Bigwan
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I'm using a focusrite itrack pocket as an interface and it works well. Originally intended for iPhone as it double jobs as a stand, but works well for the iPad too. I found the original iRig was stupidly noisy on my old iPhone with a lot of crosstalk, especially on guitar with distortion, but I haven't tried it on iPad yet...
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Hi folks, Relentless GAS has taken hold. Lots of things have broken in my house recently (oil boiler and american fridge) and car needs some expensive work doing. As a result I have to part with something, and this ACG is unfortunately worth more than anything else I'm willing to part with. For the price of a bitsa you can have a hand made bass made by one of our own! This is the bass Alan donated to his local cricket club to raise funds via evilbay auction. It doesn't actually feature on his website for some reason. RRP for this was stated in the auction as £1100. ACG Finn 4 Top: Goncalo Alves Body: Alder Finish: MLF (minimum lacquer finish) Neck: Asymmetric Neck Profile / 3 Piece American White Ash Fingerboard: Indian Rosewood 24 Fret With Zero Radius Dual Action Trussrod Carbon Reinforced Alloy Side Dots SIT Powerwound Nickel Strings. Weight: 7.5Lbs Hardware - Goth GB720 Tuners Hipshot Type B Bridge 19mm Spacing Hipshot String Tree Dunlop Dual Design Straplocks Electronics - ACG Custom Wound PB Split Coil Volume Tone Series / Parallel Coil Switching Via Mini Switch FREE Fusion F4 Gig Bag Included This is my 3rd ACG and doubtless I will have more. Alan's work is exemplary. The following photos are Alan's as I'm about the worst photographer on the planet, but condition is as new. This does the P thing very well and sounds and plays better than my USA P with a little more variety with the series/parallel switch and a nice growl I assume from the Ash neck. But I'm kind of wed to my Fender... It was a wedding present from my wife after all!!! Price doesn't include shipping, but get in touch and we'll see what we can work out! -
I wish I'd known how much variation there could be in one type of bass and not condemned all P-basses because I'd experienced one sh*tter...
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[quote name='mcnach' timestamp='1507469635' post='3385638'] Not for me. I guess it will depend on your basic tone. [/quote] Also true. It's such a personal thing the perfect envelope filter. Really getting suggestions won't get you very far til you try them!
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[quote name='mcnach' timestamp='1507411837' post='3385367'] The problem with that one, for me, is that the effect is a lot louder than the input signal. I like it, I owned THREE... but each time I let it go because of the volume issue. [/quote] Absolutely true. But I find that in the mix the volume boost makes the effect more useable. It's one of those effects that makes bass disappear behind everything else.
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I wouldn't take it out on Andertons. The price of the Helix seems to be in a state of flux at the minute! Still sorely tempted by a Helix...
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I believe Dood has the Helix LT, not the "full fat" Helix. Also there was a recent price hike on the Helix series, but PMT still have the LT for £738 at the minute (full fat version is £1099).
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I think you need a 2nd cab for what you want...
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Not an update as such as no purchase made, but I played a JV Squier P (actually a bitsa P with a JV neck) in Some Neck Guitars in Dublin yesterday. Yum. That neck is as close as I've felt to my friend's 60's P, maybe a fraction narrower. Certainly a nicer neck than my '08 USA P. Also had my first positive Ricky encounter... but I'd never EVER buy one, just to spite Mr. Ricky (wouldn't even waste my time looking up his actual name).
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Lovely little rig that!
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EHX Micro Qtron. There are better but not at the used price of one of these.
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Saw that. Total oddity...
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Yeah... I've owned the vmt, b3k (3 times), b7k, vintage ultra and M900... I don't own any of them any more. While I really don't care for the b*k models, I like the vintage line and the amp (I'm tempted by the amp again!), but the pricing is getting totally ridiculous. The way some people constantly jump to complain about the complainers you'd think... Oh never mind...
