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I had the same complaints and got rid of my C4. It seems that they are developing it now:

I think I'm on my 4th one!

I'd perhaps start by listening to some of the big dub producers: King Tubby, Lee Scratch Perry, Scientist, Joe Gibbs, Mad Professor, King Jammy, Augustus Pablo, Keith Hudson, Adrian Sherwood....they've each got their own style so if you find some you prefer then follow that rabbit hole. Or if you already have some favorite Reggae artists then look for dub versions of the albums (e.g. Aswad, a new chapter of dub. Gregory Isaacs, slum in dub. Horace Andy, in the light dub. Black uhuru, the dub factor).

Strings and their setup seem to make the biggest change to my tone and playing style.

Sine Effect are worth a look for parametric eq https://sineeffect.com/ Or the MXR M81 for 3 band with sweepable mids. My favourite EQ has been the Q-Strip, perhaps thats overkill though.

Chorus on bass usually makes me feel a bit seasick - takes a nice solid bass sound then adds a copy that's slightly out of time and out of tune and wobbles it about a bit! Who thought that would be a good idea other than someone trying to make people feel ill?! Saying that though, I do quite like the Boss CEB-3 because it's subtle and can control how much low end is effected.

'No win no fee'......what they don't make clear is that while 'No win' might mean you don't have to pay your lawyer fees it doesn't stop you having to pay other side's fees and any other costs, so it's not as risk free as they like to make out.

Jacob Miller Ft Ray I & Inner Circle 'Natty Christmas'. A novelty for sure, but I play it a lot around this time of year when people come around to the house and expect Christmas music: ...also, not Reggae, but James Brown's 'Funky Christmas' album gets dusted off.

I'm in the market for one, but in the classifieds there's recently been: Bassballs £40, 00Funk (clone) £45, DOD 25B £75, MXR M82 £85, 3 leaf GR £135, FI £200, all combined = £580....personally I'd rather have all of them (and still have money in my pocket for a LS2 or EHX Switchblade pro and cables) rather than spending the £700 that someone advertised for a Chromatron. That would be a very filter filled pedal board (massive though!), almost limitless once stacking them and running in parallel etc. vs what one Chromatron can do. I think the most I could justify spending on a Chromatron would be £200, that's what I'd value it's functionality as if there wasn't scarcity - but I'm sure others would spend more due to the scarcity, that gets a bit into stamp collecting type mindset though.

There's nothing like selling a Helix and suddenly having cash to justifiably spend on building a pedalboard to super-charge pedal GAS! In the last couple of days I've bought: - Mooer mod factory 2 - Swiff tuner - Earthquaker devices The Warden compressor - Aguilar Grape Phaser -... and potentially a filter and distortion. I gave up on keeping it all mini, too restricting - I'll regret it as soon as I need to move it about on public transport though.

Thanks but my technical knowledge means I wouldn't be able to tell a compressor's components from a calculator! It's a bit academic for me now as I've just bought an Earthquaker Devices 'The Warden' compressor.

I'm trying to get a Diamond Bass Compressor Jr but it seems almost impossible. Internet searches point me to one sold on Basschat over a year ago, no UK shops stock them, there's nothing on Reverb or eBay - even globally. From what I gather, the Mooer Yellow Compressor (£40) and the Caline Pressure Tank (£30) are 'inspired' by the Diamond. But does anyone here know how 'inspired' they are? i.e. are they Diamond clones or just using the same principle of a compressor with a tilt EQ? Neither of them have the 250/900Hz tilt center switch so I guess they aren't exact clones and are just using the same principle. Edit: I've just found via onvilab that the Mooer Yellow does not replicate the sound of the Diamond

I forgot I also had the Pigtronix Philosopher Bass Compressor which is an interesting one: The 'grit' control can go to quite full-on distortion and the compression is more like a sustain effect (it's labelled as sustain) so it's mostly a useful pedal for long sustained distortion rather than what's traditionally considered compression. It does have a clean blend too though so using that with low 'sustain' and 'grit' did mean it could work more like a normal compressor. I'll aim to get the Becos or Fairfield or Aguilar. Or it breaks the 'mini' rule but I'm after a Diamond Comp Jr which isn't much bigger (especially with the top jacks)....none seem very easily available 2nd hand though and getting them new would rinse about half of my budget.

My fault for snoozing!

I haven't tried it and thought it looked good - especially as I'm on a mini size pedal GAS attack right now MXR make some of my favorite pedals. Unfortunately though, there seem to be clipping issues with active Basses https://www.talkbass.com/threads/mxr-m281-thump-bass-preamp.1443178/

Ah yeah, it's EWS I meant for the mid-control. The stormy bass drive looks good too - now added to my shopping list!

