Al Krow

Get yourself a Yammy BB: it was specifically designed with the restless bass soul in mind to provide that much coveted tonal balm 😊

Thanks Dave! I do kinda love it when my J bass playing BC buddies recommend me this or that pedal for getting a good P bass tone! It's just that they must now know or are shortly, themselves, about to discover(!) what a great real P bass tone we can get from our Yammy PJs Why settle for an imitation when you can have the real thing! 😂

You're clearly a dream companion: much easier than me to buy presents for! 😁

Well this one is now sitting at the end of my home pedal board! I didn't get on at all with the BDDI (which Dave, I know, is a big fan of!) but I'm really loving the Q\Strip's tone shaping capability: it goes several steps further than what my amps can do, which is saying something as they're both pretty good (particularly the Mesa M6) in the tonal options they provide. And I finally have an XLR out on one of my pedals to boot Found an excellent review by Ed Friedland, which I've tweaked / put some headings in for my own ease of reference. He says it all much better than I ever could - attached in case it's of interest to anyone else. Tech 21 Q-Strip.pdf

I've always wanted to like Ashdown but really struggled with them over several years - either finding the amps or more usually the cabs a bit 'meh'. However at band rehearsal the other night (at a venue we'd not used before - recommend avoiding the place though unless you're taking your own gear - ended up costing us £80 for a four hour rehearsal!!!)...I finally found an Ashdown rig that I thought "hey, this is actually pretty good!" Guess what? It was a Mag...

If you wanted, could you potentially dispense with the Radial ABY, by putting the relevant pedals into an LS2 loop? But as space isn't a limiting factor on your board, no particular need I guess.

I've often been tempted by one of these! Two things have constrained me (other than the price tag!): - it's not a "1k" ie a 1000W amp. That's its peak rating so it's closer to 500W RMS at 4ohms or 250W for those of us with 8ohm cabs. - it seems to have decent EQ mid points, but limits you to a choice of two fairly narrowly spaced EQ points for each, with some chunky gaps; whereas a number of other amps provide a lot more flexibility - certainly with the all important mids. My DG M900 beats it on both these counts and allows me to dial-in a "touch of dirt" to grit up the tone when needed, so I've not really felt justified in switching over to the Trickfish.

Or more likely because they don't hear anything different at all? Or maybe they are simply deaf (I don't think so!!!). It's not exactly an in your face drive or filter pedal, is it? I've said it a zillion times, your live audience really won't give a monkeys whether you have a pedal board compressor on or not. (Just try it kicking it off mid track sometime). They will notice if you have or don't have groove. Where you need sound perfection eg a studio album with a sound engineer using a professional grade studio compressor, sure compression makes total sense. But if a pedal board comp helps you to play more evenly by evening out your dynamics and makes you happier / more confident go for it. You're not hurting anyone by having one.

What settings (broad brush) would you use to deliver this with a multi band comp? Which multi band comp are you currently using?

+1^^ (And with due respect, you're one of the most knowledgeable / experienced users of comps I've come across).

Really?!! Love to hear a sound clip of you with and without a compressor, then. That's taking it way too far IMO. I thought what Osiris said summed it up nicely. A compressor evens out peaks and troughs. It flattens out dynamics and some can add a bit of desirable 'sheen' to your tone, others are transparent.

Loved the cover and the bass was sounding great!!

@AndyTravis - not sure which model this is, but its been listed for the cost of a set of strings! https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Black-Yamaha-Base-Guitar/183833564771?hash=item2acd559663:g:MsIAAOSwVClc88K0

@udo - saw your 734A up for sale - GLWTS of that. I was interested to see that you've had exactly the same journey and reaction as I did to getting your BB P34 as I did on getting my BB P35. But I still can't put my finger on it!

Well I'm down to below a full Trav after tonight - I'm definitely slipping, although I can't complain about the quality of what's still in the pantry A BC buddy was after a 5 string PJ... as it happened I had a very nice BB 425 not getting much use, so it was a no brainer to suggest he check it out. I loved the fact that he instantly liked the play-ability of the neck and punch of the pups. In fact, it was a 'goner' the moment he picked it up. Looking forward to his report back after his band's rehearsal tomorrow night, to see if it lives up to expectations. I suspect it will! ... I now just need to work out what to do with this Tech 21 Q\Strip he's left behind 😁

Haha - I'll leave such niceties to my younger future self who took a diversion into electronic engineering and making a name for himself with plastic lunch boxes on the other side of the pond. I've just worked out how to use the ToneLib editor for my Zoom pedals, that's quite enough intellectual exercise for Q2 2019 thank you very much! 😂 Time to master ghost notes...

Ok well you've definitely lost me on the technicalities here Q, as I have no idea why a synth keyboard signal is different to a bass audio signal as far as the FI is concerned (but maybe it's something I should know?) For now, I'll settle for knowing that the FI doesn't track a bass as well as it does a midi keyboard

Is that a bit like saying we don't hear a bass being played - what we're hearing is actually vibrating air molecules? 😂

The factory setting is only with the B saddle reversed (and that's also how my P35 was set up when I got it off Mark). The reason for swapping it round was that when I got the 735A (couriered to me by the previous owner) and played it for the first time, it was really badly set up with a lot of fret buzz. So I spent a bit of time raising the string heights and tweaking the pup heights etc. Not knowing any better(!) I assumed that the reverse saddle was a 'mistake' by the previous owner and part of it not being set up properly, so I 'corrected' it - haha. Have you adjusted the set-up much since getting it? My initial reaction to the 735A was, consequently, much less positive than yours but the bass grew on me (a lot!) after I'd set it up it until...I bought that damn P35: love at first play! Mark who sold it to me is, like you, another pro bassist and had everything on the P35, in terms of string selection and set up all working beautifully. So when I went to reach for a bass I found myself just wanting to play the P35: the passive tone on that edges it over the 735A for me; and in terms of an active bass my (your old!) NE2 is a complete treat. So I was struggling to justify keeping the 735A. But it's definitely found its way to the right home and is already more famous than any of my basses!

Hey Tyler - great video! At 2.30 - when you said the bridge doesn't have the same option to reverse, not sure what you meant? I actually changed it over, myself, from the 'factory reversed' bridge saddle set up to 'normal' so it should be easy enough to swap it back again.

Be really interesting to hear what your patches sound like on a 'plain vanilla' bass, given that's how most of us will likely be using our FIs, and whether the FI can track a bass as well as it can keys?

A bold statement 😁 And full of flavour.