Al Krow

Having your own studio? Heaven

Gear too heavy?...EBS head? All appearing in one sentence! I see an alignment of stars in your future when an @EBS_freak shall appear as if from nowhere and utter the magical incantation "FRFR"....

So the sweet spot with Thomann is going to be above their minimum value [£99? - seems to change all the time] for free delivery and below £135 where they sort out the VAT and make the risk of losing VAT on returns disappear.

Well you boys are immensely helpful for dealing with any guilt issues for me having a dedicated home rig separate from my gigging rig!

So exactly how many rigs have you got Dave?! I think I've tallied four from the pics plus mention of the Mesa rig!

Thanks for sharing that tab and link to your website - looks great!

Nope - hence my question / quest. Still the realm of keyboard synths AFAIK. But if anyone is going to crack this on something like the FI or SA C4 it's going to be our talented Mr @Quatschmacher

Oooh - if you're after a nice 5 string bass, I'm sure we will all chip in with great ideas to help you find a nice home for your £700! Particularly for a fellow West Midlander (well I was once). And don't believe the naysayers: of course a nice new bass is going to make you play better 😁

Ok thanks. I guess that particular MJ track (the way you make me feel) is a really good litmus test for me as to whether a bass synth can deliver a usable 80s synth tone.

Mate - I told them about your Boss EQ pedal!!! If it was any good at all...just sayin'.

I tried to you use one at open mic, but they took away the mic before I could. I then told them "my mate Dave had a fancy boss EQ pedal" but they came back with some cr*ap about my "needing to be able to play or sing"...or something. "What about equal opportunities?" I cried. Not for bass players they retorted.

This guy has +11,807 likes. So what he said.

+1^^ @Quatschmacher do you reckon that would track sufficiently tightly to handle something like the bass line to MJ's "the way you make me feel"?

Well there is a £390 duty free allowance for items personally brought by hand into the UK. Anything above that is subject to VAT on the full value not just the excess.

Well if it's mainly a G string issue the other thing to try is adjusting the pup heights a touch so its lowest at the E and highest at the G? You could also, of course, try a thicker G string: Elites Peter Hook Custom Set (basscentre.com) Not used myself but a few of the Yamaha BB players have. And dammit, it might even be worth exploring a compressor to give you a more even volume across your strings 😁

That's a nice story. Possibly the earliest bass on the thread so far, then?

Just looking at the spec of the SR1200 and it seems that the mid select switch is at 250Hz or 600Hz: They have changed that to 250Hz, 450Hz and 700Hz on the more recent SR premiums, and I was going to suggest combining mine and @krispn's comments by suggesting selecting the the 450Hz position and giving it a boost there, but that doesn't seem to be an option on yours. So perhaps an EQ pedal might get you there, and / or solo the neck pup to avoid some of the mid scooping? The neck pup will certainly be closer to the P-bass tone than the bridge pup, if that is the tone you're going for. @krispn the bass does have a purely passive setting as well as it's pretty effective 3 band EQ. As you probably already know, I tend to use my Ibby in active mode rather than passive. The treble doubles up as a passive tone control in passive mode.

Haha - no, not quite my EQ or volume settings on the M6! I must have knocked them when I was just angling the rig around so I could take a pic of it yesterday to post on here. That particular setting with the bass boosted and master volume maxed through the Fearless F112, which can deliver a seriously meaty low end better than any 112 cab I know, would likely take out the windows! In practice I have the bass EQ slightly cut at 11.30pm (12 noon = flat on the Mesa EQ for the benefit of any non Mesa owners reading this) and master volume like you at around 9pm or 10pm ( = 3 or 4 out of 10) and, as you say, that's more than enough for home use! Thank you for the kind words on the Spector. It really is a lovely, lovely bass!

He's done it already in detail on the Accessories forum. I'm still sorely tempted to get the Nux for the convenience, but having invested in a pair of Boss WL-20s, it would be pure laziness on my part not to make use of them with the spare Zoom B1-4, which has aux in and headphone out, and which I bought specifically to use as a headphone amp / multifx / drum machine that could slip into my gig bag. Otherwise I suspect I'd have ordered a ped-Nux already!

What a great thread topic! Following

Great basses! Had a SR1800 previously and SR1825 now. Essentially the same spec as the 1200 (other than woods). Both pups on => a mild mid scooping effect. Recommend giving the mids a little boost (and I think you have a mid freq selector switch on the 1200 also for further refinement?) to counter this mid-scooping; and you should hopefully find you're cutting through just fine. I used to be a "both pups on" guy too, but I'm finding I'm preferring the warmth of the neck pup or grit of the bridge pup, solo'd, more these days!

Well after 3 years of collecting them, I'm at a grand total of ONE filter pedal...going up (very possibly temporarily) to two at the weekend 😁

A little filter pedal I'd never heard of before - see the filter thread for details!

Another @GisserD discovery - check this out! Looks excellent, so much so that when I found GuitarGuitar had one in their Jan sale I couldn't resist...😊