ped

I recently bought some new strings to replace the Elixir 45-100 rounds that I'm using on my Mustang. I play in drop D and found to my surprise that this works really well despite the short scale and relatively light strings.

However I ordered the wrong set, instead of nickel 45-100 I bought Stainless Steel 45-105, so near enough. Strung them up earlier, including giving the fingerbard a bit of Planet Waves Hydrate fluid, and you know what, they're great. 

I have never been able to use heavier strings on long scale basses as I go so used to a .40 G string and love the lower tension, but going down to 30" the .45 G makes sense and feels fine, more familiar now specially since the 'Stang has been my go to for a while now. The tighter D string is noticeable, and the SS strings have a bit more top end and I think a less focused midrange, which suits the bass well because it's naturally mid punchy. It means using both pickups in jazz bass mode sounds a little deeper.

So all in all, happy accident. Reckon I'll use these again next time (which IME will be about a year, more because I think I should rather than them needing it!)

Hi there thanks for joining. I’ve been tempted to buy the original Funk Machine pedal out of curiosity. Can you tell us a little about what it does? I’m assuming a band pass filter with depth control (and therefore perhaps not optimal on bass?)

My wife has started playing with the BC Instagram/Facebook and she chose this bass to feature to launch our ‘pick of the week’ feature. Hopefully it helped!

Good to hear a shout out to Failure, one of my favourite 'heavy' bands

Hi mate yeah the font is called Xirod

https://www.dafont.com/xirod.font

1 minute ago, admiralchew said:

Haha, thanks. If I always did NPDs I would lay bare the state of my GAS and I don’t think I or the Effects thread is ready for that.

We're ready. I will monitor the bandwidth and fire up extra servers if you pre warn me

This is a great resource and a good place to start!

http://www.musicmanbass.global

3 minutes ago, BigRedX said:

More importantly: Why?

 

What does the app offer that can't been done viewing Basschat in your phone's browser?

Notifications, basically. 

6 minutes ago, Owen said:

Eh? App? Eh? Where?

It's not quite a fully fledged app but it works quite well in it's current version.

Thanks guys. I must say it's been fantastic becoming the resident Vigier expert and getting to know these amazing instruments so well. I have just reduced the price, now I'm minded to sell I want a new home for it soon. Buyer has to give me first dibs when/if they decide to sell! 

Also, added a sound clip - I'm sure I have more somewhere.

3 minutes ago, Reggaebass said:

Do you think they do this deliberately to make people contact them, I’ve asked many times for more info and pictures of neck stamps, pickup dates etc and they’ve sent them back almost immediately, so they already have the details but just don’t put it on their website 

Yeah I was going to suggest it might be preferable for them if people come and try them rather than buy online. Distance selling regs and judging value based on minute indicators must make it quite difficult to sell something like that online.

Great, I’ve realised why badges in the app don’t work - they’re not supported yet. Hopefully things will develop over the next few updates. 

I honestly don’t know why The Bass Gallery put so little effort into their descriptions. Massively lets them down imo especially as buying from a shop like that should mean a reliable source of expert information as opposed to some waster saying ’L@@k VINTAGE LAWSUIT’ on eBay 

The compressor on these is my fave on any bass amp. Lovely stuff. 

Didn't the original Moogerfooger pedals have terrible bypasses?

1 hour ago, Quatschmacher said:

Still on my list of things to try, if I’m feeling brave enough to tackle the notorious interface. 

Yeah it's a bit frustrating at first but OK once you get the hang of it - as long as you don't forget the next time you use it!

I have the firmware file containing the latest (final) factory sounds if anyone wants.

V001_011.OSF

@tayste_2000

Try it now chaps. You might need to delete the ‘app’ and add it again. 

Sorry no trades this is purely a fundraising exercise forced by wife’s redundancy. 
 

I’ve got some recordings I’ll add later 

I also have the original knobs (they feel like aluminium) so you can have whichever you prefer.

The best Jazz Bass (70s spacing) that money can buy IMO!

Flawless craftsmanship with stunning attention to detail, such as the asymmetrical heel and horns. The sound is pure 70s jazz heaven, with the legendary Greengrove preamp (two band) with internal dip switching for adjusting frequency centres.

It comes with the original Celinder Hiscox case. Weight is 9.1lbs. Collection from York, but I'll travel a fair distance to meet. 

You can hear it here:

..and here:

Pics:

This was my favourite bass for sooo long. Feels really strange to be selling it but I'm just not playing it now and I guess my tastes have changed. It makes me sad to see it in its case not being used.

I have had five Vigier basses and this one slayed them all, including basses by many other top marques during it's reign. The action is super low, the neck dead flat, the sound is often described as like a 'velvet covered brick'

It was originally bought as a pickup/preamp-less 'chassis' which was later filled with Basstec pickups and a Marleaux 3 band pre. The Roland GK system with up/down buttons was added some years later and works flawlessly - I used to use it with the Vbass and later the VB99 system for some outstanding synth sounds, including polyphonic effects which to my mind still haven't been matched by anything Roland or anyone else have done since.

Being a carbon neck thru with no truss rod it's also extremely light, my scales showing 7.lbs

Please ask if you have any questions. I prefer not to post, but will meet a fair distance away. The original case is also in excellent condition and quite rare.

Cheers

ped

The controls - the two small knobs at the back are treble and bass, the next down from that is mids, the next is a GK assignable control, then the one near the bridge pickup is pan then the one near the neck pickup is vol. The two buttons are GK assignable for example patch up/down or to turn effects on and off.

I say go for it. I recently bought a 66 Mustang which had already been modified, so I asked the fantastic @Andyjr1515 to change the pickups and straighten things up for me. Full thread here

https://www.basschat.co.uk/topic/471651-modding-a-66-mustang-really-really/#comment-4854101

There are lots of options for bridge pickups, and on a Musicmaster you have quite a bit more space to play with to position the pickup. Because the mustang has such a bit bridge and because I wanted to use the existing hole I butted mine right up to the backplate, which gives approximately 70s spacing (taking the shorter scale into account). Blended, it sounds superb and the bridge pickup on it's own is really loud and 'parpy'

You can hear it here, sorry for the shite playing. Mostly neck at the start, blended from 1:00 and bridge at 2:00

It works quite well but I can't get the 'badge' notifications to work any more. I'll keep messing with it.

That's right, cheers - it's not perfect, more of an experimental feature I think at this stage