acidbass

Hey Dicey! Welcome to the forum. Plenty of guys from this side of the water on here

Just caught their Radio 1 Big Weekend set (the full thing is on Youtube) and was very impressed, having never seen/heard them before. Lovely polished pop music with a bit of an interesting dynamic.

I boost a little bass and a little treble on the amp and just use the tone control to suit. Flats give me the perfect tone with very little work.

How's the tone? Looks great! Did you get hit with customs/import duty etc?

There is quite simply no way the fingerboard wood on a fretted bass could possibly make a difference to tone IMO. The strings never touch the fingerboard wood along the entire speaking length of the string i.e. from nut (or fret) to bridge. Metal strings touch metal frets and vibrate in the pickups' magnetic field, and that's it. I can see how fretless boards possibly might affect tone or sustain, but certainly not on fretted instruments.

There are really not too many giggable options under £300 new but if I could snag a Sire passive or a Squier CV bass I would be relatively happy.

I am surprised he made it through that tour alive! By all accounts - an absolute weapon.

Wow, I never knew this was his playing. Cool!

Very nice. Just had a look at their website - tempted by one of the Apollo Pro basses in white. Looking forward to hearing your thoughts!

I've had quite a few basses shipped to me here in NI with Parcelforce and DHL and all have arrived safely and without any hiccups.

Sounds like a toxic environment. I would run for the hills.

I love La Bella 760FS on a Jazz every bit as much as a Precision. They are a mainstay on all my J basses bar one which has rounds.

Any other users? I was backstage at Metallica this past weekend and played one of Rob's basses through a Fractal AX8 - the tone was unbelievable! Making me rethink my setup. I'd love to try an FM9.

Can you organise and promote your own gig at one of these rural venues? Might be the start of a regular gig and will help increase your profile locally.

It's a fairly uninspiring tone by itself but in the context of the material it is just perfect. A common theme with P basses actually!

I didn't think I would ever need more than 4 per side when I had UE11s, but then when I got JH Roxannes (12 per side) the difference in clarity was simply incredible. So I wouldn't write them off

https://www.music-man.com/instruments/families/basses/darkray

I can definitely recommend the ZS10s as a good universal fit earbud. Better IMO than similar brands at twice and 3x the price.

Bass Direct for me. I think I ordered tuners from Thomann once too.

Marshall amps are still a right of passage for young guitarists but the days of needing 100w+ amps are diminishing exponentially. The same can be said for backline in general I guess.

Hi all Just a note of a positive experience with Hipshot that I had lately I bought a Supertone bridge for my Gibson SG Bass that simply would not intonate correctly - I could get it close, but not exact. This was due to the intonation bridge screws not being short enough. I needed to lengthen the string a bit further than they allowed, which wasn't possible as the saddles are closed and therefore can only be moved back to the limit of the screw (probably not explaining this correctly!) I contacted Hipshot and they sent me four shorter intonation screws for free which solved the problem. Probably not going to break the bank for them but it's nice to see they care and were very helpful. Hope this helps someone in future Danny

I'm beginning to think that the 'Low and High Cut' EQ block is more or less essential to great tone with the Helix. I have the Low Cut set at 50hz and the High Cut at 7khz and it makes the sound so much cleaner, especially before effects such as compressor and octave. I use two 1x10 cabs for onstage monitoring and the drivers seem to work so much more efficiently because of the lack of boom and rumble. To my mind, the EQ block works so much better than the Global EQ (at the cost of a block in the signal chain of course) Does anyone know the specs of these blocks - i.e. how much rolloff per octave they offer? Line 6 don't seem to specify this in the manuals and I can't find it on the forums. I see pedals such as the Broughton HPF offering 12db reduction per octave and imagine it's something comparable, but would really like to know as it has become a key component of my tone and I'm a geek about these things TIA Danny

Welcome Daniel! I love Belgium and have played many gigs there. Great country and I love the moules frites! Enjoy the forum

Yeah I was worried but I sort of bought the bass to use on TV as I wanted something a bit esoteric! It worked out great

Lol! Yeah I thought I had them tightened enough but clearly not! I guess a hidden benefit of the compressor