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I’m away to read my gear manuals and give a good once over to all the kit I own just to make sure some feature I want isn’t already a built in feature! ?

Some albums I like: Rage Against The Machine - well the first couple just sound great. Locked in riffing, the bass sounds massive with a great clean/dirty blend and some mad filter tones. Prince - Musicology I really enjoyed this album nice bass tones which can go from finger style thick to slapped and funky in one track. Early Sharon Jones and the Dap Kings. I found her vocal kept doing the same inflection thing on later releases but the early stuff grooves along nicely. By no means exhaustive but some albums I enjoy which will probably not get a mention

That should be quite involved ???

@tredders is selling a PJ which is pretty much the same as the black/RW bass with the exception of the switch which would be a simple DIY job.

The FEA Labs has many massive sounds and highly tweakable. I have heard it sound all sorts of immense...in different ways to how you enjoyed it in this video.

I can’t see him doing it as it’s a whole rethink etc. and if he’s already poo poo’d it. Four pedals is hardly a bulk order ?

I’ll ask??

He’s working on other pedals but still has some he’s taking pre orders on them I believe.

We do two sets and repeat the formula of build up to three or four crackers at the end but have enough decent tunes to either keep folk dancing or singing along. Our fiddle player sings some tunes too so she does a couple in the first half to warm up then a wee mini set in the second half of three or four in a row. Breaks the second set up and gives the crowd a new focus and different feel to the gig. I'm confident you'll be already on the right track. When/where you next out in Edinburgh? Might pop along

I'd the same thing happen been rehearsing since July but turns out the drummer was having difficulties with his marriage and announced three weeks ago at a rehearsal that he was off to Oztralia that coming Monday! He will return in three months (and in my mind he will then have to find a place to live, nowhere to rehearse along with three months of not playing etc.) and the guys have all been keen to re-group upon his return. I'm not waiting for three months (why should I his wife hasn't *zing*) to them spend another 3 months for him to get his chops back. He was the weakest link in the group and I've taken this as a blessing and bolted. The point is if he's having diff's in a relationship its either and sorry to seem so pejorative, he's a bit fly with the ladies and can't be trusted by his missus or she's been out playing about in his absence... ultimately any band related absences will keep the tensions in that relationship. I've seen it numerous times in bands since I was a teenager. *I do hope his partner doesn't have some awful cancer or else I'm gonna look right a right c-unit*

I don’t use one but I believe the big version is more flexible in terms of features. Whether or not they’re all useful for bass is another question but it could blend into a rig quite well.

Scrap it 5 pages in and he’s switched gear. ?

I’m a big fan of using the tone control. My 4 string p has the best most usable volume control I’ve experienced. Great taper and useable all across its range. If I’m playing with round wounds I’ll use the tone knob more (generally) than if it’s an all flats gig.

I play a p bass into a decent amp which has a 3 band baxandall eq, normally set flat for my regular gig and tweaked for some funny rooms/stages when necessary. My pedal board adds a wee bit of comp and a bit of transformer based goodness...the salt and pepper if you will! My favourite live sound was captured at the last ever gig with my old band. It was a packed house and I was playing my old 78 p bass into an Ashdown Evo head and cabs. For one tune it was just Drums and bass while the singer was doing an intro thing and I did a call and response to a line he said. The natural break up from the amp, the notes I played to the improvised banter he delivered was just perfect. It never occurred to me to buy an Ashdown rig but who knows maybe my ideal tone lives inside an Ashdown amp in a sweaty wee room in Belfast ten years ago?

I’ve said it before but as far as Clayton having Fender sig basses let’s not forget Bono and The Edge are on the Fender board. I’d defend Clayton as his bass lines work for the music and to overplay on those if you’re noodling at home sounds wrong. When he played the Lakland DJ it was nicknamed the ACDJ and it was a handsome bass

What about a good clean blend pedal to retain the bottom or something like the Lomezo? There’s the whole dual band drives but they seem to be quite expensive. Woukd an LS2 or something like the Tyler @Cuzzie switched folk on to be useful? I feel a trip to fxpedalrental is on the cards to check out that Tyler plus I believe they have a discount code. @tonyxtiger is the man to discuss that with.

Al Krow will be along with some sound advice as he’s in the process of buying every drive pedal ever made ?

Not in my experience

If you’re ever in Edinburgh drop me a pm and you’re welcome round for a homebrew beer or a coffee and a go on the Ding ??