Al Krow

Pics please! Have to fess to being a bit of an Ibby fanboy too! Now got more Ibbys in my herd than any other brand (briefly exceeded by Yammys earlier in the year). I managed to get my hands on the last "new old stock" GVB36 in Europe, I believe, a few months back, which I've strung E to E for a little personal project for next year.

Told you he was our resident expert 😁

You're turning into my mother in law.

Haha! But the ability to have a patch per song in the running order of your set list is pretty cool / useful right? And then, in my case, banks of 4 effects (drives, octaves, modulation etc) and EQ settings separately set up will make this a breeze to use live. And that's just the HX Effects!

Apologies for being lazy and not looking this up...but given that Dave has given us a heads up that we're under a three line whip to swap out our HX Effects for a Helix Floor (likely now in 2021, given the no new gear rule in 2020)how many additional patches do you get on the Floor over the 128 on the Effects (and I seem to recall a similar number on the Stomp?)

Your Chowny delivers a sound close to a Warwick Thumb growl? That is a seriously tasty prospect! Shame these guys only seem to make short scale and also mostly 4 string basses in their SWB and NT ranges.

How do you fettle a Stomp? Another scribbletard** I see. Join the club. 😁 Me neither. Obviously basses, amps, cabs and pedals are essentials.

@Deedee - congrats. Probably entirely Dave's fault, but the HX Effects does seem to be getting a bit of a second wind with BC'ers over the past couple of months. I guess the lack of faff of not having to connect up to an additional foot switch, midi or otherwise, and particularly the 6 scribble strip display & to a lesser extent the 3 additional blocks seem to more than offset the lack of amp & cab sims and DI out for the HX Effects fanboys.

Hmmm...a second silver cloth SC? I suspect that given you nearly ended up buying mine I should definitely return the favour and nearly end up buying yours PS if a BF 210 is as loud as a.n.other 410 (according to Alex) how loud is a BF 410 going to be?!

So for me: Zero fret Lightweight tuners Neck-through or bolt-on 3 band vs 2 band EQ Pickguard or not Woods used for body or neck / fretboard Spline jointed or single piece body String through Single cut Graphite neck would all be less important than whether 4 or 5 string.

Congrats on getting yourself a BBNE1! Pics please. I suspect a big part of the reason that there haven't been a bunch of replies to your post is that the BBNE1 are as rare as hen's teeth, so there's a bit of collective 'black hole' in our knowledge of this particular bass, and you've managed to get yourself a bit of gem there! Just based on the following clip of Nathan East playing his NE1, it seems to me that the key difference with the NE2 is that the latter has a sweepable mid cut ('SMC') and a selector switch to engage the SMC and the NE1 doesn't. @pete.young is a bit of a guru on the BBNE basses and hopefully he'll be along shortly to confirm / correct what I've just said.

@la bam and if you had it to pick one out of that august list, I'm guessing based purely on the number of photos the winner is........ ...the Quilter BB800 Did I call that correctly?

Completely agree! But for once, Harry, I completely disagree! There are many things less important to me, as a bass player, than whether I play a 5 or a 4 string.

You'd best hope they slip under Customs' radar, and are not treated at all, otherwise you'll have 20% VAT & £12 handling charge to pay on top! 😁

Interesting - I think it maybe the combination with the cab (and bass). The Fearless F112 is an awesome cab. It's better than my BF SC (which is no slouch by any means!) no question, in terms of overall quality of sound and articulation at every range of the spectrum i.e. lows, mids and highs, but the F112 happily drinks power and needs pushing to get the best out of it. Now you're being far too reasonable (again). Surely there is only one right bass tone? 😂

The ease of access / layout of the HX Effects is exactly the reason I went Stomp --> HX Effects. A hark back to, but an improvement in almost every sense over, my Zoom B3N. If you want / need amp & cab sims => Stomp If 6 blocks is going to be limiting => HX Effects will be better My sense is that there are plenty of Stomp users just using the Stomp by itself. Others are using a mini extension footswitch (non midi) which gives another 2 stomp footswitches and are inexpensive. And a number have gone full midi including the versatile, but £spendy, Morningstar route you mentioned.

Well that's a very useful insight. There's been quite a lot of hype about the Quilter's ability from the Q-fanboy club and I'm sure they have good reason for liking what they like. But I know that your set up is actually very close to what I would use (Fearless F112 & Yammy P34) so the fact that the Fender Rumble 800HD is delivering and the Quilter doesn't, is a good steer - at least for me!

That's gotta be your motto, right there! Famous first words. 😁

You've got red shoes? Well jel. mate. And in the hair too.

Ah but which colour? Which colour? And what if it doesn't match my outfit? And will anyone other than the bass player notice?

Completely understandable! And hopefully Andertons will finally be stocking the SY-1s when you're done being a computer programmer and ready to sell your C4 (ask Kev...), although you never know, it might just be the explosive pedal you've always been after! 💣

How would getting a set of replacement knobs be considered for your 2020 abstinence thread? And what if they happened to be attached to a Helix Floor?

I somehow managed to avoid getting a rather luverly Shuker in the FS as a birthday treat and a couple of Boss pedals that I had my eye on have turned out to be either eye-wateringly expensive or a bit flawed in concept...so looks like my best of 2019 is going to remain in place and possibly continue well into 2020 too, if I make any progress with Mr Bfan's hairshirt thread with my fellow Bass (chip)Monks...

@Teebs - the Yammy does look good, but why did they go for a non matching black headstock on the "3" series?!! That seems to me to be the sort of superficial cosmetic point that the OP is keen to have pointed out, as tone is not important for him as long as it sounds like a bass.

I've gone Stomp --> HX Effects Previously a big fan of Zoom multifxs (had the MS-60B, B3N and currently still have the B1X-4). The processing power and resultant quality of effects on the Helix are a step up from the Zoom gear, but they are also a step up in price! I find the form factor with the additional footswitches and the ability to have a bank of patches on display simultaneously, a big plus on the HX Effects as I don't need to remember the precise order of a load of patches which I did on the Stomp - I find it hard enough to have 2 hours of set material in my head for a gig! 😁 I'm happy with my amp and cab so not particularly missing the amp & cab sims on the Stomp and I'm fortunate in that my amp also provides a choice of cab sims should I want to DI out, although frankly I'm not sure how much of difference cab sims will make in the mix through a PA with the rest of vocals and instrumentation running through. I'm mostly going to be using for EQ, hpf, drive, octave and delay / chorus.