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Fancy. Are you known as '2 baskets'? Too late, it already has!

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This is all true, and like I say - I'm mostly saying things for arguments sake and I certainly have lots of un-necessery stuff. Having multiple Basses is going to be very low down the list of un-necessary things that damage the planet, but it doesn't mean it shouldn't be considered at all. It's more about overall attitudes to consuming I'm on about, I think the 'look at all the 'stuff' I have accumulated will become quite an old-fashioned attitude over time. On the second-hand thing, like I said earlier - if you buy a million second-hand Basses it just means there is now demand for a million more Basses to be produced as a million have been made un-available to others. It's good that a Bass is something that lasts and can get traded onwards but buying a second hand one doesn't mean there's no environmental impact....admittedly it makes the impact much lower than if they had a short single-use lifespan and I doub't even Thunberg would say people shouldn't get a second hand Bass because of the environment, she might say people should consider the enviromnment a bit in their consumer decisions though, and perhaps that it should be a consideration when looking to get that 20th Bass to sit on your wall - partly for the environment and partly due to changing attitudes about over-consumption.

Seeing as a previous poster took it that I'm not able to respond to flippant remarks I feel I need to start this reply with 🤣 LOL etc. and to explain that I understand that is a joke. ....now that's clear and for for sake of discussion I'd respopnd by saying: It's the principle though isn't it? If people don't have the mindset to consider that the extra Bass or Laundry basket has an impact on the planet then that attitude probably extends to what food they eat, or having an extra car, or long-haul flights etc etc. combine that attitude to over-consuming and 'what I do doesn't matter' across a population of billions and it makes a massive difference. I'm saying these things for arguments sake and don't fully sign-up to that thinking, but I do think times and attitudes are changing. It's probably quite telling that the average age on Basschat seems to be 50's + , I imagine if this was a forum with teenagers on it a lot more would be agreeing with my comments.

Maybe, just maybe I was just providing a light hearted retort with a highly exagerated example to what I assumed to be a flippant remark.

Still though, if you and I bought a million used Basses each it has an overall environmental impact - it creates global demand for 2 million more Basses to be made.

The argument for the Laundry basket would be that you probably only own one and it does have a practical use and probably hasn't made much of an environmental impact. Yeah, I imagine the environmental impact of producing a Bass is relatively small - but not insignificant given that it needs quite specific wood (lets not get started on that though!) and metals to be mined, manufacturing, transport around the world of of something relatively bulky etc. Something at least to slightly consider - consumer choices do all combine to make the world we live in, everyone making small changes would have a massive impact. That same argument of 'buy unnecessary stuff or people will lose their jobs' could (and often is) said for over-consumption of anything. Just because people buy fewer unnecessary things doesn't mean that people lose their jobs, there will be more money available to buy sustainable and necessary stuff - perhaps at more equatable prices that reduce inequality around the world.

For the sake of breaking up the echo chamber love-in with an opposing view: Inequalities and over-consumption are two of the biggest problems on the planet, this thread indirectly celibrates both. It's might be small change to your environmental impact to have one Bass rather than dozens but it's more about the attitude and considering perhaps its not the best thing for the planet and fellow humans to over-consume. And perhaps as so many people struggle to just get by in the world it's naive or selfish to celibrate that over-consumption. (I'm saying this for the sake of argument, I have lots of unnecessary stuff - including more than one Bass).

I bought a Kalimba from you with disconts on Black Friday, it arrived today and is a nice piece of kit - great value.

Isn't the actual Bass (as in neck and body) just one relatively small piece of the tone? Personally, I choose a Bass mostly down to erganomics as the tone can be altered a lot via technique, strings, setup, pickups, preamp, EQ, pedals like compression and drive, and amp +cab choice. Perhaps that's a bit 'Triggers Broom' though!

^^^ There's also the 'Basschat swingers' aspect with a lot of pedal trading between members of the Fourm. The pool of pedals available (and the selling price history and amount of group-think hype or downplay) might not be representative of the wider Bass playing community.

Yeah you'd need to physically wire them up as an fx loop using the Stomp send/return sockets, then add an fx loop block somewhere into your Preset, then you can split the path ahead of it for parallel routing adjustments.

This line 6 thread has an explanation for that : "The Stomp is center negative, just like the vast majority of pedals out there. The reason so many solutions require a polarity swap is because the 3rd party L6 cable adaptors (to bring the size down to standard) were designed for older L6 tech that was center positive and also reversed polarity. So if you're using the L6 adaptor you have to use a polarity reverse cable to bring it BACK to center negative. With that said the Truetones are great. I own the 12. Both the 6 and the 12 come with all the cables."

