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Yeh, loving the music. What a player John is. We are kind of doing the Kind of Magic tour look - hence the black fender p.

That looks cool, but id like to see in the flesh first before buying anything.

Ive got one on order! Couldnt find one identical but took a pic of hilda and having it printed!

No such luck! My hair went years ago!

Haha! My legs are even worse than his! Wouldnt wish that on the crowd

Cheers. One thing i remember about my precision is it had a gloss sticky neck, whereas my bb is silky smooth which makes it easier to play. I'll keep my eye out for some mx precisions.

Hi all, Im now in a Queen tribute band and as we are getting better and more well known im now starting to look at Johns basses for more authenticity. I currently use yamaha bbs as i love them to bits. I can get any sound i like, theyre easy to play and sound great. Ive previously had a usa precision years ago and the yamaha bbs neck width, neck material and finish and size suit me much better. With there being a million fender precision models out there, are the any black fender p basses that are similar to the yamzha bb's? (or is that a daft question). Also, it must have fender on the headstock, not a squier decal as the more clued up in the crowd etc will whinge and judge and defeats the purpose of trying to be a bit more authentic.

Great stuff! Well done.

Ive just bought a spectracomp. Fantastic. And loading up a toneprint is just - open the app on the phone, press tone print, wait 2 seconds = done!

Walking on the moon is sparse genius. As are: Another Brick in the wall. My Girl. Dock of o bay.

Yep, theres no way the popular most common machine head tuner is the best.

Just a thing we take for granted as the design is almost identical on 95% of basses, but is the standard tuner or machine head a flawed design? Constantly having to be adjusted (mostly albeit only slightly) due to playing, and always getting caught and turned in transit case or bag.... or catching on something somewhere. Are these are flawed design we put up with - or the best solution for the job.

Pick out the root notes of each phrase and just play them to start. The piece then will be correct and sound correct. You can then start to add in the notes that join up when you feel comfartable with them. This way youll work out where the important notes are and always be on time rather than cramming 100 notes in and the whole section being out of time. I did this with somebody to love by queen. It sounds daft but after a bit you start to automatically add in the filler notes and know what is right and wrong with your ears.

Great cheap option - behringer bd121 and spectracomp.

That finish looks awesome!

After all that the shop didnt have one in stock. So after big consideration ive ordered a spectracomp. I like the idea of the one knob so i dont mess my settings up, and the amount of toneprints available. Should receive it on monday.

Id get a markbass compressore but £180 is a lot.

Im after replicating what i use the compressor on my markbass amp for but for walk in gigs which is just balancing the strings, nice volume control and no change in sound quality.

Does anyone know if this is suitable for bass? Is there any tweaking needed etc? Absolutely nowhere near me has the spectracomp, but plenty have this pedal.

Having bought one and used one and carried one upstairs to practice rooms and gigs i can honestly say they are worth much more than they used to cost anyway and a price hike wouldnt put me off buying another.

Thats why i dont like jam nights or jamming. Theyre not jam nights, theyre play something the guitarist can noodle over and show off nights.

If youre di ing from your amp, isnt the best option to not have a sansamp? From what i can gather a sansamp is ideal if you can create your sound from the sansamp box and send that to the pa and just use whats on stage for monitoring. It sounds like what youre doing is keeping your desired sound on stage and sending a different sound to the desk pa? Id either send the full sound from your trace di or create a completely separate sound using your sansamp and pedals and send that to the desk then the output to the onstage amp and adjust as desired.

Ive been gigging for nearly 20 years. Id never used a compressor. Then recently i joined a tribute band where the bassist i was to try and be plays constantly all over the neck rather than just in the low pockets (which had been my previous playing style). It became immediately obvious to me that my higher lighter strings where much quieter and needed balancing out. Compressors had always confused me due to their 4 or 5 dials and undescript titles. As luck had it i bought an amp that had a one dial compressor on and it was a revelation. Just using a tiny bit balanced my sound and tightened nicely with no loss of tone. Id describe compression as the effect that shouldnt be needed. The kind of 'how you should sound' using just bass and amp - a nice and rich balanced volume and sound. Certainly not anything anyone would notice on hearing your tone for the first time, apart from yourself as you know how your sound is without it, but definitely a real improvement tool to use.

Just received one of these as an emergency DI for any plug and play jobs. I cant believe how good a pedal it is for £25. Its certainly not flimsy, and its not so much a stomper pedal so should last. Im very impressed with the dials too - very stiff (in a good way) so they wont move position without real effort. It really warms any amp sound ive tried it with. Hopefully itll sound great as a DI into PA too.