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[quote name='Ziphoblat' timestamp='1399935856' post='2449243']Or those with the illusion of the aforementioned, as the case may often be.[/quote] Taste is a funny thing, and I think most boutique basses are designed to appeal to your classic '80s cliche nouveau riche type. Overblown figured wood tops under ultra-high-gloss finishes, sometimes with a garish stain colour, often with gold hardware, they are basses for lottery winners. They would be at home with a fat ex-postman who's got a marble-lined swimming pool in his basement and a computer modulating the colours of the underwater lighting.

Ordered myself a Frantabit today. I love my Bugcrusher but I'm always turning the chicken head knob with my toe, it would make much more sense to have a pedal with an expression pedal jack...

I think the thing that makes bass instruments 'easy' is that there's often not a lot of room for creativity. Metal is a classic example. One of my current bands develops songs from ideas that begin in the rehearsal room, and I find myself playing a lot of melodies just for the sake of the rehearsal recording, knowing that they'll end up being played on a synth or being a vocal part, and I'll be doing a 2-bar loop. It sort of suggests that I would be more use if I wasn't a bass player.

I've got a bit sidetracked with trying to get an analogue octaver type sound, and I'm not doing very well, and it's making me think I might be better off sticking with pedals given that I've got three OC-2s on my board. :/ I know I could just continue to use some stomp boxes plus Max for other stuff, and I may end up doing that, but I was really hoping I could ditch the pedal board altogether, otherwise I'm going to end up with a pretty complicated rig and lots of stuff to lug, set up, tear down, etc. The more I think about it though, I think of all the stuff that a laptop would be useful for in my new band, syncing effects to the drums, triggering samples and so on. I may end up needing a laptop on stage anyway. I just hate lugging loads of stuff!

Godin A4 fretless might do the trick. It's a thinline acoustic but sounds like it has a much bigger body.

He needs to raise the action on his bass a bit though eh. Sounds bloody awful.

[quote name='SevenSeas' timestamp='1399673139' post='2446673'] Very true but I do all the editing when I get home, so thats not a problem. [/quote] Same here. First thing I do when I get back from rehearsals… Well, first thing I do is pour myself a pint, second thing is plug the H2 into my Mactop and import the track into Logic. I'm browsing through Thursday night's session right now actually.

Looked like a G&L ASAT.

They're in the habit of booking somebody completely irrelevant though aren't they. There are bound to be enough decent bands on to make it still worth going, if you can tolerate the giddy children.

[quote name='Geek99' timestamp='1398698237' post='2436686'] Tony Levin said "I'm a bass player, I enjoy doing the same thing over and over again" [/quote] Me too, it gives me time to mess about with effects and add some vocal harmonies. Neither of those would work in a tedious blues jam though. :-(

Last time I was there, I found a guitar shop full of Gretschs in the Barri Gotic. There's a workshop making classical guitars in there somewhere too, but they have a sign in the window basically telling tourists to **** off. :-)

Actually I haven't tried the EP-3 in the M9, maybe it will work, but Line 6 recommend a 20k pot and the Moog is 50k, I'll have to give it a go.

Bit jealous. :-( Isn't Jerzy Drozd based in Barca?

Oh no I'm planning to have more than one pedal, I would just prefer them to be the same. Currently I have a VP Jr (I replaced the pot with a linear one) on the M9 and an EP-3 on the Xero, but they are different heights and have different pivot points and ranges so it's too hard to operate both with one foot. :-\

Does anyone know of an expression pedal - apart from the new AMT, that has both TS and TRS jacks? I'm trying to find a pedal that will work for both my M9 and my Xerograph.

This sounds to me like a set of Cordes Lambert Gut Twins. Wound E and A, no sign of fraying on the D and G sounds like nylon. I've got a used gut D and G and they are fraying at the ends and also showing some 'hairs' separating from them further up the string. I'm certain they aren't decades old!

Glad you figured it out. My Zoom H2 is probably the best money I've ever spent on musical kit.

When I asked my local luthier for an adjustable bridge he fitted adjusters to my existing bridge. It was a bit cheaper and also gave me some confidence that my factory-fitted bridge was probably pretty decent. :-)

Bought an Iron Ether Xerograph from Ivan which arrived way quicker than I expected it to. He has contacts in the Royal Mail or something. It may even be The Queen.

I honestly don't know the full story with these, but I heard the original whammy had some fancy software that the third-party developers patented, and Digitech couldn't use it in subsequent models, which is why the original is considered more valuable. I've never had a Whammy so I don't know, but that's the story I heard.

Boss ls-2. Run both signals into its A and B returns (not the input) and set it to A and B mix, you can then balance the levels of each signal using its two knobs and get the mixed signal from the output.