Al Krow

Here's a BIG question for you, then: of all the hundreds of basses you've ever owned, which has been your all time favourite / biggest regret in moving on?

If you feel that the Zoom B3n does everything you need quite well, but is a little too big then definitely worth checking out the much more compact Zoom B1-4. There's one in the FS right now for £50. You won't find better value for money and a great way to dip your toe in the water. Drum machine, led tuner, looper and headphone amp capability are very nice additional features it offers, particularly for home use. And plenty of very contented B1-4 users on this forum.

Well you probably don't need to get anymore this year after your recent purchase: I see you're another member of the Yammy & Spector lovers tribe! And, boy, is that a tasty 4 string Spector that you've just got!!

I've done a detailed analysis on the numbers. Andy has confirmed elsewhere that he's had 15 to 20 new basses over the past 6 months. That means he's had at least 380 to 385 basses i.e. approximately 55 every six months, over the previous 3.5 years. I guess he must be slowing down.

Yup, I've been Nicked.

If it doesn't arrive it's going to have real difficulty impacting my signal chain - haha! Which I believe is the ultimate test here. Same would be true if I promise not to use it until 1 Jan 2023. Trouble is, I might not even need to promise for that to be true...got a Korg Volca FM been waiting patiently for nearly 12 months for me to get my head around it. Although tbf I've had a couple of LS2s before so I'm well in the loop with what it does.

My little pedal hasn't even arrived yet. It's currently more Bo Selecta than line selector.

Can't argue with them on this one! Probably best not smile too much, given the collective state of our teeth. Their gun laws are probably the dimmest thing about our beloved American cousins and a pretty good reason not to poke fun at them: they've got guns we don't 😁 But, let's face it, there's an absolute ton about the USA the rest of the world happily laps up from Motown to Netflix via FBook and Instagram, searching for stuff on Google on our PCs loaded with MSoft Office, whilst doing our shopping on Amazon. Btw one of the reasons we're all here on Basschat is that Leo Fender did have some influence over electric bass. Another dim American, right?

I've got one of these under my board powering half a dozen pedals. I've previously had Ciocks DC5 & DC8 and Trutone OneSpot CS6 PSUs, all great quality, but the IsoPro does the job equally well and it's tiny making it really easy to slot underneath the board and incredibly good value. Very happy to recommend. Thomann supply an adaptor as standard for the Euro plug, so that has never really been an issue. 3 x 300mA ouputs plus 2 x 500mA ouputs. The latter two have 9V, 12V and 18V options. The outputs are isolated and I've had no noise issues at all.

Having been an octaver fan before making a move to 5 string basses, I've tried a lot of octavers and ended up settling on the Boss OC-5. For the money, I've not found a better octave down pedal and it also includes a decent octave up in the price and pretty much nails the classic OC-2 sound. Only trouble currently, it seems, is actually getting your hands on one! As tracking low without glitching seems to be quite key for you (as it also was for me), I should add that the OC-5 can track really well. Rumour has it that Boss have made use of ridiculously good tracking algorithms from their Boss SY-1 synth pedal in the OC-5 which would certainly explain it. It tracks all the way down to an open E in "poly" mode; it is, however, less good at tracking and more OC-2 like in "vintage" mode.

I reckon it will do a really good job at all the above apart from envelope filter - I've certainly not managed to get my Helixes on a par with the a decent dedicated filter (or indeed synth) pedal but I suspect your C4 should be able to cover that off.

Apologies if I don't post on here for a while... I'm just heading south to the sunny for sale threads... See you all there, shortly 😁

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Sorry, I was getting confused with your inner leg measurement...

Yeah, had two in fact. AND they both still exist as far I'm aware. It's only reasonable to discount the void that is lockdown, right? Nov 20 --> [lockdown void] --> Jan 22 I mean, apart from all the gigs we did over the last 6 months, and AndyT churning 36 basses, nothing much has happened in between, right?

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Now if the seller had only pulled his finger out and listed it 4 days ago, I'd still be in...just gotta deal with the hand that fate gives you right? 😁

Bored now 😁

Speaking of both guitar gear and good gear not being used, I was rummaging in an old storage cupboard today and was very pleasant surprised to find an old Zoom guitar multifx (their "2020" model) and wah pedal, which must have been in storage for a quarter of a century, when "life" got in the way of my making music and subsequently during my bass playing years. I found a 1994 review of the model online and it seems it was the Helix Stomp of its day. So I guess my current fad with Zoom B1-4s shouldn't come as any particular shock - clearly Zoom multis have been in my blood for longer than I realised! I'm generally with you in not holding onto gear that's not likely to be getting any use. But as this is the second oldest piece of kit I've got in terms of length of ownership, I think I'll be holding on to it for a while longer as a momento of music made in times' past.

In which case, you could do far worse than checking out an Ibanez SRF700 Portamento. Should be able to pick one up used for sub £500. Lovely, lightweight, very playable bass.

@Bridgehousejust curious - you say you're "missing out", but is there anything you feel that your current herd is not bringing to the party? Or are you looking to trade down to something cheaper? In my case I've found a bass (my BB 2005) that I instantly fell for and, because I don't feel precious about it or worried it might get dinged when out at the Dog n Duck in the same way I certainly did about the bass it replaced, it's already become a goto gigging bass for me. The fact that it sounds great and plays / feels beautifully obviously doesn't hurt either!

My variation on the theme - I think you're getting the gist 😁 (The BB 2004 is the 4 string version of the same model. Sadly don't come up very often). Wot he said.

Hmmm...sim taste in cars (when did the Ford era end?) and Yamaha BBs. And have both ended up as bass players. Lol. Really useful tip about the XM8500 - singer is on the look out for a mic and was thinking about getting the "industry standard" SM58. May have just saved her a few quid - Happy Xmas mate! £13 on Amazon Prime. Just ordered one for myself!

It's clearly an important question, particularly in the context of the thread title. Please tell your friend that as recently as June 2020, intellectual male opinion still considered him to be a deity: Why Eric Clapton is still God | British GQ (gq-magazine.co.uk) But, as with all such deep theological matters, there are those who consider themselves "unbelievers": Eric Clapton is not God | Music | The Guardian

Quick little run through of 13 preamp pedals by our own @TJ Spicer. Have to 'fess to not being surprised by his choice of top 2!