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Regrettably, I feel I have no choice but to leave negative feedback regarding my experience. I purchased an EMG P-Bass pickup via bank transfer based on Stevie's positive feedback here. He informed me that the item had been posted and provided a Royal Mail tracking number. However, the item never arrived, and the Royal Mail tracking status remains stuck on, "We're expecting it. The sender has advised they have dispatched your item to Royal Mail. More information will be available once we have received and scanned it into our network." I've tried to resolve this issue through direct messages and social media, but despite some communication, many of my messages have gone unanswered. At times, I've been left waiting for weeks or even months for a response. Unfortunately, the situation remains unresolved. I am now out of pocket, with no pickup, no refund and still no response from Stevie in almost three months, and feel it necessary to warn other forum members about my experience.

Great for that solo Plutonium Jazz set

Oh wow this is exciting 6 new bass amps is an absolute gift

No to be fair I need to get round to this

It's pretty fing cool, if I was using my C4 more I would be chomping at the bit for one of these especially as I love some bit crushing. As it is this is the kick up the but I need to get the source audio midi adapter so I can hook up my Boss Gt-1000 to the C4 and start making use of it more again. For now will have to stick with my hotline krush for all my bit crushing delights.

Was this the closest guess before the additional clues came out? I mean this in an entirely complimentary way.

Signal chain is Korg Pitchblack tuner > Source Audio C4 Input/Output 1 > Boss GT-1000 Core Input GT-1000 Send 1 > Boss OC-2 > GT 100 Return 1 GT-1000 Snd2 > Myrtle Pedals Corvid Fuzz > Hotone Krush > C4 In/Out 2 > GT-1000 Rtn2 Boss GT-1000 Left Output > Citronix PPX450 (or whatever bass amp venue/headliner provides) Boss GT-1000 Right > DI front of house The signal processing and EQing in the Boss is pretty complex, I have multiple split paths running essentially giving me separate processing over three bands everything below 80hz, and everything above 2.5hz, mostly clean or octave effects, some compression, natural amp sim and blend of cab IR and direct signal, everything above everything above 80hz goes through a guitar amp sim and IR with the drives and distortions applied. As well as up to 4 blocks or parametric or graphic equalisation that i can place in the signal chain in the boss's routing it also has a stereo master EQ section so I can EQ the left output to my amp and leave the front of house DI flat. New Strings will be on order as soon as i get paid (I'm a skinflint so normally wait to upgrade before any recording sessions or big gigs) any recommendations for steels that balance price and longevity

Current strings are super slinkies just coming up to 6 months old, was using D'addario NYXL before that. Have had consistent EQ for the last 4/5 years, I tend to bring the treble down notch when strings are brand new and within a couple of weeks it'll be back up. Initially I was running a berhinger BDI21 (sansamp clone) as floorboard preamp into the FX return/power amp in of various practice room spaces house amps. I would run the BDI pretty high if not maxed out on treble at times and bass in about 11 0'clock sometimes lower. Then we got our own practice space so I got a old Citrinix PPX 450 power amp into a Peavey 410 tx (tweeter between 60% and 100%) and then replaced the BDI and a fair few other pedals with the Boss Gt-1000 core. i still run treble and presence fairly high on the amp Sims but not full anymore. I've also run my Core through studio mons and a full range PA to sound check my settings and have maintained fairly consistent results across those. Live the Boss goes direct to front of house. Did a hearing test about 2/3 years ago last which showed no major issues which I was fairly surprised by given the couple of decades to abuse they'd got by then. Irony is when I played guitar I was a little treble averse and all about that low end chunky distorted sound. I don't think it's a hearing issue as it's about the sound for me, I'm not boosting treble when mixing our vocalists or setting the eq on the hi-fi in my car but it is the sound I want/like for this particular band/musical project for my bass.

What sort of benefits do the active blend and tone control upgrades deliver Vs the EMG's into passive controls and using the EQ on my pedal board?

I play a MIM Jazz with I think stock pickup and what I think is a parts P Bass with some powered by Lace pickups that seem to have a bit of distortion or clipping when the volume is full. For the last few years to get he sound I was after in my bands I've been boosting the treble heavily. Initially with a berhinger BDI21 I had the treble almost dimed and bass as 11, it would always get very noisy at these settings. now I'm running a Boss GT-1000 core and my amp settings on there are usually still pretty high for treble and presence, the noise level is not as bad as the BDI but even with smart noise getting it's an irritation. I have been considering upgrading the pickups or electronics as a way to get the sound I desire with better signal to noise ratio. I've been watching a fair amount of videos for ideas of which ones may get me the sound I am after but it hards to find videos of them being compared to each other so if anyone has any experience of some of these I'd appreciate your thoughts. Bill Lawrence/Wilde J46 Lace aluma J Dimarizo Relentless J Seymour Duncan Apollo Jazz EMG active J While a general extended tonality is desirable I'm mainly wanting to not loose any low end while increasing treble and reducing noise. I'd like to avoid needing batteries but if it gives the best results I'll get with it.

This pedal is such underrated gem, the filters are tuned so perfectly, with just the the low knob on it gives you a perfect EQ for Dub bass, pair it with an octave pedal and i think it would challenge most meatboxes for speaker destroyer of the year

The Vintage Deluxe slightly spoils the the cool goth style going their

For low gain for bass I actually think the Barber Half-Gainer is the ultimate pedal if slightly overkill It's based on the Barber LTD which is a dedicated low gain unit with very transparent but sweet drive Not only does it add a channel so you have two drive settings but a very versatile Bandaxall style Tone control (Neutral at 12:00, treble cut and bass boost to the left and Bass Cut treble boost to the right)a dedicate Mid's/Character Control that gives either mid cut or boost with changes to freq point and curve and internal trim pots one for presence and Bass. Only fault I had with it was it was slightly big pedal (although hardly much bigger than fulldrive just orientated differently) Actually think this was one of the most underrated overdrive pedals of all time and that Barber is a lost hero of the boutique world. It's a shame it's now discontinued. As someone extremely sensitive to low end or sub loss from overdrive pedals this pedal was perfect as I could dial it in to be essentially a completely transparent drive which simple added gain to the bass signal presented (which ironically takes a fair amount of eq adjustment) or a very wide range of overdrive sounds from scooped to mid-boosted. For low gain it was simply the best option in my mind.

I think the main thing that grated on me with the Boss approach was the uniform parameters given across amps/distortion blocks that make it feel a little limited compared to other systems like you have a SVT with no deep control, no selectable mid's etc and there's no indication what sort of tone stack they are modelling, but the EQ blocks do allow most of that to be overcome. To my ears the Concert model does what I want mainly which is give some tube like feel and high end roll off to make fuzz and drive sing and little colour/flavour to the sound that more flat DI's or Modern Hi-Fi Bass Amps lack. I even tried 3rd party IR's recommended in a number of places but felt it was better with the original speaker sim, I don't know if that's cos of the output select matching it better with my cab or cos I tweaked the mic options and placement to my taste.