Al Krow

Fair! My Ibby SR regularly gets commented on for its looks, although I guess I've grown used to its appearance and am therefore always a little surprised that it seems to be head-turningly cute as far as other musicians and audience members are concerned! A bit like Dave, I rarely get comments about bass tone or the sound per se on any of my basses, because in my case it's just part of the mixed 'band sound'. Although I get regular positive feedback about the bass playing and the band, which is, of course, really nice to get. What is it specifically folk are commenting on about your Sad and are the comments from other musos or 'general' audience members?

Same with my Yammy BB You've got a fair point though Dave... which is that it's surely about the player and much less the gear. I suspect Chris could make most basses sound really good.

A few changes on and off my board, since my last post on here a couple of months back. Final piece of the jigsaw, the Boss SY-1 arrived earlier today and is sitting snugly in it's place, giving my board a smug 'finished' feel to it (famous last words!) The SY-1 tracks like a deer hunter. I'm venison-ly happy 😊 For any of you interested in the signal chain, it's as follows: BASS ‘Clean’ input Smoothhound (wireless) Thumpinator (hpf) Becos Stella (comp) Boss SY1 (synth) Early mid-board: drive / fuzz Grizzly Bass (analogue) SA Aftershock (digital) Mastotron (gated fuzz) Red Ripper (ungated fuzz) Late mid-board: filters SA Manta (digital) 3Leaf GR2 (analogue) End board: modulation / delay Digitech Mosaic (octave up) HX Stomp (multifx +DI +headphone amp) AMP Total power draw, excluding the Stomp which has it's own PSU, is 1.3A and all powered by a MXR IsoBrick under the board.

Playing catch up with Woody, but mine's also now arrived and is sitting snugly on my pedal-board, which is kinda feeling finally there or thereabouts - famous last words I know! Initial impressions of SY-1 are very positive - can't believe how well this thing tracks! And just like the three Ibby SRs I now have in my herd, this particular pedal is a result of another Woody thread. ZERO complaints from me, though, about any of that!

If you want one in black, there's this one for a similar price from eBay. It's slightly more compact, but consequently potentially more prone to being kicked over than Dave's! Add another £5 for a TRS cable, in my case.

Finding this cable a bit noisy in my signal chain. They're about £11 new, so seems a shame to chuck it away - one of you guys with cable making kits may be able to put to good use for parts. Drop me a line if you want it and I'l pop it in the post to you. Cheers AK

Thanks and welcome back to BC! I must admit I've struggled to get any decent synth sims from the Stomp, which is part of the reason for me getting the Boss SY-1; the other part is I'm hoping that the Boss interface with easy to tweak knobs will make it really easy to use. @Quatschmacher is a great guy to pick brains on if you're also thinking about a C4 or FI; he's got both and knows a LOT about synths!

Haha, yup sadly the 'correct' answer is not one that I can lay claim to. 3 would be nearer the mark. About to be 4 when I get a duo strap to handle the spectre of a slightly heavier bass...And only ever one at a time. Be interested to come back to this thread in 12 months time and see if the position has changed!

The 'correct' answer is obviously... 9 😀

Apology accepted (although I strictly have 10, so dunno why I've jumped on the nine bandwagon?! 😂). Actually you're technically 'nearly nine'. That works. And dave is actually even more nearly nine (especially after Christmas!) From the nine brigade...

Apologies Woody - and agreed. I'll make this my last response to Cuzzie and hope he takes the hint! I too am really interested in the SY-1! @Cuzzie - I've asked (on multiple occasions) on public fora and via PM that you don't comment on my posts because you invariably troll. For example, would you consider this to be yet another snarky comment, or something helpful? There are a zillion other folk's posts to comment on. Too much to ask?

Trouble with some idiots is that you can repeatedly ask them in public forum and by pm not to comment on any of your posts because they are such irritating trolls. You can block them (which I've done) but somehow they simply don't get the message. Harry, I'm at a bit of a loss. This particular individual is pretty much the sole reason I can find spending time on BC unpleasant. Suggestions welcome!

Agreed. @51m0n has been the wisest head on the topic of compression I've come across on BC. Fact that he recommended the Becos Stella as a superb compression learning tool was a big factor in my jumping at the first chance one of these came up used in the FS. As and when I get round (in my own good time!) to using anything more than my B14-X for live use, the Becos will certainly get an outing with Simon's skepticism-searing settings.

Cool! What you don't need a PhD in computer editing to go from unboxing to using live?! It tracks down to a low B without a glitch?! Just on that latter point alone, if I may quote you: OMFG !!! 👍

Ah enjoy Some learned and insightful comments from @51m0n on the subject, together with typical d*ick-head comments from the usual suspects, which I do my best to ignore! 😁

I didn't know that was a question? If you head over to the Compiq thread you'll find it's not been a secret, and where I'm getting severely lectured on how compressor pedals only really have any value in a band mix... 'Fraid it's taken the place of Keeley in my affection just as the SY-1 is about to similarly take the place of my FI (although there is a bit of sweepstake being organised by one of the C4 owners on just how long the SY-1 is going to survive on the Krow board - I've bet him it'll last longer than the C4 will on his 😂) Fortunately your board currently seems to be a place of kind refuge for several of my Brexited pedals...

You're catching on pretty quickly matey! Gold star (and six basses) for you Now if you were to get another SIX basses ... what would they be? Nope it means you have nine and a spare Shuker. Like I have nine and a Stagg EUB.

Just bought Colin's Red Ripper pedal. Very smooth transaction and everything as described and a pleasure to deal with. Very happy to recommend Colin to my fellow BC'ers.

Yours arrived yet? My PB has a SY-1 hole ready for filling!

Half of 18 = NINE Ok we seem to be collectively arriving at a magic number for the number of basses we can "get away" with. After some deep analysis as to why this is the magic 'allowed' number of basses, I've concluded that it's not...double figures. There you go! 😂

@machinehead Always grateful when a collection of 9 rather lovely basses is considered to be "fairly modest". Given that I currently also have 9 (excluding a Stagg 3/4 EUB) I can just mention that "Frank says it's fairly modest to have 9..." should Mrs Krow ever question the need for more than (say) one... 😂

Ah so if he can't hear a difference he's useless. Must have been a witch if she floats eh? 😂

Oh just the little compressors we have on our pedal boards vs the more sophisticated compression available to a sound engineer e.g. in a recording studio or with a decent FOH sound system.

Actually I must ask the sound engineer at one of our clubs to have the compression engaged on and then turn off (or vice versa) mid way through a track and see if he can hear any difference in a band mix through the FOH from the back of the room - and I'll have a listen through the monitors (although much more difficult to hear any nuances through those in my experience).