Bass Culture

Just sold a set of bass control knobs to John in 13 minutes! Great person to do business with and possibly the fastest buyer this side of the Rockies!

Geoff bought my EBS Chorus pedal off me. He was a pleasure to do business with and I'd give him my two thumb's up mark of confidence!

[quote name='EssentialTension' post='1138498' date='Feb 23 2011, 01:12 PM']Isn't it too soon for another four versus five thread. Tha last one has hardly had time to go cold.[/quote] Indeed, especially when our enthusiam for our own instrument sometimes turns into tacit criticism of those who choose a different format. I'm as interested in trying to convince those who play a different format bass to me to do otherwise, as I am in listening to those who do the same. Live and let live say I! That said, glad the OP is enjoying his current foray into 5 string waters...

[quote name='E sharp' post='1116578' date='Feb 5 2011, 02:35 PM']I've asked him a couple of times about a Micro Chorus . He's developing one as we speak I think . This will probably be my third order from him when it hits the page .[/quote] Just noticed this - what do you mean by a micro chorus? Would it have a different control array from the chorus pedal I referred to? I'm really interested in one of these. Chorus is about the ony effect I use with any regulatory. Cheers, Mark

Steve's just finished a particularly tricky pre-amp change on my Zoot for me - tricky because of the space available and a couple of additional switches I had put in which made life difficult (specifically the LED on the low battery indicator needing changing after it became detached!). No histrionics and no evasiveness, he simply phoned up and explained the situation and we postponed pick up a few days for him to sort it. I do like dealing with people who don't try and bulls**t you! The Zoot is now happily equipped with an ACG EQ02 pre-amp and, I have to say, the bass sounds simply stunning now! I think even Steve would admit it out-Stingray's his Stingray. And Steve also did a little extra screening that was needed when he had it stripped down. All in all a top guy who knows his stuuf and can be relied on 100%!

Mark, Ref your comment that Max doesn't make a Chorus pedal - he does, or has done. It's not a production pedal but I know he'd make one up again as I enquired myself last year. Hell, if we both get a request in, he might bring it into his product list!: [quote name='Silent Fly' post='829841' date='May 6 2010, 04:23 PM']New project (it might be a product if there is enough interest): [b]Stereo Chorus[/b] [list] [*]Stereo or mono [*]True-bypass [*]Controls: [list] [*]effect level: it controls the amount of chorus added to the clean signal [*]depth: depth of the chorus effect [*]rate: frequency of the chorus modulation [*]mode: mode 1: classical chorus effect, mode 2: more subtle effect (it sounds great with bass) [*]filter: it controls the frequencies processed by the unit. Full: everything is processed, hi: only the higher frequencies are processed, hi+mid: [/list]intermediate setting. [*]Circuit optimized for guitar [i]and bass[/i] [/list] .[/quote] All the best, Mark

[quote name='Spoombung' post='1113533' date='Feb 3 2011, 10:04 AM']Well...I've never noticed the bass in that band (I still can't really hear it on the clips probably because he's mostly rooting the chord) but he'll go down well with the numerous bassists that treasure [i]absolute anonymity[/i] - something approaching a Zen-like humility (but quite often ends up as inaudibility) as the ultimate virtue of the art. REM are a funny group. All their songs sound the same to me; the same vocal phrases, the same intervals, the same chords, the same sounds year after year after year. They've been here forever and won't go away and won't change... like someone from another generation that insists and boiled beans and cabbage on a Thursday.[/quote] With respect, Spoombung, if Stump had had a career that spanned 30-odd years and 20-odd albums a discerning listener not dissimilar to yourself might also have been able to identify a certain, er, 'consistency' across your canon! Stipe's only got one voice, after all!