Al Krow

I think the issue is that the sound guy (in the venues I've been to where we have had one) will set everything at sound check time and may tweak once the audience is there during the first couple of tracks. If you are turning yourself up mid set so you can hear yourself better on stage, you could risk being very loud for a while before the sound guy realises what's going on and has time to react. Not going to go down well with him or your band mates.

Sold one of my Yammy BBs to Tyler. We met up 'half way' in W London which saved me the hassle of packaging it up and sorting out a courier - always appreciated with the bigger bits of bass gear. Really smooth transaction and great guy. I'd have no hesitation in transacting with Tyler again or recommending him to my fellow BC'ers. And, as darned good bass player, I know he'll be putting the Yammy to better use than I would have managed to Cheers buddy - enjoy the bass!

@TJ Spicer what a great post and great pics! Totally delighted you're liking it a lot and I look forward to seeing and hearing news of it in action. Devon and Manchester in one weekend!! I was kinda worried that it might fall a little flat compared to the august company it's now finding itself in, particularly your Sadowsky, but it seems to be holding its own for your affections so far

+1 to @EBS_freak's comments - he's pretty much nailed it. Only point to add is that on another thread @operative451 mentioned that she was using a Joyo ZGP (costs around a £10) to cancel PSU noise. Not sure whether she is using it for just one PSU --> one pedal or for daisy chain purposes; but it seems to me if you went PSU --> Joyo ZGP --> daisy chain you could potentially get the benefits of low noise without needing separate PSUs or a power brick with isolated outputs. If that's right / works, I may have just rendered forking out on a Ciocks DC5 a bit otiose! 😀

Another example of great service from Chris at Smoothhound. I messaged him about a replacement battery cover for my transmitter and he replied within 24 hours offering to replace and post (I presume for free). Amazing. I've had mine for a couple of years now and just managed to source a spare / back up from a fellow BCer. So yup, I'm a big fan of the product and happy to recommend to any bass player thinking of going wireless.

One question 4 basschatters 10 different answers none of them correct 😂 But it stops us going out and mugging old ladies, so it serves an important social function. ...I did promise the great god (actually more short scale lover these days ) Osiris that I would be a good chap and feck off, so I'd best go do that now! 😂

Would be really interesting to A/B the Mesa M6 with the Handbox. Similar weight, the Mesa is 600W in 4ohm / 2 ohms which gives it a bit more headroom. And I'm guessing that the Mesa is like double the price which is clearly very much in HB's favour... 2890 Zl at 4.89Zl to the £ = £591 add my guesstimate of £109 shipping, £25 forex = £725 to your door. Or a bunch of bananas less if you can get from someone used 🐵🍌

And I guess the important thing with all of this discussion around Q is not to get overly concerned / bogged down (as I am rapidly in danger of doing myself - haha!). A key point is that a "surgical Q" in the context of bass tone doesn't necessarily imply a better tone. In fact a broader and smoother Q could well be the better sounding option. It brings to mind the (somewhat out of fashion these days) smiley EQs we used to see across the ubiquitous TE amps in all rehearsal rooms 'back in the day', which clearly had a smoothing intent to the overall mid scooping of the bass EQ.

I'll feck off, like a good chap, now then 😉

Agreed for 3 band. Just to confuse matters (sorry!) the B3n GEQ, which is the alternative being discussed for the OP, is actually a 7 band EQ

And the fact that you preferred this to a Mesa WA also says a lot, too! (Speaking as an M6 owner who loves his amp).

Apologies if I am being unnecessarily picky, but not sure that last bit is quite right given the point about "Q" that John mentioned?

And just taking that one step further, be interesting to know how narrow band the "Q" is on a normal (non-para) EQ with a fixed "Q" setting? I'm guessing pretty narrow?

Yup - that should work. Fyi - the Bass GEQ effect on the B3n has a 7 band EQ including 400Hz and 800Hz which should pretty much get you there? If not, you can use the Para EQ to sort the 1kHz as you are proposing.

Oh my...that does look like a nice piece of kit. Definitely warrants it's own thread Spyder!

Paul very kindly drove for two hours (ok his Sat Nav was partly to blame) to collect a spare Ibanez case whose parting got me de-cluttering brownie points from Mrs Krow, and for which he very kindly decided to line my pocket. Great to have a quick catch up over a beer. As a fellow Ibanez (& Nordy Big Single) lover and BF SC user also playing in a covers band, well he's clearly a man of taste. Sadly I fear he may shortly be lost down a double Helix thread... Top gent - and more than happy to recommend dealing with him. Cheers, Bas

Another Smoothhound fan here! The back panel issue you refer to - is that the plastic battery cover on the transmitter?

Just sold Ed a pedal. Good comms and quick payment; in fact a completely hassle free transaction. Very happy to recommend. Hope you enjoy the pedal! Cheers, Bas

Yup it makes good sense at 4ohms, for sure. But my current regular gigging cab is 8ohms... And I'm about to get a Fearless F112 cab (which is also 8 ohms and before you ask, nope I'm not planning on pairing them up to get a 4 ohm load 😃) I came across this rather 'on point' thread from a couple of years back which was very useful for my set-up-to-be and also a little bit fruity...

Excellent! If I remember your posts correctly - neck through is not your thing, you prefer bolt-ons. Until now 😊

I've just met up with a very talented pro bass player and he's indirectly traded me my black Yammy BB735A for his white Yammy BBNE2!! The folly of youth. ...ok so there may be have been a bit of a time gap (a couple of years) between the two events and effectively some (ok quite a lot!) net cash flowing from me to him (so it wasn't actually a trade) but even so! Looks like I am going to have to change my avatar now though, and also rue the fact that he's living my dream... 😂

Diagonal body stringing - does it make any difference to the tone? We had a little discussion on this very point a couple of week's back - I've cut and pasted the relevant comments in case they are helpful for your Q below. In short, the answer seems to be "no"