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I've tried so many pedals in the last couple of years I think I'm finally at the point of not being fussed about trying new ones as I'm fairly sure they'll only be marginally different to what I've already got/used.....trouble is, now I'm eying up different Bass guitars - which is a whole other level of cost and hassle to buy and sell. In a few years I might have tried enough of them to learn they are only marginally different and there's not much point!

Have got a Reggae rhythm section formed with Drummer, Guitarist, Bass (me). We could now do with melody for our rhythm foundations to support so if anyone here knows of singers, keyboard players, horns, melodica, or anyone else that'd fit the bill please give me a shout. We practice in West London.

Ah, someone got there already. And they charge $359 (which I guess means + tax + customs+ postage), and is sold out. I'll undercut them by gluing two M-Audo pedals together and selling for £200.

That would be great, could do stuff like toe/heel as wah and left/right tilt for amount of reverb - like having two separate expression pedals that you can control individually at the same time with one foot. Setting one parameter Helix EXP 1 control and one as EXP 2 should work so I think the software is already there to handle it. It's a kickstarter opportunity for anyone with the know-how, could bodge a mock-up by sticking one expression pedal on top of another at 90 degrees!

You're all causing me some serious GAS. Thought I could hold-off on the Waza Air for a while, now I also want a backbeat! I think me options are to give in and buy them, or stay off this forum, or reach for the:

Nice one!

I'm finding that an expression pedal is a great Stomp addition. A £12 M-Audio one is doing the job fine but it might not be the best thing for all Stomp features (see below). The most obvious things are using it for stuff like wah and volume control but it can also simultaniously control multiple parameters across multiple blocks per preset e.g. increase delay feedback and mix while also increasing reverb mix and the distortion tone, then click to next preset to control just the volume or EQ etc. One thing I haven't worked out is how to increase one parameter while simultaniously reducing the value of another parameter e.g. increase EQ block mids while simultaniously reducing reverb mix. Getting both parameters to increase or decrease together and setting their ranges of movement is simple - getting them to move in opposite directions is not so obvious though, is there a simple way to reverse the direction of one parameter? Alternatively, I think it can be done by assigning EXP 1 & EXP 2 accordingly e.g. EQ block mids parameter assigned to EXP 1 with Heel = 0%, toe = 100%. Reverb block mix parameter assigned to EXP 2 with Heel = 100%, toe = 0%. That doesn't seem to work for me though, I think it's a limitation of the M-Audio pedal because it's not clear if it's a dual expression pedal but I expect that is what would be needed.

I haven't had that but still but a lot of second hand vinyl so will keep an eye out for the 'Tony' collection! These in today:

One of my favorite dub albums:

I'm asking myself the same question - basically to justify buying new stuff! I suppose it depends how different the genres are but for me it seems more to do with strings and setup rather than actual Bass. (I'm finding that high action with Tapewounds is great for Reggae, not so good for slap though, so ideally I'd have Basses set up for both - but they could both be identical J Basses). I've got a Helix with effects and amp sims, clean amp, and a cab with tweeter (that can be turned off) so that covers any genre okay.

Version excursion!

Sold a pedal to Paul and it all went well. Thanks!

