tayste_2000

Since it seems I love my Pawn Shop most of all my mustangs, this is the next one on the chopping block as I try to edge my way towards @Sibob‘s Serek or another Pawn Shop

Great condition but hard to tell as it’s roadworn, everything works as it should and it’s a lovely sounding bass. I think I just prefer racing stripes and a heavy gloss on the neck

Currently strung with La Bella flats and includes a Gruvgear Gigblade Edge 2 (https://gruvgear.com/collections/guitar-bags/products/gigblade-edge), I don’t have the original gig bag or the thumbrest it seems. Price is slightly higher due to the inclusion of this case, if you want to collect we can work something out but I’m not shipping it without a case I’m afraid.

For £150 extra I can include a Gruvgear Kapsulite (Not the slightly newer + model with wheels) (https://gruvgear.com/blogs/latest-news/gruv-gear-announces-new-kapsulite-bag-for-guitars-basses).

Happy to post and I’ll be passing through London around the end of the month. Else the bass will be located in Mancheser from then on.

On 11/02/2024 at 15:29, Kateplaysbass said:

NBD: Fender Pawn Shop Mustang

 

Picked this up yesterday - a 2012 model apparently, but it looks brand new. Very happy with it, but when I got it home I realised that the pickup is set at quite a pronounced angle - ie it's significantly lower under the E and A strings, which I presume is why those strings aren't quite centred over the pole pieces. 

 

The pickup is pretty hot and has a lot of low end as it is, so I'm guessing this has been done deliberately and I should leave it be. But I am pretty clueless when it comes to anything technical, so more informed views welcome! 

I had my eye on that over at Bass Bros, let me know if you don’t get on with it they are an acquired taste. Hot af output wise, like a solid 9db louder than everything else I own.

I tend to run the volume between 1/2 and 3/4 if I’m using pedals or someone elses amp.

I’ve found this is the mustang I really connect best with, if the sound coming out of it is even then leave it as is, I assume the pickup has been lowered to tame the output. Mine is flat so likely running higher and hotter than yours.

Anyway my three, for now and a hofner thrown in for good luck. Maybe I’ll go back to playing real basses soon.

On 23/01/2024 at 14:58, cetera said:

Does anyone here own a Gruvgear Kapsule Duo?

 

What are your thoughts on it..... does it do the job safely and securely for air travel? Considering purchasing one for an upcoming tour...

I only have the single and the guitar one at that (fits a fender mustang perfectly).

I

as of yesterday I was added to the Gruv Gear site following this trip from Houston to Istanbul.

I travel a lot with basses and I would say so far the Kapsule is the best option but it’s not without its flaws.

So firstly trying to take your bass on a plane is an absolute nightmare it’s stressful from start to finish. I did this with a Squier Mustang in a cheap gigbag going Manchester - Istanbul - Bogotá. After that I vowed never again. You’re basically stuck with a small light case where you’re begging to be let on the plane or you have something more robust like a mono m80 and you’re almost certainly going to be forced to check it whilst the case still isn’t ideal for flying.

Next I used the skb bass safe, which in terms of keeping the instrument safe is great but very few gig bags fit in it these days and when they do you can get very little in the gigbag. I was shoving a gruvgear edge in there which I believe the bass one will fit and then putting extras down the side. This worked ok but had TSA or similar opened the case and pulled everything out I have no idea how they’d get it all back in and several occasions the side of the case were bulging from me overloading it.

Additionally it wheels ok, but it’s got a high centre of gravity and it’s useless on uneven ground, at which point you realise how heavy it is to carry in one hand.

Following the chaos of my Istanbul - Bogotá experience I picked up a Gruv Gear Kapsulite in Bogotá. This case is great, sleek, well protected, good weight and I think I made 4-5 flights with it as I bounced around South America. It has a really nice neck pocket bag which is nice to remove from the bass and have with you on stage. But you can fit very very little in it, think a thin strap, cable, di and maybe a pedal. But it’s very solid for flying with.

