Al Krow

👍 Cool, and the best sort of band!!

@Merlino - that's a really neat summary, thank you! Are you currently playing in a band and using your filters in a band mix? (If you have any clips of you doing so, please do share with us!)

@ChrisJaxon that all sounds great! You had your 735A a while or a recent addition? You got other BBs?

Does sound like a well considered and articulate analysis dB...but I have absolutely no idea what you're talking about - particularly with the Fwonk! 😂🤣

@Merlino We both know that we can get quite a range of sounds from the Fwonkbeta and MXR BEF depending on the settings we are using - but I would be interested in your, or anyone else's, thoughts who also has both: would you say those clips are a fair representation of their overall sound i.e. the Fwonkbeta delivers a more consistent and sweeter tone, whereas the MXR is more responsive to playing style?

Cheers Paul. Me too actually! But I've got a sneaky suspicion that the BEF is going to cut through better in a full band mix.

Fwonkbeta vs MXR BEF - both on my current fav settings (you'll need to excuse the playing but it's getting late!) Fwonkbeta.mp3 MXR BEF.mp3

Ssssshhh! His missus might be checking in, after all he's not home yet...

Interesting. Sounds like a Thumpinator or other HPF would similarly work to take out the low end crud in place of the RMI. HPF --> comp is how I have things set up on my board, so good to hear that combination working well elsewhere.

Oh my, that's nice!! 😍 So glad it's missing a string though! 😂 Where did you manage to find that beaut?

Aha got what this was about 2.00 mins in...a Korg Volca Keys! Good stuff!

@hookys6stringbass? You tried contacting Yamaha directly?

@bassjim you've reminded me that 'perfect' can be the enemy of the 'good'. And it's sooooo much better if Scott is 90% right and helps a bunch of bass players than doing nothing; it's a lot easier and of much less value to anyone for me be making criticisms from the comfort of my arm chair. I think the lesson for me here is simply to get my head around who Scott is aiming his videos at (and actually perhaps to remove him from the pedestal I may previously have had him on!).

Haha, so that entire previous thread, which the mods had to close, was an "unreaction"? 😄 And in no way did Scott feel the need to post a 30 min video to justify himself.

Another vote for Alto from someone who has tried them. Excellent, thank you. Hah! The prospect of having something that is half the volume and 25% lighter week-in week-out far outweighs, for me, the prospect of an extra £30 or so resale value in 4 years time, if / when we come upgrade! Besides the RCFs wouldn't quite be a matching set: the 310s I have are the older Mk2. And with happy Alto users crawling out of the woodwork, as they already seem to be doing, they are soon likely to be in demand!

That's helpful - I hadn't read the previous SBL thread or seen his 30 min justification for spouting stuff that with a bit more care and thought wouldn't ruffle the feathers of other experienced bass players. Can't deny he's both successful and entertaining (and I have a massive amount of respect for him on both counts). I will going forward, however, take his 'clickbait' videos with the health warning he himself attaches to them.

I suspect my taste is more in line with yours if your favourites are the B3K and Aggie Agro, but if I happen across an AO pedal on my travels (eg at Wunjos) I'll certainly give it a try.

@thodrikgreat review, thanks! It sounds like the VMT / B3K on the M900 v1 should suffice from a dirt perspective for my needs then. From what you are saying, the AO circuit seems to be a different flavour of DG dirt, but still very much recognisable as a DG dirt in the same family as VMT / B3K.

Am I right in thinking that the drive goes from subtle to fuzz, but the Omega is more of a 'fizzy' drive compared to Alpha at any given drive setting?

Clearly 😛 [0.05] "So in this video we are going to walk through EVERY SINGLE ONE of the big steps that makes up our tone as a bass player" Doesn't get any more comprehensive than that, does it?!

Haha - see earlier in this thread for brief discussion on IEMs. John beat you to the punch on that one!

Alto have recently released their 3 series, with a lot more headroom than the previous 2 series, which our dep guitarist went for in preference over Yamaha and QSC on value for money grounds. If Alto's quality of components is on a par as some of its peers, as Luke is implying (and I have no reason to doubt him!) then maybe RCF, Yamaha and QSC need to start looking over their shoulders

One thought: have you tried putting a compressor before your filters? My signal chain is Thumpinator (i.e. HPF) to clean up low end crud --> TC Spectracomp --> Filters I find that the my filters (particularly the MXR BEF) are significantly more responsive with the compressor before them in the chain. I just wonder whether you would find your Fwonkbeta able to handle slap if you had your compressor at the start to feed it a tighter signal? Be interesting to see if this makes a difference or not.