What are your favourite mini (1590A) pedals? They are generally on the budget side of things, but a few like the Cog and MXR and One Control pedals are mid-price, while some like the Aguilar and Fairfield compressors cost up to £200. I'm going to make a pedalbaord of them while trying to stick with a £420 budget (the price I just sold my Helix Stomp XL for - I know, I'm fickle!), so I'll need mostly 2nd hand and I might not be able to get every effect type on the list. This is my shopping list: Tuner: Swiff Octaver: Cog T-16, Markbass Octaver, MXR M280 Envelope Filter: There don't seem to be many good ones in mini size but Malekko, Mooer, and Joyo do them. Synth: Bananana Matryoshka and Mooer E7 EQ: Sasouri 7 band or the EWS mid control Overdrive: Cog Mini 66, Mooer and Joyo pedals Fuzz: Plenty to choose from Modulation: Mooer Mod Factory Mk2 Phaser: MXR Phase 95 Preamp: One Control - Crimson Red, Blue 360, Silver Peg Compressor: Spectracomp, Becos mini, Wampler Ego mini, Fairfield Circuitry The Accountant , Pigtronix, Aguilar DB 599. Cab sim: Mooer Radar DI: Xvive, Radial Of those I've only tried the Sasouri EQ (it works fine but tiny amounts on the sliders can make a big difference and can be quite noisy if boosting treble), One Control Crimson Red (one of my favorite pedals - instant dubbyness). I've just ordered a Swiff tuner and a Mooer Mod Factory and I might get the Malekko filter that's for sale in the classifieds. Any other recommendations?

I think the mini synth pedal choices are limited to the Bananana Matryoshka or the Mooer E7 and they seem fairly different: From the demos I've heard the Mooer seems better suited to ambient pad type and arpeggiated stuff and has 7x slots to store presets, the Matryoshka has no presets and costs double but seems better for solid synth Bass and bit-crushed kind of sounds.

I'd avoid cheap ones that don't have indivuidually isolated outputs (they can make pedals noisy), and if you're relying on it to power all your pedals at gigs it's probably worth spending that bit extra for something reliable. The Harley Benton ISO 10AC has worked well for me, it's £95 so on the mid-range cost of these things but has all of the things more expensive ones have: 10 individually isolated power points (some cheaper ones don't have each output individually isolated but still sell as 'isolated' power supply), no noise. Also a USB power out. 9/12/18v options for 4 of the outputs (each 450mA). And they are switches- I always think the ones with small pots to turn are asking for trouble. High current (500mA) for two of the outputs so can do things like combine them to power a Helix Stomp, and four are 250mA. It's got standard kettle lead to power it which I think it a big positive as it's a tough and standard sort of cable that's easily replaced and isn't a massive lump to carry about, and it's easy to get longer ones etc. or if it gets forgotten at a gig it's likely there will be another one around. Fairly low profile to go under pedalboards. There is a slightly cheaper Harley Benton ISO 12 which initially seems better seeing as it has 12x outputs but it doesn't have a kettle lead to power it, doesn't have USB power out, and it has the LEDs on top which could make sticking it flush under a pedalboard a hassle.

I reckon a whole board of mini (1590A) pedals would be cool. Something like this: Tuner: Korg Pitchblack mini Octaver: Cog T-16 Envelope Filter: There don't seem to be many good ones in mini size but Malleko, Mooer, and Joyo do them. (any recommendations?) Synth: Bananana Matryoshka (perhaps this would also covers octaver and filter stuff) EQ: Sasouri 7 band or EWS BMC, or Sine Effect micro Para Overdrive: Cog Mini 66, or Mooer and Joyo pedals Fuzz: Plenty to choose from Phaser: MXR Phase 95 Chorus: The usual suspects of Mooer and Joyo, but also Ibanez, TC Electronic and plenty of others. Preamp: One Control - Crimson Red, Blue 360, Silver Peg Compressor: Spectracomp or Becos mini, Wampler Ego, Pigtronix DI: Xvive, Mooer, Radial It's not a sensible or rational choice as even if I could get them for an average of £50 each that's about £600 which is a couple of hundred more than I'd sell my Helix Stomp XL for - and it'd probably be less functional/convenient and take up more space once considering things like power supply.......still though, I'm quite keen. After all, making music and mucking about twith effects on Bass isn't exactly the most rational and sensible thing to spend time and money doing!

It's a tube screamer type overdrive which are generally a mid boosted sort of sound and sometimes said to lose lows (perhaps relatively - as the mids have been enhanced). I had the green rhino mk5 and it's good at keeping the lows though. There's an internal switch so the 'freq' control can cut/boost 12dB of either 100Hz or 500Hz, so at 100Hz it can be used for a big Bass boost. I had it switched to 500Hz though as it didn't seem to lose the lows enough to need the 100Hz boosted and I liked having that extra mid control. It's one of the best overdrive/distortion pedals I've owned and I'd get it again.

I'm looking forward to the Source Audio C4 XL (or whatever it gets called) which seems like it'll be a C4 with expanded hardware.

From one of my favorite albums - in no small part down to the Basslines (and co-production) courtesy of Robbie Shakespeare