Cato

12 minutes ago, PaulHornBass said:

How many ohms are those, if you don't mind me asking?

250 apparently.

Beyerdynamic DT770 pro.

John Lydon is currently on a speaking tour in the UK which ends at the start of August.

There was some sort of legal dispute between him and the other Pistols over Danny Boyles biopic TV series, no idea whether it got particularly acrimonious but maybe that's a contributing factor as to why he doesn't fancy the reunion.

This is a genuine screen shot of the options when you try to 'filter' the shop.

4 minutes ago, Cosmo Valdemar said:

That's just... no, no.

That was my first reaction but now I'm starting to quite like it.

Although to be honest if I was in the market for another VI at this moment I'd get the silver.

Looks like there's an Olive one coming in at about the same time.

https://www.thomann.de/gb/squier_ltd_cv_bass_vi_lrl_olv.htm

8 hours ago, Jonesy said:

If there are plans in the works then I hope it means Grabbers and Rippers are on the way too......

Any of the above would likely have me reaching for the wallet.

Assuming I can overcome the current mental difficulty I have with spending 1k+ on an Epiphone, should they be priced in line with other recent releases by the company.

I stopped watching traditional TV channels some years ago.

It wasn't a concious decision one day I just realised that my entire TV consumption had moved to 'on demand'

The only time Eurovision is even on my radar is when I see the inevitable threads on here or elsewhere online.

I'm quite suprised, given how much TV viewing habits have changed in the last decade, that it's still seemingly such a big thing and that people are apparently so passionate about it, those who dislike it as much as those who love it.

As a non viewer I'd say it's probably doing something right purely on the grounds that a concept and format that hasn't really changed for decades hasn't just quietly faded into utter obscurity.

6 hours ago, fiatcoupe432 said:

Just watched this and was blown away by the chemistry and the talent in this s band . Willow is Will smith daughter , mohini dei on bass 🤯🤯🤯🤯

 

 

Not at all what I was expecting.

I've not heard a lot of her work but a couple of years ago she did this, which I rather like.

Kind of more of a straight up pop song.

11 minutes ago, Rosie C said:

 

I'd not heard of this creation and it has me confused. Is a regular bass guitar 2 octaves below a regular 6-string, and the VI sits in between?

 

Esentially it was designed as a guitar to be tuned one octave below standard.

It can sound either more or less identical to a standard bass guitar on the bottom 4 strings or like a baritone guitar depending on how you employ the pickup selector and and the bass cut switch.

17 hours ago, rmorris said:

I love the idea and look of the Bass VI and copies of but I can't see the tight string spacing at the nut with beefy strings working for me.

Maybe just as well as have run out of bass space 🤣

I'd say, using a pick, that it's no more difficult or fiddly to play than a standard solid body electric guitar, anyone who plays  even a little bit of guitar as well as bass should be able to pick a VI up and hit the ground running.

On 11/04/2024 at 11:16, lidl e said:

@Cato have you downloaded to extra tone packs? They have 2 with 4 different presets each. One just basic bass sounds and one pack all new effects presets

 

I'd not known these were available.

Cheers for the heads up.

Basket Case and I think most of the rest of the Dookie album by Green Day.

Nowt wrong with a bit of pointiness and that's a beaut!

I love mine.

Aside from what other have said, because it works both as a bass and a baritone guitar it's pretty much the perfect instrument for messing about with a looper pedal if that's your thing.

That's going to split the crowd.

I know there's fans af Antigua out there but I've also heard it described, more than once, as Fender's most repulsive finish ever.

Personally, while I'm not sure about the other models in that picture,  for some reason I reckon it really suits the Bass VI

Telescopic neck.

Allows quick changes of scale length on the fly.

When not in use the neck reverse-telecopes right down to the body and you can fit the whole thing in a small briefcase or carrier bag.

I'm torn between natural or this.

In my experience it's not unusual for tone controls on basses to be more on/off or for all the noticeable changes to happen in the last 1/4 turn rather than a smooth transition between maximum and minimum as you roll the pot.

No idea why they're like that.

The biggest fingerstyle breakthrough I ever had was when when I started brushing my fingertips across the top of the strings rather than plucking them from the sides with my finger oads, if that makes sense.

Less effort, more speed.

I did have to turn the amp up though to compensate for the lighter touch.

On the positive side fretless appears to be option, which I don't think has been the case for production Rays for a few years.

Configured an aproximation of my dream 'ray.

Natural, no frills apart from a tort guard.

I'd have gone with a 2 band EQ if it was an option but it's not.

$2800.

I can't imagine the £ price will be any less than that, especially with shipping to the UK and import taxes.

On 30/03/2024 at 00:40, gumtown said:

So two weeks ago many of you said "I'm getting one by the end of the week!"

So any real usage reviews ?

I've had mine for a couple of weeks now.

It's a great bit of kit, for anyone who's had any experience of the Katana guitar or bass amps this is more of the same in a tiny plug in and play package.

I will say the existing bass presets aren't that useful, 3 or 4 of them have 'slap' in their description and having determined that they weren't particularly good for slap or any other context those were the first slots I replaced with my my own patches.

It probably took me under 5 minutes to create 2 new bass patches, one clean with a bit of compression for a 'modern tone' and another with a bit more grit. 

As I mentioned in another post I have the guitar amp, but I reckon the Katana Go app is intuitive enough that even anyone completely new to the brand will be able to dial in something they're happy with within a few minutes of downloading the phone app 

As far as I can see you do need the phone app to set up new patches, it gives you easy access to the different amps and a fairly extensive array of effects where you can adjust all the parameters you'd expect on any amp or physical effects pedal.

The Go has 30 slots for your patches, which is less than than the average multi fx unit, but this isn't trying to replace the Helix in your main rig, I reckon 30 is more thn enough for practice, especially as it's so quick and easy to set new patches up or tinker with the ones you've got.

Once you've created the patches you want to use it's easy to cycle through them and the neat little display window will tell you which patch you're on.

There's also a nifty tuner function which, again is displayed on the device itself and does not require the phone app.

I've not had much experience with headphone practice amps, but I will say that the GO probably sounds as good as any full sized amp I've ever plugged headphones into, with the caveat that the headphones I use for practice are good quality over ear jobs (Behringer 770 Pro) I'm not sure using cheap earbuds , for example, would give the same experience.

All in all one of the better purchases I've made in recent years. It's just the ideal tool for those moments when get the urge to pick up an instrument and just start playing.

55 minutes ago, Lozz196 said:

Although I can appreciate it as a good song Fairy Tale of New York by The Pogues. I just can’t stand it.

+1

I used to really love it, but at some point I got sick to death of it seemingly being every 3rd song you hear wherever you go in December.

If it comes on while I'm listening to the radio I'll kill the volume before the first bar is over.

If someone had told me that had been written and performed by a human I wouldn't have questioned it.

I might have questioned "why?" but that's not the same thing.

Stylistically it's on a par with the radio jingles and ads I grew up listening to in the 80s and 90s that were written and recorded by real people, even if they didn't always feature 'real' instruments.