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- Birthday 24/09/1974
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Earthquaker Audio Devices Cloven Hoof - Fuzz Grinder- SOLD
bassbloke replied to ryancowell25's topic in Effects For Sale
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The bridge is no more incongruous than the four screws holding the neck in place. IMHO.
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Your best (and worst!) bass gear purchases of 2020?
bassbloke replied to Al Krow's topic in General Discussion
Worst purchase. Obviously opinion rather than fact, but I bought a Bacchus 5 string from Ishibashi Music whilst on a business trip to Japan in Feb. It was a very well made bass, but I simply couldn't get on with it - string spacing, neck profile, sound and just stuck it back in the gig bag and forgot about it. I finally took the decision to sell it and luckily made a few quid on the deal. Best purchase A few weeks ago i bought a MIJ 90s reissue 75 jazz from the forum. I remarked tp a friend that I spent 25 years trying to get the sound I wanted in 5 string active basses and i found it in a 25 year old passive 4 string. Runner Up I bought Happy Jack's Dean 8 string back in the Summer. It's so much fun. -
Highly recommended bit of kit. Mine spends half its life as DI into my audio interface and the other half on my pedal board providing preamp/DI into PA. Very versatile
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A number of pro players will opt to use a cheaper East European or Far East version of their high end instruments for touring. Ian Hill from Judas Priest for example. His Signature Spector bass is a US through neck model but he apparently tours with the Czech bolt on models. On the guitar front I've seen a number of players use cheaper models for touring. Given the horror stories you read of instruments being damaged by airlines or equipment theft, taking a Mexican Fender, Indonesian Ibanez, LTD ESP on the road instead makes good sense.
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Definitely the jazz for me. Unsurprisingly. The Stingray has that unmistakable Musicman HiFi sound but lacks the natural growl of the Fender.
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Pedal making a fast ticking noise (sound file attached!)
bassbloke replied to Walker's topic in Repairs and Technical
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Another recommendation for Aaron at Armstrong pickups. Turned around a repair to a Lindy Fralin pickup pretty much same day. Very reasonable price too.
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Bought a set of jazz bass pickups. Very friendly transaction; Biro handled an issue with one of the pickups in a fair and professional manner. Recommended Basschat member.
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Get a 4 channel interface as a minimum. 2 channel interfaces are limited in terms of routing options. You then have various choices including Stereo output from desk into 2 channels of audio interface. Route a pair of outputs to a separate headphone mixer amp 2 channels independent of mixer desk to record vocals, guitar, bass, keys direct As you can see, the shopping list gets big pretty quickly...
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What gear do you use to get the best tone for your bass DI?
bassbloke replied to violetelectric's topic in Recording
Bass into a sansamp bass fly rig and XLR out into Scarlett 2i2. Simple and effective. I mainly use built in compressor as it's good enough for most occasions, otherwise will use my mxr bass compressor. Only other piece of kit i may add is a parametric EQ to strip out a tight band around 1kHz. Been looking at the Sine Effects micro para for just this purpose. -
SOLD Tech 21 Sansamp PSA-1 programmable pre-amp
bassbloke replied to JapanAxe's topic in Effects For Sale
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I reckon he's been told to sell it as 'it' s just sitting roumd gathering dust'. He doesn't want to, so he has priced it not to sell.
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Are you sure volume isn't push/pull? I missed that minor detail on mine until I was changing the knobs.