Al Krow

Ok this is slightly cheating, but I reckon that this probably gets you 90%of the way there for 10% of the cost? It's cheating because my point is that there is a Tech 21 "sound" and all the Tech 21 pedals seem to be variants on this (very successful!) theme. The Joyo I understand is a clone of the Tech 21 Blonde and obviously the Blonde will have the Tech 21 sound... ...and I seem to have just missed out on the one in the FS, so I'm hoping that Dave has already managed to get this on his Stomp

"Rockstar decides not to look like an accountant" Not sure that's gonna be headline news?

This should do it....

I'm more sceptical. The Fender P he's using should be capable of delivering a pretty classic Motown sound straight out the box. No need to fork out an extra £299 or is it £399(?) just to avoid having to dial your treble knob down a touch.

'Fraid I'm struggling to remember...!

I've actually off loaded my Mastotron since my earlier post on this thread and have taken quite a shine to the Tech 21 Red Ripper pedal, although it's out of production and doesn't seem to come up used that often. It really does provide versatile sonic options, though!

Yeah true. Although the preamp has often been cited as the weak spot on that one.

Yup, his tap dancing skills were consummate. But in a studio you have an armoury of sound engineering and editing which is not going to be available to you with a live rig that is essentially back line.

Ok that's going to rule out the budget Yammy BBs as they are purely passive. Shame as they are a cracking bass for the money!

+1 for the Yammy BB425

Are you after active or passive? If active, 3 band EQ or fine with 2 band?

Following on from our discussion a couple of days back on MIJ vs elsewhere, I received this really positive review of the BB P35 I'd recently moved on, from the guy who bought if off me: "I just want to drop you a note. The BB [P35] is an amazing instrument, I haven't had such a positive vibe from a new instrument in ages. Since getting it home I used it both in our studio as well as a dep gig and I cannot be happier. It has enough flexibility in tone to be useful in a lot of settings, but also has the sensitivity and responsiveness to touch that I often miss in active basses. Only thing I did was change the strings (I am not a D'Addario fan) and tweaked the setup a teeny bit and it feels like I have been using it for years. The neck is just perfect for me." Worth also mentioning that Mark, whom I bought the bass off, rated this as the best bass he'd ever played and was only moving it on as he needed a lighter bass for the considerable amount of gigging he's doing. The one stand out feature for me of both Mark, who is a pro bass player, and the guy I sold this same bass on to is that they are both in a league up from me in terms of how good bassists they are. I can't help but conclude that their greater skill and experience on the bass means that they will be hearing a difference in quality between a very good and an outstanding bass in a way that will simply pass me by.

Right you Dutchmen, let's get this thread back on track! 😁 What a brilliant idea to audition each of the 99 presets on this YouTube clip. For those of us not inclined to spend our lives PC editing, there are going to be a dozen usable sounds for us to get our hands on straight out of the box! And having them all in one place on this YouTube clip is just a really useful reference manual in itself.

I speak fluent English. And I understand Northern dialects. Although I have to 'fess I struggle with understanding WTF our Scottish lead singer is going on about half the time...😂

I have three that are currently vying for my top spot. All three are fantastic basses and I count myself lucky to have them. The one I can't currently put down, however, is...a Spector Euro 5LX. The sculpted body, great neck, meaty low end and OMG, above all, that tone!!

Done, thanks Peter. @Dood - how come you've not set one of these up yet, mate? You'd be right at the top of my (and many other's lists) of BC folk to be saying thank you to / wanting to support for all the effort you put in to making bass a better world to inhabit.

They could be up to much worse, believe me! 😂

Please post the link here and I'll sign up asap. And any others, so inclined can do the same. A promise is a promise, right?

It's only his 4th. Moi, a measly third replacement FI to celebrate all the enormous hard work (and the fact that there is finally a usable manual!) you've put into v3, Peter. Which I'm going to be calling "Harry" 😁

It's a tricky one. Arguably the new users would have been out of pocket and miffed if they had bought at the old prices! Same thing happened when TC slashed their prices last year. Anyone with gear they were looking to offload would have taken a hit. It happens.

Euros 299 for a new FI? That's like £260 and already preloaded with the v3 firmware!! That makes it only £10 more than a Source Audio C4 and the FI, from your comments, would appear to be the more capable pedal of the two? Respect to Andras for his business tactics That's going to have chilling effect on used FI prices; but obviously good news for buyers, less good for sellers!

One of us is clearly having a bad influence on the other...😁 Well there's going to be a Valeton EP2 (in vgc) coming up for sale in the near future and you're welcome to have first dibs. No idea how well it will work with the Stomp (as I'm using mine mainly with my Boss SY-1), so you're very welcome to have a try out first.

@Gottastopbuyinggear - I thought @Tubster had answered my question in his previous post, but maybe you're looking for him to expand on what he meant by 'sonic authority' further? One major request from me - can we abbreviate your avatar name to GSBG please? It's almost as much as of a mouthful (but nothing really quite is) as @Quatschmacher which has been unceremoniously cut down to Q (by me anyway) - which actually is quite appropriate given his abilities to coax a silk purse out of a sow's ear FI pedal. But perhaps more importantly yours is as close to a heretical avatar name as it's possible to have without being banned from the forum 😁

That's interesting. The same is not possible for videocams though, is it?