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  1. SumOne
    Flabba Holt interview:
  2. SumOne
    The idea of 2022's gear abstinence is kind of having the opposite effect on my end of 2021 GAS! Somewhere in the back of my mind is a ticking clock (less than 8 weeks now) to get all of next year's worth of buying done so I can then tell myself I'm disciplined and bought nothing in 2022.
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    I'd recommend them too. Quick build/delivery, solid quality and the pedal still works as it should after a couple of years. I got a dual reverse looper and only went as far as choosing the LEDs but it still feels like a (very slightly) custom built pedal.
  4. SumOne
    I've done that 3 or 4 times with these. I currently have a darker one, I know they sound exactly the same and I'm being ridiculous but am tempted to buy this one and sell my darker one - just because more purple = more funk!
  5. SumOne
    Sold a pedal to Jimmy and all went well - thanks!
  6. SumOne
    It doesn't come with any instructions either, somebody got this response from Mr Blowerbox though: "The top 4 controls are just like my Blower Box. Low/high cut/boost, distortion, volume into the 2nd part of the circuit. The bottom set are more like enhanced lows/highs, the bottom distortion control changes the frequencies that receive the most distortion.........The bottom volume is the master volume."
  7. SumOne
    Supersize it! https://joespedals.com/products/landphil-bass-distortion
  8. SumOne
    The Zoom B1 four is great value but is quite different to the Nux so it depends how its going to be be used. For a second practice room I'd go for the Zoom, for being completely mobile I'd go for the Nux. The Nux is rechargeable, it's small, light, clicks directly into the Bass and it streams bluetooth music from your phone so you're cable free (other than your headphones). It's the sort of thing you can easily walk room to room around the house using or use in the garden etc. or take in your pocket to a practice session/gig/bass shop if you want a quick private noodle! (and who doesn't like a quick private noodle?!) The Zoom needs batteries or power cable and a cable from the Bass and a cable from your phone (and the cable to your headphones), that's quite a lot of cables if you want to be mobile. It's also heavier and big enough that it needs to sit on a floor/desk (not able to click onto the Bass as you walk about, and is not pocket sized unless you've got some massive pockets!). It beats the Nux in having tuner, more effects, drum loops and footswitch control though so is what I'd go for if I wanted a semi-permanent second practice room in the house and didn't plan on moving it around too much.
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    Same here. I've just got a Nux to replace the Vox, early days but it seems to be a massive improvement for only about £10 extra. The Vox is bad build quality (jack snaps off), crackly fiddly dials, noisy (hiss), takes batteries. The Nux is good build quality, no annoying levels of hiss, rechargable, lots of decent effects and amps and cab IRs available to save into 6x presets (accessible via a button with 6x colour coded light on the unit), has drum loops/metronome and also works as a bluetooth receiver so can play music through it and play along. The benefit of the Vox is that it has built-in drum patterns/metronome and volume controls which are all available on the unit itself whereas all you can do on the Nux without a phone is scroll through the 6x presets - it needs to be linked to a Phone via an app (which keeps saying it needs an update although it's the most recent version) to make changes to volume and effects and launch drum tracks/metronome and adjust bpm and volume. I suppose in an ideal situation the Nux would have a way controling those things on the actual unit so no phone connection is needed but I guess that'd increase the price. If you've got the ££ then the Boss Waza Air Bass look very good.
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    Not to be a downer on it as I'd like to talk myself into 'investing' in an expensive Bass but I think inflation and wage/spending power increases are a big thing that people don't often consider. I seem to remember seeing somewhere that a J Bass in the mid 60's cost about £150, average UK wages were roughly £1,000 per year (£83 per month) so it cost nearly 2 months of wages. Average wages are now £29,600 per year (£2,466 per month) so that's getting towards £5k for 2 months of wages. Bass Gallery have a 64 J Bass for £6,500 .....if that asking price gets knocked down a bit and Bass Gallery take their cut you basically sell it for roughly 2 months of average wages - which is exactly the same 'value' as you bought for 58 years ago. There's also 58 years of risk of losing/breaking it/insurance costs/maintainance etc. so it's probably not such a great investment if it's just down to money.
