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On closer inspection, I can see how the bridge could be attatched to screws on the underside of the flame area. Afterall, it'd be a lot cheaper to attach a bridge piece to a flat piece of brass instead of carving it out like a sculptor.

On 30/09/2021 at 09:49, BigRedX said:

Surely the massive bridge is the whole USP of a Traben bass?

I get where you're coming from with this. If I had another run of the mill low-to-mid-priced Korean instrument that played as well and sounds as good as this does, I'd play that. The neck dimensions, pickup placement and preamp all just click for me. I aim to get all mine set up like this, now.

Just remember that just because someone's "selling" it for that price, doesn't mean anyone will buy it at that price. A couple of DOD pedals have gone up in value, and it's made everyone think their DOD Grunge pedal is worth £75 on ebay.

If this is to sell it, you want to post it, HERE.

Good luck with the sale!

A couple of Pink songs could work.

I agree it's just heresay as I think they're underrated, but can't speak to the attitudes of Americans.

Generally the analogue pedals seem to do a better job at cloning the originals than the digital ones.

I think it was mainly poor timing for them when they were released. Nowadays clones of pedals are much more commonplace, and are looked at as serving a different price point, whereas Behringer have a poor reputation for quality, and being a cash-grab when they were released.

2 hours ago, Nail Soup said:

just a cheap zoom multi effect or similar

Personally, I'd recommend against this and to try an individual pedal you like the sound of.

8 hours ago, Doddy said:

Well, Jaco used to use the fuzz in his Acoustic 360 amp and an MXR digital delay live, so a statement like that would just be plain wrong.

I know, I was trying to bait them in with that

6 hours ago, BassAdder27 said:

I know there are pick haters in the bass world

Ignore them, and the "bUt JaCo DiDnT UsE eFfEcTs" crowd

Also, to be a bit more helpful to the OP:

If you ask this question in the effects forum, you're likely to end up with a vastly different consensus of opinion. If you're curious about effects, perhaps try an overdrive, distortion of fuzz with a great reputation for bass.

Fundamentally though, this is about art - either it's all unneccesary or none of it is.

I always used to play with effects - as the music I loved often had them on - and the sound of clean bass bored me to tears. It was fun to play with all these different sounds and have different options, but I definitely found my clean tone boring.

Now I'm a little older, a little wiser, and have a great P bass and Stingray, and honestly?

The pedals sound EVEN better!

Always the way

The Bassballs is one I've always struggled to get sounding full enough for live use. I've not long got a Sovtek one as well, and I'm thinking of doing a comparison video if that's something any of you would be interested in?

I thought Tim Lefevbre used the Doom 2.

The Doom is a particularly high-end pedal with lots of features, which a lot of fuzz pedals don't have.

The Diabolik is based on the Brassmaster - with fewer features than the original, but sounds great.

The Brassmaster is an attempt at a bass octave-fuzz pedal - Where the fuzz sound is so mid-heavy with lots of harmonics, that it sounds like it's being played the octave above. It really is it's own sound.

The Black Russian Big Muff is a favourite of the bass player from Muse. It's part of his go-to sound - Think Starlight and Supermassive Black Hole.

Realistically, as long as the fuzz has a good bass response, you'll be fine with whatever. If it doesn't, splitting the signal so you have a clean sound mixed with the fuzzed sound will cover the bassy end of things, and will sound even bigger.

I'd get in touch with Bass Direct as they're stockists for 3LA over here. They'll probably know if there are plans for more to come out soon. If you're looking to create your own synth sounds from scratch though, there are dozens of pedals reknowned for adding that square wave sound to a bass, but without all the features of the Doom:

Black Russian Big Muff
Malekko Diabolik

Prunes & Custard

Brassmaster (and it's clones)

Also, if you have an octave pedal with a good solo octave down setting, pretty much any fuzz will do after that, as you're literally creating your own square wave oscillation from scratch.

Hope your search goes well

As it should be

Not using FX live is definitely a horses-for-courses situation. Personally I can't imagine listening to Hysteria, New Born or Plug in Baby by Muse without some sort of fuzz/distortion on bass, but 80% of people probably really aren't going to notice a difference.

But to paraphrase a memetic question from Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu: Why are you ignoring 20% of your audience?

Wait.. You guys stop buying pedals?

As far as the news goes, I can say with certainty that The Offspring are asking each other about vaccine status.

27 minutes ago, lee650 said:

Digitech Bass synth Wah

I second this as a cheap alternative

It depends what kind of compressor it is, and what you're using the ABY for. Is it to select between two different sounds, to split the signal between the amp and a DI, or for a clean signal alongside the effects?

Big influence, and historical impact, for sure.

16 minutes ago, prowla said:

I have an EBS Microbass 2 and a DHA VT1 - they both blow the doors off the SansAmp.

Don't doubt it, but with the Mount Rushmore, I mean the "Most significant", not necessarily the best

16 minutes ago, prowla said:

Moog Taurus.

Interesting shout! Technically a bass pedal/s, I suppose!