LukeFRC

This is the least basschat thread ever... ”you know the thousands you spent on your pedal board” ”yep, I replaced it with a big multi fx board - it’s amazing” ”I m thinking of getting the small stomp box version of your big multi fx board as I hear it’s amazing” ”oh it is amazing, it sounds great” ”that what you use?” ”nah, check out this £60 Zoom pedal, tbh I don’t need anything else”

The what? I’ve only ever known 7

I'm 5 years older than my wife. When we first started going out I she went to live in Berlin for a year (not because she had just met me) - I started telling her excitedly about one of my first memories ever of watching the Berlin Wall come down on Newsround on the TV and how exciting I found it even though I had no idea what was going on.... "can you remember?" "do you remember?" I asked.... ... "er I wasn't born then" was the reply

yeah but the 80's way almost three decades ago now.

It’s odd how so many of the “treasures of the future” are essentially either from the 80s, designed in the 80s or builders who started in the 80s

Conversely your job as a bass player isn’t to f up to he mix by fiddling with your feed to the FOH - that would be amateur

Obviously the suggestion to clean the jack sockets was a separate one to opening it up, not some ceremony to be performed before you open the amp up!

Sometimes switched jacks can get corroded and not register correctly leaving an open. Not promising it will work in this case, probably won’t if hitting it reconnects the signal but another thing to rule out as the cause....

plug and unplug jacks into the effect loop input and output many times... then open it up and check nothing has shaken loose. If that's no good and it's going in the bin I'll have it!

+1 (Though some of the tiny 15w bass amps can be a wee bit depressing to play through)

Conversely IME selling on basschat is harder but if you’re open to trades you get offered some really nice gear

Prefere the sound of the B3n but the function and features of the B3

If you’re not going to play in public for a while something like a zoom multi fx pedal would be a cheap way of giving you more sounds and tones. New strings are nice too if your sound sounds dull. If you want to get playing with people, then a secondhand rig from here would be good. Combo or head and cab is your choice based on how much you have to spend and if you want to carry bigger heavy things- there’s some good gear at low prices in the amps for sale forum at the moment - it all depends on what’s around for sale near you.

Gus - I think the further from Leo fender we get the more we will appreciate the designs. Mind you apart from seeing a photo of @BigRedX with one, and prince I’ve never seen one in real life.

go on.... a convex shaped acoustic!

Do you not think that someone should make a digital multi-fx with metering of some kind.... how simple would controlling gain levels or setting up a compressor be with a bit of metering??

yes. When it came out there were a load of folk on talkbass saying how it was "it" - I could never get it dialled in in a way that didn't sound utterly OTT though.

@Al Krow - thanks for this thread - I've had fun trying out some of your settings- esp the Glam comp

is it possible that you've just done something to your wrist and need to give it a few weeks rest to recover?

I might be missing something here... but won't harmonics always be in tune?

I just sold a load of old football kits my parents had had in their loft from when I was young. So I sell a 30 year old kit in Kids sizes.... Buyer: Hi mate, got the kit, the elastic has gone in the shorts, but I don't want to return it. Me: Ok, Im really sorry, they seemed fine when I checked them . Buyer: Leaves negative feedback. Buyer: can I return them as the elastic has gone... Me: yes of course If I had noticed his negative feedback I would have been less inclined to say yes mind

think I saw that one, with a J in the bridge? Looked like a tidy bass. Nice price too

Simplify it by ignoring some of the knobs... Set the bass and treble at 12 o'clock - add or subtract to taste... Set the mid at either 10 o'clock (flat) or around 2 o'clock if you're playing something with two pickups or want a bit more mid bite. So a nice three band Eq... simpler Set all the paramentrics bang on the middle. But set the frequency for the left hand one at 30Hz. Then ignore it. You've now got a 3 band eq amp that's way simpler to use right... But if too boomy, just tweak down the 30Hz parametric to control the boom.

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