Woodinblack

33 minutes ago, Al Krow said:

All in all, I'm not surprised it's still the second best seller after the MXR. People vote with their wallets.

Too early to tell on the MXR - I mean it will be the best seller at the moment as it has just been released so everyone will rush out and get it. See how it is selling when it has been out as long as the SY has been out.

Not sure what model you got but all of my LED lights, including the new one from Aliexpress have a 4 digit LED on the back with a select and up down button. I have a manual with mine, but it seems that the code is similar to my older lights so maybe it is a standard?

19 minutes ago, Phil Starr said:

I bloody hope not. I'd better screenshot the ad but this is what it says. I'd liketo see a DMX controller with  12 bulbs with an 8deg output angle. Maybe I've posted the wrong link.

The drop down says the light is £138, the DMX controller is £29. 

The lights are in the tech spec, but so is the DMX controller so it is sold as parts.

2 minutes ago, dave_bass5 said:

Its just that ive read how some have to have a custom build because they cant play anything else (talking about 4-5 strings, not those silly things with so many strings that you cant pass as a bass player), which always strikes me as funny. 

I had a custom build made because it was what I wanted, and I couldn't get what I wanted off the shelf. It plays more gigs that most of the others, but not all because I don't believe on having a bass that I don't gig (except a 4 string, but I have had it so long), so the others get used as well.

3 hours ago, andruca said:

If the 1st fret we see is a zero fret then those dots on fret 2 are misplaced, and confusing (should be 1 dot @ fret 3). 

Although the numbers are irrelevant (there is no real standard for that), the chapman stick railboard have a fret marker on the 2nd fret (2, 7, 12, 17 - who knows why).

2 hours ago, andruca said:

Looks more like a mockup someone photoshopped, not a real life instrument, but apparently it's real.

more concerning is a lack of muting below the 0th fret

Maybe it is meant to be played more like an NS:Stick, but then the fan frets make very little sense. I suspect it was one of those 'because I can' rather than 'because I should' instruments.

8 minutes ago, Paulhauser said:

I'm wondering if the dark grey thing is not a nut but a string guide and the first, fanned fret is a zero fret, then it's all good....I'm confused 🙂 

Yes, the first fret on a chapman style instrument would be the zero fret, as you can't tap an open string.

1 hour ago, peteb said:

 

Seeing as I've just done a gig where the guitar player's Helix went down three times, I'm not sure that it's only tube amps that are temperamental. 

 

Wow, I did hundreds of gigs with a hxfx and never had an issue. Mind you, never had an issue with my CTM100 either!

Indeed, that doesn't really make any sense. I assume thought that it isn't meant to be strung like a chapman stick?

35 minutes ago, Stub Mandrel said:

Color : Flocculent Maple

 Personally prefer the Bulbous Sapele!

Should be good as the string spacing is meticulously adjusted making it easy to press the strings!

Or as always when you see a page layout like that, you could just then go to aliexpress and find the same thing for £200

https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005007340673672.html

On 02/09/2025 at 16:21, No more basses said:

Hey there

Offers by PM please

On 03/09/2025 at 10:31, Al Krow said:

A mate's band has been using this to good effect for up-lighting, which I've recently seen in action: 60W RGB 24PCS LEDs Wall Washer 

turned up today, amazing for £36!

11 minutes ago, Misdee said:

Him, and also various young men from Seattle in need of a good wash.

Seattle? Like Krist Novoselic and his Gibson RD Artist and thunderbirds, or Jeff Ament with his Hamer 12 strings?

I watched a recent video about it on bass and I wasn't that impressed with its sounds, but it is small and useable so for gigging it is probably ok

Not seeing anything in the logs here that relates to that. The 'Sorry there was a problem reacting to this content' is an error caused by mixing http and https, but I can't see why you would be doing that. if you force reload the page and click does it do the same?

Thats seems like my dream gig, except I am here in Yeovil and frankly my keys are a bit rusty!

1 hour ago, chris_b said:

I would suggest they are 99% production line basses, as are all other non-boutique basses.

a lot of them are hand made. Not hand made well, but still hand made in some shed somewhere. 

44 minutes ago, Mykesbass said:

P.s. how do I get a 1/2 on my phone keypad? 😟

you type 1 / and 2, and the forum puts it together like this 7 1/2

or it used to!

1 hour ago, chris_b said:

Boutique instruments are made by hand. That will never stop!!

So are a lot of the basses on aliexpress. 

16 hours ago, Elfrasho said:

Maybe not the most useful comment but i regulaly use the Xvive U4 IEM system and its been flawless. My only negative is that it seems to stay on unless its been switched off. It doesnt go into a sleep mode as far s i can tell. This might be the same. saying that, my cheapo harley benton wifi doesnt either so maybe its standard. Techwise though, i'd be confident in Xvive.

I have a U4 IEM (not using it at the moment as I am using the Lekato setup), and no they don't switch off, which is exactly how I would want it, I don't want something that decides it is going to switch off at any point, it has switched.

Of course the only issue on the U4 is the switches are easy to knock on, although that isn't a problem if they are in in the official case (which I got shortly before I stopped using them!)

8 minutes ago, dave_bass5 said:

while I wait for the midi pedal, ive brought a Valeton GP-5. Totally different pedals but I want to give it a try as well. At least I know the midi pedal will worth with either. 

Be interested how you get on, it is on my list of things to probably end up with for my small pedalboard!

Would probably be good if I use a midi switcher to select the patches.

Yes, I would be interested on this, especially relating to noise.

Boss are loads of peoples favourites. When they came in in the late 70s, early 80s there was pretty well nothing to touch them and they remained that way for a long time. They came up with the standards for many effects and kind of defined both the size of effects and the controls we expected of them. And even the colours we expected effects to be!

I think they are still the reference for what effects are supposed to sound like.