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Capleton 'You will make it'

I'm no expert but if you're not in a rush to sell I'd put it at quite a high price (£400) on Reverb or eBay for a while to test the waters, there is potentially a collector out there that is willing to pay a lot for 37 year old ratty looking rat! Some pedals look best pristine, but an 80s Rat is one that needs a bit of mojo. I think this is the same model as yours and they are trying for £591: https://reverb.com/uk/item/54529910-proco-small-box-rat-1985-whiteface

I'd always think of it as the bedwetter though.

I'm always looking for a Motown type slightly overdriven tube tone from pedals. Best ones I've owned: DHA VT1 Creation Audio Grizzly Bass Broughton Fliptop Solid Gold FX Beta ...all of those are great and I kind of regret selling them (particularly the Grizzly). I currently have a combination of One Control Crimson Red & One Control Hookers Green that sound good individually and combined. I've got my eye on the Acme Audio Motown D.I. but at £450 it's more than double the cost of any ot the things I listed above, I can't really justify that cost so have my eye out for them second hand. A pedal/DI is probably only a small part of the Motown sound though. Technique, P Bass, old Flatwound strings and their particular Motown DI/recording equipment are probably needed to compretely recreate it. As far as I know, although the B-15 is often what people think of for Motown Bass sound (and is what the Crimson Red and Broughton Fliptop emulate), the Motown recordings were actually via DI rather than a mic'd B-15.

It's new to me so I need to spend a while with it, first impressions are it's great value and small size (and there isn't a huge choice in mini sized envelope filter pedals) and I like some of the sounds it makes, but I wish it has a volume control - that's partly why I've moved my compressor to the end of chain.

It's basically a Tubescreamer (with volume, gain, tone controls) with added Symmetrical/Asymmetrical clipping switch, and Bass boost switch https://gojira.co.uk/product/gojira808/ I'm in two minds whether I sell it as I also have a One Control Hookers Green that sounds similar enough and is smaller (but doesn't have the variety of tones - or Homer's face!)

I've learned that mini pedals can be annoying as there's no standard placement for the connections - so they often don't align and squeeze in closely together. Much bigger pedals with top mounted connections don't actually take up much more room on a board like this e.g. an Aguilar Grape Phaser would probably fit in that Phase 95 slot.

Bought a pedal from Martin and it arrived quickly and is all good. Thanks!

The more I read about this the more interested I get. I like nerding out with compression and there's a lot of nerding potential here! And £200 from Juno seems a decent price. My reservations are that good compression is a subtle thing and just because SA say it digitally replicates various types of analogue compression doesn't means it actually recreates all the subtleties. I mean, SA say the Aftershock can do tube OD and silicon transistor Big Muff Fuzz (and lots of other things) but my experience is that it doesn't do it quite as well as the analogue originals. The SA website goes into detail of how optical compressors use light and a photo resistor and why this sounds good..... all very well, but the Atlas isn't actually using those components, it's using digital processing to emulate an optical compressor so it all comes down to how good the digital emulation is (can you accurately emulate light and light-sensitive resistors , or can you digitally emulate Field Effect Transistors?). I'm keen but am looking forward to some expert head-to-head comparison reviews.

I wasn't over-excited about a digital compressor being put into a generic SA one control housing for £275 (that's the Bax price anyway. Edit: Juno are doing them for £200), .... But then read that you can use it as both start and end of chain compression: bass> input 1 > compress> output 1 > rest of pedal chain > input 2 > compress (or limit) > output 2 > amp. .....That is impressive! I'm not sure if it's impressive enough to sell my Cali 76 to then buy an Atlas but I'll consider it.

Matumbi started as a backing band for Jamaican vocalists visiting the UK. I take them as inspiration for why there's no shame in playing reggae instrumental covers ('riddims', in the same way as jazz musicians playing jazz standards for different vocalists).

There's one for sale in the classifieds for £220 which seems about the going rate. If you don't like it you could probably sell it for a similar price.

