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Gold.

Donner power pack for pedals... I think only three of the ports are working. Happy to give it away, it's barely been used. Will keep this up for a week, if nobody wants it I'll dispose. Ta

I used to hate tribute bands and be quite snobby about it. The best.musoc venue in town when I was in my late teens only did tributes on Friday and Saturday nights and on a Wednesday they'd charge anybody else to use their PA to play their venue, only £20 but still cheeky. I used to promote an acoustic night in the pub I worked in and included "No Tribute Bands" on all the posters and flyers. These days I'm a lot more open minded. Hand me a Hofner and I'll be "Paul" quite happily! My band now plays only covers and we are good at it. We get gigs in pubs, rock clubs, festivals, functions and weddings. People sing along and dance along. We get paid. I miss writing songs and performing them. I'd love to do that again but right now I don't have the time for that. And, while some have seen too many covers bands (and I hugely get it, Sex on Fire played badly once more...) I've seen too many originals bands that sound and look great but I can't name a single song. Or too many acoustic singer songwriters with their self-indulgent songs about a girl from school days who wouldn't touch them by accident. Parasites? I don't consider anyone having fun performing to be a parasite for that fact alone. We are all just doing our own thing (or covering someone else's!) and not everyone will like it.

I have very little practical skill and confidence with woodwork/ tools etc. and managed a pretty good self build. Being left handed you can't just get all the goodies righties can get so I went on to Guitarandbassbuilds.co.uk and bought a great quality body then went around sourcing other parts and used crimson guitars woodstain. It was reasonably satisfying up to a point. I had to get a professional to finish the job and set up because it's not just IKEA flat pack if you want a really nice playing bass, things like neck shims and so on are a real ballache if you've never done it before. My conclusion was that I'd probably spent more than the equivalent Sire bass but still got something nobody else has in the end. I guess it depends how much you want the finished product, how long you want to spend of your own time, and if you know someone who can rescue it for you! The guy I took mine to was pleasantly surprised. He told me he gets tons of people just bringing him boxes of bits because they start kit builds but never get very far.

No.

Oh my goodness. That is all the bass in one.

I've used a few but come back to the LMB-3, it just works and it's subtle. I tend to stick to the recommended settings in the manual, using the Enhance setting for fretless and one of the limiter settings for fretted.

I used to put the 70s chorus into plastic chorus or something and it sounded good. I thought speaker emulation and IRs weren't good on the Helix, they just seemed to muffle things for me.

ACS Customs are great. Even cheap ACS plugs are good but the customs are on a different level. You have to protect your ears, you don't get second chances with your hearing. You can feel a bit disconnected at first while wearing them but after two rehearsals you'll be used to it.

I'll more than happily play fretless in pop/ rock. You don't have to "mwaaaah" every note, but when you do it can be special! For a long time my only bass was my first fretless and I used it for classic rock. I now play it occasionally for 2000's indie rock. Just go for it, nobody should be telling you what you can or can't play as long as you're being respectful to the song and the band.

Joel bought my AMT Bass wah, really easy going on when I could post, paid promptly, all round perfect person to deal with. Thank you!

Once upon a time I was playing Sunshine of Your Love on a Tuesday night gig in Bridlington. Something hit me on the back of the neck, a drumstick! I managed to hand it back to the drummer without messing up my bass line. Then something hit me in the ear! Another drum stick!! Turns out the drummer and sound guys were chucking sticks at each other all through the song and decided to involve me in the game. I'll take playing around with the beat over a drumstick in the back of the head any day!

Sorry I can't find the details, pretty sure it was a phone order with Bass Direct back in 2018.

Personally my view is you need to try a load to see what you like. Best chorus: Helix Stomp 70's chorus What I use now: TC Corona using the Duff McKagan toneprint What I've used in the past: Behringer, every one I bought didn't work and got sent back Boss CE-2B or whatever it was called, just didn't like it, couldn't get the right sound Hartke bass chorus, this was really good, only sold to go to multi FX Why I use the TC now... I like that I can dial in different toneprints if I need to, but to be honest the Duff toneprint suits what I want from my basses whether fretted or fretless. I don't use chorus a lot but when I do I want it to be heard, I don't want it too subtle, and I sometimes add delay or trem afterwards.

That is gorgeous

Sort of out of gas... anything new coming in has to be "better" than what I've already got. I'd go for quality over quantity any day. I'm already half thinking about shrinking down the amount of gear to fund some upgrades. It's nice having a choice of basses but realistically only one gets used at a time so it's silly having five. I'm also slimming down my pedals and favouring the natural sound of my amp... out of necessity as well as want!

US Stingray bought new end of 2018. Ultimate live bass. Custom pickguard from gig.ink. Drop D tuner because life is better when you can D tune quickly.

Yes. No idea but it's just very small LEDs, can't imagine it's doing much at all.

I have one big board which has a wireless system plus ten pedals, and another smaller board... the big board hosts everything I own apart from one guitar pedal I've loaned to my guitarist. The smaller board was bought to take the bare minimum to a gig abroad so it could fit in my case with clothes and everything. After having two gigs scuppered by effects board failures I need to investigate the issue and will probably strip things down to the smaller board for a while, at least until I resolve the issues. I also sold my wah pedal as I haven't used it for ages, it only got the middle 8 of one song and I stopped doing that with wah ages ago. I'll probably rationalize further in the next few months. I've never thought of having two boards just for bass. I'd love to just build up the big board and leave it but technology just keeps messing me around!

Thanks, how would I do that pls? Then what do I do with the information once I know?

Thanks mate. I know someone who has a cable checker gizmo, I'll get hold of that and see what's what. It would be more worrying if it's a pedal or the power supply. I want to check thoroughly, was so close to sending my amp back to Ashdown until I thoroughly checked and realised it was just a speaker cable that must have worn out, £15 later and no issues.

These are the pedals I'm running. The chain starts at the Boss wireless, everything else is in the FX loop of the EBS Microbass. Half the pedals are powered from the Caline which is strapped under the board, the other half daisychain off the Boss wireless which itself is powered by the Caline...

Summary version: problem with my pedals and I don't know what it is or how to work it out. Last week I giggled, had a great time. Friday this week in a venue where I know the electrics can be a bit iffy I powered on my pedal board and the lights on the pedals flashed on and off, not a good sign. Plugged into a different mains socket, no flashing but during soundcheck my amp wasn't getting any input, or it was intermittent. Bypassed the wireless, same problem. Ended up having to take my tuner off the board and go bass-tuner-amp, no effects except the onboard amp effects for a whole gig, which is manageable. Tested at home yesterday morning rather than break everything down and it was all fine, so I thought it must have been some dodgy sockets at the venue. Played a festival last night, very short turnaround and the bass sound kept dropping out in the first few songs. Waited for a quiet bit in a song, muted the amp, went direct to amp, no tuner. By the last song I was slightly out of tune, had no effects for the whole set, but at least had sound. How do I go about diagnosing what's wrong when at home with the same kit there just doesn't seem to be a problem? Could it be my power supply, a very cheap Caline unit? A worn out patch cable? A bad output jack on one of the pedals?

Best thing for me was to spend £15 on a battery tester and keep it on my kit bag. I test before a gig and it has saved me tons on batteries.