Dood

2 hours ago, Crusoe said:

Imagine outing yourself as a "Friends" fan on here... oh! 🫢

I also like headless basses, prog and "too many strings" and will happily play Jean-Michel Jarre, Gojira and Barbara Thompson's Paraphernalia on the same playlist 🤷🏻. 

"There's somthing wrong with the left phalangeee"

Aside from the technical benefits that a well designed HPF would have, it would ultimately be down to how the marketing department translates that in to layman's terms. 

"Removes the bass from your bass.." big no.

"Protects your valuable speakers from sub-sonic transients and aids efficiency." Much better. 

"A High-Pass filter removes sub-sonic frequencies that most speakers can't reproduce. These frequencies waste amplifer energy, affect speaker excursion and can lead to early driver failure. Using an HPF can improve bass tone." I think I'd write something like this ha ha!

I've just been alerted to the existence of this cool gadget. It's a VST player: https://octavetech.eu 

1 hour ago, BigRedX said:

 

$1k is a lot of money for this, and neither of PSU inputs are gig-proof IMO without mounting the device and PSU on a pedal board which defeats the object as this is supposed to be the "pedal board" itself. A good idea but flawed execution.

At the moment they are hand made by a small team and are knocking out about two a day, so very much a boutique build right now. They, or rather Wilson, doesn't have the same manaufacturing power as, say, Line 6 or Neural. Mentioning those in regard to flawed execution, there are plenty of pedals and devices on the market that use the same or weaker power connections. I'd like to see the same as the Line 6 LT etc that has a proper IEC power socket. 'Wall warts' and 'laptop' type power supplies and virtually every single USB connector available to the consumer market just isn't gig worthy. Well, although I agree, I don't use a separate pedal board (at the moment) for my Quad Cortex, there's plenty of people who do mount it to a board along with other devices, so I can't see why this would be flawed if it were also on a board? What's your thinking there?

P.s, Wilson seems like a really knowledgeable and friendly guy. I wanna meet him! 

I wan' one of deeeeeez!!!

A PC with touch screen, full compliment audio interface and a programmable MIDI controller (amongst other functionality) in one box. You can also connect a keyboard and mouse ha ha!! Wilson demonstrated running Neural, IK M Tonex and a whole bunch of other apps (including wacthing YouTube and running a DAW) in his videos on the Paint Audio channel. 

Wilson has plenty of demo videos on his channel: https://www.youtube.com/@Wilson-PaintAudio/videos 

On 19/11/2024 at 12:54, kwmlondon said:

This is great, thanks, much apprecaited! I've got a little Laney LC15R, 15w valve amp with a 10" speaker - I'd be fascinated to feed it with just the high frequencies and crank it up.

I can't believe this! Not only have you got a Marshall IBS, but I've been wanting a Laney LC15 too! (Ok, I'd be happy with the LC30 mind!!) Absolutely brilliant lil amps! 

I thought I'd double check (as I was reading the schematic diagram) and have found the manual for the amplifier for you - page two describes the outputs: https://www.drtube.com/schematics/marshall/ibs.pdf 

1 hour ago, kwmlondon said:

One question though (I can't check this myself as the amp is now in Wales and I'm in London), it has bass and treble outputs. If I were to, say, plug another amp into just one of the outputs, what would the internal 200W amp be doing? Would it be full frequency or just the bass signal? Becuase I'm thinking - if I plugged a guitar amp into the HF output and cranked up the distortion I could recreate the two-rig setup at bedroom volumes! Just wondering... and plotting!

If you connect a guitar amplifer to the treble output, the bass side of the crossover is still sent to the internal amplifer, thus you can do exactly as you'd described. furthermore, using the crossover, you can sculpt the crossover point to decide how much of the signal goes to the combo or the external amplifer. Plugging an amplifer in to just the bass output acts as a full range slave, sending the same signal to both the internal amplifer and external device. 

You'll be safe even running a full range (instrument level) signal in to a distorted guitar amplifer, as nearly all with drive channels have a High Pass Filter at the input by design that will also filter out bass and sub frequencies. 

I was once recognised in a Morrison's supermarket. Does that count? 

18 hours ago, kwmlondon said:

I can see the 2x15” being efficient enough to get the most out of the amp. 200w has to work hard…

I recall that the drivers in my cabinet might not have been that efficient, so, for gigging I was nearing the limits of what the stack could dish out when needing the extra volume. I also think that as a teen I had a bit to learn about EQ'ing - but boy did it sound good! 

