Jack

Or presumably import duties?

Yeah, this is what I think. The side jack isn't too egregious, plenty of Rays have side jacks so just get the controls sorted.

You think about these things too much my friend. I'd forgotten this thread existed and I was too busy mocking someone for having a tort guard on a burst.

Also happy to help if you're anywhere near Newcastle.

Take spares of anything you need to get through a gig. For me that's bass, 1/4" cable, xlr cable, tuner, di box. For you it might be a different list. Mark your stuff somehow. I put a blue cable tie around everything I own. It doesn't stop someone walking away with it, but it means I can categorically say "that's mine, give it back". Do a technical rehearsal before hand. What's a technical rehearsal? A practice gig. Rent a large space like a village hall or a social club, take all your gear and play a whole fake gig. Fake setup, facing a fake audience, fake soundcheck, play a fake set as if there was an audience. A normal rehearsal is for solving problems like "what key should we play this song in?" or "how long should we make the middle 8 break?". A technical rehearsal is for solving problems like "I have used my gear rather than the stuff in the rehearsal studio, I have just realised I don't have the right cable to plug x into y" or "if I stand here, where I thought was sensible, it turns out I can't see Z, I need to remember to stand closer". And most commonly: "we thought we had enough songs for 45 minutes, turns out they only last for 30".

Colour me interested. I always wanted a graphic neck for my various Stingrays, but then I found one with the most amazing neck ever and sort of got over it. I'd either try and get this one recreated for the Ray or I'd buy a standard sized one and build a bitsa around it. Good work though!

You're blaming the cramped space on the pool table and not those boards?

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.

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.

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.

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... 😁

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.

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.

Why does that matter? 😉

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

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.

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 ... 😁