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Oi, I'll have you know we dont live in the arse end of civilisation.....but we can certainly see it from here! 🤣🤣

Welcome Reiver from another north of the border bassist 👍

I've been looking around for a compact yet more substantial case for my Anagram and came across THIS case on Fleabay in the UK. I have no connection with the seller but thought some of you might be interested in it. I also wanted it to hold my MVave midi pedal and the Anagram power supply. It seems well built with the only drawback being the inner foam which is a bit flimsy. I'll be changing that out at some point. Here some pics of my process to fit the Anagram etc in it.

Just updating my Anagram whilst I write this......its great that Darkglass are releasing more blocks, woohoo! It's just a pity that they are all grit / distortion / fuzz / overdrive 😒 There's already quite a selection of these to choose from on the Anagram. I would have thought adding such as a phaser, tremelo, ambient or a "MXR bass synth" type pedal block would have increased the appeal to a wider market. 🤷‍♂️ I hope some more varied blocks are released in the future.

Aaaw, wow! Thank you for those kind words and I'm glad I could be of help 👍 Does that mean you can say "truss rod adjustment" without breaking out in a sweat? 🤣🤣

Well they have arrived and I've stopped grumbling about the VAT "mistake". They landed much sooner than they said they would, it should have been nearer the 10th and it was the 4th 👍 I'm very pleased with the quality and feel of them. The purple front has a "classy" look / feel we wanted and the rear has our contact details / QR code printed clearly. 👍

I thought the springs on stacked knobs were to help with grounding? 🤔🤷‍♂️

OK, had a look at the Darkglass Suite again today and as far as I can see you cannot create patches in there. You can select a patch and interrogate the settings but thats it. On feature which I would find good (like the Headrush I had) is to be able to save a pedals settings to a unique filename that can be loaded into a new patch. I know I can write the pedal settings down and enter them by hand in a new patch but this would be so much simpler and quicker.

Bass Direct have just posted they have some in......

Looks like I'm making headway into liking all 5,000,000 Basschat posts.....I've just been made a "Grand Master" (whatever that is? 🤷‍♂️) 🤣🤣

Recently I ordered some cards from Printed.com I needed quickly. Pricing looked good so I went throught the process of artwork / create account / upload / payment details etc etc. Got to the very end and the price for 250 had gone up from £21 to £30 🤔 I hadn't realised the initial price was ex-VAT (which was also added to the shipping cost) No idea on the quality of them as they havent arrived yet.

@woodyratm Ah yes, I saw that after I'd asked the question, which then made sense. 👍

How do you know these things???? 😮 No, really....where can I find this info as I only seem to find out after releases / updates and have no idea of whats coming up?

Not really....it just sounds like I do! 🤣

I use a fret guard and fret eraser to keep mine clean. Not as highly polished as a Dremmel but good enough for me. I like the way the eraser gets a groove which then cleans more of the fret easier.

I mainly use it to backup the presets I have created just in case of user stupidity! 🤣 I've also checked out some other user presets from the Hub to see how certain combinations of pedals sound and also use as a basis for some of my presets.

I find the Suite a bit clunky and not that intuitive but have got used to it. I've not tried to create any patches in the Suite....is this a function as Ive not really looked? 🤷‍♂️ All my patches have been created directly on the Anagram as its so easy. I hope you persevere and get used to it as it is a great unit.

I notice a lot of you are using the Anagram as part of a pedalboard setup which needs a power source with more capacity. I use mine on its own so dont need extra power. I've kept the original Darkglass wall wart as a backup and use this Mooer power supply which I bought and used for the last 15 years and its still going strong. No hiss or glitches from it at all. Mooer Audio Gear4Music

Yes, I took the plunge and bought it. I tend to have a rotation on my basses as I like buying, trying and then after a while moving them on for the next flavour. Sometimes I'm impressed and keep them for longer (current longest one I have is 12 years) and sometimes it just doesnt gel for whatever reason. I'm not often badly dissapointed and its a fun learning curve. The lightweight isnt a problem and it balances well on a strap. 👍 Yeah I have noticed its still for sale. 🤷‍♂️ The Gallery tend not to update their webpages as often as they should, either for sold instruments (mainly) or new ones they have in for sale.

Thank you 👍 I started using DILLIGAF years ago at work during a meeting where one person was using so many TAFLA's (Three And Four Letter Acronyms) that I decided to drop into the conversation both TAFLA and DILLIGAF. There ensued a slightly puzzled look but they made out they understood (but didnt) and carried on the conversation. My team members who knew what they meant had trouble keeping straight faces. 🤣🤣

Thats not nice! He was only asking...🤣🤣🤣 PS: Yes a bell end is British slang for "the pointy end of your gentleman bits" used as a description of someone who is being an ar$se / stupid / politician / bell end! 🤣

Ok, a quick update to the situation. Thanks everyone for their feedback on Elrick basses. It seems that in the middle of July I accidentaly bought the one from The Gallery 😮 I know, I know, I should be more careful 🤣 So 6 weeks, a few gigs and multiple rehearsals later on I'm quite happy with my little accident! Its light, plays well, balances and works in pop / funk / soul / classic rock scenarios. It may not look as "rock" as a P-bass but really DILLIGAF? Sound wise its got a great, well defined finger style sound but is a little less top end snappy than I usually have but this has taught me a new trick......turn the treble up more....sorted! 🤣 My guess is the Bartolinis are more subdued in the top end and a change to Nordys would help but I'm in no rush to change as I have other basses that can cover that area. Not sure what the strings are on it or how old so when I do change them for a set I know the sound of that might solve the "problem". Picture from the Gallery website:

Yes, keep it as simple as possible. The only drawback with saying "it's not working for you" is that someone will ask "whats not working?". Honest enough question and often comes from the right place. Unfortunately you've then got to have a whole diplomatic spiel of what IS wrong and that usually means people will take it to heart. I left a band a while ago, all good musicians and we generally got on and I'm still friends with them all today. I thought about my exit strategy and how to do it with minimum fuss / fallout / fighting / feelings hurt and I just said "For personal reasons I'm going to have to leave the band". This should be enough but if anyone asks something like "Oh no, whats wrong?" you can easily say "Just personal stuff". This usually gets the message across that discussion is off the table without hurting anyones feelings..............then you tell the guitarist he's a MBE! 🤣🤣

This is a double header gig with one of my current bands and a band I used to play in! Doing it for "charidy man" so hope to get as full a house as we can 👍 It takes place at The Blue Lamp, Aberdeen which for a 130 capacity venue way north of most of civilisation punches above its weight. Full Nexo / A&H PA and it won the "Best Venue" award in 2023 from the Parlimentary Jazz Awards for the UK!! Link

Do you have a link?