soulstar89

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Bought a set of D’addario chromes from etienne. His communication was top draw. The Royal Mail was slacking by placing wrong post code and in turn delaying delivery. Etienne was extremely helpful and offered a refund if they don’t show up. Genuine person. Again his communication was exemplary, fast postage and strings are as described. Would highly recommend Etienne. Cheers bud Soulstar

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I’ll make another trip after this heatwave.

I went the Roland store in central london to try out the new katana head and combos. I was intrigued with the combos as they are class A/B. I couldn’t get on with them. The controls made my brain hurt and I couldn’t get a sound I loved. I may need to try again. The katana head is class D and set flat sound vastly different. I came out and went to rose morris next door and tried the ashdown a evo iv…. Wow. It made the boss, tone hammer and mark bass amps and combos I tried feel and sound sterile. I love the tone hammer with a p bass bass but the evo had such a full rounded sound. I also tried the Eich t-300 and genz Benz streamliner at the bass gallery. The Eich is super clinical. Amazing eq points and taste control is good. Genz Benz streamliner is completely different. It's much warmer and round (doesn’t compare to the ashdown though). I played both through a barefaced 2x10.

I tried one last week. Very nice. The new genzler kinetic 800 head is another option

When it feels right, it feels right.

nice find. I’ve been looking for a fender mij pb-70 from the 90’s with no luck. How the bass feels on hand is the mist important. When you see wear of an instrument it shows it’s been played which to me is a good thing. See how you get on with it and also if you like the tone it produces. The lacquer to me isn’t an issue but everyone is different

Found a couple sets which I feel deserve some exposure. Great mood created.

That’s relative to the environment. Playing with people is extremely similar to team based sports like footy. You react to the moment and adjust accordingly. “X” is playing and doing this how can I complement the mood here. If a improv gets boring it’s due to no one taking the lead at a given time and then collective reacting and supporting. To me improvisation is the root of all things creative. The key is being in the same frequency as others.

Old post but I just watched a Yussef dayes set with Rocco on kexp His using rotosound swing 66 strings on a BB1100’s (you can tell by red silk and the coloured ball ends). Prob a dead set. I use a late 70’s Yamaha pulser 400 with Bartolini pickups and can get a similar tone. one member said about chasing the exact equipment. It can be an endless rabbit hole. I idolise paul Jackson and Freddie Washington. I don’t sound like them even if I tried lol, I’m funkier lmao (bad joke) A good trick to get a dead tone with fresh roto’s is coat them with Vaseline. It gives a different tone to playing them in. That’s what I do. Basically same method as what many do with flats.

great advice. This would save us so much Money and time looking for gear rather than getting to know the gear you have and evolving our technique

really appreciate this. I’ve still on the look out for the manual for the pulser and bb100 and 1200. The search goes on lol

Oh really? I didn’t know this.

I was a Massive fan of the tonehammer until I tried the ashdown and also the genz Benz streamliner. I think we will have to wait a little longer to tryout the v2 of the tonehammer, not many have it in stock as yet.

fair. I’ve just not been impressed with the vox I tried. It didn’t inspire me to want to play.

Dope. I saw Kiefer this year in Highbury & Islington. Was cool. I’ve followed him before he even got signed. Soundcloud was a great place. Had loads of convos with him also. Cool guy.

Pmsl hahaha. I’m a noob but not that silly 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣. I was thinking you could maybe plug in a headphone little amplifier to say the input jack and get some sound that way. I honestly don’t have experience in this. as my MLD can be used as a audio interface that would mean I plug it into a music software and practice that way. TBH honest I was thinking of selling the MLD pedal after I’ve got my rig as I wouldn’t really need it. I may have to hold that thought.

Cheers I’ll look into it. If I went also picked up a markbass 12” combo they also don’t have a headphone input.

Cheers bud. You do have the likes of vox etc but they sound crap imo.

Hey. Cheers for the input. I just checked and my MLD can be used as a DI and also an audio interface. I will have to look into this more then.