LukeFRC

google, esp on talkbass - I think I remember a discussion about what the drivers are where someone said what they were relabelled versions of. AgedHorse on there used to work at Genz and now at Mesa and can be quite helpful. How tired are they? Is that a euphemism for "I've overpowered them" or is it a euphemism for "I want a different sound/to something louder I can hit with more power" ... either way it may be easier to sell them and get something that suits.

I don't mind sifting through the options

Oh that's good. It's good to be specific, far better than having it and then going around looking for an amp it looks right on

Hmmm thanks for sharing. food for thought. The DIY pedals are an idea I've got.... currently pricing it up, may end up being not that economical. I built a bass last year (well the body from a lump of wood and all the parts) and it was really fun, but by the time you price it up it wasn't the most amazing idea ever. The idea is a DIY compressor -> copy of the Caitlinbread SFT, which is itself a FET version of the SVT circuit. Made one before on vero and it was amazing -> then into a DI preamp kinda loosely based on stealing ideas from half an API mic preamp. The problem - you get to research a nice compressor pedal you could make, and then price it up and it's more than a secondhand Spectracomp... and then you go through the bits and you could buy some secondhand pedals, try out the idea and then sell them if it doesn't work out... but then you need to power them, and mount them on a board... and by then I've become one of those people with a pedal board, and will start GASing for nicer pedals with more valves/transformers/transistors in them ( something like @ordep posted last tue in the "post your pedal boards" thread) ... and by that time I've become the person I quite like not being currently! (not saying theirs anything at all wrong with pedals, give me more disposable income and I'm there with you) - so in that case a Zoom B3 or B3n could be the ticket... This added to what Muzz shared makes me think I should pick up this part first... I can use it when I gig with the IEM (gotta be better than the DI and the sound guys' cloth ears) and then if I start picking up regular gigs where a FRFR speaker would make sense flog the walkabout and do that. I think I would go fir B3 or B3n over MS-60b as I would use the headphone socket. sorry guys lots of external processing going on here. I'm not killing Rock n roll, just squashing it and probably being too 'pop'

sure if you want. I've just corrected the spelling of Speil! The "how it is" combined with passion is really watchable - I've sat and watched Alex Claber talk for 30 min plus on a cab I'm never going to be able to afford/need just cos his passion, combined with knowledge, is really interesting.

@dood - that is an amazing video - you spend ages reading on forums about what the pedal can do and how it works ... but to have a decent player make a high quality video about it is just what I want. I enjoy the fact that you reveiew stuff and talk about what you want rather than sounding ike you're reading the marketing speil. Thanks

ok... so I'll ask you... Currently got a Walkabout and Scout cab. Most my playing is direct into a PA and IEM- so something amp modelling would actually be useful. Tempted to get a B3 or B3n... so the Walkabout is really only for the odd gig, and I guess home practice. It fits in the back of my golf nicely too. If I sold the Walkabout and picked up a FRFR powered cab - would I miss the simplicity of having a nice valvey sounding bass amp? I guess the other thing I'm thinking about is not getting a B3 but doing my own DIY pedals based on what I think I would like... (compressor, SVT-type effect*, cab"sim", transformer based DI**) * For something almost as warm sounding as the Walkabout. It won't be but can try? **Mainly as one of the nicest sounds I had was the Warwick Hellborg preamp, which I generally had the EQ off on.. so a kinda similar thing to that...

see at that sort of prices I'm starting to think about selling my amp...

Bass cabs yes, too a degree - PA cabs I think I am more interested in how flat the response is and how quickly they introduce distortion as the volume increases... cheap PA stuff can easily 'sound' loud that's what distortion does. Good stuff can be very loud without the distortion

I am not a PA nut but I have used very little equipment as nasty sounding as that Bose system. I really do think the Markbass system must sound better than that. As an aside it feels a bit off for Bill to told to "go start another thread" by someone with a commercial relationship with the product being discussed. Seems a bit rude.

make yourself one, start a build thread on here... its only going to be a hobby to begin with but you'll get to learn your trade... then while you're learning do your research and work out a) what folk want to pay for and what they don't and b) what your speciality/brand will be. Do you want to offer a range of high end instruments, but a lot of Fender-type a-la Shuker or Overwater, or do you want to do some amazing tops like Alpher (good social media marketing), or what? Different markets for different approaches. I was going to put you forward as an example of someone who tried the 'budget' range idea. FWIW some of the standard series basses you made looked amazing. I don't think you damaged your brand but probably were spending time on something that wasn't helping you build the brand you wanted. The mindset of someone who wants an ACG Uber bass is probably very different to someone who wants a standard series.

Wait... you were considering selling it and didn't tell me? How far down the list am I?

Wait... you were considering selling it and didn't tell me? How far down the list am I?

I used to play at a church, and I had my Warwick Streamer with active MEC pickups through a Ashdown ABM stack... One day the head had gone for a service so we were back with the Trace Elliot 7 band combo - and the bass tone was incredible - so so clean and 80's it sounded like something off some record of 80's pop. This also was the worst sound I could possibly imagine ever and I spent a fair amount of money of effects pedals, new pickups and preamps it try and get me away from that sound!! Horses for courses.

that's where I thought this thread might be heading too! Uke sounds fun - it's good to have a change, and we don't have to try and convince you to keep one of your basses, so that's good too! If it's not fun stop for a bit, the ACGs will still be there for you. Rita too unless @warwickhunt has his way. The Bass Collection and Sandberg will sell if you want too. (I think I spied your Bass Collection for sales at a pretty low price somewhere else on the internet?) and all the other bumpf too if you wanted. (got a gig bag for sale? I need one and passing next month) but at the end of the day it's just stuff isn't it? Probably life is simpler with less stuff but if you can afford too you could just leave it all in a cupboard for the next 20 years and you know what - that would be alright. If you focus away from stuff and more towards making music, you're still doing that with the Uke, and it sound fun.

Aye - apart from when it comes to that ACG!

Fixed it for you

Trace elliot....

What's the silver box?

That is a really useful post - thanks! i heard reports that the spectra comp is quite noisy - compared to the Zoom is it? How much of the complex features in the spectracomp do you get into using?

Musicman seem to one of the few makes where the quality (or perceived quality) doesn't seem to have changed much over the year. The guys who know seem to suggest late 80s and late 90s ones are good ... but that doesn't seem to massively get reflected in the prices I've seen. that's a good thing I guess