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I've got the Cioks DC7 as well. It's excellent. Very quiet and will run just about everything. It can even be expanded later. There's little point in having high quality pedals like the Darkglass stuff and then feeding it with crap power. For power supplies my own view is: buy it once, buy it right.

I used to like pressure wound strings and would always use the GHS ones. Then for some basses I went to flats and rounds for others for many years. Then I developed an intolerance / allergy to nickel so now I have to use stainless steel strings and there aren't many pressure wounds that are steels. I gave up looking for ages and then youtube recommended a string demo of the Roto Solo 55. I investigated further and discovered they are steel rounds that are then squashed to reduce finger noise but keeping all the mass of the metal. They are not groundwounds. I had Dunlop Superbrights on my Sandberg Lionel and I like them a great deal, but even though they are very low noise for a round I wanted smoother and even less noise. So I tried out the Solo 55 set. Result: Far higher finger noise than the Dunlops. The Solo 55 are advertised as having lower string noise, presumably compared to normal Roto rounds. I hate to think how rough and noisy they are. In short - I found them to be bloody awful. Horrible feeling under the fingers and more noise than Dunlop rounds (they do not make a pressure wound). I have no views as to sound quality as I tuned up and was just playing through a little practice combo. The feel of the strings just made my skin crawl. Disappointing really.

Everything over 7.5lb and everything that doesn’t balance properly. I genuinely don’t care about much else.

So - this is basically going back to the original Genzbenz Streamliner that had 3 valves in it.

It's an amp!

Could be just the thing then! I've ordered the 45-105 set and I'll see what happens. Hopefully I won't need the 110 for the E.

That sounds ace. I have a cheap as you like Jim Deacon shortie P bass with flats on it that sounds like the link. I love that bass. It's by far the cheapest in my collection and I'd be heartbroken if anything happened to it.

I might give some a try. I don't mind if they are a bit heavier. I have a nickel allergy so I can't use Pure Blues etc.

Here you go: https://www.basschat.co.uk/topic/435365-the-short-scale-bass-appreciation-society/#comments Lots of us like them. I have a couple, and I think they are great.

I love Dunlop Superbright Steel Rounds. They are not actually that bright - not as bright as Prosteels for example, but they have a lovely feel under the fingers with lower noise and a round core for flexibility. However, the biggest set they do is 45-105 and for my shortie I really wish they had a heavier / less flexible A and E - just by a little bit Dunlop do standard steel rounds in 50-110. Does anyone know if the wrap wire is the same on these so they have the same low-noise as the Superbrights? The Standards are hex core so I would expect them to be less flexible, maybe even to the point that a 105 would be plenty with the hex core. Has anyone played both of these? ta

[Stuck Record Alert] How loud is the fan?

As they went to all that trouble they could have at least made it a good octave. Maybe it was a Friday...

https://youtu.be/1x_kg6pOvGU?si=s_UUeBJOmd6Bvik7

Dusty Hill used to have a microPOG on all the time, with a Thumpinator after it to stop anything lower than an A getting through. It was on the Rig Rundown when Elwood was still the tech. It was set to just have a tiny bit of the octave happening and he never turned it off. Ever since I watched that I've had an Octave and a Thumpinator on my board.

Could be handy!

That looks like it would be amazing fun! I wish I had the time to dedicate to something like that.

https://www.eich-amps.com/212s Maybe?

I'd use plugins for guitar, bass and drums and only do the vocals the traditional way. Workflow will be far quicker, the results will be far more consistent too.

this can be brilliant - doesn't have to be more though. Can back off and then come back in harder. A lot of drummers think dynamics are all about going louder / more complex than the normal! They need to learn that going quieter and simplifying have just as much a dramatic effect. The late Vinny Paul of Pantera was fantastic at this. Sometimes the guitar and bass would stay absolutely the same through 12 bars and yet every 2 or 4 bars the feel of the tune would be completely different, even to the point that it felt like the tempo had doubled. It hadn't, it was all in the drum arrangement. He really understood how to do that and he backed off just as much as he pushed forward.

There's a thread. Including some of my experiments. The cream definitely works. https://www.basschat.co.uk/topic/474941-aging-new-flat-wound-strings/page/2/#comment-5082124

All of Slipknot’s first album. How good is your drummer? If he’s not god tier, then you could do all of St Anger instead…

Oh, and no other string sounds like the La Bella DTF.

Strings direct will probably sell you a single one. Then do the hand cream thing to age it down to sound like the old ones.

My shortie Sandberg is the best balanced instrument I’ve ever had. My shortie Jim Deacon had bad neck drive as the P bass body was undersized and the tuners were massive old big plate things. Solved completely with Hipshot Ultralights. I think the traditional view of shorties = neck dive is just because older design shorties tended to be crap for all the reasons Andy pointed out. It had zero to do with the scale length and everything to do with all other factors. A 50 inch scale bass designed as poorly as an SG would suffer just as much.

I can’t use the Pure Blues anymore due to a nickel allergy but in the past I have enjoyed them a lot. Excellent strings!