mattpbass

Welcome to the club, it’s a brilliant bit of kit.

I get offered 80% off selling fees every other weekend (as in literally like clockwork), I thought everyone got them?!

Having owned one I can confirm two things. 1) Probably the best sounding amp I’ve ever used. 2) So heavy I couldn’t be bothered to lug it about. 😅

Done a handful of gigs with mine over the last 6 weeks, it’s a great pedal, I definitely prefer it to the V1. Although being the ridiculous gear idiot I am, I’ve just bought a big box to compare and scratch the itch of “does it really sound better?”, first impression after a quick play was a hmmm, I dunno? It’s definitely bigger though. 😂

I think that sounds decent, I’m in a busy function band and we charge a fair bit more than that for a normal gig but for a direct venue booking for a short set with PA provided we’d look at that. £400 would have been crazy low though.

Sounds fairly sensible to me, did you have to provide PA/lights or was that in-house?

Congrats on getting the gig. To assist others who might find themselves in the same situation you were in, what did you end up charging?

The pitch could be shifting but then the string could get momentarily stuck causing the snap.

It’s possible when changing strings for them to get stuck in the nut, so when you are winding them to tension all you’re doing is tightening the section of string between nut and tuning peg, with a snap in the peg area I’d consider that a possibility/likelihood. I’ve known guitar techs rub a pencil in the nut before stringing, a bit of graphite provides some extra slippage.

First live use tonight, probably psychological but everything felt a bit punchier, must be the bouncy lights. 😂

First impressions, it feels quite dinky after being used to old one! Seems about as tall and wide but length is quite a bit smaller. Metering is so much more useful than the crappy old jewel light, makes seeing what's happening so much easier. Plus will be fun to see the lights bouncing around on stage! 😆 Sound wise I'm not hearing (nor was I expecting) much difference but that's only after a quick play on my desk, will gig it this weekend and see how it behaves.

Looks great but please pop the E string back into the bridge saddle, that extra wide gap is making my OCD hurt. 😅

Bass The World Review He seems to think it’s good!

Will do, I’m not expecting much difference but we’ll see. Interesting that it’s now 9V only, must remember to switch down from 18V on the power supply!

Cheers for the heads up, ordered for delivery tomorrow, straight swap on my board for the V1, it’s all about that metering for me, sure it will sound basically the same.

Yeah I’ve not tried to reach those subsonic limits. 😂

Which effect were you using on the Stomp? I regularly use Poly Capo to drop a semi-tone or two and it works great, although I’ve not tried it below low E.

Stock strings are usually Sandberg 40-100 so not particularly heavy.

I play the 5-string for the bulk of my gigs and it’s fantastic, way better than the American Elite/Deluxe Jazzes (jazz’s? jazzi?) I was using previously.

Reserve fretboard aging must be seriously gentle if there is any, there was nothing that was visible on the two I’ve owned. Maybe they apply a bit of dirt? They do however have a little bit of wear applied to the back of the neck. Masterpiece has the back of the neck nearly completely worn, and aging to the front but it is massively more noticeable on maple fingerboards, I have both rosewood and maple masterpieces and you can barely tell on the rosewood.

Should be able to tell from the amount of relicing. HCA the neck won’t be reliced, HCAR there will be a bit on the back of the neck, Masterpiece will be fully worn with wear to fingerboard as well.

Anybody selling one of these is not of sound mind and therefore not safe to deal with. 😅