dannybuoy

I was thinking of ordering one but after this I just went and ordered one from WD Music. Very happy with the result too, it's proper celluloid tort and cost £70. I would've liked something a bit more orangey to go with my sunset orange P, but not if I have to take the risk of it turning out like Billy's! Will upload pics to the 'where has all the decent tort gone' and 'Precision porn' threads once it's done! It's not too late to fix this and retain your reputation if you're out there reading this!

With those, overdrive before the BBM for sure. And do the master volume mod on the BBM if you can to tame the volume in dry mode! The BBM really comes alive with a dirty boost / overdrive in front of it. Then set it to dry mode and you effectively have overdrive in parallel with boosted BBM! Of course try both ways. But I used a BB Preamp (similar to a tubescreamer) into a BBM like this for years and sounded great live. I layered it up with clean tone, then overdrive, then all three - I didn't like the sound of the fuzz by itself.

The black Pahoehoe strings feel and sound the best to me but they aren't very stable. The Aquila strings are brighter and stickier, but hold their tuning better. Repeatedly lifting the string out of the nut slot when tuning is par for the course with these strings!

Yeah, I tried adding a switch to my P bass once to send the pickup directly to the output jack, made it sound much brighter, I wasn't a fan! You could probably remedy that by wiring in a fixed resistor if you still wanted to present a load to the pickups.

Valve amps like to be presented with the correct load unfortunately. I didn't know these were that cheap - £390 for an all-tube 300W monster with 6x 6550s?!

I took my out of warranty OTB to PMT also. They recommended that they send it to a local tech as it would probably be cheaper, but I requested they send it to Orange instead, as I'd read it was a common fault and they were often fixing them for free. Which they did! Get it sent direct to Orange, they should sort it.

And a VM Jazzmaster Baritone which is a 30" scale Bass VI: [url="http://www.thomann.de/gb/fender_sq_vm_baritone_jazzmaster.htm"]http://www.thomann.d..._jazzmaster.htm[/url]

New 5-string Jazz too: Thomann link for the Jazz V: http://www.thomann.de/gb/fender_sq_steffi_stephan_jazz_bass_v.htm

Thanks for the heads up - that one pictured looks terrible and nothing like you specified.

I wasn't a massive fan of the Beta, too much bass boost and treble roll off... Might work with some setups really well but my bass and amp already lean in that direction (P or BB into a Terror Bass) and the cumulative effect was a bit too dark. Plus the actual overdrive at low gain sounded a bit fizzy and artificial compared to the SFT and Darkglass Vintage. Take that with a pinch of salt though as plenty of people love it, including the guy who bought mine!

Can't go wrong with a wizard on a motorcycle:

Don't attach the pictures here, upload to a photo hosting site (I use imgur.com) and paste the links they provide!

[quote name='Mark_88MPH' timestamp='1406411626' post='2511366'] Anyone have any experience with this bad boy? [url="http://www.thomann.de/gb/amt_wh_1b_bass_wah_wah.htm"]http://www.thomann.d...ass_wah_wah.htm[/url] Looks good but does it sound good? [/quote] I've had one. It's a good solution if you NEED a tiny wah for board space reasons, but ultimately there are better pedals out there if you can manage something larger. I found out of the 3 modes, the lowest one was great but maybe a bit too subby (watch your speakers!), the middle one no good, and the upper one just about right but could do with more lows mixed in. It also suffers from loud true bypass clicks. I'm using the G-Lab now and give it the thumbs up, never tried the Ibanez.

[quote name='oscaraluke' timestamp='1406276280' post='2509954'][b]The strings from factory do are sticky[/b]. I hope the Aquilas are better than them. (do you know the brand of the originals? [/quote] The factory strings are Aquila Thunderguts as far as I know, they are renowned for being sticky. If you want a less sticky, warmer sounding string, try the Road Toad Toad Pahohoes.

John Davis also uses/used the WMD Fatman envelope filter. I used to have one and it's the best filter I've tried for really subby envelope 'womp!' noises.

Well, Timmy C used a 105Q on the RATM stuff, and the old Metallica stuff was one of the vintage Morley wahs which sounds very different to the current crop. The Ibanez Weeping Demon and G-Lab Wowee Bass Wah are contenders too.

[quote name='pitchard' timestamp='1405941511' post='2506681'] This is my current bass pedalboard, which features my usual bass pedals on the bottom row and my 'fake guitar' sound on the top, to emulate the Royal Blood tone. This is what it sounds like! [/quote] Awesome! Now I have pitch shifter GAS. Full rundown here: http://adamflanagan.wordpress.com/2014/07/19/royal-blood-out-of-the-black-bass-cover/

The Terror Bass only had a valve pre, so no problem turning up the gain and keeping the master down if you want dirt at low volume levels. The fan on it is noisy though, so I replaced mine with a silent computer fan.

There's a few Orange Terror Bass heads going pretty cheaply used on here, I would perhaps start there if looking to upgrade the amp and after a warm sound!

Cough up an extra fiver and get this, you won't regret it: http://www.thomann.de/gb/zoom_b1on.htm 100 fx (description says 75 but you get more when you update the firmware), tuner, looper, drum machine, aux in and headphone output!

Look for a used VT Bass... Or import a new one from Prymaxe for £93! Much better than the BDDI / BDI21 IMHO.

[quote name='Spitfire7' timestamp='1405333463' post='2500804'] @[url="http://basschat.co.uk/user/2189-yorks5stringer/"]yorks5stringer[/url] [IMG]http://i1174.photobucket.com/albums/r619/Spitfire575/Awesome_1405201028172_zpsc0466579.jpg[/IMG][/URL] [/quote] Hi Spitfire, I tried emailing and sent a PM a while back but didn't get an answer - can you make a guard for a USA Standard Precision with the cut out for the truss rod access? I also wanted to see some more samples of the faded orange - I like this one above, is it faded orange with crazy 70s?

Wow, that's cheaper than a Squier CV!