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Those Chickenbackers are based on Fender scale and tend to have the Treble pickup in the Jazz Bass position.

As ever, simply do not use Friends & Family to pay people who aren't your friends or family...

I like the Microbass 3's fx loop; it means it can be a pedalboard hub. The fly in the ointment for me is that I've recently acquired an Ampeg valve preamp, which has a certain sound to it (of course)... My pedalboard as-is: I'm trying out the HX Stomp replacing a number of discrete pedals and will see how that goes.

It really added more authority to the sound, compared to the SansAmp BDDI which previously held the spot on my board. My only wish was that it had two of those channels rather than one plus distortion (like the Stanley Clark acoustic one).

I disagree - the clean channel is remarkable. The distortion channel isn't as good. Mine says manufactured in Sweden.

I couldn’t imagine trying to program one without a PC. (Well, I suppose could imagine it, but it would be a thankless task!)

How much did you say you want for that £200 bass?

And then the Kempton Park guitar show scheduled for the following weekend. (I don't want to wish Summer over, but...)

Cheers for the message @Kebabkid - see you there!

Yep - you've nailed it!

My first thought was is it a Harley Benton, but maybe it's more a hardly bent one.

Bob Daisley is a fine bass player; the price is way out of my league, though.

Looks riveting.

What is a channel strip, BTW?

Well; the concept of zero crossings is a bit simplistic anyway; you really need something like a spectrogram & FFT to analyse the frequencies in an audio signal (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spectrogram).

Cheers - I knew of his background. It's just I remember the brand coming to prominence in the mid-70s.

I wasn't even aware that Ovation were around in the 60s.

Though it's interesting in the conversation wider sense, an integrated isn't what I'm after; an overall volume is pretty much all the knobbage required. Yep - there are some compact ones; I just don't want to have to use a trolley to shift the stuff about. I do have and EBS pedal preamp, but my application for this is an Ampeg.

The Demeter is a bit pricey. (I agree about the Darkglass - I know I'm supposed to like them, but they don't float my boat.) I'm not sure I "get" the Quilter; I might as well just plug into the effects return of my Markbass.

Thanks @fretmeister @fleabag @three - they look worth checking out.

Thanks for clarifying (my ignorance)! Their naming is confusing... Is it an SVT-IIP rather than an SVP-II, or is that another iteration/variation? Oh, and my SVP Pro has 5 valves.

Hmmm - it doesn't say II (2) on it anywhere...