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6 hours ago, Muzz said:

 Oh, and a Shuker build (still) underway...

🙄 - I know that feeling.

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I'm up to 4 now, which feels excessive.

- Sandberg VS4

- Sandberg VT4

- Mayones Jabba V

- Shuker Custom J

I keep going hot and cold as to whether I should sell the Mayones but having a fiver in the arsenal is useful.

The VS4 is a bit surplus to requirements but it plays beautifully with Low Tension Flats and sounds great with the Nordstrand NP4v pup.

What's the science behind string gauges being what they are, I.e  why did 45-65-85-105 become the norm for 4 string bass and what makes the .20 the optimum distance in gauge string to string.  I.e. a typical light gauge set would be 40-60-80-100.

Why not a .18 variation such as 42-60-78-96.  What would the implications of such a string set?  Surely the sound would be more even string to string if the gap was lower?

If his goal is to try and impress and pick up the chicks at the retirement home I hope he went for lead guitar and not bass!!

Just now, Stub Mandrel said:

But is a bass with a Jama-plaster body good for metal?

No, just Reggae

3 hours ago, stewblack said:

It's like the Herefordshire version of Breaking Bad

Stew Black, clearly an alias for Walter White

This feels like an excellent front for moving illegal goods undetected across the country.  Did anyone open the control plate to see if anything suspect was hiding there??

The Rebel Bass

This thread has got me gassing for a new head dammit, and I've been trying so hard to control my bass related spending this year 🤣.

When I played in a rock covers band my GK MB500 was a great sounding head.  I got plenty of comments on it's tone and presence in the mix without being over powering.   I only moved it on as I fancied a change but if I was going to go back to that kind of music I'd be looking at the GK Legacy line. 

Last year I switched to a Markbass head.  It seemed with every band I saw live the bassist was using some kind of MB rig and I always liked the tone.  So I picked up the Little Mark Tube, the size / weight of the head and the Traveller 2x10 cab I paired it with make it super convenient rig the carry round.

I'm now running 2x para EQ blocks on my Helix FX in front of the LMT that are aligned to the EQ points of the Little Marcus heads. 

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This year I want to play more Jazz and am thinking again about what tone I want.  The MB LMT does clean and  clear pretty well but I am very curious about the Ashdown RM range and how that would compare.  

I'd also like to try the Eden, Genzler and EBS offerings,  though if I'm honest the greatest improvement to my tone would be I'd I actually did some practice.

I work for a company that now specialises in Cloud Computing.  

I was in a reasonably senior role up until Dec 31st when I was made redundant,  I'm still pretty forked about it but it presented me with an opportunity.

Things have been a bit rough with my Autistic kid lately and his anxiety can result in some very challenging behaviour, especially towards his mother.

I took a more junior position that meant I could work from home 3 days a week and be around a lot more to help at home.

So now I manager a team of Cloud Computing Engineers supporting Amazon, Microsoft and Google cloud platforms.

9 minutes ago, PJ-Bassist said:

Do both

I meant at the same time.

I saw Charley Hunter supporting Snarky Puppy.  He plays an eight string multi-scale guitar that  he uses to play both Bass and Guitar parts on at the same time.   

Do both

There's probably one out there but I would be interested in a Markbass LM comparison to the RM500.

I love my little stubby head, but my Markbass LMT and 2x10 traveller makes a great portable rig.  Wondering how the RM range compares for clean bass tone.

I've had a couple of market place dealings with Tony over the past year or so.  Great guy to deal with on each occasion! 

Everything else in your settings looked good so I'd try it as next stage of troubleshooting. 

I just tried a mono cable instead of TRS with mine.  With heel down bass muted, heel and toe midway I had full volume and with toe fully down bass was muted again.  Not the same experience as you but odd behaviour none the less.

4 minutes ago, burno70 said:

Like this?

Yup, but I think your issue maybe that you are not using a TRS cable, have you got one you can try ?  From the Andertons website:

The way most expression pedals work is by taking a reference voltage from the device it’s connected to and halving that (depending on the position of the expression pedal) and feeding it back into the device which alters the sound.

