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John Lennon managed to play over 100 takes of Ob-la-di ob-la-da, you might survive

Thank you this is all very encouraging, I feel very encouraged! One thing I was wondering - I know there are a tonnes of presets - to make your own settings, do you have to delete / edit the presets, or is there a section of blank patches? I have an aversion to presets, I like a blank piece of paper.

I found this thread when trying to find info on the Picato nickel rounds. The first I heard of them was just now, browsing Strings Direct for 45-105 sets of Nickel plated rounds. Their packaging still says British Made, and they cost somewhere between Roto Bass and Swing Bass Nickels. If anyone has opinions / observations on them based on recent experience, that would be great

Where I am at the moment, a one setting wonder would be an upgrade. I was so annoyed with the user interface I just went through the generally awful presets until I found one that sounded basically ok, spent a while getting the EQ right, and left it. I'm looking at the Hotone Ampero One which seems to have a good visual interface. Then I can build myself two or three settings, and it'll be a two or three setting wonder and I'll be happy

And all the cab sims.

Here are the 65 Amp Sims. At the end are 5 Bass Amps. In the previous 60, anything for a bassist?

If you skip to 7'25" of this Anderton's advertorial, you'll get 5 minutes of pretty clear demo of the user interface. It looks like it wouldn't be frustrating to program.

And he plucked the pickup cover

Of course he was confused, he was playing an A#, not a Bb

The Tribute Kiloton has the same combination of 1½" nut and 12" radius fretboard, I wonder if the profile is also the same?

These days it's a Scimitar or nothing

That's the one, thank you! The Headrush Gigboard is very similar, but £200+ more. Right, time to do lots of reading

That's kind, but I think I've just concluded that I'm getting distracted by the money from my recent refund burning a hole in my pocket.

It was similar to that, but I don't think that's the one. I'm wondering if I'm recalling a touchscreen on which you drag the individual effects into place.

The specs for the neck profiles for the 424 / 1024 / 2024 are identical, but I know that in all manufacturing there are variations from one piece to the next. And my sample size is one. I can't recall ever reading that the 1024 neck feels any better than the 424 neck. So I'm going to conclude that kissing frogs when you've already got a prince is a waste of time. I can tell that the 424 neck pickup could be better, and know the 1024 neck pickup is better. But since my bass has the heights of the pickups balanced just right, the blend of the two produces one excellent tone. A better P pickup might leave me with a PJ tone that I don't like so much, so again, there's the risk of spending money for no net benefit. In any case, the position of the neck pickup on these BBs means that the P sound soloed will always be a little bassy for my taste. Which is a long boring way of saying, meh sod it. If anyone sees me mooching over a 1024 again, give me a kick.

(The original title of this thread was Can't remember the name of particular multi effects unit, help!) The user interface on my Line 6 Bass Pod XT Live is so obscure I literally do nothing more than occasionally turn the treble knob a bit. However, as it sits between my bass and the Yamaha studio monitor, its amp/cab sims are essential for my practice set up. A couple of months ago I was looking at the website of a small unit that had a nice big display on which you construct a chain of effects and sims. The website was very sleek, I remember that.... Unfortunately I can't remember the name, and Google searching is getting me nowhere. I think the price was around £300, and it was much smaller than my huge Line 6. I can't remember if it was a pedal, or more of a desk top box. Probably the latter. I'm not in need of huge choice, just amp + cab sim, plus oh I dunno, distortion, compression and reverb, but I desperately want a user interface that doesn't feel like trying to launch a ICBM with a Vic 20.

When I was a little boy living in a backwater town, my mum upgrading us from a Renault 4 to a Renault 6 was enough to impress me - a Cortina was what our friend's successful Dad had, miles above us. Which tells me to be more than happy with what I've got 🥰 Can't let talk of Cortinas pass without posting this:

I do like playing along to that song, one of the first things I learnt after my many many years in the bassless wilderness. My 424 lacks an x, so of no interest to you. Something I won't know for a while is this: do I like the neck on my 424 because its a typical example, or because it happens to be a particularly nice example? Putting time and money into making the minimal upgrade to a 1024 and then finding myself with a neck I like less would be a real ¥&₩!€£?¥*#$ When people online start using car analogies, I never have a clue. I was vaguely under the impression that Jaguar was a classy outfit, and would have guessed it was equivalent to the 2024. Things must have changed since I last took any notice. Which was so long ago, the Mustang was not a model available in the UK. If you said the 424 was a Capri and the 1024 a Cortina Ghia, that might mean something to me.

If I replaced my 424 with a 1024 like that, would the difference just be the cumulative effect of tiny improvements in quality everywhere, or would there be a couple of striking differences?

Aged white plus that red tort you've put on it is a real step up from standard sunburst, looks fantastic.

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