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Those boards look lovely! Although I have an itch on IE, tce, and Cog, there's one rat and cheese down there, which looks totally fab! What it is? That mini board looks very playful, too. I think I could find lots of sounds from every board you have built. Obviously with passion.

Definitely not! They sound so different compared to those two I mentioned earlier: full, and authoritative. The price you have to pay is that external box.

First impressions. + very decent price €129 / £109 + the box is on the heavy side in a good way + size if the unit is decent, it does a lot, and there's space enough to tweak it + the bar on top of the footswitch is necessary + nothing special with the sound, i.e. transparent in band context + accurate and powerful, yesterday I cut the lowest end (30 Hz, high Q, -10 dB), and boosted the low end (80 Hz, middle Q, +6 dB) with success +/- consumes 96 mA (ON) +/- can be used with a battery, but not long (see previous) +/- ON/OFF can be seen from the sliders: blue is ON - overall level adjustment needs a Stompshield - the Q pots are completely black: I used a silver paint pen to get the tiny notches visible - if the unit loses power while ON, it becomes dead quiet: there's no relay in the signal path Have to try extreme adjustments to understand noise levels and so on. I just love the possibilities of parametric eqs. tce 1140 may leave this house...

I don't recall the actual numbers, but this is the ballpark: 741 consumes around 1 mA, TL071 practically the same. NE5534 some 5 mA, and an Alembic has several of them. A 9 V battery has a capacity of approx. 500 mAh. 20 playing hours means that the circuitry consumes maybe 20-25 mA. It would be only 4-5 opamps.

I am considering tce SCF to the same loop. Fretless, some flanger, slight amount of fuzz, and that's it.

antikythera and PTEQ. Have to say that I love parametric eqs: powerful and specific.

Let's see... Those specific noise gates can control attack and release. That means, they work like BOSS Slow Gear SG-1. I had one in each board, but do not need those everywhere anymore. Yes, IE Divaricator is controlling Alpha Dog (I think it is a RAT clone of some kind). The X-over frequency is around 400 Hz. Works like a dream. The cream one is a sound/noise maker: there's no real scale there, just different frequencies. So a noise maker. (Deepspace Devices - antikythera). I think the least common devices here are: - Spruce Effects - Old Growth Fuzz (under the Amptweaker) - Rochambeau Musical Apparatus - Crustacean (fuzz; under the previous one) - Onkart Gromt - Funky Fellow (under the Future Compact) - Audiospektri - PGV (under the Subdecay Proteus) - Daring Audio - Phat Beam (compressor and more; hi-Z fretless loves this one; under those noise gates)

I was thinking that the new Ibanez Pentatone should go to one of my boards, and... I thought that I collect the fx I could find quickly to check if any board modification is in need. This looks like some cleaning is a must. (SWR Interstellar and tce 1140 are elsewhere. The MIDI volume pedal [Edison?] is somewhere else, too.)

I am the bad guy and ask, have ever considered a X-over? There are a few available, like KMA, Iron Ether, and Great Eastern FX. IE Divaricator is probably the least common of these three.

If your Schecter is worth something like £300, and you want to experiment with it, I would say go, just like @tegs07 said. You probably learn a lot, and the body can be changed to a, say, Warmoth later on. You have a good chance to play with electronics, too. Your will-be-bass may become your most valuable baby, or you use your findings to buy something you really like and need. (...and how do I know this?)

Are knobs really necessary, if you are after a simple DI? If your board is capable of producing the sound you want, a Countryman is all you need. If not, how about a ToneX?

1) Find some interesting material you want to learn and play (I do not think scales and Simandl are the highest in that list...). 2 a) Learn the basics right in the first phase. 2 b) If something does not feel right, ask first, act then (muscles, strings, bow, position...). So called stupid questions are important now. 3) Set some reasonable goal once or twice a year. 4 a) Play a lot. 4 b) Play with a band. 5) Enjoy. You want to play jazz (actually: anything), learn two beat, four beat and then walking in this particular order.

Ordered. Let's see how it behaves. I wish it gets here before next Thursday, our rehearsal. If it is a good one, I may let the 1140 go. It is on the big side compared to this pedal. But before that, some testing is in order. Did I have any Stompshields left?

Glockenklang Soul (in use) Mesa 400+ (was lovely, and heavy) SWR MoBass (fun fx) (micro combo: GK 200MB)

I suppose the string width cannot be very much. I've had an Ashula, which I did not like very much. If I need fretless and fretted, I'll take both basses with me.

That's really cheap! I thought this would be several thousands but it is well under one.

The only song that came to my mind was Suzanne Vega's Gypsy, but after thinking some more, wouldn't Deep Purple's Burn be suitable?

You wonder why are some basses dirty. Go out and check all bikes around. You sure get my point.

Is that funk-u-lator ex-@ped, or did you order it from Meridian?

It may be cheaper to buy a sack of sand, and walk around your house with it for one week at least 30 minutes three times a day. You'll get more muscles, or less Ampeg. Or more Ampeg, because then you have the power to carry it to gigs and rehearsals.

GT-1B requires 200 mA. Therefore your PSU can push enough energy to the effect (500 mA). It may be so that the quality of the PSU is not very good - I would try another one with reasonable specs, of course (9 VDC, >300 mA). The output of an SPS can "leak" some ripple from the power line, or is just filtered weakly, and that makes the whole system tick.

Give us more data, i.e. a pic of the PSU plate, or type.

EUB could be an option: sturdy, small... if the neck (setup) is good, it will be a breeze to play. Remember: strings cost quite some, but they last for ages. A suitable set supports your style.

Off topic, but what's wrong with pink cars? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/FAB_1

Try this one: https://www.daddario.com/globalassets/pdfs/accessories/tension_chart_13934.pdf