Al Krow

My Tech 21 Red Ripper, which I bought a couple of months back in the FS, has just "died". Working fine in clean by-pass but very little volume when engaged. Any recommendations for a capable but decent value repair shop in Central / East London?

My guess would be either PT Metro 24 or PT Classic Jr. Powered by a OneSpot CS6. Job done

Yup that's the one. There's one in the FS now, I think - they typically go for £45 to £55 depending on age / condition used. Nope I wouldn't put the Cali in a side chain, but either at the start or the end impacting the whole signal chain.

My vote would be: 1. Ditto 2. Cali76 (comp at the start of the chain to tigthten things up for the rest of the pedals) - IMO the Cali is not particularly designed to work as a limiter as its top end compression ratios are fairly limited compared to say a Becos or Keeley Bassist, and it lacks a 'threshold' knob if I remember correctly. 3. FI (give this the cleanest signal to act on) [3A. Buy an LS2 and put some or all of the remaining three in a parallel loop to give you an alternate synth, and allow the Octave to also bite on a clean signal to minimise glitching] 4. Octave 5. Doom 6. MF Also recommend you get a decent power supply with isolated outputs. There you go 3 different bass players and 3 different suggestions - how many bassists does it take to work out an optimal pedal board layout?

Is it just me, or does anyone else find the Doom and this new Doom 2 a bit anaemic? Definitely prefer the Mastotron or even better the Red Ripper to this, and the Mastotron is half the price. But at the end of the day it's you're / your choice 😉 @PJ-Bassist why the angst with drive pedals?

Apologies - wrong thread!

Probably worth checking this thread for some suggestions also - as the OP asked a very similar question a few days back: @ped worth moving this thread to the Bass Guitars section as it sits better there than under 'Reviews' and / or merging the two threads?

@bassfan So here's my question: I'm guessing that on any gig you'll have a favourite voice (e.g. voice 3 or 4) which is going to be your default, but you might want a different voice for slap (e.g. voice 1 or 2) If that's the case, I think what is needed is a single lead to a footswitch to switch the alternative voice on / off and when it's off you go back to your default voice.

Here's a pic to illustrate: @agedhorse not sure whether you might be able to jump in with any suggestions re bassfan's query?

Wot no compressor? In 40 years? And no one's noticed (and you still love playing bass)? 😂 Glad I'm not the only numpty who's on his third iteration of the same pedal! 😊 If you ever recover and get clean, that surely means that my future is bleak: full of bland sounds and Delano pups

Are you doing your patch creation on the pedal itself Dave? Dunno if you have downloaded HX Edit software and connected your Stomp up to your PC? Defo makes editing and saving patches a whole lot easier!

Pics and first impressions asap please! 😎

So the BDDI was surely a "two off" then?

28th dibs for me please - likely to be after Dave has sold and bought it back 27 times 😁

Just bought a pedal off Tobie. Very smooth transaction - good comms and pedal was packaged well and in the condition described. All good!

What's the amount you had to pay including tax and shipping?

Ah ok. That's useful to know and goes some way to explaining why the Blonde V2 is £179 vs £35 for the Joyo American i.e. better components and paying for their own R&D with the Tech 21 rather than ripping someone else's R&D off!

Yeah, thanks Stew - but it would be good to get this clarified. Those of who are regulars on BC all want to "play by the book". Totally agree it doesn't have to be a drama, for sure! But clarity is always a good thing. Maybe the house rules are set out in black and white somewhere and I just need to be pointed in the right direction to remind myself of them.

Ok now I'm confused. Why should commenting on something "being a bargain" be problematic, if it genuinely is? It's often helpful to have that pointed out to folk anyway - they can go away and confirm the point for themselves if they need. There are LOADs of comments about things being a bargain in the FS, including from the mods.

Yeah and the one on here was just £18 and I missed it by a couple of hours! And there are probably as many folk who prefer their Joyo American to the Tech 21 Blonde as vice versa, so it seems fretmeister's comments are spot on. I really should stop being skinflint and just get a new one, right, given they are a fraction of the cost of the Tech 21 kit.

Well it's an interesting one Andy - I'm a founder member of my main covers band and it's got to a stage where we're getting regular and well paid bookings with three of the five band members connected up either to agents or other contacts. None of the main line up have left in the last 3 years, so it's a pretty stable crew. We've only had a bass dep in for a couple of months. She's actually not been playing bass that long (3 years) but she is a full time musician and whilst I'd consider myself the better bass player having heard her, the band almost certainly won't notice (lol!), and she does have a lot to offer. But now that I have the chance to step back, I'm kinda making the most of it! I hate driving across central London in rush hour at 4mph and I will be putting my foot down (obviously not while driving at 4mph) and getting an Uber or offer for them to dep me going forward for gigs on the other side of London, certainly for mid week gigs. These should be are easy for the dep to get to as she's in a different part of London to me. If it means my band mates avoiding Uber fares I suspect they'll be tempted to go with the dep for those. So it could well be the start of a slippery slope.

Yeah I did think of you Mark - and that would have been most kind. But losing Friday and Saturday to travel for 2 x 45 sets even though it was very well paid just didn't appeal. I think it was at one of the hotels - some annual dinner thing.