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MM Stingray Jazz Fretless Jazz Do I really have to choose 5? ok, and another two Stingrays as a backup! (Fine, make one of those a 5-string if you insist )
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Take a look at the OCD clones as well. Joyo make one (Ultimate Drive) and Eno Music have another (DSO-2, with a big cheeky and even shameful OCD label on the top too) in a very small sized pedal. The Joyo was around £30 and the EnoMusic was £23 or so, I think. I like the EnoMusic a little better, but they're extremely similar. They will do well very mild OD, nearly clean, and get into pretty distorted territory if you want it to.
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Good compressor under £100? I like the EBS Multicomp a lot... yeah, it's more than £100, but used can be bought for £80-100.
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[quote name='fretmeister' timestamp='1375437173' post='2161193'] I'm not sure it is. I use a Voodoo Labs Pedal Power 2. Lost of money, but fully isolated and silent. And more to the point - would I be paying for more than £150 worth of batteries over my playing life? Definitely. At about £5 for a Duracell 9V that is only 30 batteries cost. If you really are only going to use 1 pedal, then I'd say the Visual Sound One-Spot. That is a great bit of kit. Massive 1700mA capacity, well made and quiet. The only pedals that it seems to have issues with are Line 6 stomp boxes. Bit noisy on them for some reason. [/quote] +1 A good power supply is a must, for me. I don't like the idea of depending on batteries for my pedals, and a power supply is something you keep "for life", to power whatever pedals you may want to use... For me it's worth getting a decent one. So what if one of the pedals I want to power cost me £10? Or £100? What does it matter? Whatever it is, I want it to sound good.
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I have my eye on one of these things, closely watching the classifieds... especially since I read something about the ability to power this pedal via USB, unless I misunderstood. Has anybody tried that? THat would be really amazing for me. I have a QTX QR10PA battery powered mini-PA thingy that I use to run my bass through for busking. It works reasonably well. EQ is limited and the sound is not amazing, but it works more than adequately. It has a USB slot... and if I could use it to power the Zoom, then that would be perfect as I can use it as an EQ pedal and tuner (and even FX if I wanted to, although when busking we keep it simple)... Is that possible? Or is the USB on the Zoom only for shuttling data?
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This is an old made in USA EHX BassBalls, not the "nano" version, slightly larger box and input/outputs at the top of the pedal, rather than on the sides. This pedal has been modified to give access to the internal trimpots via two separate knobs fitted on the top, labelled by hand as "Hi" and "Lo", controlling the individual filters. This makes this pedal much more versatile than in its original form. It's one of my favourite pedals, the only reason I am selling this is because I just purchased the nano version, with the same modifications, and the nano fits in my pedalboard while this one was just a little too big and the input/outpus on top made it awkward to fit in my particular set up... so I ended up adding it outside the board. But the nano will fit just fine This could be yours for £40, including delivery. The lettering on top is slightly worn in places due to use, but it's in great condition otherwise. It has a bit of velcro at the bottom. Here is a (not very good) demo of this old pedal, minus modification: [media]http://youtu.be/86VbDeMQom4[/media] I only found a couple of videos (by the same guy) of the modified version, but they are very poor as demo, you can't really hear what the controls do in those videos, unfortunately.
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Excellent condition, like new except it has velcro at the bottom. Twin filter thingamabob with switchable distortion, yay! £35 including postage a demo to give you an idea of what it does, in case you don't know already: [media]http://youtu.be/KSrypyu7M1A[/media] and another: [media]http://youtu.be/S5SH5972Epo[/media]
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[quote name='Musky' timestamp='1375428451' post='2161001'] With Overdrive and Reverb, is that not a guitar amp? [/quote] I think it is. A Cube, not a "Bass Cube".
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[quote name='krazy_olie' timestamp='1375442911' post='2161384'] So erm, turns out it was the lead. Was also getting a very low output from my passive Fender. [/quote] How can the lead be the culprit, when you said the volume drop depended on your switching the preamp on/off? But if you're sure it works fine now... great!
