pete.young

This is the problem. I love playing the double bass, but if I take time out to play lap steel, or mandolin, or guitar, or well you get the idea, who is playing the bass? Any double bass players in Essex or Suffolk who'd like to join a first rate old-time band and let me play with my special toys, please get in touch.

Well, there's no doubt that the best bass gear puchase of 2021 for me was the Becos Stella compressor that I got from none other than the man himself @Al Krow. And since it's the only piece of bass gear I've bought this year, it's also the worst. Note to self: Need to get out more.

Sold a pedal to Pete, excellent transaction, good communications, lovely chap too. Recommended.

Interesting thatt, I'm sure when we've talked about this in the past a figure of 24dB/oct has been bandied about. I don't recall whether there was any evidence to back this up. Maybe someone on Talkbass tested it?

Fabulous player. I'm looking forward to @Bart Funk Bass knocking out 'Until You Come Back To Me', the bassline is really challenging unlike all that RHCP stinky poo which can be figured out by anyone with half a brain in 10 minutes.

THe LMII which I think was the original combo head had two jumpers, one for DI pre/post and the other for loop series / parallel. Never owned an LMIII, but I think that had an external pre/post DI switch and a blend control.

Nope, it works all the way up the neck. If he plays a G shape, and the capo is on the second fret, you get an A . And yes I'd say that being able to read up-side down chords with or without capo has got me through a few tricky moments and is a useful skill, more so for depping than being a band member.

Yeah, it's a complete vibe-killer and dance-floor emptier par excellence.

As I said before, put the strap on the pin and then clip the straplock over the top, don't attach it to the strap. This way you can use a schaller with any strap, however new or otherwise.

Thanks Mark for an excellent and very detailed review.

The lithium batteries in the standard WL20 can't be replaced, and limit the lifetime of the unit. I wonder whether it will be possible to buy another transmitter for these. If not, it seems that the life of your expensive headphones is also limited by the inability to replace the batteries when they expire.

I went from Line6 G30 to SmoothHound because of the battery door falling to bits. I've used the SmoothHound for several years probably a hundred or more gigs and the only time I've had problems was when the batteries were getting low. You should talk to Smoothhound Chris, he's a member on here and the customer service is really good.

Seems I was wrong about Triton Labs - they actually boost the internal voltage to 33V, not 18.

In it's defence , the bass big muff does at least have a blend control, so it doesn't have to be all or nothing. The one i like the best is the gated fuzz in the Red WItch Zeus.

Dave Hall used to say that some of his preamps would run at 9V but would give much better performance with 12 or 18. Sadly he's no longer around to ask. I have an elderly Ibanez chorus pedal from the 80's which requires 18V, but the first circuit drops the voltage down to 12V. Maybe this was Ibanez's way of coping with sagging analog batteries. I also have a Triton overdrive which includes an internal 'pump' circuit to increase the 9V supply to 18V. I guess that Triton know what they are doing and aren't doing this just to be clever, so there must be some practical benefit. Empirically, it's an excellent sounding pedal so I'm a believer.

Absolutely. Time spent in reconnaissance is seldom wasted.

Apologies for double post. I can't seem to delete it.

You don't have to screw the straplock onto the strap. Put the strap on the button and then clip the straplock over the top.

There might be something in the MTD Kingston range that would suit you. They have 35" scale length and 19mm spacing at the bridge, 3-band EQ and are relatively light - about 8.5 pounds from memory. It depends really whether the various combinations of pickups available sound enough precision-like. The one I had also had an assymetric profile neck which was very comfortable and easy to get on with. Bassdirect have a lot of these in stock so might be worth a trip to Warwick .

This time. Once they've got you on the hook, the reply email, or the one after that, or the one after that, will ask for credit card details.

IBTD. Popcorn anyone?

Use one of Ped's grolsh bottle washers, available at a basschat marketplace near you. Or buy a Comfort Strapp with the double ends.