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Thanks. The sound clips for the supa funk, funk machine and Fwonkbeta are in the review section, but I see you already you already found these ones. As for songs, I play almost exclusively jazz groove from the 70s... things like Headhunters, Billy Cobham Spectrum, Lenny White, Bennie Maupin, Herbie Hancock, Brecker Brothers etc plus some tv theme/film tunes from the era. Red Baron and the Get Carter theme work well with the Seamoon in dub mode. Maupin's It remains to be Seen is great with the Supa Funk in classic mode, Herbie's Swamp Rat for the Fwonkbeta and of course Brecker Brothers Sponge for the Funk Machine in full on mode.

For the OP, it's like saying Mozart or Beethoven... which is best! As far as Entwistle vs Squire, in a way it's academic but... from a personal perspective it's Squire. I remember listening to Roundabout and thinking, ok now that's a bass line!

I guess it depends on the pedal but my Aguilar octamizer and grape phaser are noisy with the 'one spot' and super quite with the Palmer isolated psu.

The 'One spot' daisy chain psu and it was too noisy (and that's with quality pedals and patch leads. Psu's with isolated outputs is the way to go, I bought a Palmer with 12 isolated outputs, 4 of which are variable up to 18v, it was about £120 and works perfectly. I think they do an even cheaper one with 8 outputs.

It's a great pedal. The toneprint thing is genius and there are loads of presets. I've got 2 on my board, one for my EUB and the other for BGs. The 'Captain East' toneprint is one of my favs. It's also a tri band comp so despite the one knob it's quite versatile and if you really want to, you can dig in to every setting with the editor (which is too much faff for me and the toneprints work brilliantly).

Well it's not just tuners.... changed the tuners on my Squier jazz for better & lighter, but you could say other hardware on the bass is not the best... and you're right, so changed that as well, everything. Literally the only thing left that's original is the wood, even the strap locks and neck plate got changed. Is it worth it, hell yes, comes in cheaper than a USA jazz but has exactly all the hardware I prefer.

Eberhard Weber. Changed my perception on melodic bass playing... genius.

Graphtec ratio tuners for more precise tuning accuracy might be a reason.

Is it a digital pedal?

Well, so far have got distracted with other projects... I got my Seymour Duncan weather report pickups so had a custom build done to put them in, was going to put some ratio machine heads on it but the luthier had some special order hipshots (with 'mother of pearl' style tuning keys), so went with them. In the mean time I've moved abroad, so when my basses turn up I'll get the ratios sent out and put them on the Squier. I'll post up the results when I get them on but apparently customs take time to clear our incoming stuff so don't hold your breath!

I use a cheap Behringer 4 channel mixer, a EHX freeze pedal to practice against chord tones, and a TC Electronic wiretap for when you want to easily record those inspirational moments. And the mixer has stereo channels to input spotify etc.

It's not compulsory for the drummer to be positioned centre back on the stage.

Oh... and record your gigs! Even if it's just a small field recorder like a Zoom (which is just the size of an electric razor) at the back of the room. When I used to play competition squash we used to video our games so it wasn't just the impression in our head of how the performance went. Same with recording a gig. You might be surprised by how well, or not!!, it went.

Bands I've been in, we've always paid a lot of attention to the live sound both in terms of what the audience hears (if you have control of that on the night) and importantly being able to hear each other on stage. Difficult to be a 'tight' sounding band if you're deaf to what's being played by the other musicians.

I think therein lies one of the reasons for modding, 'as the maker intended' for mass produced instruments usually means 'how cheap can I make this bass and still charge X amount'.

From an engineering perspective a Babicz or KSM bridge is probably an upgrade on a standard Fender but you'll probably not notice the difference in audio .... despite the hype. As for pickups, most are different flavours rather than upgrades. Is it all worth it? Well, my Squier VM jazz is certainly a better bass for having custom pups, graph tech nut (surprisingly good), and KSM bridge.

Is the preamp completely knackered? if you weren't worried about the headphone out/aux in element, you could just drop in something like an Aguilar OBP-1 or 2 preamp which has a high enough input impedance for piezo pickups.

You don't have to clip your tuner, if you owned one, to a headstock... on my headless it works well just by clipping it to a control knob. They're obviously quite sensitive.

Tuning fork! Back in the day, used a good old fashioned tuning fork then used harmonics to get the rest. Ever the lunatic, Jeff Berlin recommends this method rather than an electronic tuner, so as to train your ears... he's probably got a point if I wasn't so lazy!

PS if you do get a wiretap, just check the firmware version. The latest one I got from gear4music had the latest loaded but the first versions are a big buggy.... easy to upgrade though.

That looks great... don't think you'll regret the Sims pickup.

Gear4music are currently selling for £25! Just got my a second one as it was on offer.

TC Electronic Wiretap is a 'riff' recorder. It's not a looper, just a mini pedal sized recorder... quite awesome. It connects with an app using bluetooth, the app assigns names to recordings, hence the thread.

Where on the bass are you using the pick.. near the bridge? I like to pluck over the fretboard around the 17th fret, so I started to play with a pick around the same area with the obvious result of a fuller tone. Whether that gives you the attack you need is another matter.

Is anyone else enjoying the names the Wiretap app gives to recordings?! With names like Boogie the Bird, Elk and Emotions, Uptight like a really public thing, Bird 'n Sorcery, Hack my Punk.... it's quite fun. The music we're doing is instrumental so this is working out great for choosing song names as normally they're just called things like 'that Dorian riff in D we wrote at Christmas'.