The most common way for this to happen is through a TRS jack. A TRS (tip / ring / sleeve) is a cable where the reference voltage is on the ring. The control voltage is on the ‘tip’ and the ‘sleeve’ will ground the connection.

1 minute ago, burno70 said:

Well here's an image from Helix Edit. Sorry I couldn't make it any bigger/clearer. I've added the volume block to a footswitch to copy PJ-Bassist's example. I've had a play around and dipping the pedal simply results in engaging the volume 100%, it effectively controls the bypass, like an on/off volume function. Unfortunately using Edit has not shed any light on the matter and I'm all out of ideas.

It's odd, and quite disappointing as I've found the bulk of the unit incredibly intuitive, one you get the hang of it. This however has me stumped.

 

Where it says volume, above footswitch 1, change this to Position rather than Bypass in the drop down menu and post another screen shot.

I would have thought an expression pedal is an expression pedal  no matter what the brand - as long as you're using a TRS cable to connect it to the HX then it should work.

35 minutes ago, dave_bass5 said:

Really wish there was a iOS app to do this. Then life would be complete. 

+1, IOS and Android apps would be awesome.

Just now, burno70 said:

Thanks again for your help. I've not used the editor so I'll have a crack at that and see if I can match your settings. Need a break right now - heads melted

I do all my initial block setups in HX Edit as it's much easier to visualise and then fine tune on the HX FX as I need to when I'm rehearsing.

Once you get the Vol pedal cracked let me know if you need help with setting up the EXP pedal to be shared across multiple patches.   

In that block I've got a Tilt patch that I'm using to create a vintage tone setting to emulate the Old School EQ control on the Markbass Little Marcus amp head.

I've just set it up so I can use the expression pedal to adjust the amount of "vintage" along side the volume pedal.  When the Vintage patch is turned on the volume pedal is disengaged, when it's turned off the Volume Pedal is engaged. 

Pretty simple to set up in HX Edit.  You set the patches up individually to how you want them.  Then I turn Vintage on and Volume off, then set them both to use the same footswitch for Bypass.

6 minutes ago, burno70 said:

 

Hey, thanks for taking the time to write this. I'm not there yet but have made some progress. Rather than increasing in volume as the pedal is pressed towards the toe position, it seems to act as a bypass and then go full volume. The position markers are not moving? Nothing wrong with the pedal or cables, if I change to another present the expression works fine. Should curve be linear or log? Tried both ways but it doesn't seem to make any difference.

This is how my settings are configured in HX Edit.

Screen shot 3 just demonstrates the pedal being in a midway position.

I don't think the Curve matters, I believe that effects "how" the volume changes.  Linear will give you an even increase through the sweep of the pedal where I think log ramps in curve meaning at the low end of the sweep you get less effect and that increases towards the end.

46 minutes ago, burno70 said:

Disappointingly I'm still struggling with this but I've discovered another issue - I can't get my expression pedal (Line 6 Ex-1) to work as a volume pedal. I've searched the manual/Line 6 forum/you tube, but can't seem to find this specific issue. Anyone have any ideas. I obviously need to resolve this before attempting to set the same pedal up for both a volume and expression pedal. If anyone can post a step by step on setting up an expression pedal as a volume pedal - on the HX effects I'd appreciate it.

Are you using the HX edit software to create your blocks or are you setting them up manually on the unit?  Setting up a volume pedal in HX edit was pretty straight forward.  I'm using a Moog expression pedal.

Step 1. Add the volume block from Volume / Pan menu

Step 2. Click Bypass / Controller Assign

Step 3. Where it says volume, make sure this says Position.  For some reason my software says EXP2 even though I only have a EXP pedal in Interface 1.  This goes away after finishing the next step.

Step 4. Change Controller to EXP Pedal 1 

Step 5. Check Min Position is 0 and Max is 100

Step 6. Click back on Edit, use the pedal and you should see the position value change as you operate the EXP pedal.

Step 7. Save

Sorry to hear about the dog, but that's a lovely cabinet. 

30 minutes ago, deepbass5 said:

and listening to jazz standards which i do not. 

This is something I need to start doing.  Although my listening is now almost exclusively Jazz, none of it is standards and it doesn't feature much in the way of walking bass lines.

For those reading / following this thread, please do provide me with some recommended listening!

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