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I'll try them, thanks. Yep the J-Tone has a passive mode switch, which works really well and has saved my bacon a couple of times. Oddly with the passive on, active off, a jack in the socket still will drain the battery.

I use Procell batteries for my motorised TRVs (heating) and they are excellent. Luckily I'm retired now @tauzero, hence the high hours. Making up for lost time!

Personally I'm loathe to cut a big hole into my bass for a battery socket, if that's what you mean. If you mean a charge socket, then yes, I'll be seeing if that's viable: * try a rechargeable to see if it can power my preamp without significant noise * If it can, then fit one of these into the body, discretely * If not, stick with disposable batteries and swap in a known sufficiently charged battery for every gig.

For now, rather stick a brand new battery in for every gig, I'm keeping one "gig only" battery and swapping that in for gigs, then out again afterwards for non-gig batteries. All other times outside gigs it's no big deal if a battery dies, so changing my process might just solve this for me, but I'll give the rechargeables a go. If they don't work out in the bass I can use them elsewhere in electronics projects and tools.

Hey C, playing wise so far I've had to pay attention to playing cleaner, with no unintentional touching of other strings. Also fast descending runs can lose tracking after a notes, so I've been careful and made small adjustments to the bassline to avoid that. I've l not a great deal of experience with different pedals having relied more on the natural tonal range of my basses, preamp in one, the backline EQ, etc. However I've got into multipedals (tried out and stuck with a B3, now a GP-5) for simplicity and chaining them together didn't sound great, so I'll be gigging next with the Bass Synth on its own signal path, then recombine with the other tone (I'll be using two AB switches to achieve this).

Thanks all. I play 20-30 hrs a week, so maybe 15-25 weeks on a decent battery then. It seems like less, so maybe I'm playing more than that The bass is switched off when I'm not playing it (the preamp turns off when the 1/4" jack is removed). @tauzero I'm glad you asked! I'd not looked deeply at the capacity before, many sites didn't give them. I've tried a variety, my last set are these Thomann batteries and they seem to last longer, though it is hard to tell objectively as I don't log my playing hours and daily it can be 0 or 16+ depending on deps or gigs. I'll try John again. I'm playing, approximately, 15 times more than you per week, so maybe lasting a couple of months sounds reasonable. I've got a couple on their way to test, just in case. I suspect they will add noise, but it they miraculously don't, then I'll consider making a small hole to accommodate on bass charging.

Yep, what @tauzero said. Now you mention it I'm tempted to put one of those battery holders in the back, but I'm loathe to do any kind of customisations to the wood of the bass.

Hi, I go through batteries a lot (yes, I take out my cable when not playing) and am thinking about putting a rechargeable battery in and carefully routing an approriate USB-C extension cable through the body with the socket tidy and flush with the bass surfece, intending to simply plug a powered USB-C into the socket. It would be handy to simply and fully charge the battery before each gig without the faceplate screw dance everytime. I'd read before somewhere that for some the electronics within these USB-C chargeable 9V batteries can interfere with the active electronics. Has anyone tried this? The bass I'm thinking of doing this to is a Lakland JO5 with a East J-Tone (Volume / Blend / Tone). It's my main gigging bass so I'm being careful.

Setup for 80s covers band gigs in pubs to big halls (400). 2 recent gigs with it and it performed as well as expected (better than me 😂). My first big board and I'm pleased that the effort to route into a patchbay at the back helps operationally (19" audio rack panel with d-series cutouts, am waiting on the TRS module, hence the temp solution). Only two effects pedals! 😆. The rest is wireless bass receiver and IEM transmitter, battery, headphone amp and tuner. It can be totally wireless without the XLR FOH feeds (bass out, band IEM in) when I use a pair of low latency 5.8GHz instrument dongles to reach my amp. The pedal switcher has triggers that I use to control the presets on the MB301.

This is what I've found so far after a couple of weeks with it and two gigs with an 80s+ covers band. Also maybe 🙏 BCers will share custom presets (like Ian Martin Allison 😜) that match bass sounds on our favourite and gigging songs?[1] Plusses: * fantastic giggable presets (though I'm not yet a fan of 6 or 7) * highly configurable * intuitive controls (saving personal customisations to a preset) * when adjusting a preset (whether you meant to or not) that preset blinks, alerting you to a change * the footswitch to change presents works great, I configured a trigger on my pedal switcher to use it. Minuses/Drawbacks: * no functionality to save presets or settings off the pedal, eg to backup, share with other players or to clone another pedal. Bluetooth or USB-C will surely need to be added to the next version * the current position of the knobs has no relation to the just loaded preset, but may limit the available variation at that moment. I tend to set all the knobs to noon, prior to changing preset. * a slim, high pitched whine with my pedalboard gear (I'll be troubleshooting this today) [1] it'll be a challenge though, maybe a photo record of the knobs of the ordinary and secondary settings added to a description.

Yup, I've found the octaver poor, but luckily the mix is adjustable and can add just a tad.

Yup, mine did from BassDirect. To check the polarity (my pedal board runs on battery) I needed to photograph it as the writing is very small and faint.

Incredibly, yesterday I called up Bass Direct and they assured me they had some in stock, I ordered one and it just arrived today as promised. Colour me impressed! Thomann still can't guarantee a delivery date after having been paid for the pedal two months ago - they just agreed to process the refund. Now to get to grips with the pedal!

Good idea and it works! I did the same for a Zoom B3 a while back. As for the price it seems fair as it's recent enough from launch so likely as new.

Where'd you find it and how much was it Andy, if that's not too personal a question!? My Thomann order status still says 3-4 weeks (I paid for mine on 12th October) as it has been for over a month and when I chatted with them today they now pushed out the "we get stock" to 9th of Jan. Well it was Nov, then early Dec, then late Dec. How long is a piece of string with these guys. So I googled the pedal out of desperation and it said the usual, that these pedals were available from multiple UK vendors, so I clicked on a few (to find out they haven't got any), then tried one more for luck and Bingo! The magic words "In stock" appeared (it feels odd to be excited by those two words, but it's been a long wait and rigmarole). A quick phone call to them confirmed the good news and they had my order in a few mins. What surprised me is that Thomann with all their pull couldn't get any or enough (they assured me, that only those presold to customers before me had gone out in the past two months, so at least their queing system is working, just maybe too many people bought in hope there) whereas Bass Direct said they got 30 of them recently. It's a lot of money for a single pedal though and new territory for me (as I've gone only for inexpensive multipedals before, Zoom B3 and Valeton GP-5).