Wolverinebass

Gibson copies Cataldo copying Gibson.

1 minute ago, Maude said:

Or a cheese board with nice glass of port. 

I'd be voting for an assortment of Polish, Finnish and Russian vodkas with a packet of cigarettes actually. I would have said crack pipe, but sometimes you can overdo it. Plus this is a family forum.

2 hours ago, mazdah said:

I think there is SOMETHING going on, since Warwick Gnome is essentially THE SAME amp as Elf. 

That's because Warwick literally copy anything and say they invented it.

I appear to be of the odd opinion that I really like the Peavey era stuff from about 2002. The older stuff is great as well.

This new stuff is awful. Unless you play a jazz gig you'd need an 8x10 to play anything bigger as the Elf is so anaemic. You can put it in your pocket? Whooptee do. You'll be red lining it the whole way as it's got so little power. 

Also, whomever priced the new cabs is on crack. They're ludicrously expensive for what they are. 

Get the preamp of the older models bang a 1000W class D behind it. Job done. Instead, we get this ludicrous set of products that look like someone forgot to add water to get them to the correct size.

On 29/12/2020 at 20:16, AndyTravis said:

I just added a Babicz FCH-3 to a Jack Casady - the difference was massive.

Just to clarify, do you mean tonally, functionally or both? Just curious.

1 hour ago, Steve Browning said:

You will not be disappointed. It's a stunning bit of kit.

Look, we need to see pictures of your rehearsal room lying in rubble after you played an open E. Oh, and if you set someone on fire as well that would also insinuate that the amp either has a flamethrower or possibly a pop out cigarette lighter that can "get a bit out of control."

Immensely powerful, but the eq is awful. Completely woeful. I couldn't get a decent sound out of it because of that simple fact.

1 hour ago, Steve Browning said:

I have booked a rehearsal room for Thursday and will report back after then. 

Letting the side down. You'll never be heard in that jazz cafe gig. You should have got 4. At least.

2 hours ago, Kev said:

Worth bearing in mind that 500ma will be an over estimate based on the pedal being pushed to the Max (all lights on, used as an interface etc).  In normal use, I doubt you’ll need that much juice.

Exactly. Much like the Helix stomp. The power supply might say 3A, but it's been shown to work fine with 1A.

37 minutes ago, fretmeister said:

Good job it’s a distortion and an EQ,  and a compressor, and an IR loader, and a di box and an audio interface then.

 

Quality! Let's be fair, if Nolly has done this it'll have been tweaked and refined to an inch of its life so I would posture that virtually no post production will have been done or necessary. 

2 minutes ago, stewblack said:

I thought so. He has a knack of imparting information clearly and succinctly. 

Doesn't hurt that he is such a versatile bassist either. 

Also doesn't hurt that he's not Patrick Hunter either.

I think you could say this is "Darkglass with presets." That's worth the money for me. The amps will only do clean/dirty. So, is it robbery? Not at all.

If the TV doesn't make your bass sound better, what's the point of it?

1 minute ago, Kev said:

I'd suggest something may be wrong.  With the High turned all the way down, the signal should be crystal clear low end, there shouldn't be anything else at all.  The only way mine would introduce anything else in the signal would be if I was clipping the preamp if boosting it too much.  I do remember them having a noise issue with a small batch of early pedals, wonder if yous is one of them?

I had the master volume about 2/3 up, but neither the low or high end was boosted massively. Maybe about 1o'clock on the high side. Could be faulty as you say though what I'm talking about isn't massive, it's relatively subtle in some ways.

I'll PM you a video tomorrow squire.

6 minutes ago, Kev said:

Can you elaborate the fuzz on the low end when the bass goes above 5, particularly in relation to the X7, given the control over the low end saturation you have on that pedal can keep things clean well into the mids, must be 500hz or so?  The lows should be entirely free of any fuzz or distortion below this filter.  It's not something I have picked up on?

