LukeFRC

To be fair cement mortar instread of lime mortar is pretty poor. I can walk around our village and you can tell the walls where someone has used cement mortar in the past as the stone has all blown out instead of the mortar eroding!

Back in the day I used to run the tone on my bass wide open and cut any treble on the amp. I was playing supporting an acoustic singer songwriter at a miners club - chilled acoustic music, me playing fairly busy lines but with a fat Motown sound Keeping way out the way of the singer and his guitar. while playing kinda got the fact that the gig Was going ok, my playing was good but it didn’t seem to hang together like it should. later in the toilet I’m complimented on my playing and the jam, stranglers and clash influences on our band... turns out the sound guy had decided I was playing punk

Also own a metro WL which is an amazing amazing instrument. (Except mine isn’t sunburst)

Or even... if the aim was extra stiffness (which was the reason given) the most common way of doing that is to use laminates in the neck (which is another join or eight) - if you really go to town you turn the wood laminates (like Warwick do) so the grain isn’t going the same way. oddly to use Warwick as an example - when they were made in smaller numbers they didn’t have a volute (or whatever we call it) - when they produced more out of less aged wood they introduced it.

You can weigh it and work out its weight per cubed meter and then compare ... once you know that you can start to come up with rough figures of weight per thickness too.

it's more a question - how much heavier that the equivalent alder or ash is it.

look at what Bass Collection are doing. Their fender style copies are thinner. I imagine they've done the hard work at working out how thin they can make it. Also is it that heavy? And compared to what. Anything in a big slab will feel heavier than when it's trimmed down to size and given nice smooth edges.

at least you tried

Heel? That’s at the other end of the neck...

I think it’s called a volute

Surely the one thing the effects can’t do is amp and cab sims. With the sansamp effect and a IR you must be half the way there surely? but don’t you run the effects into a amp and cab? will be less useful, though I’ve got some random Neve EQ IRS which might be more useful depending on what you are trying to achieve

jon wilis has a “cab sim” he’s worked out for the helix with a three band eq and a HPF/LPF. that he prefers As an alternative to IR. Having looked at your pedals for sale... and running into the PA then I would have thought a preamp, compressor and the Broughton filters would be all you needed. I’m not sure how much percentage better a cab sim would make it. having had the Zoom and the Stomp, the zoom is passable and has cab sims in it. Though going from the gear you have now to a zoom I think would be a fair step down. For me in your situation I would either keep my pedals of sell them all to get a stomp.

Surely the point of IR is you can download a cab (or even amp and cab) IR and make the output of your HX effects sound like any cab you want? Or am I missing the point somewhere along the line?

Would that solve it?

I’ve a dinged 5 I’ll swap for one of your dinged 4 next time we’re visiting friends in your part of the woods!!

So been using it live recently. Actually don’t find using the B string too hard! If anything it’s getting lots on the D and G strings that’s the problem! though did pick up my 4 string L1000 yesterday and that was a fun time.... so using it live but Not 100% sold on this 5 string thing yet!

Not sure if I’ll make it this year

They are very nice dinked four strings (the ones I’ve seen)

The reverse I think - @Phil Starrs idea of a PA amp would probably get more performance even at a lower price

never used- but if it's just a power amp the Bassic A900 for £475 http://w.bassdirect.co.uk/bass_guitar_specialists/Bassics.html My 2p - I'ld get a bass amp head that lets me bypass the preamp with the effects loop. That way if your VT preamp fails, or you just want another sound some point, you've got it.

That said if I could only afford the B3n it would be super capable in most cases.

Hx stomp is so much better. zoom quicker to set up (as focused on bass), simpler and more bass specific models. Esp solid state bass amps.

This weeks findings on the HX stomp 1) dual cabs... you can choose which two cabs by changing the second cab! some odd sounds available there. Not sure when or why I would use that but it's cool. 2) You can assign the foot switches to turn on/off different blocks, simple.... just touch them to set it up. We all knew that - What I found is I can asign the switch to do one or more things in an block, so for instance the switch boosts the drive or treble of an amp, I figure you could set it to do a few things with one push too but not got that far in!

I'm playing at the weekend and kinda want to play the jazz cos I love that bass. I also want to play the Lakland just because if I don't keep playing it I will just give in.

what freq do you have the preamp mids set at?