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[quote name='PauBass' timestamp='1375394060' post='2160822'] I think I'm joining the Bare Club too very, very soon ...I don't know how I'm going to cope with the wait, I've always had everything bought on a next day delivery basis. [/quote] I may be able to suggest something to help with the wait... expect PM very soon
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I would think so. With the gain all the way down there is no distortion that I can hear, and you can boost it quite a bit. How clean it is it may depend on the bass. I have not noticed any distortion with any guitar/bass... I'll check with my L2000, which has to be the hottest output bass I ever owned... Right... since I was at home, I just spent the last 20min playing with this pedal and tweaking things. Gain and level controls are interactive, where increasing gain results in an increase of volume, especially in the first third of its travel. With the G&L L2000: Gain fully anticlockwise: entirely clean. You do have a bit of boost available from the level control, but not a huge amount. Turning the gain control even a tiny bit clockwise results in noticeable distortion. The L2000 is HOT!. Then I tried a Stingray (actually a USA MM SUB from 2006, but essentially a 2EQ Stingray, same pickup and preamp etc): Again entirely clean with the gain fully anticlockwise. You can turn up the gain *a little* without adding noticeable distortion, which results in quite a bit of clean boost available. The distortion that this pedal produces is very gradual, so even when I could hear a little bit of grit kicking in, it would still be "clean" in a live setting. Last, a Jazz bass, passive with Seymour Duncan SJB2 pickups: Here, you can turn the gain nearly to 50% before you can hear the distortion appearing. It is a very gradual subtle increase, and by 60-70% it's noticeable distorted, if softly so. Turn it up to 100% and you get a clear overdrive (nothing crazy like Motorhead or anything like that, 'though). With the Jazz it worked the best, because it gave the largest amount of clean boost available and also the widest tonal variation, since the focus control only really works when you turn up the gain. So, as a mild overdrive... any bass would do. I think it works best with a Jazz (probably a P, etc). I bought it and used it initially with a Jazz, and that was good. With higher output basses you get into "clearly overdriven" territory faster, and can produced more distorted sounds more easily. The G&L L2000 distorted the minute you turned the gain up away from fully anticlockwise... so it varies. I prefer it with my Jazz. As a clean boost... the lower the output of the bass, the better this pedal would work as it would give you a wider range where you can adjust it. In order to get a large volume boost, you need to turn up the gain control at least 20 degrees or so, and you need a lower output bass to allow you to do that cleanly: The L2000 would be out of question. The Stingray works well, but it's the Jazz that gave me the largest amount of clean boost... I hope this helps a bit!
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[quote name='apa' timestamp='1375338452' post='2159861'] Do you deliver? BTW email to follow and parcel received and already well played A [/quote] Glad you got it alright! I post it on my way to the airport. I had finished packing in the morning, I had about 40min before the taxi was due... and I saw the box of CDs and thought "it's got to be NOW, or I'll never post this!!!".
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[quote name='alexclaber' timestamp='1375263951' post='2158917'] If you want your cab to stay looking pretty, get a cover! Functionally the chips won't bother it in the slightest, though we're using a harder tougher plywood now. The cloth is bombproof - you could build trampolines from it: The plywood frame it's on will crack before you get a hammer through it, as some recent impromptu tests proved... [/quote] "impromptu tests" tell me you have that on video, please!
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[quote name='Beer of the Bass' timestamp='1375213228' post='2158362'] Yeah, I'm a fan of that sort of thing! I can see how the metal grille would look better matched under your Markbass combo though. [/quote] I was not worried about looks, it was more about it being more solid that way. I am generally careful but accidents happen... Remember Kelburn... I let my Stingray drop to the floor when my concentration was elsewhere (suddenly I could not find my amp lead!)...
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[quote name='Beer of the Bass' timestamp='1375203439' post='2158117'] Ooh, nice. Did you go for the cloth or metal grille? [/quote] I think I will disappoint you: metal. You'd have liked the cloth one better, wouldn't you?
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My Compact arrived and is finally with me! I was only able to try it at home at low volumes so I cannot tell what it'll be like, but it's promising... and I love the weight (or lack thereoff!)
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You will get an email when it's posted. No email = it has not been posted. I paid the balance for my Compact in mid July, when it was requested. I sent an email asking to please avoid delivery during the 2 weeks I would be away on holiday. It was delivered while still on holiday I was sent an email saying the cab was shipped and would be with me the following day. I had to wait until today to pick it up... but it's with me now and I like what I see/hear.
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[quote name='lefrash' timestamp='1374947852' post='2155157'] This is his criteria: 4 strings nothing weirdly shaped he is learning slap, and is really digging that style (not just a fad, he's been practicing for a while) like the musicman style pickup sound. Was looking at the squire VM jazz. I'm pretty stuck as I've not been in the bass buying market for a while, so what do you recommend? I said go 2nd hand, but what is good for £350 these days? I also thought about something with an active pickup if he really wants to get that slap bass tone. He might even be along as I suggested coming here for a wee browse. Fraser. [/quote] For £350? And a MusicMan pickup sound? A MusicMan SUB, second hand. The USA made ones between 2003-2006 (black back of the neck, black headstock, slab body and textured paint job), not the newer Sterling by MusicMan ones (although they are not horrible). I can't think of better value for money than a USA MM SUB, really. They can be found for £350. If budget can be stretched to £400, then it will be easy to find one, as they tend to go for 350-400. I own a Stingray and two SUBs, there really isn't any difference other than cosmetics etc. They are the real thing.
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[quote name='steve-bbb' timestamp='1374664451' post='2151430'] just make it up ... nobody listens to the bass anyways [/quote] I joked like that sometimes, but it's probably more true than I thought. I was shown today a video from a song we played recently at a festival. Nice edit from two cameras that were moving about even onstage. Clear basslines... but I made sooo many mistakes. I had the amp of one of the guitarists blasting at my ear level, on top of my amp. I could not hear myself and was struggling to follow the song. At one point I lost it, could not tell whether we were on a verse, a chorus, or one of the several other changes this song had, because even the guitar sounded pretty indistinct from where I was. So the video turns out ok, sound is fine, you can hear everything... and... whops, there I go off the tracks. I mention on whatsapp something like "nice video, buy I cringe about my basslines". And both a guitarist and the guy who edited the video said they did not notice anything and that it sounded good... the video guy said that he did not notice any timing errors... And that's the thing, I think. As long as you keep time, you can get away with a lot of note mistakes!