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35 minutes ago, stewblack said:

Agreed. Excellent design.

I want one. Absolutely no need whatsoever but yeah that’s had some thinking time behind it for sure. 

M-Vave is great. So many things you can do with it for so little money. 

1 hour ago, Bolo said:

Many changes over the years, now in a 19inch sized Thon case.

 

Bass > Gate (decimator) > Compressor > Tuner splits bypass into the amp (Aguilar db750) and output channel to the Verellen preamp that runs to the effect return of the amp.

 

 

So nice. Any board with a Meatsmoke probs wins the day to be honest. 

That’s an absolute beauty. I wish they’d made a fiver…

On 23/12/2023 at 07:45, LukeFRC said:

That’s a good idea - wish that had been around a year or so ago when I got my first board - would have been a lot cheaper than the Cioks and Voodoo lab dingbat  combo I ended up with.

 

mind you the after looking at them I am reminded that the smallish size of my board is a helpful guard from buying too many pedals 

Mods - isn’t the phrase “the smallish size of my board is a helpful guard from buying too many pedals” an instant ban?!

Blown my mind slightly, has this!!

1 hour ago, lidl e said:

Working on a mini board for shows.

 

Will replace the custom dual distortion with a red muck, get a new compressor and lose the tuner as the plethora has one built-in.  The plethora will sit on the board when i get the pedals

 

 

Just trying to decide on what compressor. MXR or Empress

 

This board will give me everything i need i think. 

 

The actual board is one of those Harley Benton powered spaceship with the built in power supply.

 

 

Good grief. IT’S GOT THE POWER BUILT INTO THE FRAME. Some of them have USB outlets as well. This is interesting!!

Oh wow. I bet that’s an amazing sounding pairing. GLWTS!

On 05/12/2023 at 10:58, Chienmortbb said:

It bugs me that:

• any bass is not offered in Black.
• a headstock on a 4 string has a 3 + 1 machinehead pattern.
• someone says they can only use one brand or type of bass,

 

What are your prejudices?

Excellent thread 👏🏻

- 5 strings, B-G

- 18mm or less at the bridge

- two soapbar shape humbuckers

- need to see the grain in the body wood

- three band active 18v preamp

- side mounted jack

- 10lbs or less

Last one of the year for me tonight (Sat 16th). 4 Play 🤨 at Smith’s in Bourne. Good! 9 til 11:20, two sets. Played well, chucked in Can’t Get Enough without rehearsal and it was fine. Fairly quiet but everyone enjoyed it!

Tight setup, and struggling for power points (I give in - I’ll bring my box of cables in future, it’s not my band / PA but…). Drummer had an amazing new sparkle green Gretsch. Bloody lovely!

I had a similar one, slightly diff controls and pups. Mine was maple board, defretted. Lovely thing… the build quality of these is superb! GLWTS

@CalDeep - I would edit the title to inform that you’re selling an MC8, personally… can’t believe this is still here at that price! GLWTS and have a bump on me 😀

That’s a massive bargain! I use the older head version of the amp part of this combo as my home/practice box, but I’ve gigged it: kept up with the three piece band in the pub fine!

8 hours ago, prowla said:

Mine made an appearance at the Bass Bash; I've still got to spend some quality time with the programmable gadgetry on there, though.
 

VERY nice. Some great choices there!

12 hours ago, Steve_M said:

This is mine at the mo. Really happy with it but still want to replace the Pork & Pickle with a Doom2 if I can ever manage to buy one! Signal chain for the nerds like me out there is:

 

Wireless receiver > Tuner > Stomp with Cali76 on FX loop 1 & Pork & Pickle > VMT (for stacking dirt) on FX loop 2 > Noble

 

Powered by a Cioks DC7

 

Also should note that the VMT is one of the Spencer Doren built ones.

 

 

Boss WL-60 Is great, isn’t it? Really

impressed with the one I picked up on here recently. 

2 hours ago, dclaassen said:

That’s it…just a misspelling and attempt to avoid the filter 

Ah good to know! We played there loads when Johnny was running it, pre-Covid. Will have to get back in there…

22 hours ago, casapete said:

We were at Chelmsford Civic theatre last night. A 400 mile round trip for us, so a long day.

Sold out crowd of around 500, nice sounding room and good stage. However, about 3 songs

into our first set, I heard a crackling noise from my amp. Went off, then returned next song.

