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I traded back a bass that I previously overlooked if that counts? Traded my (heavily modified) Sandberg Cali VTII for a nordy cat bass back in the summer as I didn't click with it in 5 years I'd owned it from new (hence the mods). Enjoyed the cat bass but was always scared of breaking it as I'm a heavy dude with some heavy bass throwage on stage. Long story longer, Got GAS for a preamp pedal (Origin bassrig) and put it up for sale. The original owner of the cat dropped a message to trade back as he missed the Acinonyx so thought "why not?". I now see my Sandberg in a completely new light. I still think the PJ pick up config is too close together to get the known PJ sound, but when the P is solo'd its just the great, growly, mid heavy P that plays like it was made for me. Video from first gig back with it... https://www.instagram.com/reel/CknZWrMoKj0/?igshid=YmMyMTA2M2Y=

Some lovely knobs on the go here! I must admit; mine were far more hassle to get a hold of than they were worth, but I do like them!

Howdy all, not sure if this is a bass guitar, effects, or accessories issue but hear me out! So I recently took on a 2017 MIM Fender jazz deluxe; and while it's a boat anchor, it's a thing of beauty and tremendous all around. It's the one with the active 18v 3 band eq and active/passive switch, and if there was one thing I'd change on it, that'd be it! The pre is a bit lacking. There's no passive tone control, there's still quite a bit of top end even at full treble cut, and it sort of feels a bit one dimensional compared to passive. With previous basses, I've always bought passive, or converted to passive (ibby ehb excluded) as I prefere the immediate weight and responsiveness of a passive bass. This one feels a bit more important though with the inherent mid scoop and thin-ness that comes with a jazz. Long story longer, is there an active pre out there with the responsiveness of a passive bass, that'll also allow a control to double as a passive tone in passive mode? If not, am I better off looking at an external EQ pedal? Any advice from the absolute fountain of knowledge that is the basschat community would be much appreciated!

Why are you looking to replace the behringer with a Boss unit? Is there something sound wise or function wise that doesn't cut it with the behringer? I ask for no other reason than I'm thinking a bass EQ pedal is the solution to my jazz bass not having a passive tone control

I've always done this by ear. I set the blend to fully clean and make sure the patch output is unity or there abouts to disengaged volume, then get the sound I want and look at setting my volume based on the job I'm doing with said patch. (Genuine answer, apologies if this comes off condescending... not intended at all.)

Way Huge Pork & Pickle for me... If I'm ever in the market for a new drive there'll be no hesitation. I only let it go as the fuzz wasn't quite right, and the drive wasn't quite wild enough for what I needed for what I currently do. Ended up with a used EHX hot wax and a new EHX Sovtek deluxe muff for the same money as the P&P. While the Sovtek is the PERFECT fuzz for me, no other drive has come close to the P&P for me.

Completely agree with you from a volume stand point, my concerns were more with a wattage thing than a volume thing. My head is 1000w at 4ohm, and 600w at 8ohm. All of Mark Bass's compact 8ohm cabs seem to stop at 400w so I'd be forever scared of burning them out.

After doing a bit of digging, I was nailed on going for 2 x 210 cabs and vertically stacking; but it doesn't look like they do a 210 cab powerful enough for my head... I have the LM vintage 1000, and all of their 210 8 ohm cabs seem to stop at 400w 🤦‍♂️ and Andertons is out of stock of the 500 watt version until November so can't even exchange... looks like a 410 will be the way to go after all. Going to hold out for the new MB58R cab reviews start coming through though they look great!

Both of your comments are really interesting to me as I'm SOOO close to selling my barefaced and going for a markbass 104, I've seen comments saying the barefaced stuff smokes the mark bass cabs, but your experiences sound a lot closer to what I was expecting to see!

I've found with my C4 that unless my playing is pristine then (which unfortunately it seldom is) then it's tracking can be a bit temperamental, but I think that's just synth pedals in general. There's no worse feeling than when we play stuff like Rhythm is a dancer by Snap! and instead of the big FM synth sound, there's just a dull thud as it hasn't triggered because I didn't quite mute enough; and that bassline is firmly shred-free!

Hey Lewis. I once tried to run mine on a Cioks DC5 on one of the 100mA outputs (I know yours is higher, but may still be helpful). It seemed to work fine, but occasionally it would malfunction and give me a flashing green light and stop producing sound, as if it was in a permanent cycle of trying to boot up. I now keep mine on it's own 300mA output on the cioks now.

I had the same dilemma! The tube won out for me in the end though, the EQ on those AG1000 amps looks really useful though! How is it?

I thought the mid points seemed a bit high, with the high mid especially encroaching on treble territory... seems to work well though!

