Al Krow

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!

Ok just had a quick rig set up: signal chain - Ibby SR Premium (quite a bright sounding bass) --> DG AO900 (set flat) --> BB2 Points to note: 1. The dial is not a tweeter control and there is no tweeter hiss to speak of at all! Which I guess you would expect as there's a hf horn rather than a tweeter. 2. From the BF website - what the dial is doing is adjusting the "complex crossover takes you from old school bass cab smoothness to uncompromising studio monitor accuracy" - to my ears it sounds a little flatter aka more vintage with the dial on 0/10 It was very good to have it set up for a little blast again - so thanks for the excuse. It sounded great!

Here you go: The control goes from 10/10 (max) clockwise to 0/10 (bottom pic). I tend to have it on at about 8/10. Will need to set up with an amp to remind myself what dialling down to 0/10 does...

Seems to tick all the boxes the OP was looking for! And being a Mooer, it won't break the bank!

If I had to choose between my BB2 and my SC, I'd keep the BB2 no question. The SC is amazingly portable at just 21 lbs and I love that about it, but topping out at 4kHz means it loses some of the upper range harmonic richness which is present in the BB2. It's probably true that no one would notice the difference in a band mix other than me, but hey - that still counts!

Stunning! Who says black basses are boring?!

The fairer comparison on price would be the US NS2 then?