Here's a list of classic riddims I'm gradually adding to and putting on a Spotify playlist I've mostly stuck to ones with a Bass Guitar rather than digital basslines, most are the original versions but not all. Any other well recycled classics you reckon should be added? I'll get to 100 and will leave it at that otherwise madness will ensue! (I've also got sub-lists of quite a few of these in my mp3 files where I have different versions, useful for DJing when you just have to pull up Sleng Teng riddim 5 times with a different version each time!). 1. A Love I Can Feel (John Holt) 2. Afrikaan Beat (Lester Sterling) 3. Agony (Pinchers) 4. Answer (Dillinger – Answer my question) 5. Ba Ba Boom (The Jamaicans) 6. Ballistic Affair (Leroy Smart) 7. Baltimore (The Tamlins) 8. Bam Bam (The Maytals) 9. Black Cinderella (Errol Dunkley) 10. Bobby Babylon (Freddie McGregot) 11. Boops (The Ethiopians- Train to Skaville) 12. Boxing (Cornell Campbell) 13. Cherry Oh Baby (Eric Donaldson) 14. College Rock (Mighty Diamonds- Natural Natty) 15. Cuss Cuss (Lloyd Robinson) 16. Darker Shade of Black (Jackie Mitoo) 17. Death in the Arena (Soul Vendors – Whipping The Prince) 18. Declaration of Rights (Abyssinians) 19. Dem Bow (Shabba Ranks) 20. Diseases (Michigan and Smiley) 21. Drum Song (Jackie Mittoo) 22. Far East (Barry Brown) 23. Fever (Horace Andy) 24. Freedom Blues (Roy Richards) 25. Full Up (Sound Dimension) 26. General (Dillinger) 27. Get in the Groove (The Heptones) 28. Gun In A Baggy ((Little Lenny) 29. Gunman (Michael Prophet) 30. He Prayed (Burning Spear) 31. Head to Toe (Frankie Paul) 32. Heavenless (The Skatalites) 33. Hot Milk (Jackie Mittoo) 34. Hypocrites (The Wailers) 35. I’ll Never Let You Go (Slim Smith) 36. Java (Augustus Pablo) 37. Joy Ride (Wayne Wonder) 38. Kuff (Tiger – Bam Bam) 39. Lecturer (Jo Jo Bennett and the Fugatives) 40. Love Is Not A Gamble (The Techniques) 41. Love Me Forever (Carlton and the Shoes) 42. Love Won’t Come Easy (The Heptones) 43. M16 (Lone Ranger) 44. Mad Mad Mad (Alton Ellis) 45. Mean Girl (Horace Andy - Do your own thing) 46. Mr Bassie (Horace Andy) 47. Mud Up (Super Cat) 48. My Conversation (Slim Smith and the Uniques) 49. Night Nurse (Gregory Isaacs) 50. No Warrior (Junior Delgardo – The Raiders) 51. Peanie Peanie (Shabba Ranks) 52. Pick Up The Pieces (The Royals) 53. Please Be True (Alexander Henry) 54. Pressure and Slide (The Tennors) 55. Punanny (Admiral Bailey) 56. Real Rock (Sound Dimension) 57. Revolution (Dennis Brown) 58. Rockfort Rock (Sound Dimension) 59. Rope In Riddim (Cornell Campbell) 60. Rougher Yet (Slim Smith) 61. Sara (Frankie and Paul) 62. Satta Massagana (The Abyssinians) 63. Shank I Sheck (Babba Brooks) 64. Skylarking (Horace Andy) 65. Sleng Teng (Wayne Smith) 66. Solomon (Derrick Harriott) 67. Stalag (Techniques) 68. Storm (Gregory Isaacs) 69. Swing Easy (The Soul Vendors) 70. Taxi (Lil Roy – Prophecy) 71. Tempo (Anthony Red Rose) 72. Things and Time (Wailing Souls) 73. Three Blind Mice (Max Romeo) 74. Tonight (Keith and Tex) 75. Vanity (Sugar Minott) 76. World A Music (Ini Kamoze) 77. Youthman (Wayne Jarrett)

I think they might have hooked me in with that strategy. I started with a Squire and then got a Mexican, now I'm eyeing up the USA ones. What I'm really after is though is something lightweight rather than nearly a dozen different price points of a similar thing, so my custom has gone to Sandberg who are filling that lightweight J Bass shape/tone niche.

I was very close to buying the more purple one to then sell my darker one!

Are any of you Reggae Bass players using a P Bass? I guess anything goes and most Basses with flats followed by some EQ and the right Amp/Cabs can sound right for Reggae with the right player but I'm just wondering if there's any particular reason that such a ubiquitous Bass for over 70 years doesn't seem to have been used by hardly any Reggae Bassists. Alpha and Omega being the only exception I've noticed. I tried a few P's the other day and they sounded good for Reggae/Dub withthe tone rolled back, a bit more 'thumpy' in the low-mids than a Jazz, and I think I prefer the feel of a P Bass neck in a 4 string (probably as I'm used to fat 5 string necks) so I might do a bit more investigating.

Another Reggae/Dub Bass effect that I like is one Mad Professor uses a fair bit, seen here at 47 seconds: I think it's a low pass filter with reverb.

I don't often find much use for effects in Reggae other than mild compressor, EQ, and perhaps a little bit of tube overdrive/amp sim colour but I quite like mucking about with occasional reverb and delays for dubby stuff to do things like that Scientist sound. I like that Don's video flashes up a warning 'don't use this effect too much - you're supposed to be holding down the low end'!

Nice! Just tried day with my Helix and it works well for that Scientist sound.