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I've dipped in and out of compressors fro the last few years, and I bought an Aphex Punch Factory (the older 1404 optical compressor) on here, and my OC2 and DOD FX25 are MUCH happier with the steady input that they receive after the compressor - particularly the envelope filter. I've got a DHA VT1 EQ on the board too, with I use for a little bit of grit (not sure that it's a noticeable amount of compression), but putting my compressor at the start of the signal chain has made a massive difference. I don't think I've turned it off since I put it on the board.

Solid, bare wood fingerboard 2 pickups. Offset body shape. Lovely, slinky neck profile. Fretless Jazz bass it is then!

[quote name='bobbass4k' timestamp='1457643273' post='3000635'] All you guys with immaculately neat boards are all Patrick Bateman-esque serial killers, right? [/quote] This. Sign of a disturbed mind.

Metallica '...And Justice For All' could have been one of the best double albums ever. If only it had some bass. Absolute madness I tell thee.

I could do you one on veroboard

Frank Zappa's 'Uncle Meat' works for me. Muse's 'The Resistance' is brilliant throughout too. Does Guns & Roses' 'Use Your Illusion 1&2' count as a double album? I remember listening to both albums and thinking that they'd have been better off scrapping half of those songs and releasing a single album.

Theodore Adorno wrote a paper claiming the exact same thing (homogenised, pseudo-individualistic product) in 1936. It's called 'On Jazz' and is well worth a read. Different schools of thought either vilify it or laud it, but it just goes to show that this undercurrent rejecting modern musical 'development' has been happening for a good long while...

Another Rick story here. Borrowed a mid 70's 4003 to run through an Ampeg stack to record with a few years back. Sounded awesome. Felt sh*t. Used a Jazz bass instead

[quote name='Lw.' timestamp='1456939559' post='2993825'] I use mine in both bands; sometimes just for EQing sometimes for OD - it's great! [/quote] ALWAYS for both!!!

Another very, very happy VT1-DI-EQ user here. I use mine as a rehearsal rig, as well as for every gig, so mine's got the aux in and headphone out sockets, but it's my 'go to' pedal for pretty much everything. The lead guitarist at the weekend complimented me on my 'Frank Bello' tone. I'll take that.

Yup, JapanAxe is correct - that's a 1/8" centre positive adaptor. If you've tried using an adaptor and got the polarity wrong (used a centre negative) then you might have blown the polarity protection diode on the mains socket, which would explain why it's not running on a mains adaptor. It's an analogue unit using a 3007 bucket bridge chip, so I reckon it's well worth keeping hold of.

I'd play fretless all the time, except that for my metal band I need the 'clank' of round wounds on the speed bumps.

[quote name='BigRedX' timestamp='1456428576' post='2988999'] If I was doing that I'd put in a new bridge earthing wire. Is the original even soldered to the bridge plate or just trapped between it and the body? [/quote] In defence of unsoldered bridge wires, it's not cost effective (or necessary) to solder to the bridge, as it's an enormous heat-sink, and you'll be at it for hours!

This is pretty cool, might be a bit fast, but it sounds ACE. https://youtu.be/Ux9405qQzao Oh, and it also sounds more like a flanger than a phaser, so I'm probably not helping….

As a bassist I'd try to sneak Led Zeppelin's 'The Lemon Song' into the set.

[quote name='dudewheresmybass' timestamp='1456398456' post='2988523'] The trouble with the p45 is the loss of volume. Mine gives a definite volume drop once engaged. My evh p90 doesn't lose any low, but won't do the edgy bit [/quote] Yeah, I seem to remember 'upping' a resistor at the output stage to bring it up to unity volume. Lovely phaser though.

MXR phase 45 - won't do dirty, but there's certainly no loss of low end. The phase 90s are good too, but a bit more 'full on' than the 45s (double the number of phase stages), you might need to blend two signals to get the sound though - one for each effect; that's often done on studio recordings

I've got a chorus on my board, but I have an aversion to using it when I play fretless - I don't think twice about it when I'm playing a fretted bass, but there's something that makes me want to avoid using it on the fretless. I think it's called 'taste'.

East pres are AMAZEBALLS - just whack one in your bass and you'll never look back.

I'd echo the advice for a good physiotherapist - mine pretty much saved my playing career.

Carl Kaye's books taught me more than anybody else's. I'm grateful for her taking the time to write them. I'd quite happily let her kick my arse - hell, I'd lend her my shoes!

Is that John Sykes on guitar as well?

yup. I don't box stuff up (or even wire the switch) until I know the build is sound.

[quote name='AndyTravis' timestamp='1455802081' post='2982554'] Sounds good to me. But I'm sure someone will point out that my bass isn't a piano. [/quote] I shouldn't worry; it's a bass - nobody will notice