MrDinsdale

Oooo nice, would love to build one of these at some point. I've eyed these kits up plenty of times but never pull the trigger.

After a while with no pedal purchases I treated myself to 2 new ones. The Accountant (top right) is the first addition. Its noisy, abrasive and not very flexible but I love it. I've got it set quite light, it does a nice job of evening things out and imparts a grizzly character which I love. Certainly not clean or transparent. Two Notes Opus (top left) a spicy DI, to quote @tayste_2000, that offers preamp, power amp and cabsim and a bunch of other utilities in a nice neat package. Barely scraped the surface so far but love it. I'll admit I wasn't blown away with the DynIR cabs it shipped with but I have my trusty Science Amplication IRs. The power amp simulation is great though, really brings some of my preamp pedals to life. Also ships with Genome which is a nice bonus!

So that's why you're stockpiling Elements 🤣 Seriously though I'd love to at least have a Model FeT and a Mother board, they're both excellent but having both on a board seems a little silly.

Haha I know, couldn't decide which combo I wanted to keep and realised I'm not emotionally ready to commit to a compact board 🫠

I'm not well.

New day, new board! 👌 I love all these pedals so much it's too hard to pick a few for a compact board.

Did you buy the DynIR Mesa cabs or are you using other IRs? Very impressed so far, particularly the power amp sims. Not digging the bundled DynIR but everything else is great.

If you end up getting an MBD and don't like it ill probably take it off you 🤣

I know, but if I move them up, the jacks don't fit through the gaps in the pedalboard. I'm not going to lie, I'm already considering moving up to the 3.0 and getting some more pedals in the mix while I'm experimenting. This RB 2.1 is just a touch too small. The perfect compact gig board would be a 2.2, with a hole cut out to mount one of the RB Mod patch bays. That'd leave enough room for this, plus a fun pedal like the OC5 or maybe an HX One.

Just picked up The Accountant and Opus for a compact board. Still not got velcro on etc. Really liked the power amp simulation available on Two Notes Genome so decided to bite the bullet and grab the Opus. This will be perfect for a couple of musical project potential on the horizon, the QC is great but it makes for a big board once Ive added some extra pedals.

Ahhhhh sorry, I misread! There's a thread here which said they could record but couldn't get monitoring working https://www.talkbass.com/threads/darkglass-element-as-ios-interface.1489650/ It must be possible though surely?!

Yeah you can edit via the Darkglass Suite on iPhone.

Sold a compressor which Royal Mail lost and eventually found again, got there in the end and Pablo was very understanding! 10/10, you're more than welcome to purchase my wares anytime!

Ahhh that really sucks, I've not had any issues so far with noise. I've only used it a little with the headphone out, usually had it hooked up to my ipad for recording so don't know if that influenced it.

Can't remember what options there are in the FX Loop block, ultimately you'd just be using the return of it anyways. If there's an option to blend the FX Loop with the original signal, you could stick it at the end of your chain after all your fx, amp and cab stuff with the direct signal blended in. Otherwise you could do the same with a parallel divider at the end of the chain with the FX loop on one side. Definitely doable though.

Got some pickups off Sean, everything was exactly as described and sent in good time etc. Highly recommended 🙌

Haha I was trying to sing along (badly) to Science of selling yourself short yesterday which is on the easier side bass-wise and it was an omnishambles 🤣

I was always a big fan when I was younger, rediscovered them after introducing my daughter to them. I think I learned My Best Friends are Metalheads back in the day very sloppily, figured it might be a little easier to learn now but I was wrong 🤣

I do my best 🤣