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Another life long Gong fan here!... Mike Howlett has always been a big influence & inspiration... It was great to see him on the 2009 tour in Bristol with Hillage & Miquette too!... A fantastic gig! This is a great thread..... Very surprising & informative ...That's what I like about Basschat!... Great bass sound on the Hillage vid btw!...

Terrific!..

Very Cool!.... I love these kinds of patterns ... I nicked a similar one from Alan Thompson (off a John Martyn live album) that was similar but with a flat fives diminished flavour.... I'll shamelessly nick this too, thanking you kindly Sir!

That's pricey! .....Some information here about his gear (free to look!) [url="http://www.thewho.net/whotabs/gear/bass/bass.html"]http://www.thewho.net/whotabs/gear/bass/bass.html[/url]

[quote name='sk8' timestamp='1350557713' post='1840411'] Everyone needs something 12" and purple [/quote]

I've used Korg GT-3's for many years now... really a very good tuner but needs to be on a tuner out loop from head (doubtful if it's true bypass) Recently I needed one on my board, so I bought a pitchblack... very impressed with it, accurate, easy to see.... top marks!

hmm... Well I was disappointed with the last one at Ashton Gate.... Over priced (for what it was) limited bass gear, stuffy demo room up the stairs at the back, noisy.... Came out with a headache from the constant testosterone charged guitar w@nking! ...bah humbug!

Just got in from a massive drive back from Skegness!... Played at a Butlins 70's weekend.. picked up a dep singer in Leicester on the way up (on Friday eve) Did an afternoon set after a Lionel Ritchie tribute, today ...dropped our dep back in Leicester on our way home to[b] Bristol[/b]...... [i](Drummer had to continue on to Taunton!)[/i] Sheesh! that was a lorra lorra miles!

Used to use one a lot, to drop to a D, until I got a 5 string.... Always found it really accurate, once set up...& sometimes fun to use as an effect whilst playing... Michael Manring kinda takes the use of them [i](on all four strings) [/i]to an extreme!... Not everyone's cup of tea ...but you gotta admire his work...I think this track is pretty cool.... [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aY4Ra2KOyas&feature=relmfu[/media] +1 to Mark at Bass Direct being a top guy...

[quote name='andydye' timestamp='1348825822' post='1818692'] I had the opportunity to a/b them both and I preferred the character of the sft over the more [i]normal[/i] sounding bb...don't get me wrong the bb is superb, it's a really good quality overdrive sound that makes a multidrive sound very one dimensional indeed. Both the SFT and BB retained the original tone really well within the final sound, the thing that swund it was the 'torn speaker' type sound that the SFT gives me on low gain settings, really nice fattening without overwhelming gain [/quote] cool... I get ya! Seem to be using mine on a low gain setting, permanently on at the moment! .... it's just such a usable tone like that.... although it's capable of so much more... See how things develop... Really pleased with it, anyway!

[quote name='andydye' timestamp='1348604423' post='1815960'] I got me a Catalinbread SFT and it's doin the job very nicely! Thanks for your input chaps! [/quote] Did you try the BB in the end?.... Never got to try that one myself.... SFT is certainly doing the job for me though, too!

Sold a TU-12 to Martin .... Top bloke to deal with (as everyone who has, knows!) Great communication..... speed of light transaction... Wouldn't hesitate to deal with again...

For most of the work I do, I don't really use most of the stuff on my 9 pedal Pedaltrain board... & after having a bit of trouble with noise at a gig a while back, I lost a bit of confidence in having loads of stuff plugged in that I rarely use! So I've put a smaller board together... A guitarist I work with a lot calls it my 'Ladies board' ...I'm a firm believer that size isn't important! & I'm loving the tone I'm getting out of that SFT!

[quote name='GazWills' timestamp='1347536849' post='1802073'] damn you, sir, damn you!! I just popped over to Tone World as I'd not heard of them before...."oooh, they offer free delivery...oooh, it's next DAY delivery if you order before 2pm...oooooooh, no hassle 7 day return policy......oops, just ordered a catalinbread montavillian" [/quote] ha haa! Yes.... could get quite addictive! [i](Liking that Von Bartha stuff in your link btw!)[/i]

[quote name='GazWills' timestamp='1347539211' post='1802114'] FYI, I have just ordered a catalinbread pedal (montavillian) from Tone World, and they do free next day delivery and have a 7 day no fuss return policy, so potentially you could try it out and return it if it wasn't for you... [/quote] I also got my SFT from them, after 1st trying the JHS Low drive... cost me about £6 to send the JHS back (with insurance) It was worth it to satisfy my lustful curiosity about the pretty, seductive lil thing!... Sound didn't do it for me though, compared to the SFT. Tone World refunded the difference in price between the two pedals, directly to my bank account. They are very easy to deal with & very quick!

Thanks for all the great information, advice & ideas that have been bought to this thread.... I now have the Catalinbread SFT pedal & it does pretty much exactly what I want!... Well pleased... A special thank you to Nick for lending me his SFT Clone for so long, so I had the chance to compare it with all the others... Although I was completely seduced by the idea of the JHS Low Drive, from the youtube vids... to the point of buying it! ...Good as it was as a tubescreamer type, when compared to the SFT there was no contest.... the variety to be found in this pedal it terrific... & the dynamic response really sealed the deal for me. Tone World in Manchester are worth a shout too... They matched the price of the JHS from a US seller on ebay & were happy to take it back & refund the difference, when I finally bought the, slightly cheaper, SFT from them...

Very nice!

[quote name='andydye' timestamp='1346849290' post='1793987'] [/quote] no worries!.. Looking forward to me new SFT!... "Loike the Murphy's... I'm not bitter!"