AlphaK
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Bought a pedal off Mark. Great guy. The package was well wrapped and the pedal was in the very good condition he described and good comms with Mark throughout. As above, no hesitation in recommending Mark.
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38 minutes ago, krispn said:
Why did I think you already nabbed a hxfx!
If only! But if anyone does have a HX Effects or Stomp that they want to sell, then please feel free to send me a pm.
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@krispn been quite a few more poll responses since my earlier post a week or so back. The Helix Floor looks great - but whether I can find one for a reasonable price used is another matter. Certainly can't afford one new.
Maybe more sensible to kick off with a Stomp or HX Effects - January sales and NAMM coming up too, so there may be a few more coming up in the Spring as folk move onto the latest gizmos and maybe start to think about off loading some of their existing kit.
I'll be keeping my eyes peeled!
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13 minutes ago, burno70 said:
That's it. To sweep aside the post election gloom I've ordered a HX Effects. Free next day delivery from Peach Guitars too. Cannot wait!
Well at least the £ is up to $1.33 from lows of $1.20 a few months back, so hopefully that is going to feed through into prices of some US pedals coming down by 10% next year. Fingers crossed!
I can't help but notice that while the Stomp owners are clearly in a majority, the HX Effects owners seem to be the most enthusiastic and that seems to be infectious with folk following this thread looking to buy e.g. both @Deedee and @burno70 have gone for the HX Effects. I read earlier this entirely down to @dave_bass5 being a bad influence ring leader!
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18 current Helix owners out there so far voted (thank you). That's actually quite an impressive number - this is clearly a very popular pedal group. I guess not surprisingly half of the ones owned are Stomps, given its relatively modest pricing and compact size and it seems to be the sensible place for a newbie to start there or with the HX Effects and maybe work up to one of the bigger units in due course. Must admit, although it's not going to be the least bit sensible, the Helix Floor does look awesome in what it can do and its super easy to see displays. The only one not floating my boat is the LT - I guess simply due to the lack of the scribble strips.
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Wow - some really helpful posts, thanks!
Must admit I'd never really looked as far up the chain as the Helix Floor and so hadn't spotted that it has the very useful scribble strips like the HX Effects.
So from a purely display perspective if I've got this right: the Floor has large plus scribble, LT large only, HX Effects scribble only and Stomp large only.
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I saw that @Jack had an RCF 12" sub paired with two RCF 12" tops, in a for sale thread, which looked great.
I'll leave Jack to elaborate on what difference the sub makes to their sound when it's being used vs if they go tops only.
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On 06/09/2019 at 08:40, Al Krow said:
I must admit I didn't like the relatively tiny screen interface of EZ Drummer! Shame they don't have something that adapts to the size of our computer screens.
The other bit of hardware that is about to shortly hit the shops is this new pedal by Boss which looks interesting, their RC-10R.
Combines looper, drum machine, midi input and, like your two suggestions above, has preset drum loops - 280 to be precise.
Not sure whether it's possible to edit / save drum lines on PC, although there are hints that this might be possible. If that functionality is there, this would be a very attractive combination pedal indeed.
Don't watch this if you're still thinking of getting the RC-10R...
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@Deedee always grand when more than one of us is making use of a thread - seems like this is timely for us both! Please feel free to jump in and it will be interesting / illuminating to see which one you go for.
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7 hours ago, Higgie said:
Playing ampless with IEMs, the Stomp was the way to go. With a Morningstar MC6 the possibilities are endless!
Yes, I can definitely see that if you are going down the IEM route amp & cab sims are going to come into their own and it seems from what dannybuoy is saying that the guitar amp sims can be used as part of FX design and tone shaping.
In terms of pricing once you're going down the Stomp + Morningstar MC6 combo route you're into LT pricing territory, which comes with a built in expression pedal. Just wondering whether you had considered the LT as an alternative given that you get considerably more blocks (32 vs 6) and additional processing power plus all the amp & cab sims to allow you to go down the IEM route should you want, with the LT?
