PatrickJ

After having the pleasure of hearing the Sabre in action I have a definitive answer / suggestion. Sell both, the Sabre looks as good as the Aerodyne and sounds fabulous. The Sabre visually and sonically suits your band really well too so it's a bass that should be well used Selling both would cover the cost, or give you enough for a second Sabre as a backup for when the 602 start touring the new EP!! Edit - just seen the weight of the Sabre in the other thread -- ooof. That would be a consideration for me.

Well I think I've done a pretty significant refresh of all my gear this year In: Sadowsky Metroline MV4 Ibanez SRF700 Fretless GR Bass Mini One Amp Epifani UL310 Cabinet Boss BCB-6 Pedal Board Boss BB1X Boss BC1X Boss OC2 Boss AW3 Boss SYB5 Radial Pro DI SSL2 Audio Interface Beyerdynamic DT770 Pro Headphones Software: cubase 11 upgrade, a few IR packs, EZ Drummer Jazz kit and midis Midi Keyboard In then Out: Trace Elliot 122H Combo ACG Retro4 Pedal Train Nano+ Pedalboard Xvive Wireless Kit EBS Microbass 2 Out: Sandberg VT4 Sandberg VS4 Mayones Jabba 5 Markbass LMT500 Head Markbass Traveller 2x10 cabinet SansAmp BDDI v2 Line6 Helix FX Fender MX Strat Gibson Les Paul Gretsch Hollowbody Focusrite Solo Audio Interface Steinberg Audio Interface Audio Technica Headphones That's quite a lot in - must be better next year.

Got a new set sitting around? String one up, record, move the strings to the other and repeat. Needs to be a blind test though, so recordings labelled guitar 1 and guitar 2 so no visual bias influences votes.

As you know I'd keep the Fender, but I like MIJ Fenders and I've never warmed to the Yamaha BB shape aesthetically. You've done a nice couple of mods to Aerodyne and it looks killer, amazing colour! Perhaps a side by side recording would help ? How they play and how they sound should be the deciding factor I guess.

Sean seems to be doing a lot on Social Media recently. Though did I get the end right, despite all that fancy set up Warren just took the isolated DI feed?

Chuck Rainey on bass I believe

Nice to see this thread is still going 3.5 years on. In that time I've owned a lot of the pre-amps that have been mentioned. Of the full featured stomp box type pre's my favourite has been the EBS Microbass II however I'm now just taking the DI out from my amp head. Should that change I'm sure I'll be revisiting this list, I've still yet to to try the Tone Hammer and the Broughton pres have piqued my interest.

I do have this app! Thanks, I'll go check this out

In the New Year I'll be meeting up with a guy I met on the internet for a bit of a Jazz standards jam. Learning jazz and walking bass has been on my to do list all through lockdown I just lacked motivation to pick up and play. In recent months I've been playing a lot more but not much focussed practice and now I've gone and committed myself to this new beginners jazz group. It's been pitched as a beginners level so I'm not expecting to master anything in just a few short weeks but I want to show up being able to play more than root notes to a 2 feel (which was the extent of my last jazzcapade). I have a Real Book to hand and I'll be spending a ton of time on arpeggio exercises but any other tips, help or advice that the BC community can offer me to get me on my way to build some level competence would be greatly appreciated! Thanks

Hi Again, In addition to my last thread on how to record professional / studio quality bass I'm also looking for tips on how to get EZ-Drummer sounding more authentic. As a tool it's easy to use and I can quite quickly get a backing drum track to jam too. However I'm never completely satisfied with how it sounds when I'm mixing it with bass and other instruments. Does anyone here have any experience of using it for producing decent quality music? I know it's possible to split each of the drums into it's own dedicated channel in a DAW (in my case Cubase, I've got a YouTube tutorial on this) but I'm looking for more tips on how to mix / master it better for a more authentic sound. If you have any tips, YT tutorials or articles on how to produce / mix electronic drums, especially EZ Drummer, please share with me! Thanks

Good Evening Folks, I'm desperately trying to stay away from all the gear threads here on BC (sadly failing) preferring to focus on discussions that are going to help improve my playing and help me learn how to record more professional quality bass. Although not a complete novice to home recording I don't feel I've really mastered it as a skill and I'm looking for any advice / guidance / tips that the BC community can offer me. I use Cubase as my DAW and have a pretty good understanding of how it works. I also have some of the required equipment at my disposal: - DI options: Radial Pro 48 DI box or DI out of my GR Bass head. - Audio Interface: SSL 2 channel AI - DAW plugins (IR cab sims, Cubase's standard suit of tools (reverb, compression, eq etc.) I'm willing to invest in other plugin's if needed and potentially a decent microphone for the cab. Please do share your wisdom with me; any links to articles or YouTube tutorials also very welcome - I really want to be able to record more professional / studio quality bass. Thanks

Paul bought a pedalboard off me last month so I'm a bit late in leaving this feedback (sorry). Everything was super smooth with the transaction, if you get an opportunity to deal with @Shepster8316 don't hesitate, a great BC'er.

Bob recently bought a Markbass head from me. Super smooth transaction with good communications - totally recommended. Thanks Bob!

Dave bought a Trace Elliot combo from me in a completely smooth and hassle free exchange of goods for cash! He's a lovely chap and it was a pleasure to meet him. If you have the opportunity to deal with Dave don't hesitate, he's a great member of the BC community.

Made worse as I ended up hating the cab and selling it for a loss a year or so later 🤣

These are my personal experiences, I'm sure like with Bax others have dealt with them no problem at all. A few years ago I bought a cab from them, advertised as having free delivery. They called me up after I placed the order and told me I had to pay delivery. I reluctantly agreed (i shouldn't have), took the day off work waiting for the delivery and unsurprisingly it never showed up. Didn't even respond to my email or return my call complaining about it I just got a delivery schedule notification from the courier for a couple of days later. A year or so later I was selling a bass, no joy on here so I emailed them asking them about selling via their shop and asking for details about commission etc. Didn't even bother responding to me. Appalling customer service from my perspective, once they had my money they couldn't give a shit so as a consumer I avoid them now.

Sadly there seem to be only 2 specialists in the UK for Bass gear that I'm aware of. Bass Direct which is a 4 hr round trip for me and the Bass Gallery who are one of the worst organisations I've ever dealt with.

Fortunately it seems my Black Friday purchases from Bax have gone relatively OK. Tracking took a few days after my shipping confirmation email was received to show anything, but the amp head did arrive today (a day later than my selected delivery date). I have another order I'm waiting for that I also made over the weekend, tracking just got updated so hopefully I'll get it by the end of the week. Email responses were slow, it took about 2 days for their customer services to email me back and they weren't very helpful in helping me understand what was going on - fortunately things have started to progress without their intervention. The reason they gave for the slight delays in delivery and tracking status was just black friday load on both them and the couriers (I opted for Parcel Force).