Jack

Rudy Sarzo put a shift in like, he was up there for ages. 

Well that was fun. 

The 'for sale' section here is a really valuable resource. The previous listings contain what is surely the second-biggest archive of sold basses in the UK after ebay and the best archive of, you know, good basses that you might actually want. However, often when something is sold a seller will just remove everything. The details, the images, the price, the condition. This makes it difficult to value something you want to sell, difficult to track a unique bass' history and difficult to find information about something you've just purchased. Of course most of this applies to amps and the other for sale sections too, just there tends to be fewer unique or rare pieces in the other forums. 

Is there maybe a way this could be stopped? Maybe just limiting the ability to edit posts in those sections? I get that it is probably hard to do from a technical stand point as the system can't discern the difference between correcting a typo and deleting the whole text. I also understand that the bloat of old posts probably contributes a load on the basschat servers. 

But like, it just seems such a waste. 

1 hour ago, HeadlessBassist said:

 

Depends on how acutely you listen, I suppose. (Unless you have those ears that say 'a bass is a bass'.)

 

I could even tell you which of my three Americans is which while blindfolded - they all have unique voicings.

The nitro finished American Original has it's own free-sounding singing tone from the finish and the Pure Voiced 64 pickups.

The open pore Ash FSR has a very different punchier bottom end from the 2008 Am.Std pickups.

The American Elite has more sparkle at the top end and a distinct active shove to the bass frequencies.

Nothing to do with accuracy, you don't know which one of us has the better ears. What if I don't want singing, I don't want punch and I don't want a bottom end? I'm not arguing about whether basses sound different, I'm arguing whether one bass sounds objectively better than another.

2 hours ago, HeadlessBassist said:

 

No, as a professional musician, I'm telling you that my American Jazzes feel and sound superior. This is not to say that the Squier 40th isn't a very good Jazz. It definitely is.

What is objectively superior when talking about feel or sound? I can see being objective for something like build quality, paint finish, tuner reliability, bridge adjustability, etc etc. But "better sound"? I dunno.

1 hour ago, rwillett said:

 

Not sure what 'sleep' means here?

Sorry, I meant 'sleep on', I will correct my post. 

Don't sleep on the Klon for bass either. I've had an MXR sugar drive and I really like the models in helix and qc. 

Ime it's your option two: better but not worth the cash. They're not better enough to be worth the extra over the lower end models and also they're not commensurate with other basses you can get for that money. 

Yes, I own a mia Fender P... 😁

10 hours ago, Faithless said:

Well, as a matter of fact, I do have TS -> XLR cables custom made for running DI out of Stomp!

TS or TRS? It would have to be trs to be balanced. I always used a trs>xlr adaptor cable when I was the soundman, because I trust me. Whenever I had someone else on the desk I always used a separate di but that was more about isolation and phantom power protection than sound. The stomp sounded great. 

On 23/05/2025 at 12:38, dave_bass5 said:

We use Powered PA cabs for monitors (for those that dont use IEM) and I hate it. Drummer has a 1x15 right by his kit, and his mic not only picks the drums up, but the monitor as well. He is very old school and won't change. Its like they want to be professional and want good monitors, but have no clue that this is overkill for our gigs and effects the sound for the audience. I now insist we sound check with all mic's active and try and balance  it all out front. On smaller gigs we might as well not even take a PA. In fact the monitors have the same power as our FOH. I guess this counts as having a back up if nothing else. 

I've been putting an optogate on every backing vocal mic for a few years now and it's amazing for cutting this kind of stuff out. 

I've had a particular bass for over 20 years that I have a lot of sentimental attachment to, and now I do think about where and when that ones leaves the house. If my house was on fire it would be my childhood teddy bear and that bass that I grabbed first and second.

Other than that though it's fair game, if I have bought a bass then it's to play.

Actually I think there's a small amount of cut in the bass control as well. About 80/20 IIRC. It's a "spirit of the law, letter of the law" thing. The control is actually boost only, but the whole circuit has a lot of bass loss, so you can still use the bass control to cut bass by not boosting as much,

My point was just that it doesn't really matter where flat is, I'm still turning the controls until it sounds good. 

2 minutes ago, EJWW said:

The Stingray I previously used really confused me as well, with no centre detents available on the eq knobs I genuinely didn't know where 'normal' was. 

Why does that matter? 😉

It's really useful to have a volume control that doesn't affect the tone. 

On 16/06/2025 at 15:34, ardi100 said:

Thanks.

 

I've never used amp or can sims, I'm pretty happy with the tone of my amp and cab.

 

Anything helix is going to be outside my budget, but the zoom pedals are on my radar.

A HX stomp can be had for £400 used, less if you get a bargain. That won't buy you many single pedals these days, especially when you'll also need a board, some patch cables, a power supply...

