LukeFRC

I made use of the fact that my wife speaks and writes fluently which make it way easier to talk to the seller. Culturally Germany and the UK are quite similar I think so if you can get around the language barrier is not a million miles from a basschat deal.

Well jell. Looks great

But miced up it adds something over and above the DI feed?

I think you’ve said before that your bass rig is uses one of your own designed Jack cabs? If you were playing a big gig with a good sound tech would you expect/want your cab to be Miced? Is the cab adding that much to the sound?

While I have no interest in this rather cool product if I were designing a unit to power if I would try and get it small enough to sit on or next to a pedal board, and seeing as it’s going to need to have some kinda power supply if the box doubled up as a power supply for pedals you get s lot of wins then.

Given that the OP started with “what’s under here” I suggest a good amp tech may be a more pleasant experience for everyone involved.

I had a Helborg pre and loved it too - the whole rig is v. Attractive but double what I would get if I sold my current rig.... but so tempted...

I really enjoyed having the preamp, I had it feeding into an ashdown poweramp and ACME B2 and it was super clean. Downside was I bought the amp off a guy on here and didn’t check the specs, 20kg was fine, 60cm depth wasn’t. It got replaced by my Mesa Walkabout, small valvey, fits in the back of my car easy to lug about and sounds great.very different sound. am I tempted to try and sell and spend the extra it to get a helborg rig... yes.... actually- anyone near Leeds with one that I can come try????

Not helpful!!!!

It’s lots of fun, and making stuff is kinda how my brain relaxes and works - however it is also not a cheap way to get a bass!

Candy!

Q: your prototype had braces running vertically mid way across the side panels. (As well as curvy braces) were they felt to be not needed?

Greenboy’s Fearful cabs use the LF varieties of a Kappalite crossed over to a mid driver. They came out at a similar time and from similar design goals as the first generation barefaced cabs - the Barefaced “big one” and a fearful 15/6 being comparible using the 3015 LF and chasing the massive big bottom. Both the gen 3 barefaced and the Fearless stuff isn’t tuned for as much bottom and gets more performance out of their drivers because of this. So it depends what you are chasing rig wise. Kappalite HO in a BFM Simplexx, Kappalite LF in a Fearful and the basschat cab are the first three designs that spring to mind - but they are all designed with different goals in mind - so it depends what your goal is

Looks great - I recently picked up in a trade a Sadowsky metro and it’s simply amazing - yours is a lot prettier

It’s not designed to have much bottom....

Brace H is a circle?

Yes it is isn’t it?

I guess I’m influenced by having spent the last 3 evenings trying to get somewhere near unity gain on my B3n and work out how the bloomin compressors are coming on... edit: I actually agree with you that 15 year old me would probably enjoy the zoom multi effects more and create all sorts of crazy fun sounds. I guess maybe now I’m old and boring and played more that I think there’s a some things that are good to do to get a good bass sound that fits in the mix well... and that the pure power of digital interfaces often make it hard to learn some of that. I’ve seen the same with newbies on digital desks vs analogue - where before all the eq choices for the mix were visible in one (long) glance now there’s often a different screen for each channel... the ability to do something a bit odd in one place and then spend ages changing everything else to try and fix it without seeing the original thing is a bit odd (eg “my bass sounds right odd in my IEM” “sounds alright to me”... I have a look at my eq settings “er I’m at +6db from 20-70hz and then -18hz from 100- 300hz “ (PA been equalised to room already) )

The glockenklang two band was the most unsuitable one I tried. Wouldn’t hesitate using it in a fender style bass but the eq points were far too low and high on a streamer to be that usable IME. YMMV

or even one without the volume bit. I actually think I've got one sat in a drawer somewhere

1987 I think would be a MEC preamp? (Right @warwickhunt) black little box with white epoxy filling on one side? Beyond that the Warwick pres make up a reasonable bit of the Warwick tone, for better or worse- so be careful with what you replace it with, I tried a load of preamps in my 1991 streamer and generally a good preamp designed for a fender bass wouldn’t be so good on the streamer. For example the obp1 that’s been recommended above is a really great preamp - but ime the bass point at 40hz will be too low for the streamer and through a PA just add rumble and it’s the 80-100hz that’s better to boost. The good news is that if you are able to grab a quick recording of the bass you can put it through a multiband eq and play around to get a rough idea of what different EQs will sound like. I just used GarageBand! I ended up with an ACG preamp which I a different kettle of fish Whatever you’re after though, the best solution is probably made by John East...

I need a big cab right?

Bizarrely for a newbie I think this sort of thing would be better. For someone who knows the basics then I agree with you, but first bass and a ME60b gives a whole range of ways to mess your tone and gain staging up without knowing why or how

Mmmm you can tell none of us have heard it! Question is is it an analogue effect or digital DSP powered one? This could be a studio quality high end sound platform that becomes an industry standard ... or not