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    NOW SOLD - Lakland Skyline Decade 2008 - 2nd PRICE DROP - now £600

    in Basses For Sale

    Posted · Edited by Bigwan

    2 hours ago, krispn said:

    Cracking looking bass too... but that Sherwood JO!!! 

     

    2 hours ago, lou24d53 said:

    Hands off.........😎😎

    Yeah! First dibs here!!!

    In all seriousness if you can find a Dudepit Ltd Edition Joe Osborne, buy it on the spot. This one (which I gigged exclusively for a couple of years) is a little heavy, but sounds SPECTACULAR!

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    DIY Effects

    in Effects

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    I see pedalparts.co.uk are releasing an Engineer’s Thumb compressor kit soon. I’m sworn off compressors myself, but might be of interest to somebody else here!

    What to do...

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    7 minutes ago, dannybuoy said:

    Cut your losses, then incur more losses as you try out numerous units as replacements, only to buy another Helix.

    😁

    It is a bit of a GAS killer and has already saved me from spending more money... like on the Alpha Omega Ultra and the X7!

    What to do...

    in Effects

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    About a year ago I bought a Helix floor, primarily as the centrepiece of my imagined future home recording setup for bass and guitar, but also as the front end for an frfr setup I’d thought about before realising I can’t play guitar for toffee! At the same time I sprung for the helix plugin. As I’m not playing live at the minute (may change sometime soon with the project I’ve just become involved with, but it’s early days) I’ve mostly been using a sonuus i2m as an audio interface into my MacBook and using the Helix plugin, the actual hardware helix hasn’t been turned on much, mostly as the recording setup has yet to find a permanent location in the house (I blame the kids and their ever growing Lego collection!)

    I know how flexible the hardware can be from playing around with the plugin, but do I really need something this flexible for live use when I’m pretty much a set and forget kind of guy when it comes to bass? Is it an extreme indulgence?

    Let down by Aguilars design.

    in Amps and Cabs

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    42 minutes ago, la bam said:

    I know it's frustrating, but it's just the way things are manufactured now. It's a throw away society.

    You cant win. Either a new board is expensive in relation to the cost of the amp, or the part is cheap but the labour of diagnosing and fixing is expensive.

    Got to put a mention Ashdowns way. I'm sure they pride themselves on their amps having serviceable parts, so they can always be fixed. The old school ways are the best sometimes.

    Ashdown use the same B&O ICE amp modules as Aguilar (and Darkglass... and GK... and Genz Benz... and Fender... and Traynor... and... and...), but they're more likely to look after you!

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    My V* homebrew bass pedals

    in Other Instruments

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    6 minutes ago, irvined said:

    Hi,

    There's two arduinos in the bass pedals. One to drive each synth

    One in the DMX lighting unit. Enables you to change the lights with your feet.

    The Pi pretends it is a desktop and links into two Behringer BCF2000s to drive our Soundcraft UI24R desk.

     

    Regards,

     

    Doug

     

    Awesome!

    Expensive Ashdown pedals...

    in Effects

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    The whole "uniqueness" tack is a bit rich. VFE started making the triumvirate quite a few years ago... and only recently stopped... and now ashdown have come out with something very similar, but 3 times the size... Yay for progress!

    Expensive Ashdown pedals...

    in Effects

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    1 hour ago, Al Krow said:

    Ashdown amps have earned a very loyal following on here, and are a great UK success story to be celebrated. 

    But with the arrival of superb multifx like the Helix Stomp, this belated, expensive and underwhelming foray into pedals by Ashdown feels like someone deciding that diesel engines are the future when the rest of the world is moving onto hybrids. 

    Analogue pedals will always have their place, same as valve amps. Some folks will never be swayed by all the digital shenanigans. Likewise many are unlikely to be swayed by anything in that video. Everything about the subject and contents of that “demo” is half baked at best...

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