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    Yeah, I think if I were to go down the investment Bass route I'd probably go for something good to play that's high-end but not yet considered vintage....like a 90's Sadowsky, Spector, Fodera, MTD, Mike Lull etc. Keep hold of it for 10 years and once it's 40+ years old so it starts to go into 'vintage' collectable territory (especially to anyone younger than that!), it'd be a nice playable Bass for 10 years of use and would probably also make some money - win win! I'm talking myself into this!
  12. SumOne
    I looked into this a bit as I have a DI/EQ pedal (Q-Strip) that I thought I might need to keep but I think the Stomp has it covered. This text is from Line 6 for the HX Effects, but I assume the Stomp is the same: Although all the outputs use TRS jacks, they are not true balanced outputs. They are only impedance-balanced. · A true balanced output would have the tip and ring driven with (out-of-phase) audio signal. The outputs on HX Effects are only driven on the tip. · However, because they are impedance-balanced, you can still get some common-mode rejection of external noise sources (i.e. power line hum) if a TRS cable is used to connect the HX Effect outputs to a device with balanced inputs. So I gather that because the Stomp output is impedance-balanced and output level can be adjusted it's fine to use a 1/4" TRS to XLR adapter go into a mixer (or just a the 1/4" TRS cable if the mixer accepts it). Perhaps there's confusion because 1/4" outputs from effects pedals are usually un-balanced (whereas XLR are always balanced), and most 1/4" cables are TS rather than TRS . Being plugged into a phantom power XLR slot in the mixer is something to look out for though, I expect it would be bad news for the Stomp.
  13. SumOne
    I'm not after a new Bass, and if I was it'd probably be a 5 string. Still though, this seems a bargain so I'm kind of glad of it's reuniting with @bigthumbto save me any should I/shouldn't I buy it angst!
  14. SumOne
    On hold Edit: Sold
  15. SumOne
    I would be keen to try one but it doesn't quite fit with my current downsizing and cash raising mission!
  16. SumOne
    Is £14,500 the going rate for a decent early 60's P Bass? It makes the £6,500 J Bass at Bass Gallery look cheap! Is there usually that much difference in cost between a P and a J a couple of years apart?
  17. SumOne
    This is the sort of maths I do when trying to justify getting expensive things! High-end second hand vintage bass guitars are tempting as you get to own a nice bass while they appreciate. I've heard investment people say art is a good investment as it tends to go up in value and you have some nice decoration while it appreciates, if it doesn't appreciate quickly there's no big rush to get rid of it as it's still got benefit as a piece of art in the meantime. The risk is if demand falls and it de-values relative to inflation or if it gets damaged or nicked (and the cost of insurance). Bass guitars are sturdy though and I'd guess a vintage Fender is a fairly safe bet for something that'll stay in demand, it's not like there are more actual 60's Fenders being made........the biggest issue would be ever cashing-in and selling it, I imagine it'd be a tough thing to do after owning it for years. Go for it!
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    I know this is an annoying answer but the choice I made was to sell the Stomp and (eventually) get a Stomp XL. My Stomp sold for £330 and I bought a second hand XL for £435 so it cost me £105 to get the additional 5x colour assignable capacitive touch footswitches all integrated with no programming, no extra cables and power supplies, it also gets 4x snapshots per preset (all well laid out lit up and easily accessed as the A, B, C, D buttons when clicking to snapshot mode so it's actually easily usable for clicking between 4x different parts of a song) and similar new 'A,B,C,D' layout/accessibility mode for instantly switching between 4x presets and there's an edit mode where the footswitches change all the block parameters, and the 6 button looper with all the footswitches automatically corresponding to the screen layout. Also, I prefer the cables all being at the back and the volume being spring loaded.
