dannybuoy

If you're going that minimal, I'd just ask Max to build a battery into the pedal!

I was going to say the answer was a Stingray until I saw the Jazz! I'd still like a fretless 'Ray some day, Every Time You Go Away is one of my favourite bass lines.

Ah, I was talking about the SFX Micro Fuzz!

It's a good one isn't it! So much low end, muffish at low gain and synthy at high gain. I had the old one before they added the mid switch.

The shape would be fine if it wasn't two-tone.

There are a lot of alternatives these days, check out the Kala U Bass and its many cheaper clones, just search for ‘ukulele bass’. A few people make solid body versions too.

Ashbory bass?

A good option for adding a MM pickup to a P is to place the pickups right next to each other. Then you have the 2 classic sounds available, even if the pickups blended don’t sound that great.

SFX Micro Fuzz is a Coloursound Bass Fuzz clone: http://www.sfxsound.co.uk/microfuzz/ Get in touch and I’m sure they’d build you one.

Try pushing the treble control on the Mojo Mojo up to 3 o'clock, it's still not bright by any measure, but it does add some missing clarity back! Re the Tech21 pedals Al, DP3X still sounds king when played in a mix with my band's old albums. Played solo though I do enjoy the VTDI more. The Leeds is very similar but less farty and more throaty when pushing the gain! I'd need to play them against each other at high volume in a band setting to see how they fare in real life, but I can't see that happening for the foreseeable!

Does it allow for live low latency jamming, or is it more for being able to share audio tracks between DAWs?

Give me a shout if you ever decide to move it on!

Also 500K pots can give you a brighter tone. I used to have one of the early Squier VM Precisions that had them, and that thing snarled.

I've used shipito.com to buy pedals from US makers that didn't want to ship overseas. Set up a free account, you get a US address to give to Broughton, once Shipito receive it you'll get an alert and a choice of delivery options, they only charge a couple of dollars on top.

If you can find one used, the VLE is basically an LPF:

I think the Stingray would've done a much better job wearing flats and a less scooped EQ. The Joe Dart MusicMan bass for example!

This is the correct answer.

I don't know of any other Parapedal clones. But the mini AMT Alien Girl wah has a frequency selector that gets very deep, that would be worth checking out. I'd like a mini Freaker myself, having had both the Freaker and Parachute in the past! http://wilsoneffects.com/MiniFreakerWah.html

Not tried it yet, I completely forgot I had it until now! 🤣

I've seen a few demos of 60s vs 70s on YouTube and I prefer the sound with both pickups blended on the 60s, hands down.

Entwistle PBX or PBX-N: https://www.allegromusic.co.uk/shop/pickups/entwistle-pbx-p-bass-nickel-pole-piece-pickup https://reverb.com/item/32797971-alan-entwistle-pbxn-neodymium-black

It'd have to be my Fender P...

That diagram says they have different wire coating, wrap material and DC resistance, so not entirely the same. They could well sound identical though for all I know!

It can be an issue, especially if using mild overdrive that doesn't differ that much from your clean sound. Mixing a sound with a delayed copy of itself is a bit like applying an EQ with a bunch of notches like this: No problem using an LS-2 with analog pedals, just when mixing an analog signal path with a delayed digital signal. I don't think anyone tries to get comb filtering deliberately when bi-amping... Often that'll be done entirely analog (e.g. DP3-X, or 2 amps) or with both high and lows going through the same digital processor (e.g. a Helix). But even if you put just your highs though a digital pedal, you wouldn''t get much in the way of comb filtering since the 2 signals would be so different that they wouldn't interfere that much with each other. A different kind of latency. The comb filter effect comes from very short delay times due to the basic analog/digital conversion, which is normally so quick as to be imperceptible. Pitch algorithms have a much larger latency that's very noticeable because they need to slice up and analyse the incoming signal. You'd get comb filtering if you had the dry signal dialled up on the Zoom and then mixed that with analog dry signal via the LS-2 though.

@Al Krow putting digital FX in a blender can be a bad idea. A few ms delay blended back on itself will produce a comb filtering effect - think of the sound a flanger would make with the sweep frozen in time. Try setting up an empty patch (not sure if it still goes though the digital conversion when in bypass mode) and then adjusting the blend to see if you can hear any difference!