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2 hours ago, Kiwi said:
I think what you are suggesting might be true with two conditions:
1) That the starting point was having an SY1000, which is different to where I am as I had already invested in half the pedals in the signal chain anyway, particularly the FI.
2) That there were alternatives to the SY1000, which as far as I can tell there aren't.
Agree with the first, not sure about the relevance of the second point but given your starting point it doesn't make too much difference I guess!
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1 hour ago, machinehead said:
I've had my Quilter BB800 for at least a couple of years. My opinion of it has only got better.
Frank.
And even more excellent when folk spend time and really get to know their gear and how to get the best out of it!
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Seeing a lot of love for the Helix multi-fx on a couple of threads and am seriously tempted to get one from Santa.
Would love to know what the BC community, who've got a Helix pedal, have gone for and why? Or if you've moved it on why it didn't cut the mustard.
Particularly also interested in how you're using them in a band mix and which FX you're particularly making use of.
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5 hours ago, chris_b said:
I have just bought a BB800 and am still a/b'ing it with my TH500, AG700 and T'funk. Jury's out at the moment.
Super refreshing to get someone not immediately shouting that their latest shiny thing isn't the best thing since sliced bread, before moving it on 6 weeks later...
The TH500 is a bit rarer from what I can tell, but I'd be very interested to get your candid thoughts on how well it stacks up against the AG700, being a more mainstream D class.
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1 minute ago, 51m0n said:
Said the actress to the bishop
Surely you're mistaken? It was definitely the other way around.
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14 hours ago, Kiwi said:
All it takes is for it to do one thing less than expected and the whole unit ends up redundant.
If one thing doesn't come up to scratch, surely it just means you need to get one extra pedal rather than 6 extra?
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Could you potentially replace your 7 pedals:
With this?
Check this out and goes into detail from 2.10 in...(although I think he may be using a GK midi pup?). The sequencer is unbelievable! That's probably 'cos it's actually: "two 16-part step sequencers for evolving control of pitch, filter, and amplitude"
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On 03/12/2019 at 10:05, ratman said:
Has anybody managed to get a convincing OC-2 sound out of the Stomp? I've never owned one so I have no first hand experience of how they sound. I'd be grateful of some settings to get me in the ball park.
I came across a post suggesting you needed a decent square wave to get an OC-2 sound. But given that the Stomp is not an actual synth wave generator but a synth "sim", I think it's going to struggle. Happy to be proven wrong on this though.
45 minutes ago, 28mistertee said:Cyber Monday and I buckled.... unpacked my LT tonight and have no idea where to start. Coming from an old school plug and play background so totally baffled by it all.
Impressed you decided to dive in at the deep end and not go with one of the more basic models!
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4 hours ago, LukeFRC said:
On a passive bass the pickups, volume and tone controls AND the input stage of an amp and it’s impedance are part of the same tone generating system- so yes an amp can have an effect on how the tone control works
Don't think anyone is questioning that.
The only thing being queried was whether the Quilter did this better than all other amps that have ever existed. Mr La Bam has since clarified that it does it better than:
- Trace elliot: commando 12 & elf
- Ashdown: mag 300, superfly, abm 2 500, little giant, evo iv 600
- Line 6 lowdown 300
- Mark bass LM3 & evo1
- Genz Benz contour
- Tech 21 VTRM & power amp
- Laney Nexus 400 all tube
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Haha (and thanks) - I asked for that didn't I?! Okay your original claim of being better than any other amp pretty much stands!
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Got a little distracted by the rest of the PA rig, which looks awesome and very neat ...are those all RCF 12s including the sub? Apologies for the de-rail!
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52 minutes ago, la bam said:
Haha, yes, sorry, I should have added "......that I've used."
Phew! And just to provide a full picture which other amps have you A/B'd it with in this regard?
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8 minutes ago, la bam said:
What I did find really interesting is that it seems to react to the tone control on the bass itself more than any other amp.
Wonderful if true, but that's quite a big claim!
The Yamaha BB mega-thread
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I think partly to justify the fact that the P34/5 had a RRP of circa £1k less than the 2024/5 and therefore to put it within reach of a wider market of bass players.