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Yes, the TC Electronic Plethora X5 seems to be wading in the same waters, I'll have to go for a snout to see how each measure up. I guess I ought to have a chat with Darkglass and have one over for review, right?

Hello from the USA. Like a few others lately I've found Talkbass to be a little heavy handed lately. To many mods to easily offended by nothing. Anyway I'm an old guy, started playing in 1966 and gave up the band business around 1996. I'm a home player now. I enjoy modding and putting together parts basses. Currently my amp/cab setup consists of an old GK800RB, a newer Ampeg PF350 both going though one or two old Cavin RL115's. I play mostly Fender and Fender style parts basses including a 66 jazz bass in purchased in 68 which is my baby. At moment though I've been playing a old OLP MM2 that I modded for the last 3 months or so. It's a good one. Anyway, here I am.

The fact that they have brought on board Neural Amp Modeller is very interesting! I've been using the Open Source application for quite some time, from release I suppose. It's profiling abilities are really rather good and "Steve Ack", the chap behind the application could have charged for it over and over it is that good, but chose to keep to a "free for all" license. A user led repository already has a huge amount of bass gear captures (usual guidelines apply regarding the caprturing process) https://www.tone3000.com/search?search=bass&q=bass . Quad Cortex's user uploads are pretty huge too, so having the option of either is nothing but a good thing - though I wonder if there will be cross-compatibility between Neural DSP and Darkglass. In a funny sort of way, they kinda compete, but then, don't?

I really and truly will ever understand why anyone would buy a (ripoff) bass from AliExpress. There are a gazillion arguments against buying from Ali, Temu, Shein and the works, and only one pro:

Just spotted the comment. Just to let you know the pedal and I are still together despite it being a cheesey Valentine's Day thing. 😍 I'm completely out now - as detailed above - as I've had an ongoing affair with an Ibanez 5er. The pedal is happy with our relationship. 🤣

The golden age of buying from the USA was in the late 1980s when you got about 1.8 dollars your pound and shops in the States were packed with great gear. Nowadays the world is a smaller place, and international shopping is far more common. . Give the potential pitfalls, it makes no sense to save a couple of bob buying equipment from the USA unless it's stuff that is otherwise unavailable in the UK. There's more to consider than the sticker price on the goods, and so much hassle it would have to be something special to peak my interest.

It does look mighty impressive but being an old skool bassist, even the Helix HX Stomp seems too fiddly for me so this totally blows my brain. It does look bloody brilliant but I'll stick with my Sansamp, Compressor, OC5, Chorus, Reverb, Tuner pedal and bit of foam under the strings 🤣

Minnesota. Same difference though. I hung out a bit with Ian last year. Nice bloke, knows his s**t, grooves hard and knows his HX Stomp like the back of his hand! He's also huge - I'm 6'1, and he was a good couple of inches bigger than me! He's a big fan of Mike Lull basses, which aren't a million miles away from the Sadowsky template - souped-up Jazzes, basically. I guess it's a case of picking what feels right in your hands. (that's the Minnesota state flag on his hat, by the way...)

The BB1600 - I regret selling that over any other bass. It was exactly as per TK’s - I even used to buy GHS boomers for it because I’m a sad little fanboy. I will say, a well set up 414 is comparable…but doesn’t feel as nice.

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Robbie sometimes does gigs around your area playing with Hamish Stuart from the Average White Band. He’s a great player, saw him with his own band years ago with Pino on bass.

Noice That'll look well in a 50's show. Congrats!

I sold Clarky my Shift Line Flex last night. Payment arrived under an hour after I listed it. All sorted with zero faff and has been posted off today. Many thanks. Hope you enjoy it, it’s a lovely pedal.

Oh dear. Tier 1 fail. At least I lasted longer than last year.

You Burrata You Bet - The Who

I just took delivery of a Harley benton PB50. I'm doing a 50s Rock'n'Roll show and have used my HB Beatbass up till now. It's fine soundwise, but the 14mm string spacing, while doable is overall a bit meh. Also, while looking at the media stuff running on the screens behind us, I noticed that, when not playing upright, they were all playing (surpise, surprise) 50s p-basses. The clue is in the name, right? Also, I wanted more of the brash 50s youth look (cars with fins n'all that) than vintage p-bass. The irony of the fact that I am in my late 50s and no longer a youth is of no relevance here 🤨 Soooooo, that's how I justified this purchase to myself. I swapped out the delivered roundwounds for HB Flats, did a bit of work on the action and Bob's your aunty's live in lover. It's loads of fun. Can't wait to do the show on Friday

Well, looks like you can do quite a lot with it. Maybe the one stop solution for gigging musicians? However, too much of an overkill for a bedroom player like me. Also too many buttons, switches, screens etc. So, I guess for me, the old school guy and hobbyist, I'll stick with ANALOG instead of ANAGRAM 😉

By lightweight flightcase I mean something akin to the SKB iSeries - Almost all my gigs are fly aways - SKB iSeries cases are much lighter than my traditional plywood and metal angle flightcases (and have wheels as a bonus) - this is important for airline baggage allowances. I use an SKB iSeries for my EBMM Sterling and my Precisions - I believe they're not wide enough for a Schecter Corsair bass.