Paddy777

I have found Parcelforce stuff often resets overnight - I have had some odd stuff come up on tracking before at night then it changes by the following morning/morning of delivery. I’d be down there too tbf - no point waiting about to be disappointed Thursday

Thanks for that! @Quatschmacher Yeh I’ve been wondering whether to order one, at that price I can spend an extra £100 and buy a REDDI from a guy local to me, or even run something like the Fliptop into a Small Trees, then I could swap the preamp out for diff flavours etc - it’s whether or not the Grand Slampegg is that good compared to the other offerings

I fancy a Plerthora X1 - I’ve got a TC BH800 head with two toneprint slots and there’s some very good FX you can use, stuff like phaser, flanger and all the modulation stuff that I don’t necessarily use enough to want to buy a separate pedal for but it’s very useful to have on tap as needed.

I’ve been saying this for ages - they’re a different class to a most, they’re IMO like the Quad Cortex captures really, certainly the IK ones are, the user generated captures are a mixed bag but it’s good they’re there as there is some really excellent ones

The Tonex is something that captures amps & cabs whereas the Zoom 60b is a pretty low end modeler - they’re not even in the same conversation tbf

Looks lovely, and I’d like to support him as he’s independent and seems a good dude but at £600 I couldn’t do it, I don’t think it would offer anything better than what it’s out there already for half the price, I’d love to try one tho. Also @Quatschmacher I believe he ships from the UK so no issue with taxes etc I don’t think

I actually wanted to buy the Fliptop as I’ve been after one for ages, but decided that I’ll wait and get one of these instead!

It’s really useful, you could almost leave it on all the time, but then it loses its effect at accenting (if that’s the right word), but it’s seriously good, I’m still gonna run a 2nd octave for the more standard octave sounds as well

I’m the same - I think I’m going to order it the next time I have the money spare

Yeh I second this re: the Octamizer, it doesn’t really do OC2 but what it does do is its own distinct versions of it really I’ve just got this amazingly useful octave from Fteletronica in Italy, it’s a super subtle octave that just thickens things up for solos/choruses etc - so useful live! I had been using the Octamizer to do this, but this Sub Octave does the job perfectly - tracks all the way down to Low D on a 5 as well! (Apologies for the crappy photo). Highly recommend

US G&L L1000 is my current P-Bass, as someone else said I think pickup placement is more important than type as I get great P tones from this (could even get an L2000 tribute and just run the front pickup if you want to do it on a budget - sounds much the same, front pickup is in the same place and looks nothing like a P-bass!)

Does anyone on here have/had flats on a BBP35 and if so how did you find it especially the low B? I’m seriously looking at getting one if I can find one at a decent price. I was just wondering how it was with flats on - I’ve found low B’s problematic on 5’s when I’ve strung them with flats and I’ve heard mixed reports on how good it is on the BBP35

I really fancy a BB2004 PJ actually, there’s a BB2005 for sale on eBay/FB Marketplace for £1100 currently but it doesn’t seem to be moving - I’d honestly be surprised if you would get 1500 but it’s worth what someone will pay - if one came up cheap-ish I’d be all over it, they’re both beautiful basses either way!

OD is way down on my list of importance for effects, but I know a decent subtle drive can be excellent but I struggle to find one I really like. This and the Creation Audio Grizzly are both on my list - I may well end up with both as one will likely run always on and the other be a heavier saturation as needed. My price conditioning for drive pedals is also a bit weird - I have no issue spunking £300+ on a preamp I only use occasionally or £500 on a bass I only play at home for fun but lives in the rack 99% of the time, but then balk at £275 on a drive pedal?! I know it’s strange, I must just not place much value on it - I must admit tho the Subspace is the first OD that’s really got my GAS going and made me want to spend the money on it

I’ve been interested in getting a Subspace - looks a great pedal! I saw Ian King using it on a YouTube video he did about his pedalboard for his BBC NYE show and I’ve been down a YouTube rabbit hole on it a couple of times, I really fancy one

Happy days! I’ll not be so lucky, but at least I know what to expect, £80 is about what it came to using the calculation from @Quatschmacher anyway. So at £400 would you say it’s worth the money?

That’ll do me - I haven’t bought any pedals from abroad (I’ve got one coming from Italy next week but it seems to have just gone straight through customs - it was only €110 though) but I just wanted to be sure what I was paying. Not sure if I’ll use the Slampegg as a stand alone preamp or run something else like the Starlifter into it and use it more like a DI.

@JohnR - I’m interested in ordering one of these, how much did you have to pay on top of the purchase price to get it through customs? How are you finding it - how are you using it etc?