Edit - Stuck in a boring work meeting ("no updates from me thanks") and got to thinking. My small analogue board is a PT Nano and a Cioks Adam, with a Korg Pitchblack, Darkglass VMT and Tech 21 Paradriver. Thomann tells me that's £715 these days, not including the velcro or the patch cables, and admittedly with the current smallest Cioks unit which does look a little better than the Adam. The HX Stomp is £545. It would be cheaper and smaller for me to buy the Stomp, superglue the 3 switches to tuner, overdrive and amp emulation, and never use any of the other blocks. Madness.

I mean, I'm not saying that money is no object, but I've worked hard in my little life and bass amps aren't exactly Lamborghinis. So anyway I don't own a bass combo. 

Can we have just little context? 😁

Well I am looking forward to hearing more about these, and hopefully there might be a Stomp Stadium or something to follow. I like my QC but there's plenty I miss about the Helix ecosystem and I certainly wouldn't mind going back.

16 minutes ago, BigRedX said:

 

I think the idea is that they replace your board completely, which is why the larger HX/Helix devices all have built-in PSUs. I simply take my Helix out of its bag and place it on the stage. Plug in the Main cable, MIDI, wireless receiver and output to the PA and I'm ready to go.

Yeah and I was able to do that when I had the rack helix as the wireless and DI and stuff were also in the rack. I guess the floor units would work for me if I went to a bug-style wireless system instead of the Shure pedal-style.

Super minor stuff, as Dood pointed out it's a great time to be a bass player and for me to be quibbling over something so incredibly minor. I just wish the Helix stuff was QC size so it could fit on a sensibly-sized board with a all of the other accoutrements that one simply couldn't possibly gig without like a wireless unit, DI/isolator, usb power socket ... 😁

Shame they are still so big. IME both the Stomp and the HXFX are a little too limited, but the full size ones are too huge to go on a board. I should probably try the Stomp XL...

12 hours ago, Bluewine said:

 

I won't be gigging for a while. Turns out I broke my ankle. I'm scheduled for surgery Friday morning. 

 

Not fun.

 

Daryl

Danny McCormack is touring with one leg* so you've already got him on the... back foot. Hope you get better soon man. 

*(well, he's touring with The Wildhearts, but, you know what I mean) 

15 minutes ago, Dad3353 said:

 

Tsk, tsk. Such racist undertones. Tsk, tsk. 

 

 

...

 

 

Me? No. I have a shirt and everything. 

8 minutes ago, Dad3353 said:

 

 

There is, or rather 'was', 'logic' to it at its conception, given the means available at the time. The scale is based on an upper and lower reference temperature, divided up into one hundred degrees. The lower temperature was an easy-to-establish 'zero', the freezing point of water. The upper reference was just as easy, being the temperature of a normal, healthy human, taken at the time to be one hundred. The scale is therefore from 0 to 100, freezing water to body temperature. Not too shabby for the early 1700's, no..? OK, they got it a little wrong with the 100, but with what they had to work with back then, it wasn't bad at all. There was, indeed, a lot of 'logic' to it. 

No no no, we're not taking that and we're especially not taking that from a Frenchman. (Or are you just resident in France? Sorry for assuming your nationality) Anyway you guys invented the metric system, that's why it's si and not is! 

4 hours ago, mikebass456 said:

Rude.

Indeed, sorry. I do have a bit of a bee in my bonnet about the metric system. 

3 hours ago, Geek99 said:

You’re better, objectively, than jaco… I mean God? 

Certainly better than one of those! 

3 hours ago, Geek99 said:

I got this update on a clay tablet, written with a copper stylus. For basschat that’s pretty advanced, none of this scratching into rocks nonsense which is just so last-millennium 

Ahhhhhhh, the iPhone 4?

3 hours ago, tauzero said:

 

I was the giant in one previous band of hobbits, towering above them all in my 175cm majesty (0.0086992 furlongs, or in more modern units, 5.671323e-17 parsecs).

Seems a perfectly sensible height to me. 

3 hours ago, StingRayBoy42 said:

What's the weight of the singer (in Kilderkins) please?

I asked him how much he weighed but then I think that's volume? I'll submerge him in the bath... 

6 minutes ago, BigRedX said:

The other two members of my band are almost a foot taller than me. Even glam rock platform boots wouldn't get me up to a comparable height. The only band photo we have where our heads are all level is one where I am standing on a step and the other two have crouched down slightly...

Ahhhhh, Tom Crusing it? Good idea. Yeah, when there's a band baseline and normal (whatever that normal is) and then just one outlier it can be a problem.

I think we've got it down with the posed ones

It's the candid ones that cause issues

One of the many ways in which I hold myself to higher standards than biblical characters.