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  1. funkle
    Sold.
  2. funkle
    OK, price drop to £75 shipped - ready to go...
  3. funkle
    Just dropped in to say thanks to all on this thread. I’ve worked my way through the whole thread and the manual and a bunch of videos, and between them, I feel like I finally have a grip on what the Stomp can do. Thanks to everyone who chipped in over the years, I have used your links and presets and IRs, if only to experiment and understand. Still have to experiment a lot more. But for my current main purpose, recording, I have figured out at least 4 ways to get an output into my interface and another simultaneous one to my amp, plus reamping through the USB input should I wish to. This thing is crazy powerful! I feel lucky I picked up one cheapish secondhand.
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    Hi all Bought a Stomp, so selling my previous multi-fx. Little blurb is needed. Great piece of kit, mine was mostly used at home for recording. Fully working, ships with the PSU shown. I wish I had dusted it more before I took the photo, lol. £100 shipped in the UK and it's yours. Pete
  5. funkle
    Open to offers.
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    Which Helix?

    funkle replied to AlphaK's topic in Effects

    Thanks, I'll head over there now!
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    Which Helix?

    funkle replied to AlphaK's topic in Effects

    Just nabbed a secondhand Stomp here on Basschat, so I guess I've joined that particular camp. I've seen about the Dr Tone FB group/website and the work he does on presets. @AlphaK I think you have a Stomp as well? Any recommendations for presets or general usage? Pete
  8. funkle
    Meant to say, foot switch and bag included in sale price.
  9. funkle
    Good evening Basschat Picked up this lovely little amp from Paddybass to have for the power and the built in effects, but just got lucky and bought an HX Stomp, so this has to go to fund it. I’ve linked to Paddy’s original thread and pics for ease; it’s not been out of the house yet since I bought it and remains in excellent working condition. The app for loading is pretty sweet and the FX are quality. I’m looking for £310 £250 plus shipping. Bargainous for this much power and flexibility! Original FS thread: Specs: Power: 800 W Output Impedance: 4 ohms (minimum load ) Inputs : 1x jack , 1x mini stereo jack ( AUX IN ) Outputs : 1x Speakon , 1x DI out with pre / post EQ switch Controls: Gain , Bass , Lo -Mid , Hi - Mid, Treble , Tone 1 and Tone Print Print 2, Master Volume Built-in tuner Intelligent EQ section Headphone output Features: Manufacturer: TC Electronic Power Output (Watt): 800 Build: Solid State Circuit: Class D Number of Channels: 1 Sound Control: 4-Band EQ Switchable Pad: No Switchable Low Cut: No Integrated Effects Processor: Yes Internal Effects: TC Electronic TonePrint FX-Loop: No Tuner: Yes AUX Input: Yes Headphone Connection: 3.5mm LINE IN: No LINE OUT: XLR DI out: Pre+Post Tuner out: No USB Interface: Yes Number of Speaker Connections: 1 Speaker Connection: Speakon Foot Switch Connection: Yes Incl. Foot Switch: No Housing Format: Head Width (mm): 275 Height (mm): 69 Length (mm): 279 Weight (kg): 5 Thanks all. Pete
  10. funkle
    Great question. Overall, you can definitely tell the rear pickup is not a Jazz pickup when both P pickups are blended 50:50. The mid cut is in a very different place to a JJ setup. However, compared to a PJ setup, it is not a million miles away sonically, you can tell it’s different but in a mix no-one would hear it, I don’t think. Soloed rear P pickup - definitely different to a Jazz, I guess best way to put it is an ‘angry Jazz’, lol. You can roll the tone off and do Jaco. It’s thicker than a bridge Jazz pickup sound. IMO on the whole a Jazz pickup or other humbucker there is probably much easier to install and make it work well, though, and you can buy basses like that easily. I found the DG coil near the bridge too clavinet-y after a while, so flipped the pickup orientation, which made the issue much better. However, in some ways, I simply transferred the problem to the EA strings, which tolerate the issue better, but still imperfect. IMO bridge P pickups should be, for whichever coil is the rear one, no closer to the bridge than a 70’s Jazz bass spacing. I think it sounds better reversed as well, with DG closer to neck and EA closer to bridge.
  11. funkle
    Yes, I referenced that thread extensively when making my dual P. Great thread. I still managed to make the rear pickup too close to the bridge though, lol!
  12. funkle
    Very cool. Very expensive too!!!
  13. funkle
    Wow, a retro dual P. Have a free bump!
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    Paul C's goodness