Our brilliant tech Sam quickly swapped my leads (guitar to DI / DI link to amp) and it seemed okay,

then started playing up again. Sam then got my spare amp out and swapped it over and the

problem disappeared. First time I’ve had to use my spare, so glad it was there. Also first

time a GK amp has given me problems, BUT! Our sound tech said it sounded to him more likely

to be a faulty XLR cable from the DI to the desk than the amp. Anyway, finished the gig using

the spare head, and have one more gig to do tomorrow in Penistone before we finish for this year. 
I’m going to get there early and try to pin down what the fault is - it’s a fairly local gig for us (70

miles away) so not a problem. 

I’m with Sam on this @casapete - along with cockroaches, GK amps would survive nuclear apocalypse!

Yeah I’ve got one but they’re like hen’s teeth so also considered it. Until I looked at how much I spent over the weekend 😂

Great thread. Good work @max_overdrive

57 minutes ago, paul_5 said:

Really depends on the setlist - if it was disco/funk stuff then I'd plump for an octave and envelope filter, if it was a rock/metal set then I'd plump for an octave and envelope filter

 

@paul_5 has it exactly right here I think. If you were near Gear4Music with £300 and the need fo’ impress with some swift effects purchases, you’d get the EBS Octabass and MXR Bass Envelope Filter for £335.21 which is near enough. Mmmm.

My first wireless was Lekato WS-70, October 2022 - I returned it because there was a noticeable difference in sound when compared to using a cable. Seemed to work ok though, form factor was good/compact. And I know no-one cares about the bass sound, especially not within a full band setting, but even so...

Next was the Boss WL-20 (pedal board receiver and wireless dongle). Brilliant piece of kit, so easy and convenient to use. Good battery life, being able to charge it via the receiver between sets was ace. What's NOT listed in the manual is: if the battery level drops really low, it won't recharge via the receiver (I was supplying it the required 320mA) - in this case, it needs a charge via the micro-USB. Guitarist in one of my bands also used a WL20 and we found that plugging them in to do the frequency pairing thing was mandatory with two in use... failure to do so meant bass through guitar amp and vice versa!

Sadly for me I kept knocking it out of the jack socket so have since moved on to a Boss WL-60. Less convenient in use (especially at home, compared to the WL20) but has fixed my issues. I got the excellent @Chienmortbb to make me a couple of "just the right length" skinny right-angle to right-angle cables to use with it, and the pack sits on my strap nicely. I don't know how it'll be with battery life (only gigged it once) but I keep a pack of AAs in my gig bag, and the base unit tells me battery level. The scan function is simple enough, but again not as simple as the WL-20.

Yet to see how it co-exists with Timbo’s WL-20 but it plays nicely with the Lekato the guitarist in the other band uses.

For both units, the cabled bypass option is a great feature. I'll never use the "cable tone drop simulation" function but I guess some folks would find that useful.

@ots - if you're interested in a keen price on a WL-20 then drop me a PM!

To resurrect this thread to absolutely no interest... the Neutrik locking jacks would have worked fine BUT elected not to hack the body around to make them fit. Instead moved to using the Boss WL60 which is strap mount. Sorted!

Yes! Played nothing but double humbucking basses for years... I gig both of my Fender Dimensions regularly. They're killer basses - great range of sounds from the five-way switch and three band EQ though mostly it's solo neck humbucker, both coils for me. Ergonomics are perfect for me: asymmetrical neck and smaller body are great, balance and weight is good. They come up second-hand on here occasionally.

The BTB in this pic is the first really killer five string I bought (from new) - it's 17+ years old now and has USA Bart humbuckers. Sounds amazing, wonderful to play but heavier than a family car so stays on the wall!

1 hour ago, Huge Hands said:

As a big Beatles fan, I thought the song was good, but I do struggle with that Jeff Lynne production sound they keep on with that makes this and Free As A Bird  sound like a Travelling Wilbury's record.

 

 I think it's the "big wet fish on plastic oil drum" drum sound he seems to love.  Maybe they used Bev Bevan kit samples, but I don't like it.

 

Only my opinion, of course.....  

100% agree! And what a fantastic description of one of the single most loathsome sounds in recorded history! 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

Well… it’s ok. Don’t think I’ll be rushing to listen to it again really. They do need to knock it on the head now IMO and let the legacy speak for itself!