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Fortunately @PaulKing nothing went boom 😂

I never knew Tom was a lefty either 🤷‍♂️

Good question, I’d probably decrease the decay to shorten up the reverb to stop it getting too muddy. To be fair, if you have eq’d it with the HPF/LPF combination, the pre-delay is a bit of a nice to have.

We really are spoiled for choice up here when it comes to luthiers. A guitarist I work with has used Gary for work on a brand new Martin acoustic and his 12 string electric and he rates him highly. He’s also very local to me so if I need a luthier then I think I’ll be giving him a call.

So, having been a bit poorly this week, I’ve been doom scrolling on the couch and catching up on bass related podcasts vlogs etc. Both Janek Gwizdala and Ian Martin Allison rave about the HX Stomp, but in one vlog I saw Janek Gwizdala using the HX One that has piqued my interest. My gigs rarely call for FX but it would be nice to have a bit of reverb/chorus/subharmonics available every now and again, and the small’ish form factor of the HX One could be squeezed onto my meagre little pedal board. I don’t need the complexity of the Stomp as I’m more than happy with my current preamp choice (EBS Stanley Clarke) so to my question - is anyone using the HX One and if so, what’s your opinion?

And with vocal reverb I always recommend using the “Abbey Road” technique of using HPF & LPF on the reverb so that the reverb only works on the mid-range and use the pre-delay to separate the reverb from the initial clean vocal.

Thanks @NickA And the good news is I got up this morning to a bass that was fully in tune. I did my usual string stretching routine a few times over the course of yesterday and it seems to have paid off. Got to say I’m really liking the sound of the Spirocores, much more mwah across all four strings than the Jagar’s that were on her when I bought her. So I guess it’s “all’s well that ends well” on this thread 😎

…….and a free Parker pen? Do they do life insurance as well 😂

After having had the new strings sitting looking at me for the last three months today I plucked up the courage to make the change. Followed the video posted by Kevsy71 and had no issues - the whole swap taking about 40 minutes. Now rate my peg box 😂

I think the point of the video was ‘trust your ears’. I must confess having played unlined fretless for close to 43 years I prefer unlined to lined. I have a couple of defretted basses where the fret slots have been filled with near matching wood but I still find them distracting.

I know that power transformers do strange things if the are underpowered - an electrical engineer once told me, something about THD or harmonic distortion or something like that. It all got a bit technical and I might have glazed over.

Watch this then start playing using your ears and not technology. I’ve always preferred unlined boards but never really understood why until I saw this Tony Franklin video

Just a silly thought, and despite not owning either of the pedals in question, could it be that there’s not enough power going to both pedals from your power supply as I’ve heard that both of these pedals are quite power hungry?

Oh I miss it, but my back doesn’t 😂 But this was one hell of a rig 😍

I started my SWR obsession with the old 4x10 + 1x15 combination, then went to the 2 x 4x10’s , then the 6x10, before finally realising that for anything less than a stadium gig (which I’ve never had the pleasure of playing) I only really needed a single cab (first a SWR 4x10, then lately a Vanderkley 2x12). I now don’t own any SWR cabs and I’m playing more and more gigs with no backing at all. Funny how things change as you age 😎

I’m no expert but the RSC logo is making me think Radio Shack that was sold in the UK via Tandy stores until around 1999?

Yep, I use the German bass & Czech bass models, German darker sounding, and Czech bass more open and airy

I’ve been successfully using 3Sigma double bass IR’s loaded into a TC Impulse pedal to make my NS EUB sound more like a double bass when playing live. As others have said, there is a whole lot more than cab sims available in the IR world, and it’s well worth getting up to speed with the various options out there.

I agree being a recent convert to the double bass, a Boosey Hawkes Excelsior makes an excellent blue grass choice. If laminate basses are good enough for Barry Bales, then they are good enough for me 😎 I’m using mine in an acoustic Americana trio and it fits perfectly, and shes a blonde 😎

For me, this comes down to practicality and transport. Powered cabs cut down on the amount of stuff you have to shlep to your gig. Component (or separate amps) give you more flexibility in the event of a component failure, although it has to be said that modern gear is so much more reliable. Soundwise, imho a sub will always improve the out front sound, and will allow you to mic the whole band whilst still getting the vocals clear and loud out front (after all, this is what a PA is for).

Last nights ‘gig’ was an appearance at the Black Horse Sunday Sessions - a buskers night in Boldon Colliery that features guess artists and last night it was us! Lovely old pub that was packed with music lovers and performers, and really well run by two stalwarts of the local music scene up here in the north east, Paul ‘Big Red’ Randall & Paul ‘Chumsy’ Chambers. This is the second of such nights we’ve had the pleasure of playing and I’ve got to say I love them. For the gear heads I was playing my Boosey Hawkes Excelsior ‘Lilly’ through the rather marvellous EBS Stanley Clarke preamp and SushiBoxFX ‘Finally’ valve DI straight into the house PA. Sound was run by fellow bass man Paul Chambers who got me a great natural tone.

I’m about to change the strings on my Boosey Hawkes excelsior for the first time in my ownership. I have a new set of light Spirocores sitting here ready to go on, and I’ve watched videos on YouTube from the likes of Geoff Chalmers on the ‘how to’ but before I dive in, I thought I’d ask the Basschat massive whether you have any cunning tips, do’s/don’ts etc? Also, how long do new double bass strings take to stretch and settle? I have a gig on Sunday so I’ll hold off changing strings until after then, but it would be good to know the general rule of thumb on this.

Just wanted to give a HUGE shout out to @bremen for undertaking this re-housing job for me and for doing it to such a professional level with an unbelieveable 1-day turn around. I must also say that as a result of @bremen’s amazing generosity, our local food bank is now able to offer support to one more family this week. The world needs more people like him and he is an absolute credit to the Basschat community. As to the pedal, I have a cunning plan for finishing the pedal with a custom graphic. Stand-by for further on this once I’ve got to grips with GIMP (the software!)

Re thinking this. When you use X-Air Edit on PC (I use it on an old Microsoft Surface Go), when connecting to the X-Air mixer you get the option to transfer settings from the PC to the Mixer or Mixer to PC, so I am guessing you could build a scene file offline then upload this to the mixer the next time you connect. I say guessing because I haven’t tested this. I know that this doesn’t work with the iPad app as this goes straight into demo mode when opened with the iPad not connected to the mixer.

Ooh I like that! Would be great for when we add a middle 8 of Kashmir into another song. But at that price for 16 bars in one song, I think I’ll continue playing it an octave higher 😂