Frank Blank

Aha. Yes, it was from new, I'll give the factory reset a go but the first thing I did on opening the box was install the latest firmware, I'll try it and report back...

Thanks @krispn. The view button does toggle between play and edit screens but on the play screen it simply says '01A New Preset' and as I scroll through, 01B New Preset, 01C New Preset and so on, in the Edit screen there are diagrams showing the blocks but nothing that has a prefix. The videos look like this... Mine like this...

Yes, I am a manual reader but still cannot find the screen that appears on the videos with presets with prefixes.

Stomp newbie here, ahem. I’m noticing on all the ‘how to’ videos that the screen is often displaying already named presets that have a prefix like ‘FX’ or ‘DIR’, I have presets on my Stomp but they are unnamed and without a prefix, am I looking in the wrong place?

@ZilchWoolham & @Beedster are both spot on here but @ZilchWoolham‘s correct comment about the torn speaker cone (a screwdriver accident) is a vital part of that tone. I believe I’m correct in saying he used a Hiwatt guitar head into a 4 x 12 combo (with punctured cone) in the early days and this ‘orrible slice of avocado shaped into a bass...

Välkommen.

If you get the chance, try out an Ibanez SRC6, I know it’s a sizer but seriously, as I’ve said far to many a time on here, they are more addictive than crack.

This is really helpful, cheers!

^^^ This.

^^^ this. I know you aren’t keen on the look @dezb1 but try one, it might be just the ticket. Depending on your location you are welcome to try mine. Or come to the South East or East Anglian Bass Bashes.

The excellent (and excellently named) Sebastian Steinberg used to play with his cabinets raised up. When I saw Soul Coughing at The Junction in Cambridge many years ago he had two raised cabinets at 90° to each other at head height, he kind of stood between them. Can’t find a good pic but this is close, not as high here though...

Go FRFR and get a nice tilty monitor...

Just listening to Lemon Jelly’s excellent album Lost Horizons for the first time in many years, so good. Several tracks are joyous, not an epithet I can attribute to much music I listen to...

^^^ exactly this.

I’m thinking of tasking @Jabba_the_gut to build his basses with a tit chamfer, I’m sure it would be a money spinner.

I agree. I checked Dawsons website as I left the shop and it already had changed to one Stomp in stock, like you say, they have the tech to link their tills to the website so sold stock is instantly reflected in the stock levels online. I quite like Andertons website where it says underneath the stock ‘status’ it has a link called ‘what does this mean?’ which explains explains what is where and how long it is going to get to the shop. I suppose I should really have entitled this post Phone Before You Go Any Distance, which is something I imagine most people do anyway.

Don’t forget the dressing up in a French maid’s outfit with roller skates...

Please just file under general gripe. Just drove up to Northampton to drop a bass off and thought to myself on the way up that I’ll only be a 45 minute drive from Bass Direct (I know I’m going up on Monday but within a hours drive...) so I’ll pop and grab a HX Stomp, in stock after all, the website says so. As I reversed out of the traditional motorway service station bass drop off point I thought to myself that I’d best phone ahead and check. “Nope, awaiting stock”. Great, it’s still showing as ‘in stock’ 5hrs later despite being told on the phone that they were getting some in next week. So I decided to drop in to Peach Guitars in Colchester, bit of a detour but roughly on the way home, after all they’re in stock, the website says so. Phoning ahead again, just in case, I’m told ‘No, sold out’ well, at least they’ve changed it now. So finally I phone Dawson’s in Reading, after all they’re in stock, the website says so. And for once the shop info matches the online info, two in stock, one on display, one unopened. I must admit during the 66 mile drive I wondered what I’d do if I got there and had been given incorrect info again. Luckily not and Dawson’s were spared my worse gentlemanly flounce, perhaps my monocle falling out in surprise. But anyway, in summary, an eight hour round trip and I’m now the proud owner of a HX Stomp, steep learning curve ahead.

There is an important option missing in your poll I’m afraid and that’s... No, because I’m a massive tnuc. ...certainly applies to me.