Quatschmacher

They went within minutes. He did it three times at the end of December.

Finally, 13 months after I ordered one (and cancelled)!

I wonder if Jon has made a note somewhere and could tell me.

It’s a blessing and a curse. I’m driving myself nuts trying to nail down a nut width and corresponding 1st and 12th fret depth measurements. Trying to get my hands on a few more basses to get a better idea. What are your favoured dimensions?

Are you looking at the one in Bass Direct by any chance? I’m hoping to get to try that before I send Jon my final specs for my build.

I came across him only by looking into who wrote the original version of the track. My friend urged me to listen to this version, which has Joe Henderson tearing things up:

My discovery of today:

I might sell mine at some point…

Breath-controlled distortion pedal sounds like a great idea. This could easily be done with a Source Audio pedal and a MIDI breath controller.

How will these fare with touring musicians who need to fly? These are going to look funny in the liquids bag!

Finally a pedal designed to sound better when an audience member spills beer on it. Visions of a male guitarist visiting A&E with one of these attached to his Netherlands trying to explain that he was indeed only trying to fill it with liquid as he was “experimenting”.

Check your bass is set up properly too and you haven’t got really heavy strings on and/or really high action/high neck relief. There will be some discomfort until your fingertips build up some hard skin. I’d really recommend using double bass fingerings in the very first frets (fingers 1, 2 and 4 over a 3-fret space) as it’s a much more comfortable spacing, especially if you have a small hand span.

Any news on this @hiram.k.hackenbacker?

Some pedals track much better than others. Digital octavers track better than analogue in the main, but digital ones usually have a bit of latency compared to analogue. There are certain common dead spots on Fender-style basses, with C-Eb on the G string being the worst offenders; these cause tracking to be fairly iffy. The best-tracking analogue octavers I’ve tried are the MXR Vintage Bass Octave and Bass Octave Deluxe; Red Witch Zeus was also pretty close.

I know of another UK stockist who has one at £95, toying whether to buy it.

There is a tiny bit of audio bleed even when the FX knob is at zero; small but worth noting.