    funkle replied to Owen's topic in Feedback

    Just sold a Fender neck to Paul, painless transaction with easy communications. You can be confident dealing with Paul! Pete
  15. funkle
    The roasted maple Fender necks are really nice. I have one on a project bass and it feels and sounds fabulous. Nice job!
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    Good response back from John. The J Tone does no active buffering of pickups, but the J Retro and Uni-Pre do (in active mode). Guess I'll maybe have to think about a version of the Uni Pre.
  17. funkle
    Yes, I think I will. Funnily enough a J Tone would probably be perfect for this bass - simple, passive roll off, bass/treble boost if needed, and full passive if needed. If it actively buffered the pickups in active mode, it would be ideal.
  18. funkle
    Sold.
  19. funkle
    A little note of interest. I noticed that the Seymour Duncan SBP1 at the front position sounded a little less bright than once I had the SBP3 in the rear position installed. This seemed to be the case even if I turned the SBP3 all the way down. I have alluded before to how pickups load each other in a passive circuit, but decided to test my ears again. I removed the SBP3 out of the circuit by unscrewing its wires out of the solderless circuit, and lo and behold, my high end improved to what I remembered the stock SBP1 sounding like. Same in reverse when I unscrewed the SBP1 for the SBP3. Clearly the pickups still 'see' each other in the circuit even when turned fully down. I knew this already, but it was useful to hear what it sounded like. John East did a great post on this many years ago - https://www.talkbass.com/threads/isolated-buffered-pickup-blending.82099/#post-935299 I think this effect accounts for some of what people call 'the passive sound', as I'm used to hearing it in e.g. passive Jazz basses. So....I am contemplating another change. I think I might try out a John East preamp with active pickup buffering, at least at some point. The Uni Pre does this, as does the J Retro. Not sure if the J Tone does as well, though it might. (Can't tell from the literature...)
  20. funkle
    Sold.
  21. funkle
    Deal pending. I’ll mark it off as sold once I have payment received, but on hold.
  22. funkle
    @Ricky Rioli It looks expensive! Lol. You could get 4 out of 5 of those coils by using a modded Nordstrand MM4.4 or a newer Sims Super Quad pickup...or some of the Bartolini MM quad coil pickups too now that I think on it... The Super Quads look really interesting but are so outrageously expensive even I have never ventured near them. Lol
  23. funkle
    He's now one of my favourites too. Unbelievable playing!
  24. funkle
    Hello all I bought this in the spirit of optimism, but I really prefer maple boards to rosewood. So it's up for sale. I have very rarely seen 3 pickup basses, and I did a fair bit of research before buying this and after I got my hands on it. They were made for a short time in the 90's - I found a pricelist referring to this model after a lot of digging - https://guitar-compare.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/1992-February-1.pdf. This is number 72 of the 200 or so of these made. This is alder bodied, rosewood fretboard. It weighs 7 lbs, or thereabouts, very light indeed. (No neck dive though.) Colour is called 'Blackstone'. It's in very good condition overall. The body has no dinks, though the headstock took one at the lower front and was touched up by someone. The neck plate is worn, but perfectly fine. The neck is straight. I replaced the stock strap buttons with Dunlop Straplocks. One of the knobs is missing the Fender logo; that's just as it came to me. Jazz nut width (1.5"), and a very flat fretboard (12" radius according to my feeler gauges). Narrow neck front to back too, so it feels really fast to play. 22 frets. Setup is medium to low currently, pretty flat in terms of relief. I polished the frets, oiled the fretboard, and re-strung it with D'Addario Prosteels. It’s a very cool sounding bass with a lot of flexibility - more on that below. 3 humbucking pickups, passive, with a volume and a TBX control and a switch to control pickup combinations. The pots are a little scratchy but work fine. I ran some magnetic paper over the Fender branded pickups on my version. It looks like they are split coils, humbuckers, like Precision pickups but in a Jazz casing. The pickup resistances read 7.79k neck pickup, 8.56k middle pickup, 8.56k bridge pickup. They sound very clear and even. The pickup distances from the centre of the 12th fret to the centre coil of each pickup are interesting. These measure 28.6 cm front pickup, 36 cm middle pickup, 39.6 cm rear pickup. That puts the front pickup very near to where a conventional Precision bass EA coil sits (28.3cm from centre 12th fret to centre coil pickup), the middle pickup just in front of where a 60s Jazz bass pickup sits (36.6 cm from centre 12th fret the centre coil pickup), and the rear pickup way nearer the bridge than any other pickup I know of. Now, for some interest, lol..... I replaced the stock 5 position switch with a Freeway 10-way switch. Link to explain is here (https://youtu.be/mrLKZZ5B8b0) but essentially you end up with 2 'banks' of 5 switch positions each. Works like a charm and opens up even more tonal possibilities for the bass. Currently, using this wiring diagram from page 1 of the link (https://www.freewayswitch.com/app/download/8112261315/5B5-01+3PU+2Pot+Part1.pdf?t=1532631306) the switch gives the following options (from front to back): Bank 1: Front, Front + Middle Parallel, Middle, Middle + Rear Parallel, Rear (exactly the same as stock switch) Bank 2: Front + Middle in Series, all 3 pickups in Parallel, Front + Rear in Series, Front and Rear in Parallel, Middle + Rear in Series. My favourites are setting 2 and 4 from the the stock settings (Bank 1) and 1, 3, 5 from Bank 2. I found a few links to try and give an idea of the sound, since hardly anyone will have heard of this bass... And photos....finally! I'm looking for what I have put into it, so £SOLD for this USA made, rare, very light, and flexible instrument. Happy to ship anywhere. Pete
  25. funkle
    I really like that pickup @krispn, I can see no reason to change it for another as an experiment. I considered it with the number of them I have around, but there’s no need. By the way I found some relevant threads on Talkbass in relation to this discussion. https://www.talkbass.com/threads/p-vs-reverse-p-what’s-better.1341181/ https://www.talkbass.com/threads/poll-standard-p-or-reverse-p.748372/ https://www.talkbass.com/threads/reverse-p-pickups-in-p-j-basses.741507/
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