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I use mine with batteries. There's noise under the notes as it decays, hardly noticeable but once you hear it it's annoying. It's almost like a 'breathing' sound and at first I thought could be noise created by the limiter but it does it when just using one of the pre-amp models. It kicks in about half a second after hitting a string and decays and comes back as the note fades until it breaks up and the note stops, at which point it sounds a bit like an aggressive noise gate would. My 'clean' patch is the Avalon DI model with the tone setting off, a reverb and limiter, but you get the noise with everything turned off. So I don't think it's to do with the effects themselves but the digital processing of the unit as a whole. I doubt it'll be noticeable though an amplifier to be honest, and for the price it's a great little tool but not 'studio' quality; hardly surprising for the price though.

I'd like to enter this one please

Hi Nick That will work fine. No need for any software unless you want to record, then you can use something like GarageBand which meets most needs. Otherwise if you’re just playing along with stuff you can play music from Spotify, YouTube etc and it’ll come through the interface to your mixer. Adjust the bass level to match and you’re good to go 👍🏻 If I may make an extreme but excellent suggestion, and you really want to fritter away some money on something extra, then having a Tecamp BassBoard in addition to headphones makes you feel like you’re on stage. Get one of those, too 😛

Wow I didn't notice! I'll get working on my speech! It would be right of you to commemorate this occasion with a new bass.

Well, I have a B1on but I rarely use it - VB99 is my unit The Zoom is fun for travel though.

Will the answer shock me? 😂

Thanks. I think I’ve tracked it down now and have started the process of sorting it. I have disabled it for now so it should be ok for the time being

I’m pretty sure he made them!

Nothing has the same ‘ping’ as a popped G string on a Smith get one!

Rather than look for a good sounding reverb I’d be looking for some with specific features, namely the ability to bypass certain frequency bands (so for example you can add some reverb to the high mids but bypass the bass end). That sounds great on bass.

I’ve just eaten a whole bag of Minstrels and I still fancy some toast but surely it’s too late now

You should be out scouring the streets for interesting foreign strings

11:30 on a Friday night and we’re all online talking about strings. Awesome 🤘☺️

I only use Cobalts on my P; my other basses have Elixirs of the same gauge (though I think the E string is 0.100). I can record something if you like, but think nice warm nickel rounds with a great ‘zing’ and top end. A set lasts me over a year.

Here are my natural beauties

Think my tone control was on 75% ish but normally on that bass I have it at about 50%. I like the sound of bright flats with the tone down as opposed to dull flats with the tone on full, if that makes sense!

I liked the TI flats I had before but prefer the cobalts. The 40-95 set I have are more flexible and nicer to play than the TIs which I believe had a .043 G string. Whereabouts are you, anywhere near York you can have a try.

And you let me struggle with that hard case!

Not literally picked up, presumably 🤣

I always like to get a strap to match each of my basses. I was kind of looking for something a tiny bit more 'rock and roll' than my usual, but found most of the straps on offer a bit too covered with skulls or crosses for my liking. Then I came across a guy on Etsy who makes nice straps to order, normally with tooled details on the strap (like bullet holes, patterns, etc). I asked him to make me a plain one and it came today, I'm really happy with it! Plain black, really nice leather, non adjustable (he'll make whatever length you want) and altogether great value. Cheers ped

There you go!

Yep let me know what you prefer 👍🏻

Hi just a note to say please avoid comments about the Arab Israeli conflict please, cheersbye

Looks like one of John’s finest 👌🏽