bassmayhem

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I had the same question, and found two favourites: Visual Sound's Visual Volume and Ernie Ball MVP. I ended up with the EB, due to its smaller footprint on the pedalboard. Both are active, so you can use any bass, active or passive, with these pedals. Here is a test setup before I fastened all the cablage: [IMG]http://i225.photobucket.com/albums/dd169/bassmayhem/20150604_203708_zpsvkwgaenc.jpg[/IMG]

I use my Voodoo Lab Mondo with a voltage doubler cable for 2x400A and 12 Volts...

This is my "to-go-board", not yet completed. (Will it ever be...?) The cables are not permanently fastened, since some units are still missing. The Line 6 Relay G50 and an old TC Phaser will be onboard(!) soon... I use this setup when I play with my Bose rig or without amp, just to PA and monitors. Also with amp if I'm in the mood... Signal chain as is: Bass - Korg PitchBlack+ - Markbass Compressore - Ernie Ball MVP - EBS ValveDrive DI - out

For us low end bassterds...

For guitards, though:

Thanks!

Is the Warmoth Jazz Bass body routed with 60's or 70's pickup placement? I cannot find any info on their website. It would be nice to get a body from their big "surplus stock", but NOT if it has 60's bridge pup pacement...

Check this: http://www.thomann.de/gb/thomastik_jf344.htm

There are preamps and there is Jule Amps Monique. Simple as that! This unit is the best I've ever tried. I played it through a Crown power amp and two Mesa Boogie cabinets. No bad tone what so ever, everything sounded beter through this unit. Expensive? H*ll, yeah! Worth it? You bet! Sell a kidney or eat porridge a year... [IMG]http://i225.photobucket.com/albums/dd169/bassmayhem/Monique_zpsgz7n8vfu.jpg[/IMG] No! I am [b]NOT [/b]affiliated in any way with Jule...

I just bought a Little Mark III after having sold my CMD121P combo a few years ago. I regretted selling that combo, and when I had the opportunity to get another LM I just went for it. Why? Simple: it is simple to use, it sounds good, no bells and whistles, weighs just some milligrams - or so it seems - and very versatile tonally. The two filters, the "old school roll of" and the "smiling face" used just a little, by themselves or in combination, are all I use to tweak the tone. The eq just for room anomalies. TC is a good beast, but I prefer it simple...

[quote name='timbass' timestamp='1428599548' post='2742908']The long-scale Kremona looks amazing.[/quote] Thanks! It is a very nice instrument. I once had a Wilfer bass; another one like my old was at the store too. When I played that bass, some £6000-ish, I thought: "It sounds like my old one. The things I didn't like is present in this one too". When I played the Kremona, that cost me some £3700, I thought: "Wow! If a bass that is two years old sound like this, how will it sound then, when it is 102...?" It got that Avishai Cohen kind of tone when you dig in... (NO! I don't compare myself with him; thats blasphemy...) I've changed to Evah Pirazzi Weich on this bass. Mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm...

[quote name='ambient' timestamp='1428537036' post='2742310'] I think there's a guy who plays Chapman stick uses a similar Bose rig. Sounds like a really nice set up. [/quote] I started playing Stick again for a while, after some 27 years hiatus, and used my Bose rig. But - 27 years is a long time, so I sold the Stick...

I have been using a Bose L1 Model 2 system some years now. Mostly when I do chusch gigs, or more acoustic type of gigs. I have used the system with electric bass and my NS electric upright, but now I have started experimenting at home with my Bulgarian Kremona acoustic bass. The Kremona is a big animal, special built for its first owner, with a 3/4 body and full 4/4 scale. (110 cm) I fell in love with this bass in five notes. It has a big full tone, but demands some power to play. It is not a bass for virtuoso playing - not by me anyhow - but more for digging in and making TONE. The bass has a Realist pickup, the cupper one under the bass foot of the bridge. When I plugged it into my Bose ToneMatch mixer and set to the David Gage Realist patch it worked rather well, but the amplified tone was very bass heavy and there was a "ringing sensation of ongoing feedback" somewhere in the low mid register. Anyway, I started to tame the feedback beast. First roll down the low band eq 3-6 dB. Then chasing feedback with the parametric eq. First I boosted the eq 15 dB, wich is max on the tone match - volume off - and set the q value to very narrow: some 1/3 - 1/4 octave. Then up with the volume so the beast awkens, play the strings and sweep the frequency control from high to low, until the feedback starts. There is the problem frequency nailed! Down with the mid band gain to minus 9 - 12 dB. Now the amplified tone is very similar to the acoustic tone. I can play really loud without feedback, standing just one meter from the Bose rig. Depending on local I have to readjust the "notch filter", but now I know it works. I will try using my Avalon U5 as preamp too, to get a better signal from the Realist into the mixer. Just another day... This bass is built in 2012, but has already a tone big as life. Solid wood all around. A big guy; some 190 cm with endpin in. Nice even tone... Simba the cat curled up in my rolled shoulder strap on the B1 subs. Cats love to lie in round things for some reason... I used my Streamliner 900 as preamp for the electric basses, but now I've gotten an EBS ValveDrive DI to use with the Bose. The Kremona and the NS EUB goes straight into the mixer.

My two with matching headstocks: [IMG]http://i225.photobucket.com/albums/dd169/bassmayhem/20150106_191004_zps3a5ac40f.jpg[/IMG] Lakland Joe Osborn 5 [IMG]http://i225.photobucket.com/albums/dd169/bassmayhem/20150311_070730_zps1uow6g51.jpg[/IMG] D.Lakin Basses Bob Glaub