bassist_lewis

OG 3Leaf Octabvre for the win! Is that a standard size board or did you build your own? I'm getting a Noble later this year and it seems to make planning a board really awkward.

Nailed that tone

Thanks! 😃

We spent the last year and a half recording, mixing etc., and we decided to put it out today. Its on Bandcamp and YT, but won't be on streaming for another week (they don't tell you that at the start!). Thanks for watching!

My friend just spent £100 on a 6 string set of flats!

I've just re-remembered the Walrus Audio Kangra, which is a filter/fuzz all in one. The demos sound pretty good.

Built-in fx loop is just the ticket! Put the Diabolik through it and it's exactly what I was looking for.

I have a Chromatron so I'll try that. There's just something magic about the Moog though...

Dammit! The B:Assmaster is annoyingly huge.

I like putting a fuzz into an envelope filter. It sounds synthy and cool. but I've noticed that not all fuzzes behave in the same way, even with the same filter. My B:Assmaster is the best, triggering the filter in just the right way to get that distinct vowel sound. But any other of my fuzzes and it just doesn't quite work. Even my Diabolik, which is just a paired down version of the B:Assmaster, doesn't hit the filter in the same way. If I turn up the volume on my Jupiter it kind of works, but then its impossibly loud. Anyone able to give some insight?

I've owned and still own quite a few filters, but the my One True Filter Love is the Moog MF-101. It's quite limited compared to say the 3Leaf Chromatron, it's huge, it needs a centre positive power supply, it only goes up, it only has 2 attack settings, no decay control, its low pass only and its got a very coloured (though not bad sounding) buffer. But it just sounds incredible. Out of interest, is there a filter out that sounds like the Moog but in a pedalboard friendly box?

Yeah, they don't offer it on their website, I pestered them specially 😂 I'm really enjoying it, though still to try it on a gig. I would say that the switch on the OCD does a lot more than the switch on The Crook. On this it adds a bit of top end but it's not very noticeable.

I've added and swapped around a bunch of pedals in the last few months, the biggest change being adding a tuner pedal (always used a clip-on before).

Just received this in the post this morning. I saw it on the JHS Show about a month ago and asked about international shipping, which they said they couldn't do. However, a couple of weeks ago they emailed and gave me a quote and barely £100 later (that's including postage) here it is. It sounds great, does a really nice low gain drive but also gets really aggressive and almost fuzz-like at the top of the gain knob. To me it sounds a bit like an OCD but with the gain range of a JPTR FX Tesla Wolf. You can also dial in more low end (Lay Low) but so far I haven't felt the need.

Had the JMJ for 4 years, never had neck dive

I use big wooden hard cases for my amps so I put mine on top of those.

I've always been a bit miffed by bass players who take a second instrument to gigs. I've done hundreds of gigs over the years and never once needed a back-up.

I currently own three, with a fourth on the way. From 2015 to 2018 I only had one, my Callowhill MPB 5 string, which is still my main bass as it does pretty much everything. I got the JMJ Mustang and the Nordstrand Acinonyx because I liked the sound. Both are very different to the Callowhill, more unique and less versatile. The Callowhill is still my workhorse, and I used the JMJ for one band in particular for a few years but that's now folded. I just like having the option of different sounds for recordings or gigs.

I saw this go up the other day and was not surprised when it had gone less than 24 hours later. Proper beauty.

Is there an option for playing in a bunch of wedding bands while also playing with an original artist and my own original project? And sometimes doing odd bits of recording?

genius

Yeah, I agree with you there. But has something changed in the last few years to make cash flow an issue? Surely in the Before Times iron Ether/3Leaf would build a stock of pedals and sell them, rather than insist on pre-sale?

From the builder's perspective, they're taking a big risk to buy parts and spend time building without any certainty that they're going to sell. My understanding is that independent builders are working on pretty low profit margins, despite the price per unit, and from what I've heard/read that's the case across the board.

I'm guessing they've all been sold already coz I can't find an option to buy one 😔

If the thing you like the most is the cheap Squier then play it. My favourite/main bass is a handmade Callowhill 5-string. It cost me about £1300 (it was a much more favourable GBP-USD exchange rate back then), but I also have a Fender JMJ Mustang and a Nordstrand Acinonyx (both mass produced and <£1k) and I love playing those as well. I also have a Serek on order, which has every chance of not being what I want. But if I couldn't take that financial risk I wouldn't. I agree its impossible to know without playing an instrument if you're going to like it, but I heard a podcast recently on buying custom instruments and Ian Allison said when he buys a boutique/custom bass, he wants to adapt to the instrument, for it to dictate how it wants to be played, rather than for him to decide what he wants and have the instrument fulfill that expectation. If you've found the one bass that does the thing you want, then just play that bass.