It's like a buzz. I thought I was going mad actually but then I turned off the treble side and it was still there even with the filter all the way up to about 500Hz or so. It's enough so that you can hear it. Or, at least I can hear it. I played it straight from the jack output into a power amp.

I have the Tech21 Dug Pinnick and I was hoping for something more versatile. In actuality the Darkglass is harder to get a sound I'd like out of it.

I'm happy to send you a video to show what I mean by the bottom end not being clean. Literally, when the compression level and low level reach 5 it starts to go fuzzy.

I've come to the conclusion that despite the fact Darkglass make great gear, it's not for me. I have an AO Ultra and X7 Ultra which I occasionally break out for clients in the studio.

The thing was I couldn't pinpoint it until last weekend. Both have a fuzz on the low end the minute the bass goes above 5. Now, this works best for using a 5 string as it'll help the fundamental harmonics of the lowest notes be heard better. For standard or drop D, it doesn't work for me.

Nolly is an excellent producer and due to his influence in the metal community people will lap it up. He wouldn't put his name to anything that wasn't good or that he wouldn't use himself. However, the sound in itself has become passe. I now steer clients away from it if they want to sound different.

Is it worth that much? Depends really. If you like the sounds, yeah it is. Darkglass can't get that many more high profile people as they have Nolly and Jon Stockman. As long as they keep those kind of people happy, they'll not be changing strategy anytime soon.

Having played a few Cog pedals they're great and Alex has chosen both wisely and shrewdly in who to collaborate with. I don't even really like fuzz that much myself and I think they're brilliant.

In truth, I don't like the symbols on this pedal. The Orange bass butler is another culprit. In fact anything by Orange is. Labels for the controls please, not weird squiggles. I'm not wanting to learn ancient Egyptian just to figure out how to work a pedal.

That being said, I'm sure it'll be good. Whether it'll be massively successful remains to be seen.

11 minutes ago, ped said:

If someone mentions Brexit, it’s gone. 

But Chris, you just have.... 😋

I appreciate that this is a long shot. Does anyone have a 34 inch bass with 16.5mm string spacing? If so, obviously not until this lockdown is over, would it be possible to have a go on it? 

You'd be free to have a go on any of mine (the last ever Buzzard anyone?!!) should you wish to.

So, if you have said bass and live somewhere near SE London or Kent you're more than welcome (when conditions allow) to pop over for a coffee and play some insane basses.

Send me a PM if you're interested.

Use DR Droptunes. The 105 set will take C# as I play them on a Rick in C# standard for one of the bands I'm in.

I'd say JTUK is really overrated. Despite my view he's still a legend in his own mind.

31 minutes ago, skelf said:

Hi

The Lowpass Filter on the EQ01 Goes up to 3.5kHz it is the Highpass filter that goes up to around 8k/Hz. There maybe a limited run of the 02 preamp but exactly when I don’t know with the current situation making get what I actually need pretty difficult. 

Yeah, I figured it was something like that Alan. Also, apologies, I took in the frequency range with the high pass filter. Not taking into account that you could just turn it off.

Personally, I think your uber series with the multi coil pickups have the low end of a Wal with the top end of an Alembic. Great gear squire.

Unless you're going to use similar pickups (Rautia) and preamp (ACG) it's not going to work. I think even the ACG preamp (EQ001) goes up to about 6kHz so is more like an Alembic filter than a Wal. Plus, he hasn't sold them for at least a year as I asked when they'd be back in stock as I had an idea for a project.

Another thing that Warwick can ruin. Great. Whether this is early teething problems or not remains to be seen. I can't say it's looking great.

1 minute ago, wateroftyne said:

Well in that case, it's standard practice. I wouldn't expect them to.

That sucks dude. If it's true of course.

11 minutes ago, wateroftyne said:

Under warranty, you mean? Or at all, even if you paid them?

I think it was under warranty. I can't remember where I read that, though I'm afraid. I just remember I did.