Al Krow

But more seriously @ped @Dad3353 @wateroftyne @HazBeen @Rich @Kiwi @Silvia Bluejay are all mods (and apologies to the ones I've missed off from the list, but that's plenty to be getting on with I'm sure!) So simply take your pick and send one of them a private message.

Politely 😉

What about real women? Are PJ basses beyond the pale? And what if, like me, you don't happen to be pale? 😁

So @FinnDave is fine with his collection of 6 string basses (oh, actually, maybe he's sold them all come to think of it...)?

Does that include pulling a w*ank face and gurning (whatever that might be), perchance? 😁

Classic buckle rash. Andy T will have a better idea on value of these basses, but assuming the wear & tear is purely the cosmetic stuff shown and nothing more serious impacting playability, I'd suggest that was a bargain!

@StickyDBRmf Sounds like a great life to me! You're clearly better at running a restaurant than many - me included: worked with a chef who was a great cook but had no idea how to manage a profit and loss account and wasn't willing to take advice until it was too late. It's an amazing way to burn through a pile of cash! Serious amount of respect to you - not least for knowing what you're passionate about and following your dreams. You're in the top 0.001% for just doing that in my books. Took me until 48 to finally find what I'm passionate about i.e. bass and playing with great bandmates to appreciative audiences. Oh and I'm still waiting for the groupies...

Interesting. I keep getting told by the "usual crowd" that a limiter (a classic example being the Keeley Bassist) is a comp. So please do elaborate!

I read there blurb as only claiming that the D2 is deeper and warmer than other Markbass 12" cabs in their current line up. Given that MB cabs already have a rep for rolling off the high end, this is likely to be very warm indeed!

So I guess an alternative to this mega one-stop-shop pedal would be the Stella on the front end for compression duties and the simpler compact Mini at the back end for limiter duties to protect against e.g. unwanted filter and synth spikes. (I take krispns point about the lack of need for a limiter in a lower vol home environment, but you do obviously then have the desired gig set up covered off also, should you want it). Two pedals = positional flexibility allowing staged compression vs the convenience of everything under one bonnet and with a slightly lower overall price.

I love that! In work I often try to distinguish between being on a production line and being a craftsman. And it's a privelege to find ourselves getting off a production line, where circumstances permit. But I've never really focused on the difference between an artist and a craftsman/person. I guess that much of what we're saying is that we either don't have the talent to be a true artist (= successful / pro originals band), or would much prefer to be good craftsmen than a typically meh artist, which frankly most amateur original bands are! Obviously you've gotta start somewhere with both.

@ern500evo cobgrats on the new head and welcome to the DG M900 & BF rig owners club! Be interesting to hear how your new amp stacks up against the GK MB Fusion and what genre of music you're typically going to be using it for? You got yourself a really good deal on that M900 btw!

You're going to have to post some clips!

@NancyJohnson just wondering - do you only ever eat new dishes at restaurants, or occasionally do you order something you've previously enjoyed a lot? What about when you have mates round, nouveau cuisine each time? But even then are you "covering" someone else's recipes, or creating your own from scratch? How long does a band play its own original material time and again, before it effectively becomes a tribute act to its former creative self? Originality has it's place, of course it does! Otherwise we would all still be listening to Gregorian plain chant. But things don't have to be new to be stuff that we and in the case of music, our audiences, love.

It's great having the possibility of a comp and limiter on the same pedal, I can only think of one other that offers that. The only issue is that many folk typically would have a have a comp at the start of their signal chain and the limiter at the end. (Apologies @krispnthat this comment is not backed-up by anything other than home use, which obviously immediately renders it value-less 😉 )

Yeah, but the pictures are really useful to see how it's been pulled together (well for me anyway!) before downloading, so please don't desist!

Check out the analogue octaver on this amp (24.00 in to our very own Dood's review). It competes with the very best analogue octavers out there in terms of tracking. Very few analogue octavers (which tend to have less latency than their digital counterparts) can manage to track down to an open E without glitching. This can - love it!

Hats off (or on) to this talented Canadian two-piece! Upright bass and drum - not seen too many pull that off before.

How cool is that: your "own brand" high-end bass, with a level of craftsmanship which, dare I say, is right up with very best on the planet?! Look forward to the write up and pics later this week.

@Kevsy71 did I miss a NBD post about your new KS (was just browsing your Xotic FS)? Either way, pics please! How are you liking it so far?

Thanks - that's kinda what I was getting at with my initial question to you about "whether it was something your av bassist could do"? But my confusion with Mooer Tone Capture on its GE250 hasn't helped this discussion. Apologies!

Generally you're spot on - I pretty much always use an amp and cab (and which is why I am much less needy of the amp and cab sims on the Stomp). But for one of our function venues in Central London, I go straight into DI (no amp and cab) and I'm guessing that may also be something that other HX Effects users may encounter? Hence the reason for these series of posts.

Yeah - my bad, I'm getting IR confused with the Tone Capture function on the Mooer GE250 which allows you to sample an amp to create new models on the Mooer GE250 in the way you can on a Kemper. Completely forgot that Tone Capture is not available on the Helix range.

Be interested to find out if anyone on this thread has actually used the IR on the HX Effects and found it useful? If so, please do elaborate!

I guess the other key point is that if you're going down the IR route you're pretty much limited to your own cab, whereas something like the Mooer Radar allows you to 'sample' a whole world of cabs which could be interesting / useful in itself.