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How are you using Bias Dood? I'm running Bias FX on iPad and it's made all my other effects and modelers redundant for home use. But I still want a Helix... How do you think the quality of the modeling compares between Bias and the Helix?
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[quote name='dannybuoy' timestamp='1506898773' post='3381921'] I'd been neglecting the Two Notes lately due to doing a lot of headphone practice (even with the band) where I preferred the VT or B7K due to their speaker sim / filtering. But adding the OmniCabSim after the Two Notes sounds incredible, I'll just need to see how it compares when played through my rig! [/quote] Didn't know you had an OCS! Had GAS for one of those for a while!
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Just sold Mike a pedal. Great guy to deal with. Couldn't recommend him highly enough!
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Anyone have a preference, hipshot B or hipshot vintage? The hipshot b seems heavier duty...
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Nurse... Need the special tablets again... Stunning! -
Interestingly the M500 is almost the same price as the Aguilar TH500...
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[quote name='fretmeister' timestamp='1506707614' post='3380613'] The M900 prices have gone up already. [/quote] 16%... Still not sure there's enough of a differential...
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[quote name='LewisK1975' timestamp='1506698098' post='3380526'] Admittedly I haven't been through all of the responses on here, but on the recent thread discussing the new iPhone and it's relative cost, I made the point that non-musicians get GAS too, for the latest iPhone / TV / Games Console etc. Basically I was saying that Apple releasing a new iPhone and the so-called 'sheep' queueing around the block for it were no different than Bass players who have a favourite brand 'queueing around the block' for the latest offering from Fender / Darkglass / Insert your favourite manufacturer here'. There were various responses saying how you can't compare Basses / Amps to iPhones, and I was essentially shot down in flames. Fine, it's an open forum and I'm perfectly willing & happy to listen to others points of view. So here we now have a thread where Bass players are justifying the cost of the new Darkglass cabs by comparing them to how Apple (amongst others) market and sell their products. You couldn't make it up! [/quote] I certainly wouldn't shoot you down... I think it's exactly the way Darkglass market stuff. Sure amps, cabs and pedals aren't exactly lifestyle products (no really!), but they big up all the aesthetic qualities of the product and most reviews mention how good they look. Can't deny they're great looking products, but again you're paying through the nose so they'd better be.
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[quote name='dannybuoy' timestamp='1506690766' post='3380460'] Quite, but I find all this vitriol rather odd when there are no similar threads ripping into Aguilar, Mesa, Glockenklang, Vanderkley etc, whose amps cost even more? [/quote] True, not sure what it is about the whole DG PR machine that gets me so annoyed...
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[quote name='Kev' timestamp='1506686482' post='3380416'] Judging by the reaction by some in this thread, you would think Darkglass was a subsidiary of Barefaced... In current market, I don't believe any Darkglass product is 'overpriced' and comments about how much it cost to develop are just daft, simple truth we have NO idea. The head is a brilliant price for what it is and has remained remarkably stable considering Brexit and the GBP situation, something had to give eventually and their way of dealing with it is to release a cheaper version, which is fair enough. Again, cab prices are in line with other 'boutique' builders and until stats are released and they are heard, how can anyone judge whether they are worth Berg prices or not? We do love to hate on success, don't we? [/quote] I don't hate success at all, but I hate indefensible, emperor's new clothes marketing BS, which really is what the big hoopla release party at Chicago Music Exchange was. IMHO. The cabs had already been seen at NAMM ffs. The only new product was the amp, and nobody seems to be talking much about it at least not to the same extent as the cabs... Amp-wise (looking at Thomann as a quick example) Ampeg, EBS, Markbass, Ashdown, Hartke, GK, Tech 21, Fender, TC and Warwick can all do a 500w bass head in the £500 region, some [u][i][b]significantly[/b][/i][/u] below. What makes the M500 so special that I should buy it at a premium? While I liked the M900 I had quite a lot (and the Vintage Ultra I'e just sold), there's no doubt that in the value for money stakes Darkglass are in danger of disappearing up their own bottoms.