Kev

I would very keen on trying one. $199 would put it cheaper than the competition.

Think this thread sums up the issue, every has a different opinion and taste on this so it is very difficult to give advice for you! You need to get out and try as many as you can. If I were recommending, VT Bass DI and B7K would be my recommendations to you, but that is what I like

You need to try some pedals out. Youtube videos are the worst way of trying to find something. Aim second hand and try a few, you will easily sell them on if they are not for you, and that way you try them with YOUR bass and YOUR equipment with YOUR technique, all of which radically change how a drive pedal works.

Its 99% time relief or low nut slots. However, it can be the frets. How do they look, and does it quite suddenly stop buzzing after a certain point? EDIT wasn't totally clear what I meant there, if you bend the string when fretting on the fret, does it still buzz or stop? If it stops, that may point towards the first fret being worn. Is it just the first fret, or just worse there?

[quote name='Beer of the Bass' timestamp='1422216038' post='2669994'] Apologies for the irrelevant image, but it seems to be working for me. I use the picture button in the post editor, then copy the URL into the dialogue box. [/quote] Aye, that be the way you do it

Yum!

[quote name='uncle psychosis' timestamp='1422191689' post='2669615'] According to this the price is $279, so I'd expect it to be more than £200. It will have to be really, really good at that price. [url="http://www.premierguitar.com/articles/21985-ampeg-unveils-the-scr-di"]http://www.premiergu...eils-the-scr-di[/url] [/quote] Hmm, I would expect closer to £279, given the way the pound-dollar usually works for us. £249, perhaps, which would put it above its competitors. The Scrambler side needs to be good to justify that, for sure.

Does he realise that the top and bottom string are off the fretboard?

Firstly, do you mean actual clones, or pedals that are designed to try and get that sound?

[quote name='LukeFRC' timestamp='1422127438' post='2669066'] Mind you the fender guitar was a design brief in how to create a cheap, mass produceable guitar.... [/quote] The obvious reasons were the fact it was the first bass, not because of the quality

[quote name='alembic1989' timestamp='1422095306' post='2668581'] I guess what I'm saying is that if I pulled the trigger on such a kit and added high quality hardware is there any reason why it can't be every bit as good as a high end boutique bass? [/quote] So many, many reasons, a lot of which has already been covered in this thread. It is how the wood is worked with by a skilled luthier that sets apart the cheap from the expensive. You could have the finest quality pieces of Ash and Maple in the world with the best hardware, pickups and preamps money can buy, but with all due respect you will not make a bass of Dingwall/Roscoe et al quality. That is why these companies exist, otherwise we would all be doing it People talk about big names selling instrument, but ask yourself how they became big names? Fender, well, for obvious reasons, but the likes of Wal, Dingwall, Roscoe, Fodera, they got their names because of the quality of their work with wood, and not because of the quality of the original planks of wood instead.