MichaelDean

@uk_lefty for drive and fuzz, I found that exploring all bass and guitar options with a scooch of clean blended in and plus/minus some of the bass control on parallel lines was the key to finding good tones. For my always on dirt I think I've got the the natural drive in parallel with the bass drive. Then fuzz, is the fuzz face on the bass overdrive and the bass fuzz on the transparent line. Don't drive them individually too hard, but the summing of them gives you a thickness and introduces some of the randomness that you get in the high frequencies of analog pedals.

Yikes. That looks like I did the fretwork 😅

I also bought some cheap Warwick strings with mine but I'm yet to fit them. After whatever grime was on the stock D'Addarios had rubbed off on my fingers, they're quite nice. Just took a week of playing it.

Yeah. I think the greenness doesn't quite hit you until you see it in person. I really quite like the colour now after a few weeks though.

Having removed a fretboard on my own build before (because the fret slots weren't right), it's very easy for something to go wrong. My fretboard came off in chunks and the neck split at one point. If it's a bass you value and you haven't tried this on something expendable first, get it done professionally.

I knew the pedal would be great. I love my Digbeth head. Your Shuker sounded amazing too!

That was a jazz bass, neck and tone full up, bridge pickup rolled off a little bit into the Mesa amp sim and 810 IR from the GP-5. The bypassed tone wasn't that different in all honesty. Maybe a little fuller?

@Jack strangely, they don't sound quite as bad recorded as they do with headphones. Maybe open back headphones aren't the thing when you're using the pitch shifter! Still not the worlds greatest pitch shifter, but might be a good get out of jail option. 1 semi-tone up: OneUp.wav 2 semi-tones down: TwoDown.wav

I've just taken delivery of this mini 23" scale Harley Benton for my daughter's 4th birthday next month! Hoping to be the proud dad of a bassist! She has wanted a bass of her own for a fair old while now and prefers when I play my basses over my guitars. Just need to tidy the fret ends before we wrap it up as they've sprouted. She's also said that she wants her second bass to be black. I've taught her well already 😂 And it just so happens that I've got a black Squier Jaguar SS stashed away for her too.

I would say the pitch shifter and octaver are so bad they're both unusable.

I can confirm it does cycle back to A after scrolling through the list. @Jack I can try to record a quick bit of the pitch shifter so you can see after work if that'd be useful?

That's totally possible. I don't think much of the pitch shifter or octaver though... Both are very warbly/chorusy and not really useable. The low end of these modellers all seem to have the same issue with pitch based effects. Maybe a decent one is too DSP intensive?

I think they wouldn't need to necessarily reinvent the wheel with captures. If they just included a NAM block, that would probably be enough. That's all the Anagram has done on the capture side. Hiring a UI designer would be a great help, and yes, the apps are all a bit shocking. The load time from selecting the patch on my GX-100 to showing it on mobile/computer editor shouldn't take 10/20 seconds. I don't know what protocol they're using to transmit the data, but it needs to be modernised. I think that they do get so much right with the functionality though, like the options to assign any parameter to any control and the properly seamless preset swtiching. More assigns would probably be on some people's wishlists. Oh, and the wavetable and input assigns to parameters is great too. I personally think that their amp sims do leave something to be desired. I've never been totally won over by them and struggle so much to get them to sound like I want to that I've kinda given up with them. Compared to something like the cheap Sonicake Pocket Master that I've got, where the Twin sounds perfectly useable to me with a few tweaks, the one on my GX-100 just doesn't have the same ease of dialling it in. Adding a good synth would be a good selling point too. And maybe getting all of the effects from the Plugout might be a USP for them? Give it all to the users of the new gen pedal.

I prefer a bit more helium in my tone air, for the high frequency response 😂

Our guitarist/singer couldn't make it last night. He's had shoulder pain since before Christmas and has been on some meds for that waiting for a physio appointment. And he let us know yesterday that he was in such pain that 111 had advised he call an ambulance. Turns out the shoulder pain meds were not playing well with the cocktail he also takes for his back and it was giving him chest pains. Glad that the doctors know why he was having that issue. Doesn't sound fun and needless to say, he couldn't make practice last night! So a bit of an odd one. We hope he's well enough to at least sing at our gig on Saturday the 7th. I decided to bring my Fazley jazz bass along to practice with my Spector to see how they compared. I did the first half with the Fazley and it's such a lovely bass to play. The neck is super quick and very playable, but it wasn't quite cutting through. I also missed my high C string for my usual CGCFC tuning. It just brings an extra element that I feel is part of my sound for the band when I'm doing big open three octave hits. The Spector for the second half just cut through perfectly. The sharp fretboard edges are quite annoying though. I'm going to need to roll those. I've been spoilt by the entirely rounded edge of my Dingwall! I also put the Mojo Mojo and Bass Big Muff back into my effects loop of my GX-100 for practice yesterday. It's a different texture to the options I have in the Boss unit and I fancied having that available again. I think there's one song in particular where it works better. There were other bits where I think it didn't work as well as the fuzz I've got from the GX-100. Completing the gear was my trusty Laney Digbeth DB-500H head and the practice space's Ashdown 810. It's such a joy being able to use an 810 regularly! I love big cabs!