Kiwi

The Room bass is a nice shape.

I'm just the bass player, what would I know?

I'll look for groupiechat - probably going to be the most popular...or maybe hats...? [quote name='charic' timestamp='1326096767' post='1492077'] Also pedantic mode, will synth chat also cover non-synthesised keyboard instruments? Piano etc, also sampled keyboards etc [/quote] Yes Mr Pedant. Only one forum for keyboards though. Keyboardchat and pianochat didn't have quite the same...informality. Vocalchat and Singingchat don't quite make sense...well, to me at least.

As of today, we've secured guitarchat.co.uk, synthchat.co.uk and drumchat.co.uk. What that means apart from collecting The Set? Not sure. Lets see what happens in the "Other Instruments" forum...

Fair enough. I just disagree with comments on the lack of low end, particularly in a "bedroom playing" setting. There's plenty of low end oomph available at performance volumes and any lack could be down to a whole host of other things not just the amp.

I don't get what the excitement is all about. The original 6.0 is a fantastic head and I'm a little disappointed by all the hype over the modifications. More lows aren't necessarily a good thing on a hollow stage either. The reason I chose the Shuttle over the Markbass LM1 is precisely because it had more focussed lows. The eq on the amp is used for compensating onstage acoustics, not for compensating any deficiencies in how the instrument sounds. So if I need more low end I'll turn it up on the bass. I felt the bass Ken Jung was using didn't show the amp at its best either. Did you hear how his bass lacked so much in the lower mids when he went down onto the B string at 1:27? Just listen to the comparative volume of each note as he plays it and you'll hear a big ol' scoop. There's a bit of techno-babble in some of the opinions on the talkbass threads as well, eg. using "accuracy" when "confidence" might fit better. Gear is mostly about how much playing confidence it inspires at the end of the day. The one change I'd make to the head is switchable inputs so two basses can be plugged in (say a fretted and fretless). However if the 6.2 means the original 6.0 is going to become cheaper on the used markets I'm not complaining as I've wanted another for quite some time.

Did you get the right forum?

I've looked over the years and the only one that appears decent is Guitars101. Too many appear to self-implode after a few years.

There's got to be a Basschat Bully Award for some of these posts. "Ooooh, look wot yer coulda won..."

I was born in Fareham and grew up in the village of Warsash so know bits of Pawtsmaahf fairly well. Welcome aboard

Registering alts is something we'd like to discourage. However one of the features of the new forum software is the ability to combine posts from two accounts into one. So if you want to keep the stratosphere account, we could transfer the posts from your other account to the one which is sending you notifications. After thats done we could even rename the stratosphere account back to EdwardCunliffe.

Can't add mine. Both are having work done to them...well one is. The strat body is still with Mr Shuker after three years, ready to go but just needs to be shipped. I miss it, has a really nice neck. I'm having a Klein style semi hollow body made to replace the one on my Shuker-berger.

Its a basic three band parametric eq with cut and boost of 15dB, although I've had Klaus make a few tweaks to the Q and bandwidths for each control. The mid and low bands crossed over at the sweetspot in the mids on my bass before I had him move that crossover lower. Like I said above, its great for dialling in those mid and low frequencies that make a good bass sound better. I'd be happy with a hi-pass filter on it for the treble too. The only draw back is that it requires a 9 pin jack socket which can be a pig to retrofit on instruments that don't use a jack plate.

WoT I think you might be hamming it up a little now. Mwah ha.

Even in a stack per pickup system, options are similar when using just one pickup as they will be with a 'global system'. You're kind of stuck with using two pickups for maximum flexibility. I like the roll off of treble that I get with the Alembic and with the Alembic Q circuit I had on the Pentabuzz for a while. I also like that the filter boosts frequencies along a narrow band at the shelving point (my Alembic has Series 1 Q switches to control the boost rather than Series II CVQ knobs). I'd still prefer the mids being controlled independently though. A 2 stack filter (hi/lo pass) with sweepable mids would be interesting. Alternatively, they're just different tools with different purposes.

See my other thread. Check your email or server settings aren't blocking basschat.admin (at) googlemail.com.

[quote name='LukeFRC' timestamp='1325720023' post='1486776'] This... I find it an interesting idea of how bass guitar can and could work. I'm not sure if it is for me but having a bit of a blether about it can't hurt! Personally I've ended up looking at loads of schematics trying to work out how filters work like this, and finding a bit about the Bassxx preamp too.... [/quote] I have filters on my Alembic, with all due respect to Greeneking, I find them limiting. He and I may have different requirements however which is what prompted my question over what you are looking for. I've tended to look for something that makes a great sounding bass more versatile. The alembic is a nice sounding bass but I wish I could have more boost in the lower mids, the filter based system doesn't deliver that.

For those of you who haven't been getting email notifications, could you please check whether your email provider/account is blocking basschat.admin(at)googlemail.com? We're getting a whole heap of emails bounced back from a number of addresses in the admin inbox. I hadn't paid it much attention before because every time I checked they'd only come from one account (which had a load of notifications set up). But I've just discovered they're coming from more than one account.

I'm curious to know why a filter-based preamp? What benefits are you looking for? I'm not sure that a sweepable mid band is the same as a band pass filter. My understanding is that band pass filters attenuate frequencies outside the selection being passed. The sweepable mid band control on a 3 band pre cuts and boosts the frequencies selected, it doesn't pass them or attenuate outside the selected spectrum.

Freaky finish!

[b]First Bass Owned: [/b][b]Sierra Precision copy[/b] [b]'Go To' Bass: Spector NS5CR 'Your' Bass: [/b][b]N/A[/b]

The official announcement is here: [url="http://www.eden-electronics.com/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=18795"]http://www.eden-electronics.com/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=18795[/url]

This is the bass I referred to earlier. Although having seen yours I'm not so sure its cherryburst any more...could be sienna burst if they offered that colour back then or maybe a very faded standard sunburst.

Not as rare as a Cherryburst with matching headstock This bloke seems to think that Cherryburst was offered only for one year. [url="http://www.classicandcoolguitars.co.uk/basses/cbprecision.htm"]http://www.classicandcoolguitars.co.uk/basses/cbprecision.htm[/url] I saw a 50's P bass in cherryburst with an anodised scratch plate a few weeks back and it looked stunning. Nice bass Matt - congrats!

The earlier Tobias growler model had separate eq per coil. Suspect its the same here, maybe each control is bass boost-treble cut/treble boost-bass cut? A bit like the Haz Labs eq in the original Steinbergers (which is a bloody good eq BTW)