Al Krow

Fantastic condition for it's age, up at my parent's in Brum, and currently getting a less use than such a good rig should be getting! 😉

The inspiring bit, Pete, is you're reminding us aging rockers that it's never too late! 😊👍 (PS you obviously need to have some vocal talent in the first place, which sadly rules me out...)

Right gents, I've already shared that I'm slightly in awe of fellow bass-players who can both sing and play - so please don't be shy and feel free to post a clip of your bands with you singing & playing in action!

Interesting about the F# octave stretch on the Blur song as, just to make things worse(!) that's actually also the correct start on Billie Jean. But I wonder how many of us actually play the F# octave at the start of BJ rather than just a single note? (Or how many of us don't play MJ tunes anymore because they were written by him and that makes us uncomfortable for a very different reason - but that's a subject for a whole 'nother thread, right? 😁)

Being able to sing and play bass is a minority skill full stop, not just on BC. I've got a LOT of admiration for folk who can do both. I'm just relieved that my dep hasn't discovered bass pedals yet. Obviously when she starts using a pedal board compressor, I'm going to be totally screwed! 😁

Bloody deps, eh? Just turn up and steal the show! My regular bass dep is also a fabulous lead vocalist and she's 20+ years younger than me. But I own the band PA and have transport. Phew! Except she's got a PA and a set of wheels too, Hmmm....😁

@casapete - hopefully no one noticed other than you that the dep nailed it? 😁 Oh btw - you can call me Al any time you like.

But does your arse need saving? 😁

Great tune, but playing this one riff for 5 mins leaves my fingers knackered! Jackie Wilson - (Your Love Keeps Lifting Me) Higher And Higher (Best Quality) - YouTube And don't even get me started on Rhythm Stick! What about you, what songs leave you feeling distinctly uncomfortable having played them?

You probably can't go wrong with that format and genre - good luck with the new venture, sounds like a lot of fun!

Where you boys when I needed back-up and was getting shat-on by 10 rabid compressor users when simply trying to say that I didn't think one was "necessary"? 🤣 You and me both, and you're a Brummie too... I'm totally blown away by just how great a used £45 Zoom B1-4 is. So much so that I've now run out of patch space having set up 45 bespoke patches (dead easy and a lot of fun to do) interspersed with 5 clean patches, which are just useful to have so that you don't go from Tape Echo to Darkglass B7K without being able to pause for breath. Probably the first time I can 'fess to making the most of a piece of gear. Loved this post, particularly the bit in blue!

You're not the first person to say that, Andy. Not sure exactly what it is: perhaps a casual remark about how great compressors are on my part, or the fact that Lee is on the 923rd version of his pedal board and still hasn't quite found what he's looking for... 😄

Do please let me know what you think, when you've had a chance to audition them.

Not sure why it's taken me quite so long to discover the Xotic BB drive on the B1-4! Anyway here's a Xotic BB patch plus a dirty analogue chorus featuring the same drive, which seems to work well: Xotic BB [AK-Dri].zb1f AnalChoDri [AK-Mod].zb1f (also posted in the patch library in the OP for ease of future reference).

Haha! My second comment was pretty much a duplicate of my first... Is this now your favourite filter of all time?

Not cheap! 2.4 Ghz - I thought I read earlier in the thread that was sub optimal, but I'm not entirely clear from the comments what is "optimal"!

It's my pleasure to start a feedback thread for Bob. I've just bought a pedal off Bob, which came very well packaged and was in the mint condition described in his ad. Communications were excellent throughout and it was a very smooth transaction. I'd have no hesitation in dealing with Bob again. Cheers, Bas

Fixed - now that's impolite for you! 😁 ^^very true

How would you classify Chuck Berry and Elvis?

Ed Sheeran?

I suspect Taylor Swift will still be around and playing when Flea is sitting comfortably in his OAP home, and her audiences will age and continue to follow her. Just as we have done with the current crop of aging rockers.

Off the top of my head: Ariana Grande, Taylor Swift, Ed Sheeran and Dua Lipa. IMO they would all easily outsell RHCP today. In the late 90s (say 1998) they were 5, 9, 7 and 3 years old respectively. Ok not rock bands but superstars with backing groups. But why doesn't that count?

I had exactly the same experience with the Delanos on my Sandberg being too "polite". +1 for Nordstrands as a very rude set of pups. EMG 40s on my Spector are a real treat too.

It's a shame that the FI "v3" unit was just a paint job i.e. the hardware is otherwise identical to the FI "v1". That's still causing confusion with bassists today who are surprised that they are both the same unit and possibly a missed op? However, I appreciate that the software and manual release that accompanied it were a big step forward at the time. Sounds like it would be worth waiting to see what SA have in store before jumping back in then.