Then the Kapsule which in the video you can see the insane amount of stuff I brought back with me. Everything arrived safe even though half way through the trip I noticed a padlock missing. The bass section has a tsa lock, the top part you need to padlock.

The case was a dream to move, lower centre of gravity to the bass safe but then at the end of my journey I could sling it on my back, walk the 1km from the metro and up 3 flights of stairs. Along the way I had handles in all the right places for manoeuvring it through airports.

However it was clearly dragged across the floor after its first flight, this meant the grooves where you slide the wheels in were damaged making it quite difficult to get them on and off. I solved this mostly when I landed in Istanbul by running my keys over it to remove the now excess plastic.

I’ll have to file or sand these further before my next flight. My concern is if these continue to be damaged and the wheels eventually won’t slide on or stay on that it will render the case useless (I am going to investigate how replaceable these are).

I’m probably overly concerned about that because I bought mine second hand and it’s now outside of warranty. Brand new of these break you’re going to get a new case I expect.

This leads me on to my next point, I have the single guitar version and it is heavy, fully loaded it is very heavy so if you’re considering the double bass version you need to be fairly confident you’re only going to have to sling it on your back in an emergency.

You’ll be able to get an insane amount in the case. I went this route because as great as the kapsulite was I’d still have to check a suitcase so that’s excess baggage every flight even though in combination the 2 cases could be under 20kg. This starts getting expensive if you’re travelling a lot or have additional cases you’re also checking.

I absolutely love this case though and think I’ll be getting more, if only as a storage solution where I can keep everything together in one place. So I may very well end up with a bass duo for this purpose. But currently flying with shortscale basses just makes life about 10% easier.

So in summary I think it’s the best case available but it is a tool, if you’re expecting it to stay nice then you shouldn’t be flying with it, I’ve flat out had suitcases ripped in half 😂

The only other considerations are Enki which if I was touring and just going in and out of a van or definitely had additional baggage whilst needing 2 basses I’d consider.

Gator also make a guitar mini vault which will fit 2 shortscale basses.

But neither fit anything else in them so it gets costly with excess baggage fees.

I think I just like they can go straight on stage and function as stands.

Final point, (assuming you have an iPhone) put an AirTag in whatever you go for, best travel purchase I’ve ever made.

1 hour ago, krispn said:

Is that the Camden EC1? How is it?

It is and we’re now in a committed relationship 

For the past two years since I took on a life of travelling most of my musical output has been jam nights and let me say they are categorically the most difficult and least rewarding musical endeavours one can do.

Your points and takeaways are all valid but I would suggest you look at a different output.

Since my last jam in Houston, Texas playing 12 bar blues for over an hour (keep that in mind as that’s the output, playing the same 3 chord shape in different places for over an hour), I got loads of compliments, but I absolutely fluffed a slow blues because it was that slow I thought something more complex was going on than just going to the 4th for the 2nd bar instead of a standard arrangement 🙄, drummer just crushed me afterwards by saying “I guess you don’t play the blues very much”

Let me tell you, that stung, even though not 10 minutes earlier I had a an old proper bluesman tearing it up on hammond tell me those were some tasty licks, fist bumps from the drummer, lapsteel player come up between songs to tell me how great it sounded, yadda yadda

And I’d nailed a more complex song earlier because the guitarist told me oh this has a flattened 5th in the turn around, whereas slow blues guitarist just half arsed counted off some of the changes occasionally.

My outcome from that is I’m not doing jam nights anymore, I prefer a more controlled environments but my lifestyle doesn’t suit playing in a band. So I’m going to ‘hire’ some session musician friends and jam in a studio, this solves all my issues with jams and quite honestly gigs.

Because everything you’ve mentioned for the night going wrong I’ve experienced.

My biggest pet hate is we somehow seem to accept hearing ourselves or the band a luxury in the gigging world.

