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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...

I'm looking for a power amp, but I don't want a great big lump of a thing. I've run my Ampeg preamp into the effects return of a Markbass 250 and it sounded fine (for a bit more power I'll try it into my 500W Markbass next time I have a go). Are there any compact, lightweight, gig-worthy power amps available? (I suppose if I get to playing stadiums, I might want something a bit more hefty, but then again (a) that's unlikely and (b) it'd all be going via the PA anyway.)

The EBS Microbass 3 is a darned fine piece of kit. My only criticism is that I'd prefer two equal channels rather than one normal and one distortion.

What's a II ?

I nearly bought a Roland (G-33 or G-88?) bass last week, but I decided to sleep on it and then it was gone. I've got a Bartolini multi-pole pickup and a Roland control panel to put in a Ric when I get around to doing the project. It'll feed into a Roland GM-70 MIDI converter. Of course, being a pitch to note converter, plus old tech, there will be some delay there. Plus, I've no idea what I'll do with it when I have it working! I expect I'll use my bass to trigger a Minitaur or Model D, but then I'll probably realise that I need a bass line too and my interest will wander elsewhere. In the meanwhile, I've got a Source Audio C4, which triggers pretty well.