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I'm not a huge fan of wild overdrive so one of the things that I love about this pedal is that you can mix the Fet and Tube sides. I prefer mainly Fet with a little bit of Tube added in for grit.

Why not get another jazz bass in a colour you like and buy a set of Pure Vintage '64 pickups and concentric Jazz Bass wiring? That would pretty much get you the sound you have but in the bass of a colour that more suits the band. If you were to respray a Flea bass then it would be worth a fraction of what it would be had you left it.

I really don't like it but I'm sure a new generation of Chilis fans will though. Someone mentioned something wrong with the mix on Mother's MIlk earlier - seriously, if you have a turntable get it on vinyl. This is isn't a vinyl vs digital etc thing, there's something genuinely superior about the mix that went onto the vinyl as opposed to the CD It's one of my favourite albums. It's their version of Queen's Sheer Heart Attack. It's like the transition from the more fast paced punk to the more funky BSSM just like Sheer Heart Attack was the end of the fairies and Ogres and progressing into more complex rock for Queen

I was a fan of flats, particularly D'addario Chromes, until we started using IEMs. No matter how I EQ'd them they just sounded wooly and liefeless. Back to nickel EXLs and happy again I still have Chromes on my LA Lakers jazz bass as this is the bass I use for rehearsals and we a regular practice studio with use backline for those. It means that I never have to change them

I used to dep with a wedding band that were so busy that if they got 2 gigs on the same night the guitarist would do one of the gigs with dep drummer, dep bass and dep keys as a second version of the band and the keyboard player would play guitar with the main band. I used to play mainly in the one that was all deps. it was good fun and zero pressure

I've just bought the second one to power my higher powered pedals plus I can also power my HB Powerplant using an extension out of the other end of the Iso-1. So only 1 mains cable to plug in. I also agree that despite always looking after my gear I prefer the sturdier iec mains lead to a smaller adapter

My Revelation Fretless. Absolutely love the sound of this. Sounds incredible but it just doesn't suit my style of playing

I thought for a brief moment that was a whammy bar then realised it was the bridge earth 😁

Is it actual grooves or just the snail trails that you have on the fingerboard? It normally takes years to wear grooves into fingerboards. It would be interesting to see how bad it is

For the preamp and pickup you should be using 25k pots. 500k pots are more normally used for passive humbuckers. I actually have no idea what effect 500k pots would have but I'm sure that someone will be along to explain. the Aguilar and EMG websites both specify 25k pots

I had to look up what an LT25 was but it's just a practice amp so any instrument cable will be fine. I use more expensive ones for gigging but the one I use in the house was a cheapy from amazon or Ebay with my Fender Rumble 25

I also had one of the active ones but the preamp went faulty so I replaced everything with EMGs and a 2 band BTC System EQ. Also managed to fit 2 9v batteries in the rear cavity by putting them in sideways. Fantastic bass and what started my love for EMG pickups Allegedly these basses also had the same neck as the Geddy Lee Jazz which had recently moved production from Japan to Mexico. It certainly was nice and slim. Certainly nothing beginner about these basses

I have both basses and both basses have been modified with different parts. Looking at them objectively as just a body and neck to modify then they're pretty much the same, the JB75 just looks cooler with the block inlays. They're both about the same weight - i.e. heavy but not too heavy to gig with. My JB75 was used as a test bass for a load of different parts before I had my Warmoth/Status bass made and I gigged it every weekend so it's good enough to gig. I did a few gigs with it in its original, straight from Thomann form and it was still pretty good. My JB20 is my practice bass for home and rehearsals and has a set of Tonerider pickups, Six String Supplies wiring loom, D'addario Chromes, LA Lakers Decal and Hipshot Licenced Ultralites fitted. All parts that I already had from years of modifying basses. One thing that I love about these basses is that they are worth next to nothing second hand so you won't be tempted to sell it further down the line and instead can get good use out of it knowing that it's going nowhere.

When I was buying vinyl around the late 80s I found that the quality had already begun to diminish where what was for sale was cheap wobbly plastic. This was compared to the old 60s and 70s vinyl I inherited from family members who no longer listened to records. Most of what I have been buying has been on at least 180gsm vinyl so it's super thick. Once you squeezed too many tracks onto one side of a record the quality diminished as well as the grooves couldn't be deep enough so there wasn't as much bass as there should have been. Again, some recent reissues have been spread over two discs rather than the original one. A lot of the reissues are also remasters so they're not just the same as what you'd buy on a CD. Having said that there are releases that sound terrible and that haven't had anything done to them to make them sound decent. One of my favourite Genesis albums is Duke so I bought that on vinyl - it's completely bereft of the fantastic grinding bass on Behind the Lines that is on the CD and MP3 releases. Conversely Mother's Milk by the Chilis is incredible. The first time I listened to it I could hear a lot more on the vinyl than I could on the CD and the quality is superb. Same with Fragile by Yes. Personally, I listen to MP3s about 80% of the time. I might stick on a CD once or twice a month. Vinyl is more about the experience than anything else. I love to make myself a big pot of coffee and just sit and chill listening to an album. I find it very therapeutic

As far as I remember the first one would be CTS 250k Solid Shaft made in June 2020 (week 25) but that doesn't answer whether they are audio or linear

I got one last week and really like it but there's one thing that annoys me about it: I wanted to take advantage of the active input as my bass has a hot output so thought that I'd run my effects through the effects loop and then output to my headphone monitor. I wanted the DI to be pre-eq so that I had control of my sound but the main FOH sound could be sorted out at the desk. If you set the DI as pre-eq then it also bypasses the effects loop so what I've done is rig up a simple box containing two jacks and a volume control so that I can reduce the level so that the effects and Eq isn't clipping then leave it set at that. I have loads of EMG quickconnect parts so I used them along with a 25k volume pot so no soldering required I know that I can reduce the level on my bass but there's a chance that I'll knock it whereas with the level control in the box I know that the volume on my bass will be the same The second annoying thing was that the original EQ pedal I had ordered from the USA went missing so I bought this, removed the feet, attached velcro and it's now stuck to my board. Turns out the original EQ pedal has been found and is now on the way to me so I don't know whether to sell this now as it's surplus to requirements and take a loss or keep it as an alternative EQ and dirt pedal I do really like this pedal and it does sound really good. I'm not really a fan of heavy overdrive but combining the FET and TUBE channels does make it sound a bit more meaty and add the all important heft to what is essentially an IEM mix. It might sound different through an amp but using IEMs the Tilt control just turns the sound from mud to thin and tinny with the slightest of touches in either direction

As soon as you fret a note you take the nut out of the equation. The nut would only be an issue if the string buzzed against the frets when playing an open string