moley6knipe

Yesterday, THAT epic rock sound was done like this for me. The grin on my face, like! 1mm pick > fresh nickel rounds > neck humbucker > source audio aftershock > 4:1 comp > GK 700RB > Barefaced BB2

The Keeley only draws 15mA, so I bet it’ll last ages on a battery.

Friday was an hour 4-5, then loaning our speakers to a fantastic 8 piece vintage female singing combo (Vera lynn, Andrews sisters etc), then some more between 8 and 10:30. Bit rusty: drummer had a mare, guitarists not able to hear themselves, the usual nonsense. Dug out some real old ones. Great pub, got fed and watered very nicely! Long and chilly day though. Saturday eve with the other band cancelled - no punters in all day! Not heartbroken about that really!

Everyone should try a set of Cobalts. They’re unique imo- their own sound. Tried the rounds but too gnarly for my fretted 5 - but sound amazing, just not in the context of my band!

I like the classic P bass (and it’s responsible for some of my fave bass playing on various songs by various folks) but never enough to own one. Body’s too big for me, and whilst the sound of the pickup is great I find split designs get in the way of my fingers - terrible technique, I dig in far too hard! Fender’s Dimension on the other hand will be buried with me. Just enough of a P sound with better ergonomics and no split. And yeah despite all my basses having them agree with the bridge pickup being no use (for me). Likewise plucking near the bridge. Nah.

Well, “Lush Puppy” has to be in the pedal name lead, surely?!

Ha ha!!! It’s a double decker. Blimey o’ Riley. That’s a winner!

Bless yers. I realise that space permits only fuzz or expression, but of course regardless the correct / only permitted answer here is “both”. Fuzz because dur. And with those pedals you’d be daft NOT to add expression. Nice board!!

A decent all in one with DI, preamp, drive, EQ (bonus points for switchable) etc makes sense if you want a bass amp flavour and if in future you go bigger with speakers just get an active speaker or a neutral voiced speaker (eg Barefaced Compact) and a little class D power amp. Loads to choose from: I’d look for a second hand GK Plex personally coz I love GK sounds! I would guess there’d be some way to jack into the power stage of the GK at church and the keyboard amp and thus bypass the inbuilt pres…. then you’d have your pre sound for both situations, plus a DI with your sound (or clean assuming the preamp pedal supports that sort of routing). That said: most bass cabs are part of the flavour to some extent. I use Barefaced so they’re pretty tone neutral.

I’d say that’s right, sadly!

Ticks a LOT of boxes for sure. Not cheap would be my guess!!

Nice! No need for such a thing but that’s an excellent example of it’s type for sure… be interesting to see what can be accessed via MIDI!

Ah man. Bad timing, but always the way with these things. I ripped my pedalboard apart during a break when it happened to me. Still happened!

Ah ok. I’ll vote battery as well then - as anyone who’s owned a ‘Ray will attest not all batteries are *exactly* the same size, I had bad contacts on mine (it’s a Ray thing sometimes it seems!) - maybe similar here? Intermittent faults suck.

Possibly a daft suggestion but: if the pole pieces are exposed it’s not the string contacting the magnet is it? After years of Bart humbuckers my first exposed pole pieces bucker caused that. Well, my cr@p technique caused it, really…

Have a read of https://forum.morningstar.io/t/uses-ideas-value-scroll-counters/1596/2 there’s a post from me in there with exactly how to do that!

The interference is usual when USB’d to a pc with peripherals hanging off it. If you’re on a laptop, unplugging any monitor connections normally makes it go away. I connect my MC and C4 concurrently with their own usb cables direct to the laptop - usb hubs can cause issues with comms. Suggest heading to the Morningstar forums if you haven’t already!

An afternoon bash with the new covers band cancelled - singer in hospital! A speedy recovery is hoped for, we were just starting to get into gear!! 😒

I love the SA stuff, have three pedals including the C4. Hub defo worthwhile long term but I begrudged the extra spend when I only had the C4! The nice thing about C4 and hub is you can choose to use hub for scene storage and send PC to recall presets or you can send CC to recall directly from the C4 (which is what I do)

https://www.gear4music.com/Guitar-and-Bass/Source-Audio-Neuro-Hub-Effects-Controller/1KKV?origin=product-ads&gclid=CjwKCAjw3cSSBhBGEiwAVII0ZyhM6HIrXg9jk0pdLh3S0J5JetFRTWLQT6pR_Qh2qPHJ8eIY2RFPahoC_w4QAvD_BwE or if you’re ONLY going to connect a C4 from the source audio range, a DMC MIDI ghost box would do… there was one for sale on here a while back. caveat with the dmc - if you add other SA pedals later you WILL need a Hub

Very, very nice indeed. That’s some A game boarding. GREAT choices of pedals and MIDI fun here.