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Clips please.

By that token I could buy another bass as I sold one last weekend.

Bum. I wanted to try this one too. Lovely. Congrats.

Glad to hear it. would definitely like to try this before sending my specs to Jon. You didn’t happen to try the white fender jazz deluxe that has now reappeared did you? Wondering if it’s any good, given someone has obviously returned it.

Correct, you need to plug a bass, keyboard or sequencer into it. 😆

Actually maybe not as I’ve signed up to the gear abstinence thread. 😱

Isn’t that this? Certainly brings the bottom end!

Not sure what the aim is here. This is an effects discussion on a bass forum so I think you’re unlikely to convince anyone of bass effects’ uselessness per se. 🙂 Sure, there’s plenty of music where effects aren’t needed or would be unwelcome/sound out of place. By the same token, there are many settings where a judicious use of effects contributes musically, even holding down the low end. Thankfully there’s a place for all these approaches. (Most of my gigging has been without effects, but I have managed tasteful use thereof in some settings where they wouldn’t normally be heard much and it went down brilliantly with the audience.)

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Resonance is a gain boost centred around the frequency of the filter cutoff, the higher it is, the more of a peak there is. On some equipment, when resonance is high enough, the filter self-oscillates so that you get an additional sine wave pitched at the cutoff frequency. In gear where the filter cutoff can track the input at 100% then you can play this as an extra oscillator.

Just launched: https://www.sourceaudio.net/zio-analog-front-end-boost.html

This and many other tracks indicate otherwise. 🙂

I’m hoping to get to try it at the weekend.

You’re welcome. I had to go through it the first time I imported a bass from the USA (back when £1=$2). Effects pedals don’t have their own HMRC category so I was looking under “electrical musical instruments which require amplification”.

Still a few purple filters missing from that collection!

If it features a McMillen 12 Step Program, count me in! https://www.keithmcmillen.com/products/12-step/

Thanks. Not sure how long I’ll last though.

I might be tempted to take part in this, though depends if my midibass I ordered in 2019 actually gets made and sent this year. I suspect the Shuker I started the order for last year but has yet to be given the final nod will disqualify me. I had a good start and resisted the temptation to blow loads on a new synth on Monday even though I had a generous discount voucher. However, it might all fall apart if I cave and order a new Rhodes. As for pedals etc., I get a fair few now for beta testing so don’t buy many. I only bought two all last year, and I sold one of those on within 24 hours (rather than returning it).

Not to throw a spanner in the works, but I saw this and immediately thought of you: https://www.bassdirect.co.uk/bass_guitar_specialists/Shuker_P4.html

As regards import costs, you can easily work out in advance what it will cost using the HMRC website, which has a list of goods categories. It’s 20% of the declared value in Import VAT plus the Customs Duty (which varies depending on category of the item, around 2.5% at most) plus about £12 fee to Royal Mail for paying the fees on your behalf. For reference, a $279 pedal + $35 shipping cost me about £308 all in, though it depends on the exact exchange rate, which you can also look up. I haven’t ever had chance to play an OC-2 yet.

I managed to score one and got it on Friday. It’s a couple of years since I sold my MKII so can’t compare directly. From memory it seem to do all the things I loved about it in a smaller enclosure. Tracking might be slightly better, though I don’t have the same bass I had back then, so it’s difficult to know for sure. What I have noticed is that it tracks my J bridge pickup really well. The differences compared to my MXR VBO really come out when running into a Mastotron, the the response varies hugely depending on which of my two basses I use. With the lower-output Fender P, it sounds so fat, whereas using the higher-output Lakland P it sounds weedy. The MXR sounds better on the Lakland.