  19. SumOne
    Ah s*it, I was too keen and online buying is too easy - it's already ordered! It's Amazon though with free returns so shouldn't be a hassle to just return it for a refund. I'll PM you.
  20. SumOne
    I've checked the Boss websites and the manuals and cannot see that there are any hardware differences between Bass and Guitar versions, just the software for 6x drum/metronome loops and the bass specific amps and perhaps some of the effects being tweaked a bit. There are shops selling the guitar version for £309 but the going rate for the Bass version is £399 (or a couple of shops are trying for over £420). I'm keen but I think this is cheeky - expecially as in the USA there is only $30 (£20) price difference. Hopefully the Bass version will come down to the Guitar version price over time (or other brands will start using this wireless headphone technology). In the meantime I'm going to get the Nux.
  21. SumOne
    Tapewound strings (D'Addario Nylon XL) have been great - exactly the sort of sound and feel I've been after. They've probably changed my playing style more than any Bass or effect pedal has.
  22. SumOne
    Yeah it's a good one, the best compressor I've used. It sort of softens/warms up the tone while also adding a bit of punch which is a tricky thing to achieve. I also really like the foot-switchable sidechain. I'm selling as I recently got a Stomp XL that I need to fund. I'm tempted to keep the FEA to go in the chain after the Stomp as what it does can't be replicated with the Stomp compressors but the combination of money and trying to be disciplined to not have to carry around a big pedal board/power supply etc is my mission at the moment....will see how long it lasts before I'm buying my old pedals back!
  23. SumOne
    SOLD. Electro Harmonix Switchblade Pro. £60 + £5 recorded delivery. Great condition (but I've put put tipex on the dials so they can be seen more easily), perfect working order, boxed and with power supply. This is a very useful pedal, text from EHX: DESCRIPTION The EHX Switchblade Pro is our deluxe switching box featuring true mechanical bypass, soft switching, high quality and low noise buffers, volume controls for all input signals, high headroom and a multitude of possible configurations for all your signal routing needs. This compact pedal is a versatile and indispensable tool! - Switch between two amps or turn them both on at once - Setup your effects loops to run in series or parallel, control what loops are on and, in series mode, what their order is. -Multi-instrumentalists can connect up to three instruments into one amplifier - Mix three instruments together and control the volume of each. - With its Dry Level control, the Switchblade Pro is great for bass players - The Switchblade Pro prevents tone-suck when vintage, non-true bypass pedals in its FX loops are disengaged - Can provide an adjustable volume boost with up to 6dB of clean gain - Power adapter included https://www.ehx.com/products/switchblade-pro/ I've found it to be a bit of an unsung pedalboard hero. It's not glamourous or flashy but it opens up a lot of new sound possibilities and lots of other useful things: - If you have a pedal without a volume control (things like Phasers) and it drops volume when engaged then put it in a loop through this and it'll have a volume control. - If you have a distortion/fuzz without clean blend then put it through this and it'll have one. - If you want to sometimes have your phaser before fuzz and sometimes after - put them in separate loops and put it in series mode and the order can be switched with a footswitch. - If you want your envelope filter to run in parallel with distortion and to control their individual volumes and add clean blend then this can do it. Put a few pedals in each loop and there are loads of possibilities. - If you have a lot of pedals and you want them taken out of the signal chain when not in use and instantly engage a few at a time rather than tap-dancing then this'll do it. ..... Probably a lot more too, but you get the idea - it's useful! (just not useful to me now as I got a Helix Stomp and am selling off individual pedals to pay for it).
  24. SumOne
    Sold. Korg Pitchblack Mini Tuner. £35 + £5 recorded delivery. Excellent condition and perfect working order, boxed.
  25. SumOne
    A difference between the guitar and bass versions seems to be that the bass version has 6x built in rhythms that can be controlled via the headphones without needing a phone Bluetooth connection. Other than that the difference seems to be in the effects/amps available on the app. I'm guessing it's basically software changes.
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