Jack

Saturday (so not quite last night, sorry) was the very first ever gig for my new project Pop Punk Prty. It was, in my estimation, a little too early to be 'out there' and we all felt very unrehearsed. However, it was better than I expected! If we play like that on our 5th gig I'll be annoyed, but for a first gig I'll take it. Rig was my trusty (and suitably pastel green) SB-2 into my HX Stomp. Everyone on IEMs apart from me (I have soundman duties) so I've got one of my QSC wedges. To complete the rig there's genuine 00's baggy jeans that were sourced by my wonderful friends at Tender Hooligan. Gosh I'm fat.

Or Phil Jones bass. Super clean tone, extreme lows and to be blunt the resale value sucks so buy second hand to get a fillet mignon rig for beefburger money. Edit - There's a GSS combo/cab rig in the classifieds in London for £20 over your budget. I can't think of a better solution for you.

The modded one may have actually been the one that is now mine? There aren't too many about and mine has a distinctive blank bit in the grain next to the lower horn. I have owned this bass twice (once with an extra pickup and once without) but I'm neither the person who added it or removed it. It was a better thumb rest, but I hated the look. I'm thinking about getting a thumb rest printed to go from the pickup along to the neck.

Overhang, schmoverhang. Get overhang it! Some of that is the perspcetive of looking down on the rigs. ... some.

Ooooooh, this is better than the old one. That's my morning gone.

Honestly in terms of fit, finish and general quality it's one of the nicest basses I've had. Lovely thing. The neck is narrow/average across the width but quite deep front to back, which is exactly what I like. Honestly though the sound is a bit of a let down. The pickup is too close to the bridge (and I've got two Stingrays and a g&l with bridge humbuckers so this is normally something that I like) but I find that if you rest your thumb there it's too weedy. I'm trying to learn floating thumb but I'll probably buy a thumb rest as the sound is perfect if you pick closer to the neck. Thanks man, they're lovely up close. With steel strings, active emgs and that finish it's the ideal bass for my hard/party rock band. I don't get to play it much in the indie band...

I'm fortunate enough to have a Euro and a Korea, both of which are fantastic. Whilst I've never been in a metal band I am a metalhead in my personal life. From my two I'd go for the Pulse. Sounds amazing and certainly looks the part.

Which part? Seemed fine to me.

It lives!

Yeah man, it sounds like the problem here is the soundman of his gear, not you or yours. Oh well, enjoy the new bass amp! Where abouts in the country are you?

I'm getting to grips with it just fine. FWIW our singer has just had some throat issues that have meant we're dropping several songs down a semitone or two temporarily (it's pop punk, so it's pretty high up). It tracks better when you play with a pick, I'll say that. You can move a tracking slider between 'stable' and 'fast', so there's room to fine tune what you want out of it. I'm about 75% on the 'fast' side. Again, this is pop punk so it's all too fast and loud to care about silly things like being in tune. I can recommend it in general.

Yes I don't want better sounds on the Stomp, I just want more of them. The 8 block rule is fine if you want 8 gain pedals, but create a patch with a polyphonic pitch shifter and you might only be able to add 2/3 more blocks.

In theory that's possible, although I wonder if you might run out of processing power. If you let me know exactly what you want on each channel I'll test it out for you?

See I couldn't disagree more. Ime anyone who goes down this road just ends up thinking that the modeller (any modeller) is absolute garbage because the ac30 model doesn't sound exactly like the one they once heard in 1974. Treat the Stomp like a box that has many sounds in it.

Between a wireless mic, 3 instrument wireless, 3 in ears and the mixer we have it all multiple times over. Separate channels and scan the WiFi. If you're doing your job well there's many many WiFi devices in the crowd. The 5-10 we bring with us aren't going to make much difference.

Everything is just from Amazon. Not my style I'm afraid. I haven't yet run out of sex or rock n roll, never really felt the need to do drugs. Hah yes! I have a bottle of that somewhere too and it's brilliant you're right. It was more the convenient tin/applicator arrangement that I wanted. Maybe I should have just put that in the tins... I've done the desk since that photo was taken.

After a recent thread where I asked for string cleaner recommendations I have done some more research, taken as much advice as I can and come up with a solution. It seems to be the case that most string cleaner products are essentially mineral oil, sometimes with a little extra scent. However, if that's the case then £8-£10 for a few ml of mineral oil seemed like a bad deal to me, so I figured I'd do it for myself. 500ml mineral oil £7.99 (about 100x cheaper than any commercial string cleaner by volume) 5 lint free cloths £3.99 2 marijuana tins £7.99 In other words, for somewhere about the price of 2 lots of commercial string cleaner you can get two infinitely refillable tins, enough cloths to last ages, and enough oil to refill the whole shebang 25 times over. Nice! I poured a few ml into each tin, stuck the cloth in there so it got nice and soaked and put one in my office where I play bass and one in my gig kit bag. It's been about a week now and so far it's working just as well as anything I've ever used. Which is to say that the strings feel shiny if you wipe before you play and then they still feel a little shiny next time you pick them up if you wipe them down after you play. I'm not entirely convinced that any of these products inherently make your strings 'last' longer before going dead, but it can't hurt, right?

I have to come clean and clarify that my Stingray is my most favourite bass ever. However, the L2000 is just as good, and that's a USA Ray vs a tribute G&L. I can only imagine that a USA G&L would be amazing.

I currently own both, and that's a fair assessment.

I definitely should have put more info in the OP, sorry. I came to respond to this by saying that I would need a tuner as this would have to 'do it all'. Which to me means a tuner, maybe some effects, and an amp sim. However, it does have a tuner! Excellent. It's a but above my ideal budget but I can stretch, time to go to youtube and watch some demos. Not looking for headphones stuff, so the Katana go is out. Well there's doing homework for a band or a show and then there's playing for the fun of it. I just want something to leave permanently plugged in to my wedge so that I don't have to fish for gear anywhere else. It has to sound good really, that's all that matters. Amp sims would be on my list, but if I can manage without then fair enough. I did like my original 60B. Good suggestion, thanks.

Hivemind, I have this thing where I like to keep my gig stuff and my home stuff separate. It's the only way I can be sure that I haven't forgotten anything. I was keeping an eye out for another HX Stomp (as that's what I use for gigs) but the truth is that they're no longer cutting edge and sometimes you just want a change. With that said, has anyone used a Valeton GP100 or similar? Especially for home practice? Any recommendations for the Mooer, Harley Benton, NUX, Zoom options? Thanks, Jack

Some rack rigs through the years. Like many I loved them for the ease of setup and hated them for the bulky carry. I still have and use the mixer rack right at the end but everything else is gone.

I have some very similar ones from Hao Deng on Amazon. I have three synced to colour change slowly and one set to white as a spotlight. Can't recommend enough. The only downside is that they do rather shine up your nose.

Both of those sentences make me want to go "urgh, urgh".