I found the SA Gemini and Aftershock are well suited to the One Control housing: 6 presets of modulation or distortion is enough so after a Laptop session getting the right ones saved I rarely felt the need to re-connect. The hardware controls are also intuative for the effects parameters and are the main one's you'd want to adjust. I didn't find the housing worked so well for the C4 though. Input/sensitivity don't really need adjusting once set to your Bass so that's a bit of a waste of a control. And Control 1/Control 2 can control completely different parameters on different presets so it's difficult to change something playing live and be sure what it's going to actually change. The Aftershock is fine live to adjust drive/tone/clean/level that's most of what you'd want and is obvious what controls what, C4 is different story if your synth is sounding like it has too much low-end resonance or the envelope filter frequency needs changing - perhaps you happen to have set those parameters to control 1&2 and you remember how they are assigned, that wasn't usually the case for me though. Also, as it's so good at doing different synth, envelope filters, and octavers 6x presets is frustrating (especially when you know the pedal actually stores 128 and just needs some simple way top scroll through them). I know I've posted this a couple of times before but:

Nice. I'm tempted with the Ibanez mini Chorus, Tube Screamer, Phaser. I have three other mini pedals and like the idea of a multi-coloured board full of them.

Sid bought a pedal from me and it was all smooth sailing. Thanks!

I'd say it is worthwhile but you might want to spend some time getting used to it before playing out with it as they can be set badly and make things sound worse. Also, different compressors can sound suprisingly different so it might be worth nerding out at www.onvilab.com and deciding if you want one to be transparent, tone enhancer, limiter, adding sustain, etc. and if you want metering, simple vs complex, digital vs analogue, optical vs tube vs VCA vs FET, side-chain, multiband etc. Ones I've owned that I'd recommend: Cali 76 Bass, FEA Opti-FET, EQD the Warden, Markbass Compressore. And a couple I've owned that I wouldn't recommend so much: Pigtronix Philosopher Bass, MXR M87 (it's very likely these didn't sound that great for me as I didn't know what I was doing with them and set them badly).

^ Yeah, the Mooer, Joyo, Donner, comparisons put me off the Ibanez a bit. Donner chorus (£25), Landlord FX (£30), Stagg Blaxx chorus (£50), Mooer chorus (£50), and Ibanez chorus (£70) all look suspiciously similar (although the Ibanez layout and enclosure is slightly different to those others). I'd like to see a reviewer establish if they are basically the same thing.

NPD: Vein-Tap 'Dark Arts' Tap Tempo Phaser Thought I'd post this as it's a bit of an unusual one I haven't seen mentioned before. First impressions are it's got a lot going on, especially considering lots of phasers are just a single dial. It's got a good paint job, decent dials and footswiches, feels solid (in compact enclosure), and has an extra input in-case you want to use an external tap tempo. I thought it was broken to begin with before realising Red = on, Green = off?! (perhaps that's just a wiring mistake though). And it looks different to the ones on the Vein-Tap website but that's becase they are still the v1 details and this is v2. https://www.vein-tap.com/product/dark-arts-tap-tempo-phaser/ Basically it's a phaser (or can swicth to vibrato, or they can be mixed) with depth, rate & feedback controls....that's failry standard stuff, but then it also has tap tempo, tempo multiplier (so you don't have to tap really fast), 'centre shift' (moves the centre of the wave shape), and 16x phase wave shapes that make all sorts of unusual sounds (or can stick with more traditional ones). At £130 it isn't cheap for a phaser, but is cheap for a tap tempo one (things like the Chass Bliss Wombtone cost >£400), add to that it's unique wave shape options and that it's UK hand-bulit with a lifetime guarentee and it seems a fair price. Early days but I'd say for those that like phaser/vibrato and mucking about with hardware to find unusual sounds then it seems like a winner. If I'm honest I imagine I'll muck about with it a lot for a few weeks before settling into a fairly standard setting and then my GAS will get me wondering if a Phase 90 might be a slightly cheaper and more foolproof option!...but I don't know though, they aren't much cheaper, are mass produced with limited warrenty and have far fewer features - and who knows when you'll need a vibrato left of centre quad ramp waveform at 180bpm that you can then slow to 60bpm via tempo footswitch?!? :

Cheers, it's an Ibanez EHB 1005 MS which ist 35" - 33". It works well, I'd definitely recommend it.

Er.... yes! If you pluck vertically down (red line) then the G is being plucked relatively closer to it's bridge than the B. You'd need to pluck on the blue line to be plucking the same relative distances along each string (The fret fanning and pickup angles show the relative distance for each string e.g. Bridge to 24th fret being a quarter of the length along each string).

I don't think they are there yet. I've tried the OC-5, Sub n Up, MXR BOD, Aguilar Octamizer, Source Audio C4, and the ones in Zoom and Helix and none accurately reproduce the sound of the lower B string notes when you play an octave higher. It's always more like an artificial/synthy 'octaver' tone.