Al Krow

Slightly shocking stats: Around 100 Covid-19 fatalities in the UK for under 30s, which is just 0.3% of the total. 93% of all fatalities are in the 60+ age group Is it time to let the youngsters get on with their lives (and those most at risk to take greater precautions) part of which will be to get live music up and running again?

I have the Sire P7 (mk2) 5er and the BB 1025 (which will be pretty similar to the BB 435) and have had the 425 previously. The P7 gives you additional active EQ options and I actually prefer solo P pup on the Sire over the Yammy's. The Yammys are a fantastic passive bass, and I find they sound great on combined PJ setting. You won't go wrong with either and they are excellent value and stand up well against basses costing a lot more. If you're talking EMG PJs then you get me thinking about Spectors...now that would be a treat!

If they came as zombies, I think we should be ok. I guess it's just that time of the season.

Ah bless you! I'll let the missus know asap and I'd best have a quick look through all folk's best basses on this thread to get some inspiration for that missing 11th bass. I feel my collection probably has enough status and that audiences seem to be much more bothered about my playing lacking a certain precision...

And lovely it is too, in a not so commonly seen vintage white. Thanks for popping in on this thread, and come back again soon! 😁

I agree that it does sound superficially heartless. But there are a bunch of tough choices ahead for all countries and their leaders. I'd hate to be in their shoes right now. India tried lock down and people started going hungry: they had to pull back: Covid deaths now starting to pile up. Tough choices. We're obviously more fortunate than many developing countries, but 4 million folk unemployed by November is no joke either, state school kids not being educated with their futures blighted, cancer patients not being treated to make way for Covid sufferers. This thing ain't easy or straightforward.

Well the first piggy went to market...

...yup, but just bear in mind the BB2 doesn't have a tweeter control and has a horn rather than a tweeter (see my earlier post at the start of this thread).

Yup weird how we're hearing different things from the YT clip! I think 3 of us, so far, on this thread have both the BB2 and SC and have been able to A/B them "in the flesh" over a period of time (and not just in a store) which has gotta be the best test? The vote from this particular subset of BF owners seems overall to be firmly in favour of the BB2 over the SC if we had to keep just one of them for solo use.

That does look good, but the power pack is double the size of the pedal!

Sell your existing monitor. Save the cost of a gain pedal with independent volume control and DI out. And get this for around £200. Job done. No seriously - it's gotta be worth considering?

I'd say the 1024 / 1024x typically go for around £400 to £475 depending on condition (and the 5 string versions for a little more) . There have been a fair few listed in the FS, so that should give you a pretty good idea.

Yeah fair enough. In your shoes I'd be tempted to get a decent powered monitor with DI out. But if you did that we wouldn't have anything to chew over 😁

Ok, in which case I'm still at just how many volume controls you need in your signal chain? I'm guessing that in addition to the bass, each of the effects in your chain will also all have individual volume controls. So if you want to go with something as simple as the Mooer, it should still be an option?

Just a thought on the Mooer - as you have a volume knob on your bass, will you actually need another on the pedal?

This ^^

We're all about to move to 1 metre from 2m in England, hopefully by 4th July when pubs reopen. If we don't, there won't be much of a pub trade to go back to come the autumn.

Top man!! I was kinda thinking along the same lines for our local when it re-opens. He's given me 12 gigs a year shared between my two covers bands over the past 4 years, and that venue has been a real 'mainstay' of our little circuit, although I appreciate we're not anything like in your league, Walshy. It would defo be the right thing to see if my crews would be up for playing for free or at least a much reduced fee for a while. I totally love the example you're leading with!

Strange, I've switched my amp on many a time and not gotten any sound from it all without a lead connection to the cab. So it must be the lead 😁

Probably because the Two10 is the most coloured of the three and with that combination of gear, the coloration worked well in a solo context? But if you've preferred the SC/SC combination playing with bands over 3 years, that's gotta be a MUCH better test of what works for you!

You guys are great! Is this your regular band?

Well the first one happened at the Royal Victoria Country Park in Netley near Southampton organised by SoundLevelEvents and turned out to be a bit more successful than we had feared... And folk even got to take their own alcohol! Good luck with yours @walshy - when / where will you be playing?

That's spot on in terms of comparing the BB2 and SC.

There's definitely something ironic about Mooer pedals being cloned!