Every pro musician will tell you the best was to learn is go out there and play with lots of people, but we assume that has to be in front of people, it doesn’t. You can go have a lesson with a drum teacher, guitar teacher, piano etc etc and basically pay to play with them for the hour. You don’t NEED a band and you don’t NEED to be going to jam nights but you do NEED to be playing with people, lots of ways to do that though 😉

My favourite thing to tell people from my Open Mic experiences (because you can imagine how many people want to play with you when you turn up with a double bass)

Me: What key are we in

Singer Songwriter: Erm well this string is down 2, this string up 4, these two doubled, then I’m capo’d 11

Me: Right

What followed was a number of chord changes that would embarrass a prog musician as overplaying.

The expectation that we can just follow this song they’ve been perfecting in their bedroom for the past 7 months when they don’t even know what they’re playing 👍🙄

Finally, don’t forget you’ll never struggle to find a gig as a bass player 😇

First just for fun fx I’ve got in a long time.

Can’t even begin to explain how they sound. Burned 2 hours making noises this afternoon, weekend will be destroyed by these 😂

32 minutes ago, spencer.b said:

I've got one of these , really fun , pretty sure it's from the 70s though, think Kay's were made in America til the late 60s then  they went bust and the name was sold to a distributor and in the early 70s they started putting the name on Asian made basses like this one

Mine matches this one

https://www.catawiki.com/en/l/38455499-kay-k-1b-bass-guitar-taiwan-1968

Which says 1965 to 1968 in Taiwan

Yeah we’ll just miss each other I’m there in a month.

Both places are great and really friendly crowds

https://jamboreejazz.com/en/

https://www.instagram.com/marulacafe/?hl=en

https://marulacafe.com/bcn/

Been to both, both have killer jam nights, musicians get in free for jam nights assuming you have an instrument on your back or your Spanish is good enough.

Marula is more cutthroat than Jamboree but if you can get on stage the class of musicians is top notch. 

When do you go? I’m in Barcelona for a week in March (bass in hand ready for these jams)

Other examples of Hofner Violin basses with Blade pickups

Michael League absolutely destroying one

https://www.instagram.com/p/CZmr7R0oDGM/?hl=en

And Sean Hurley

If I didn’t already have a 00’s German Hofner I’d be all over this bass.

35 minutes ago, Linus27 said:

It also still seems to have the old retro looking 8 bit display screen which is kind of nice for a retro feel but a more modern LED screen I think would of been nice. Probably put the price up somewhat though.

Also would reduce the time it runs on AA batteries for, one of the main reasons I have 3 of the older model is the fact I can just throw it on the floor and play.

As long as these still allow you to move fx between units I’ll be happy with them.

I fgot a MS100BT yesterday and I’m starting to think all I want over the stock bass unit is the Particle Reverb.

https://ctmusicshop.com/product/mooer-prime-s1-intelligent-pedal-floor/

God knows what this is

Prime S1

Oh and you’ll note it has a headphone volume control

I feel bad I’m always hijacking this thread for stuff that isn’t the P1, but not enough to stop.

Valeton have a bunch of multi’s I can find very little on but also released a Mini bass dapper.

I think it’s smaller than the Sonicake Boom Ave and it does have a tuner (it’s kinda hidden but it’s there). Octave would have been better than Chorus but the guitar versions of these go for around £60 so 🤷‍♂️ bargain.

(I also sent an email to Mooer asking if they were releasing anything bass related for the P2…. I don’t expect a response)

1 hour ago, lidl e said:

 

This deep freeze is apparently their freeze pedal and their superego in one. I figure the extra superego feature are just a bonus.

 

Oh…… did not know this, thought it was just a freeze….. now I want one 🙄🥲

All the wins

https://youtu.be/9wvbQYjK6OU?si=NTYRbCDNx-dBw69K

60b+, 70cdr+, ms80ir, along with what we’ve already discussed

4 hours ago, SumOne said:

 

Nice! It's annoying that Mooer seem to have given up on catering for Bass players, loads of Guitar amp/cabs but no Bass ones.  I could live with that if the tuner worked on a 5 string Bass low B  (but if it's the same software as the P2 then it won't), and if the Drives had a blend (from the manual, it seems they don't). Hopefully there will be an update to include Bass stuff, or a specific Bass version as it looks like a good bit of hardware, I like the battery option.