So I recently had a mid gig breakdown (https://www.basschat.co.uk/topic/468243-mid-song-catastrophe/) which put the fear of god into me In the end, I bought a used Behringer BDI21 as back up for a great price locally, and pulled the trigger on a Mark Bass LM vintage 1000! First off, I must admit that I've forever been a class D naysayer, I'd tried various class D offerings from TC, GK, Ampeg and Aguilar but bought into the whole "class D lacks 'heft'" arguement (although I thought the Aggie sounded great through a pals Aggie cabs). There was likely an element of listening with my eyes and putting too much stock in other's opinions on local pages etc, but I always went back to my type A/B GK1001RBII. Anyway... Long story longer, I decide it's time to retire the 18 year old GK, and when looking on the standard online seller pages, 90% seemed to be class D! I'd forever been buying preamps and compressors to try and give the GK a bit of warmth, so figured a tube pre would be the way to go. After a bit of limited reading, I took a punt on the Lm vintage, and 2 days later it was here! Got to use it in anger last night, after 2 plug and play festival sets on the Friday night and Sunday afternoon. First thing to note was it held its own and more against a full p.a. set up with the gain at 11 and volume at 10 o clock, to the point I had to turn down. There's some serious warmth and weight behind every note. I was using a Nordy Acinonyx bass with both pick ups parallel, and an array of synth and octave effects. The EQ points were a concern beforehand (68hz Bass, 400hz Low mid, 2k hz High mid, 10k hz high), but with the bass and low mids boosted it was a really musical sound. This amp head has been labelled on forums as the markbass head for people who don't think they like markbass, and while I'm fully aware that it could be the honeymoon period, I think that's a pretty bang on description from early findings to be honest! 🤌

Great board! Do you find the ultra wave and aftershock, and ultrawave and C4 overlap?

Much appreciated Jack, thanks for the offer... I've decided to stick with my analogue set up and amp for the now. I'll drop you a message about your stomp though! I'd love to sell you my cab mate, unfortunately I haven't got the money for the dream cab to replace it 😆

Thanks for all of the info! I've tried the speakon, and FX loop fix but alas it made no difference... I've had it repaired a couple of times in the past for dry joints and scratchy pots, so I've decided it's time to upgrade and have a Mark Bass Little Mark vintage 1000 coming. I've tried to warm the GK up for years, so seems a good time to change tack.

So I suffered my first ever real amp issue mid gig tonight... Playing a cracking wedding, right in the middle of "Omen" by The Prodigy, there's suddenly no bass! I don't use FOH support as my amp set up has always more than coped, so there was suddenly NOTHING... My set up is a GK 1001RBII into a barefaced big twin II. I turn around and the blue light is shining away nicely. I do the obvious thing, I make sure my tuner hadn't turned itself on, then I make sure the cable hasn't been kicked out, then I make sure the output cable to my amp hasn't been kicked out. Still nothing. I check my cable at the amp, still nothing. I figure it must be my bass so at this point I'm panicking, so I mine the rest of thep tune. Song finishes and I rush to change bass, but still nothing! Then while I'm franticly scratching my head, our keys player starts the next song. Another song of mining and I'm no further forward. I shout to the singer to stall while I try a fresh cable, direct from bass to amp and it's still dead. Next up it's straight to FOH, so I run over with my cable and plug in. The signal is too weak! If only I hadn't sold my two notes le bass a few weeks ago 🤦‍♂️. In the end, I crank my ampeg opto comp, and crank my hot tubes side of the hot wax while turning the drive down for what can only be discribed as the most flabby yet farty and downright offensive bass tone I've ever heard. no idea what's gone on with the GK; but at 18 years old I think it's served me well. Now do I look at a new amp, or sell my cab and give the modelling stuff another go 🤔

I'd assumed it was a data cable, but checking the cable I use for my pc set up would probably be a good shout!

Hey Quatschmacher, Yeah both app and pedal are latest versions. I'll drop them an email. The app just doesn't seem to acknowledge that the pedal is plugged in so doesn't show me anything that's on the pedal, my phone does though.

Having a couple of C4 issues, anyone came across these? 1. There is no two way communication between phone and C4 via usb (C4 running 1.21) 2. Using SA tap tempo to control my tremelo on a patch for bonkers by Dizzee rascal; the tap tempo doesn't seem to track what I'm punching in, sometimes it jumps by 20 BPM or more, and I'm not THAT bad with timing. Issue I have is our drummer is over excitable, and comes in a good 10~15bpm faster than the intro sample, and when I tap the new tempo in it doesn't just speed up the tremelo, it seems to restart it and puts it out of sync with the rest of the band before I can get it back under control. I've tried setting it to restart when triggered and not, but no difference. I thought the tap tempo would just slow it down or speed it up in real time 🤯

Thanks for the shout, Andy!

I understand what you mean about the mids... I always thought my barefaced big twin II and Tonehammer 500 was great until I tried a friends Aguilar DB112 set up (Tonehammer 500 and 2 x DB115). I couldn't believe the mid response on his cabs, it was a lightbulb monent! Still use my barefaced due to funding, but I'm less than stellar on it. Doesn't answer your question, but for a vintage sound I'd be looking elsewhere. What about the Aguilar SL range?

What a belter set up! Those Jive Pre amp pedals look tremendous from what I've seen, Gregor at Basstheworld did a really good video on them.