dave_bass5

Obviously I understand there is a huge difference better the two basses as far as something goes, but not sure what it is in real terms and what more money gets you when you are already happy. I get if you want the nicer finishes and woods then you pay more, also if you want a certain configuration you pay more, but ‘better’ is quite subjective IMO. I guess its hard for someone like me who is easily pleased to see where the money goes for boutique basses. It seems its all in places i don’t care about. As far as the KS goes. I just didnt get on with it. Don’t blame the owner for a bad set up, blame KS for making a bass that doesnt work for me lol. Basses are a very personal thing these days (it didnt seem to be years ago). Just because it cost 5K+ doesnt mean everyone will automatically like it and want one. This is another example of more money doesn’t necessarily get you better. Hopefully I’m not coming across as rude or argumentative, just putting it as i see it.

Ill put my Squire CV Jazz up against any other bass, and for the reason as stated above. It will kill them all, as long as the following is taken in to account. If you want blocks, it doesnt have them, want active, it doesnt have it, want exotic wood or the emperor’s new clothes, well it has the latter, want a 5th string, it doesnt have it. Has frets, and...well sound like a Jazz. Not for everyone then. Want good feel and tone, loads of it. Very good playability, loads. Cost so little its not a problem taking it out, yep, got that. Who cares what a bass costs. If a Squier is good enough for Herbie Flowers its going to make the grade for me as well, as long as i think with my hands and ears, and not my wallet. Obviously ive played the ‘even’ cheaper Squires that didn’t feel right in my hands, but I also played 2 Dingwall’s i didnt like, and a KS that felt really hard to play not enjoyable (even though it’s an amazing bass).

And that too is blue and black, just like my fav Fender 😁

Blue, hence why i dont use any of the white ones anymore 😂

Or have one and use the volume knob 😂 Just kidding, not judging.

That’s what happens when you skip posts, although to be fair I didn’t mention ‘Dunne’ 😉

That what i said yesterday. When Lakland lost the right to use Ducks name they changed it to the numbers.

These are my cheap basses, and each one has been my main gigging bass at some point, the Squier for almost 3 years of gigging every weekend. Its still my second fav bass that i own. The guitar is just there for effect lol. .

I've got a maple skyline jazz neck which came off a Joe Osborn at home somewhere. I used to use it on either of my Squier CV basses as i loved Lakland necks so much.

I’m sure you saw my short thread about it

I dont think he has it anymore. I believe 7 people have already brought it 😂

One minor thing to be aware of. You can change the preset freq’s that the pedal uses. 3 sets of preset freqs, which are more just small shifts in the centre freq’s, but of course the printed labels on the box dont change. Although most are close enough to not matter, if you are after a certain freq it can get confusing remembering what you have set. Its a lot cheaper than the SA EQ-2, but i couldn’t help feel it seemed unfinished compared to the SA. Just minor things though, mostly ergonomics.

Its perfect for that. I almost wished i was still playing bass when i got mine. The stereo is wasted on bass though. Be great if they made a mono one for less money. I never got to gig mine, but did rehearse with it a couple of times.

Shoul have mentored i was a keyboard player, so a step above the rest 😮 😂

No problem. One cool thing is the separate channels. Me and my son both plugged in to mine (so guitar and me on bass) and then fed two wired speakers, one each. We effectively had two systems running and had separate EQ for each. So i guess you are getting two for the price of one.

I got one last year, but sold it recently. It was the only stereo graphic I could find that wasn't silly money (ie, SA EQ-2). I really didn’t use it much. I got it as i wanted to run in stereo from my keyboard, but ended up using the onboard EQ. Cant really add much, other than it was nice but not as good as my old Q/strip, unfortunately that’s mono so wasn’t going to work. I didnt find it did much for me. It packs a lot of features in, but most were useless to me. 10 bands seem a bit limited as well.

Ah, I hadn’t even thought of that. None of mine are.

Have you considered a Gotoh? Not sure if it will fit but it’s similar. I’m sure you can get the dimensions on line, or i could measure mine,.

Those are really nice bridges. Reminds me of my Gotoh 201’s .

Ive not had that one, but i had 2 Skyline Duck Dunns, which was the forerunner to the 44-64, but with only a P. Amazing basses. Really, really regret not keeping one.

How ironic that people can now go and try them out in a shop.......only they cant lol.

Just a FYI for those interested. It just came up on my timeline.

Ive still got mine. Great little all round boxes. I used to use it as a sound module live, hooked up to a Casio CZ1000 IIR.

I actually started using Helix Natvie this week. Ive had it for ages but didn’t have any reason to use it. I picked up the guitar at the weekend and did a few bits in Cubase.

Yeah, the Stomp has control over the incoming signal as well. Not sure how it compares to Helix Floor but it’s got control.