 

The Zoom looks good: Small, battery powered option, tuner, only 2x effects at the same time but perhaps if they include a decent compressor and a drive with a lot of EQ options that would be enough. I can't tell if anything on it is designed for Bass though.

Well I went back through this thread recently as I found myself longing for a P1. That manual also doesn’t list any bass fx but they are in there, so honestly who knows.

The Zoom, this is the 2nd in this new format they’ve announced. So there is 50g+ which does 4-5 effects and is a direct replacement to the 50G. I’m anticipating a Bass, Modulation and Delay/Reverb one coming out in the next few months. Still won’t have a headphone out but everything else is an improvement for gigging.

On 18/01/2024 at 10:35, SumOne said:

A bit off topic, but the Zoom B-6 is looking pretty good to me, there are a couple for sale on here for about £250.

 

• All effects/Amps etc are Bass specific
• 2x switchable inputs (So I could sell my LS-2 that I use for switching basses. My usual justification maths for multi-fx goes along the lines of - if it replaces enough individual pedals without losing functionality/sound quality it makes financial sense. Selling LS-2, TU-3, BB-1X, LMB-3 probably covers it without losing functionality)
• XLR DI with ground lift (no need for my DI box)
• Aux in and Bluetooth (Bluetooth is an extra £34 adapter though)
• Headphone out
• Drum loops
• Zoom tend to be alright for synth stuff
• Zoom things tend to be reliable (or they have been for me).

Obviously that's not a pocket sized unit though! Still, for not much more ££ than the P2 it could do a decent all-in-one job for home practice, band rehersals, and probably has the connections/sounds/footswitches etc. I need for live stuff.

 

The thing that always let's multi-fx down for me is when you need that decent envelope filter, or synth, or whatever else the unit doesn't do well you need the individual pedal - which then needs a power supply, and a pedalboard, and before long individual pedals start to take over again!

 

 

Oooooor

https://www.mooeraudio.com/products/199.html

XLR’s, built in batteries, probably all the same issues we’ve had with P1 and P2’s 😂 but new and shiny shiny.

Zoom just released this so I think more is coming soon https://zoomcorp.com/en/us/multi-effects/multistomp-pedals/ms-200d-plus/

Maybe one of them will tick all the boxes.

A week on of essentially going back to the MP2 I’m frustrated by the lack of volume controls on the unit, the poorer battery life…. but it does sound better than the MP Pro 😂

I don’t think I ever turned A off 😅

Well one more thing to try with it 😂

Can you use it solo? I just thought it was a > b or b > a and a do you want you sound louder or grittier.

I use it as a boost.

But I’m on fairly limited time with it clearly

42 minutes ago, admiralchew said:

I love the fluffy pedal. I should try to get one of those.

I have one I will pay you to take, literally name your price 

11 minutes ago, MrDinsdale said:

@Chadu25 This is how mines wired up to the GT1000core. You could do the same with the stomp.

 

I know it looks pretty crazy but it means you can go into the Capo to keep the Pre DI totally clear while also letting me move my analog pedals in GT loop 1 and the preamp portion of the Capo in GT loop 2 freely. The output of the GT is then passed back to the Capo post loop return and then sent via post DI to FOH and/or my amp.

 

I also have the option to run the other stereo out of the GT straight to my amp and run a cab sim on the output to FOH too although yet to find a need for that with the Capo. 

And in this case you can move the fx loop any where in the chain on the helix which gives you a lot more flexibility.

Also if you can get an XPND or Nano+ so your pedals aren’t sideways I’d greatly appreciate that 🙏

4 minutes ago, Ander87 said:

I'll send you the bill @tayste_2000 🤣

 

You’ll have to get in line