedal boards. It seems I use a different set up every week they say. Well here's my 'work in progress' board. It's an old music stand which sits in front of where I sit when I'm awake. If I'm inspired to try something I bung it together here and give it a blast. This week @Quatschmacher in a different post talked about two envelope filters in parallel. I tried it and then thought what if I switched one for a phaser? What if I dirtied the clean sound?, and so on. I then do my lesson work, or song, learning, or noodling, and use the effects while doing so. If anything works particularly well or sounds appropriate for a specific song the whole set up might make it to a board. If not it gets ripped out and replaced when the next idea lands.

Excellent review. Thank you 👍

Interesting question. I played 5ers for a couple of years, way back when. It was in the spirit of adventure and discovery and a bit of a pose, as five string bassists were something of a novelty out in the sticks. I never particularly favoured five or four, but returned exclusively to four string basses ten years back. Now they just feel more comfortable, more natural to me. I displace the octave where I meet with a note below the E, and I enjoy finding creative ways to navigate the fretboard. Would I ever go back to a five string? Absolutely, anything is possible. Except slap bass. That is not for me.

Full fee and an early finish sounds like the perfect gig!

That's impressive pack down time for the entire rig - nice one! My personal best is 9 minutes from "thank you goodnight" to driving away - but that was just me.

Two dep gigs in Wiltshire yesterday. First one outside a cinema in a storm blown tent, playing to nobody, and the second in front of a big screen showing the rugby to an entirely uninterested audience. The life of a working musician eh? There was a dep guitarist barely audible above the jangling of his nerves, and a two man brass section, also deps. Not quite in tune brass with not quite right guitar makes for fascinating harmonic content. In the end I stuck mostly with the root notes and watched the rugby.

I was asked to take pics of the innards. In answer to your question, I think it does. It has a good usable drive, and a very flexible EQ section. I've used it as a preamp and as a distortion pedal.

Once again it's still loaded up for the next gig! However I will get there