Kev

I personally wouldn't wish to go FoH by DI without a cab sim. Particularly when using distortion, full range PA speakers are not kind to the high frequencies, so simulating a speaker cabinet and its eq curving is beneficial. I use a Darkglass preamp, which has an IR Cab Sim loaded onto its DI and have got great result, both Live and recording. I have previously owned Omnicabsim is a great pedal and really easy to use. However, a Cab Sim isn't deemed a must by many bassists, particularly if you don't have an overdriven tone. I would still use one, but its relatively modern tech to have one on your pedalboard.

I’ve just come back to it and now I’m exhausted.

Guys, this thread is about the Machinist pedal and nothing else. Please try to keep on topic otherwise we’ll have to close the discussion. Alex has apologised, let’s move on.

Why is that, Alex? I admit that there are some on the forum that take criticisms of your company uncomfortably far at times, but there is nothing but constructive intelligent discussion in this thread at the moment? Although I fear that may change after your post

I mean you could be right, this could be about getting the foot in the door of the Effects game and, if this is successful, they can then go on to target more game changing ideas. Other than the slight curiosity with the clean section, this is very much part of an unchanged game, and as someone says it simply seems to be a whitelabelling. I can't envisage people getting excited by it though, I really can't. The Cog circuitry used, unless modified more than it seems, has been around for ages. I think when a company has the finances to back a new project, it needs to jump straight to game changing these days. Look at Darkglass; nailed the pedal game, had no experience building amps whatsoever. Built an amp with their tech built in; game changing. Despite having no foot in the door, they sold like crazy and I wouldn't be surprised if it was one of the best selling and most used Class D heads out there right now. However, they also built somespeakers or, more accurately, effectively whitelabelled another cab builder. Not ground breaking, just standard high quality cabs with no particular features to shout about, other than the Darkglass badge. Did they do as well as the heads?? Not even close. I have hardly seen anyone use them. And I feel that will happen to Barefaced too, unless they do something different.

Definitely an underwhelming, and ambitiously priced, step into the arena. It’s not sounding like anything too interesting either, they’ve dressed up a tone knob well, not sure otherwise if it’s just standard Cog circuitry with the blends missing. If so, why has it just got Barefaced on the front plate?

Definitely interested in what the new one is like. Won’t buy one new and put money in Spencer’s pocket for “reasons” but I do like the look of them and the separate volumes are a must for sure, may keep a cheeky eye on the classifieds...

Sooo, what are we thinking about this? The parallel cleans alternative to a blend is intriguing, and if designed by Cog we know it must work well! congested old arena, though... https://barefacedaudio.com/products/machinist?variant=32901578752085

I share this opinion for sure. The videos I have listened to, including the ones posted earlier in this thread, just sound so generic. Good imitations for sure, but seemingly with no unique character at all. Since Sims released these as well, it has become pretty common place for companies to build humbuckers that can be wired however you want on 4 way rotary switches and the like. Unless I am missing something, the only "unique" thing they do is the split coil option?

I think that’s probably best mate. It’s a gamble that rarely pays off.

Cheeky!

If DHL don't delivery Saturdays, it could well be that it's loaded in a van for Monday?

It looks like it is an older StarBass II. It definitely isn't a Masterbuilt and it's RRP would have been nothing like 6000 odd Euros, so don't worry, it wasn't that good a deal!! I'm pretty sure I'm right that there didn't used to be a Masterbuilt version, however there now is, and the teambuilt is not a II and does not have bubinga, nor brass frets/nut anymore. It probably was a nice example though, doubt there is much difference between it and the masterbuilt now.

I'd need to look it up (in work so being naughty already!) but I seem to recall that there isn't a Masterbuilt stock model of this bass, it's custom shop only, so there is the Teambuilt model and the cheaper Rockbass variant?

Nail on the head, there will always be some flaws. A replacement bass may have dodgy frets, wonky bridge, banana neck etc. If he’s got a good player and an unevenness in tint is the only fault, why risk the swap? He’d be better off getting a refund and buying something else, or waiting until he can see the instrument first.

At the price point, you have to expect little things like that to be honest. Chances are the replacement will have something as well.

Hmm. It’s a very heart on his sleeve reaction to the whole thing, which can go two ways really. The flippers are, donutheads, for want of a less censored phrase. But we are talking about a few dozen out of 1,000 sales. I’m not sure he’s playing this right to be honest.

Insane money, honestly didn't even think Zvex was still relevant enough to command that kind of price. And yeah, there some up for sale now for £500 or £700 😂

you’re really not talking to the guy who measured his bridge, I’m literally not in that convo, I was just saying I’m glad it’s not me that thinks about small stuff!

I am?? I’m really not! 😂 It was intended as a funny comment that has since been over-analysed, my apologies, happy Monday!

I know, but we’re quibbling over 0.5mm in the last couple of posts 😉

Skim-read, when I say tonewood I mean at a much more simple level (perhaps not the right term), I wouldn’t dispute a locally sourced wood with similar properties wouldn’t sound the same as tropical, but if anyone tries to say a maple neck sounds like wenge... 😉