53 minutes ago, franzbassist said:

Nice work @Dood.  Just to add the specs I got from Pete at Roland that I don't think you mention and aren't in the manual:

 

bass = 70Hz

treble = 6K

 

shape

(green) -12dB at 500Hz

(red) +6dB at 4K

(orange) both green and red combined

Thank you, it was a fun review!

For the Bass and Treble EQ, the Amp Feel switch changes the behaviour including: Vintage mode is 70Hz peaking and 5kHz shelving, Modern and Off modes are 40Hz and 3Khz shelving. 

2 minutes ago, Duroc17 said:

Nice one Dan 

Thank you! I’m the only reviewer who has had access to the Boss Katana designers and explanations of the technology behind Katana, so this one is a good’un!! 

My full written review in Bass Gear Magazine with EXCLUSIVE access to the Boss Katana designers first! 

https://www.bassgearmag.com/boss-katana-500-bass-head-and-1x12-katana-bass-cabinet/
 

2 minutes ago, neepheid said:

 

Thanks mate, already a member, but it's the thought that counts!

Spreading the bassy love to my fellow ‘chatters! 😊

Sorry it took so long, but my video review has gone live:

https://www.bassgearmag.com/boss-katana-500-bass-head-and-1x12-katana-bass-cabinet/

@kevin_lindsay @three @Acebassmusic @MichaelDean @Leonard Smalls @sPiKi @12stringbassist @asingardenof @neepheid and @everyone!  
And, of course if you sign up for D’Addario Player’s Circle, you can earn points off of every purchase (so that’s two sets of points if you bought a double pack!)

Oh and sign up asap and you can have 50 points on me each to get started! https://bit.ly/3iQMRam (This is an official D’Addario link!) 

(I’ve got loads of stuff from the circle over the years, including a free t-shirt recently! 

On 15/04/2024 at 13:44, pete.young said:

Thank you Dood. I shall look forward to this review, even if the OP seems to have disappeared without trace!

Apologies! I was supposed to get this one posted here. Sorry it took so long!!

https://www.bassgearmag.com/becos-compiq-stella-pro-mk2-compressor-pedal/

1 hour ago, Mykesbass said:

@Dood Marshall IBS - now there's an apt name if ever I saw one 😯

I've managed to send a cold shiver down my own spine as I recall in a moment of madness sharing my health woes with the world. On reflection, I don't think anyone really wanted to know that I am suffering from an incurable disease of the gut. I think I want one of these amplifers as well now just to celebrate the misery! 

#TreadRailRoaded 🤪

3 minutes ago, Dood said:

Awww very lucky!! 

 

I had the head version and ran it in to a 2x15" cabinet (Loaded with Celestion speakers). It was my first "proper" gigging rig and I always had compliments on my tone! It made a good noise! I'm definitely feeling nostalgic for the Marshalls right now! 

Wow! I've managed to find an old scan of some pictures that I had of that very rig - though it looks like a speaker was changed at some point. I'm still wondering where that P bass ended up. I last heard it was in a studio in Suffolk somewhere, but it must be a studio that no one goes to as nobody seems to have seen it! 

Pictured: Marshall IBS 200W head, the cabinet I think was a Traynor 2x15" and the Precision is a 70's ash body with a 80's '62 AVRI (USA) neck w/ reverse kluson tuners and Dimarzio split coil. Heavy as, but sounded like thunder. 

Awww very lucky!! 

I had the head version and ran it in to a 2x15" cabinet (Loaded with Celestion speakers). It was my first "proper" gigging rig and I always had compliments on my tone! It made a good noise! I'm definitely feeling nostalgic for the Marshalls right now! 

Fender did actually do a Player short run CAR with a maple neck a couple of years ago. I nearly bought one but my car decided it would put pay to that plan. 

16 hours ago, GR7G5TER said:

I love this thread!

 

I bought a Super PJ a few years back and it's an amazing instrument, Sheldon's basses are next level.

 

If you wanted to know how is sounds....

 

 

 

I remember this review! Thank you so much for sharing it. Some reviews easily stand out in my memory and I have to say that this bass sounded SO good in the studio! The Dingwall and Bergantino combination is a match made in heaven (indeed Sheldon's own test rig is a Bergy too!) - and of course Sheldon's basses are effortless to play!

I'm trying to keep an updated playlist of all of my video reviews on YouTube and have managed to locate over 300, but there are still plenty missing. Here's the link to save to my playlist. 

I’ve wanted one of these for years but alas, they only ever come up when there’s no way to collect .. or afford. Gahhhh!