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Dosi Y'Anarchy

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  1. I’ve got my eye on a Fake Plastic Trees at the moment….at some I’ll get one, saw a great comparison between that and the Benson Preamp (which I’ve owned before). The FPT seems brighter and less compressed than the Benson, which is a plus in my book.

     

     I’d love to have their whole range of pedals but frankly they cost too much for me to afford but I’ve not heard a bad word said about any of their line and the fact that they seem to be as at home on guitar as bass means there’s some a lot of value there

  2. Here's a link to a gig we did at the start of March that was recorded by the promoter, one of my other VI's but the same board

     

    https://www.facebook.com/events/1122952138439365/permalink/1123747411693171/

     

    We're on at around 36:33

     

    It was a bit of an odd gig... We were told it was a live stream but it didn't come out for a month! Promoter then got pissy that no one tuned in for it when it eventually got released. 

     

    I guess I could do a proper video about my current full board as the last one I did was ages ago:

     

     

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  3. Got these two for sale, both in excellent condition. Neither have left the house and were bought new by me straight from the manufacturers. 

     

    Prices include UK postage. Payment via PayPal gift/friends and family please. 

     

    Latent Lemon Audio Bass Brassmaster Fuzz - £149.99ono

     

    ONEDER Effects Fuzzhausen - £120ono. - great little fuzz with no external controls. One footswitch for on/off and the other footswitch for Oscillation mode, which is pretty whacky and the pitch can be controlled with your bass's volume and tone. Best placed first in your signal chain and without buffers before it. The regular fuzz tone is great on bass. Internally you've got a volume control and a control of the pitch of the oscillation mode. 

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  4. All pedals in excellent condition, bought brand new within the last few months and never left the house. 

     

    Prices include UK postage, payment via paypal friends and family/gift please. 

     

    EQD Hizumitas - £sold

    Boss FZ-1w - £sold

    Fredric Effects Dresden - £99

     

     

    The Dresden is an odd one, analog sub octave and an green ringer/octavia style octave up. Input gain, blend and master volume knobs. 

     

    Its most definitely one for the makers. It's not subtle and the tracking on the suboctave is messy as all hell. 

     

    However, on the more usable side of things, you can use it as a clean boost, crank the input gain and get a dirty boost. Use the blend, input gain and the octave up for an octave fuzz with a clean blend for the low end. 

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  5. 21 hours ago, BigRedX said:

    Shim the neck to increase the break angle over the bridge and fit a set of Newtone Axion Custom Works Fender VI stings which are about a third the cost of the LaBellas and IMO the superior round wound strings for Bass VIs. I'm assuming you want round wounds. If not your options a bit more limited, and expensive; but IIRC Picato do a set of Bass VI flats.

     

    After that it will be down to personal preference and how much money you want to spend. The next thing you'll probably want is something to stop the bridge wobbling about on it's supports. Increasing the break angle of the stings goes a long way to help but its not a perfect solution. If you've got some DYI skills and the right tools you may find one of the home-brew solutions using metal tubing will work, but otherwise you are looking at a Staytrem bridge.

     

    The problem with the bridge and vibrato mechanism is two-fold. With the light gauge strings supplied the vibrato can be quite effective, but unfortunately to get decent bass sounds out of the lower stings, and once you fit either LaBellas or Newtones the increased tension of the strings will make the vibrato mechanism almost impossible to operate. Also IMO the wobbly bridge has no place on a bass guitar. It's fine if you want to do MBV impersonations on a guitar but on the Bass VI it's just an inconvenience.

     

     

    Newtone strings are great and they are really up for customer work too, i got some customer VI sets made up by them (heavier than the Axion...they were great but i think it just ended up too much tension for the neck). Surprisingly, Fender do, what is for me, the perfect roundwound bass VI set...they just dont string the bass VI's with it for some bizzare reason:

    https://astrings.co.uk/products/0730250413?variant=35287077519514&currency=GBP&utm_medium=product_sync&utm_source=google&utm_content=sag_organic&utm_campaign=sag_organic

     

    I wrap electrical tape around the bridge posts to stop them wobbling. Probably not the most scientific approach but it works.

     

    On two of my VI's i've done away with the trem altogether and replaced it with a hardtail plate:

    https://reverb.com/item/6764636-custom-stainless-steel-bass-vi-hardtail-conversion-plate-with-free-strings

     

    Now, the bridge is solid and ive got more than enough room for intonation and i've got no worries about things wobbling out of tune. 

  6. 2 hours ago, Woodinblack said:

    It is quite impressive that it is 7 years since my first squier bass VI and they still haven't fixed that!

    They did when they discontinued the Vintage Modified ones and issued the Classic Vibe series: Replaced the bridge with a Mustang style one which helps not only with the strings popping out of place but also the screw is seated in the top of the assembly and doesnt risk diagonally hitting the string. Its still the same width so I tend to upgrade with a Staytrem which is much wider and gives more than enough room for intonation. 

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  7. Yeah they got back to me on my order today saying they just couldn't give me an Eta for delivery so I requested they cancel the order, which they have. They were very apologetic but ultimately something must be pretty wrong if they can't get a pedal out in the post. I would understand if the pedal was out of stock and needed a special order but this isn't what they have told me is the issue. 

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  8. I had an email back yesterday saying they are struggling for couriers and asking if i was happy to wait. I asked what the Eta is and I've had nothing back as yet. 

     

    There are notes on their emails stating that they are low on staff and it may take a few days to respond 

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  9. I would say that the UD and the OCD's that its based on retain the lows pretty well. I wont say theres no low end loss as i think it does lose some but how much you notice will depend on your setup.

     

    I had an OCD v1.3 ages ago, which was probably the best OCD ive had and i swore that it was my holy grail but then the UD got so close and the TC Mojomojo is so much thicker that i didnt really need the the v1.3.

     

     

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