harryharold

cheers with the comments, ive just got back from the bass gallery and....... well i tried the tonehammer and the BDDI and the tonehammer was far superior (for me that is anyway) as seeing as they were selling both for £179 i got the tone hammer. they also had the mxr DI there for the same price but i didn't bother. what really sold it to me was the switching options and the overdrive settings. i like being able to have all three options of bypassed, through the preamp, with the lovely gainy distortion. it was the drive settings that really won it over for me though, the tonehammer sounds amazing. to be honest the BDDI was probably a little easier to get a good tone out of when clean, probably due to the para eq on the aguilar needed a bit of fiddling with but when driven it was rubbish in comparison. the BDDI sounded all high end when driven and there was no deep throaty growl that the tonehammer had in abundance. really nice bit of kit. heavy, needs 18v, but sounds so damned powerful. bit pricey but got it from an awesome shop who have helped me out so many times and i think that was the first thing i bought from them.

mmmmm not sure about the MXR, will attempt to demo one of them as well, will see what is best for my bass. the only thing is that i'm not sure i'm going to be able to demo any DHA stuff, anyone know of anywhere in london where this is possible???

I'm currently trying to decide which of these units to buy as i think i'm need of a little hifi signal processing. What i really want is something with an eq to tame/enhance my lovely passive bass which also has the option to provide a little bit of driven distortion, not all out fuzz, i have other pedals for that, but just enough to sound like a nice gainy amp being driven a bit. I'm going to try the bassgallery tomorrow where they hopefully have the tonehammer and BDDI in, but i was also wanting some opinion on various DHA pedals. Have been looking at either the dual bass or the eq bass drive but was wandering about how well they could be used as a selector between a nice clean preamp and a dirty driven one. Quite like the look of the tonehammer though it is a little more pricey that the other two (obviously want the programmable BDDI for switching capabilities), what is the general opinion on these units? and is there anything that ive missed out? Oh suppose i should give details of my rig. Bass is a home built 5 string, very heavy, ovankol body, with a basslines MM pickup. This goes through a few pedals, all analogue, true bypass, currently a bluebeard fuzz, EHX bassballs, and currently sourcing an ampeg scrambler. Then into a markbass little mark 250 head powering an oldish ashdown ABM410. Cheers Harry

Definitely Linley Marthe, saw him playing with the (sadly late) joe zawinul a couple of years ago and he completely blew me away. so glad i went to that gig and managed to see the zawinul syndicate, don't think i'll manage to go to a better gig.

Bought a rather lovely bluebeard fuzz, got to me over a weekend. great condition, well pack, and with battery. everything was sorted very quickly and you even covered the annoying paypal charge. great stuff. cheers.

Thanks very much, discovered this whilst trying to find your feedback.l Bluebeard is awesome, the only problem i can find is that it destroyed a days work as i spent 3hours playing with it. cheers.

put me down for this sometime soon, i guess there may be a queue. its about time i had another go at learning havona.

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yeh i think that may have been what i was aiming for at the time but it went oh so wrong!!!

and heres me playing the current incarnation, in our kitchen in uni halls, what a gig. [attachment=19827:n2029038...338_2560.jpg] so hello all looking forward to wasting lots of precious time on this fair forum

here it is, i'd forgotten how awful the first body looked. [attachment=19825:MVC_046S.JPG] also heres the guitar i built (don't kill me) look pretty but is awful (the neck, oh the neck) [attachment=19826:MVC_041S.JPG]

it seems this begining post is a little vague so i'll add a little depth..... bass playing career started on an old broken accoustic guitar which i played bass parts on to accompany my brother as he played led zeppelin tunes. he then mentioned that i should play some jamiroqui tune cause they were cool like. this eventually to me getting a bass for my birthday (washburn bantam - which was brilliant as it was cheap and not either a squire or a yamaha which i detested at that point because i was a snob). this then developed to school when i was jamming with a friend and the music teacher said i should try and play with the jazz band (i played the horn in the orchestra so he stupidly assumed i could sight read when playing bass - the fool). i got face with a big page of dots and got it all wrong but somehow he said that it sounded like the opposite, haha i thought, this jazz m'larkey is well easy, just play anything and it works ( i now realise that this only works if charlie parker had previously played the same anything). actually this description of my bass playing career is taking ages so i'll stop. but the most important bit is about the bass i bult which i did when iwas 15 and was too skint to buy something new so just thought i build one, it can't be too hard. it wasn't but the 5 string fretless was well heavy, awfully balanced, almost impossible to play and look a little bit stupid. but 2 years later after a new body, 2 neck recarves, frets, refrets, more refrets and its beautiful, and mine, i even mixed my blood with the glue holding it together, for the soul like. oh think i may have some pictures of it in its original state, i'll look

hello all, i'm harry from snowy somerset via snowy london for the last 4 years (really should just say that i'm from london but i won't give in). i've been bassing continuously for the last 6-7 years since my mid teens and basically love it to bits. have played in any different ways in many different bands and have got pretty damned geeky on the whole subject, so it seems a bass forum should be my natural home. my current set up is my beloved homebuilt bass into a littlemark 250 then a ashdown abm410. also i've currently caught the pedal bug off of my guitarist (highly infectious) and now own (just) a bassballs with a constant [s]desire[/s] need to get more, and more, and more, and more. will get pictures of rig soon, possibly following the finding of a camera currently playing in a little band called blacksea (http://www.myspace.com/blacksea for a few proper sh*te demos) with uni mates and this strange thing that bashes sticks into drums. my current nagging bass related topics on my mind and stopping me doing any work are 1) sansamp BDDI or aguilar tone hammer or other??? 2) how can i get/clone an ampeg scrambler for little money??? 3) when am i going to get around to building the jazzbass copy with a fretless status graphite neck that i've been planning for 3 years??? 4) when am i going to recarve the neck on my home built guitar??? (sorry not bass related) cheers harry oh yeh and i'm left handed