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  1. SumOne
    It's begging to look a lot like Waza vs potato peeling!
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    Excellent service from Scan by the way, ordered at about 1pm and arrived 8am the next day (and that day being Christmas eve) via DPD who give a delivery text with 1hr time slot.
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    A small thing I like about Fodera's and Alembic's is at they make active 5 string Basses with the jack socket on the front. Why don't more manufacturers do that? Clearly those two (and original Fender passive Basses) know a thing or two about good Bass design and feel that it works. Front jack socket = less likely for cable to be pulled out, sits in a stand better, easier to plug in, easier to see/adjust things like headphone amps and transmitters, and my personal favourite - can sit back on a sofa or bench and have the Bass plugged in without the cable poking into the seat. ....that small thing alone obviously doesn't make them worth 10x the cost of other Basses but it's a selling point to me!
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    Ideal!
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    That's very tempting then, free postage and next day delivery too. Christmas present to myself! Edit: Done, should arrive tomorrow!
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    That is a good price for a decent Bass, I had one and 'upgraded' for a Dingwall combustion but in quite a few ways I preferred the Ibanez.
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    Down to £333 from Scan I've got no idea if that's a trustworthy company or not but most shops price match nowadays.
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    Sold. Earthquaker Devices 'The Warden' Compressor (V2). £120 (+£5 postage via recorded delivery). Is in very good condition and perfect working order, no box but will be well packaged up. Here's the Andertons write up with technical details (£205 new cost) https://www.andertons.co.uk/guitar-dept/guitar-pedals/compression-pedals/earthquaker-devices-the-warden-v2-pedal And here are a couple of reviews (it's an Onvilab 'top pick') http://www.ovnilab.com/reviews/warden.shtml https://www.compressorpedalreviews.com/post/earthquaker-devices-the-warden-compressor (Thanks to @sumorabbit I've been reunited with the FEA Opti-FET Compressor which can be fairly similar sounding but has added sidechain controls, having two optical compressors seems extravagant!).
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    Johnny Osbourne, truth and rights. Wheeel up!
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    It's 4 stage - which was always my preferred 'short' setting on the EBS and for source audio settings (via the Gemini). All sound pretty close and I haven't done an A/B test but it seems there's a bit more funkyness to the grape phaser (less swoosh, deeper and more filter sounding), perhaps it's down to a different amount of sweep in those 4 stages or tone colour of the resonance....not much difference really though.
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    It tracks very well and is very tweakable (via phone /laptop) and does a good OC-2 type sound, I didn't like the hardware interface as much as having an actual octave pedal though and I could never get it to sound quite as good as the Octamizer or MXR BOD for their types of analogue slightly growling octave sounds though (although they are more lible to tracking/warbling type issues).
  12. SumOne
    I like it - I've had phasers that are more versatile (like the EBS and source audio) but couldn't get them to sound as funky as the grape phaser.
  13. SumOne
    Nice, they both look decent. I just got an Aguilar Grape Phaser which seems like its similar to the MXR deep phase (but 4x the size).
  14. SumOne
    I had the same complaints and got rid of my C4. It seems that they are developing it now:
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    I think I'm on my 4th one!
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    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).
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    Strings and their setup seem to make the biggest change to my tone and playing style.
  18. SumOne
    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.
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    Bass Chorus - Cool Cat

    SumOne replied to ped's topic in Effects

    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.
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    '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.
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    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.
  22. SumOne
    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.
  23. SumOne
    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.
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    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.
  25. SumOne
    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
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