You need a barrel converter and at least 900mA of current from 9v. My power supply only put out 500mA so I used a current doubler from two outputs. It looks like one spot supies put out that current and come with a line 6 barrel convertor (I haven't used it though so can't confirm it works, seems to fit the bill though). You might need to bear the 4th post in this line 6 thread in mind for some adapters though.

Peter Randall, Sam Dixon? I know Pino has done stuff with her but it doesn't look like him.

I literally just thought the same and googled it with no luck. I have faith in basschat bringing the knowledge shortly though!

I'm not being sarcastic but 'unsubscribe' does seem to work well with proper companies nowadays. I think there are fairly tough rules for companies that don't adher to that and data protection. ....obviously the real spammy 'I'm a Prince who needs to deposit money in your account' types don't care about that - but Outlook seems to be good at putting all them into junk mail. Some companies shoot themselves in the foot, I wouldn't mind a useful SBL update on new courses every couple of weeks but almost daily spammyness has me clicking 'unsubscribe'.

I've found that after a month or two of owning multi-fx units that I start to miss individual pedals (hence having owned Stomp, Effects, and Stomp XL). Perhaps the grass is always greener and it takes that long for me to forget about the negatives of individual pedals but they just seem to be a bit more fun and kind of have a bit more personality to them - they feel a bit more 'musical' if that makes sense, there's something about them that I prefer. If I was only playing one genre (Reggae is my main thing) and didn't care about cost or size then my ideal pedalboard would basically be the things I sold to get the Helix: Tuner: Korg pitchblack mini (slightly more visible then the Helix tuner). Compressor: FEA Opti-FET compressor (better sounds than the Helix comps, more intuative/visible to adjust, footswitch for sidechain, metering LED). Preamp: One Control Crimson Red (it's just one very specific Amp + Cab sim but it just so happens to be the exact amp + cab sim sound I want for Reggae which Helix doesn't replicate without using a lot of blocks). Boss RE-20 (more intuative/fun way of doing echo than via Helix). EQ/DI: Tech 21 Q-Strip (seems a more intuative way of getting better EQ results than via Helix, and it has DI things like ground lift and XLR). Isolated Power brick (using a sturdy standard kettle lead which is better than Helix power supply). ....I think all of those do their specific jobs better than the Helix, but that pedalboard costs >£800 new vs Stomp XL £560 (or Stomp £430). The other big downside to individual pedals is when I want to play other genres e.g. add some octaver and Fuzz etc. that needs more pedals so costs keep going up and either the pedalboard gets massive, or pedals need swopping, or it starts becoming more than one pedalboard. It all just got a bit of a faff for taking out of the house which the Stomp XL simplifies and makes convenient (also signal chain re-organising options of multi-fx units are a big benefit). Still though, I reckon it's only a matter of time before heart beats head and I put the Stomp XL up for sale and go through the whole pedalboard buying process all over again!

Nice one, I was after EZDrummer 2. It's about 50p cheaper on Andertons than via Toontrack and Andertons are doing triple loyalty points today (which adds up to about £2 off next purchase).

Alborosie dub station reduced from £95 to £35.

A couple of deals for those into Reggae/Dub production and DJ stuff: Alborosie dub station vst reduced from £95 to £35. Some Amp Freqq discounts. I'm not sure if these are things that really add much to my setup (Traktor + Reaper) but am tempted.

I've owned the Stomp and Effects and now the Stomp XL so am a fan but it's not perfect, the main negatives vs individual pedals are: Sounds aren't generally quite as good as good individual pedals - especially envelope filters and synth . Not as 'hands on/foot on' controllable and settings aren't immediately visible as individual pedals. ....there are lots of positives that I'm sure you're aware of though, they outweigh the negatives for my situation at the moment - needing to be portable and play multiple genres. I think if you want something that can do Bass and Guitar effects and have amp + cab sims for both and a good range of effects in a small size then it's a winner. There is similar priced competition from the Amperoo 2 and Boss GT1000 and Headrush and Mod Dwarf that might be worth considering too.

This looks like a good Black Friday deal from Guitar Guitar. If my Sandberg sells in time I'll be going for it: https://www.guitarguitar.co.uk/product/13022212363316--lakland-skyline-darryl-jones-5-string-white-pearl-maple-fingerbo .....in fact, I might just get it wheter my Sandberg sells in time or not, then I can compare them both - if the Sandberg wins then I can return the DJ5 to Guitar Guitar up until 31st January (they are running an extended returns window), if the DJ5 wins then I'd expect that the Sandberg will sell for that sort of price eventually (and if it doesn't and I get stuck for money I could just return the DJ5). Flawless plan!