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  1. stewblack
    Good grief 🤦🏼‍♂️ Shoddy to say the least.
  2. stewblack
    unless the £8 is counted as part of the 135...
  3. stewblack
    Yep the free delivery threshold is now higher than it used to be. Which means you add the £8 pretty much regardless, unless you want to pay all the extra fees involved with going over 135 quid. If I was buying bits and pieces from Thomann I would add a few things to the basket to tip it over the free delivery threshold, it felt like an £8 discount on a packet of strings or some patch cables. Not knowing what the total bill will be, but knowing that it is going to be high, is pretty off putting.
  4. stewblack
    I'm reporting this heresy to the police 😳
  5. stewblack
    I'll have a rummage. What about speaker cabs? You need amplification too?
  6. stewblack
    With you all the way! Only come across this once, on a recent purchase. My first thought was... what the hell??? I can have compression or auto wah, but not both? And the compressor has to be first in the chain? And a block of reverb and a block of delays I won't need but the envelopes chorus and phasers all share a block? Insane.
  7. stewblack
    I did it for a living once (worked for an interior designer fitting show houses and private homes with curtain tracks and poles, mirrors, pictures, shelves and so forth) the thing which makes it tricky is that no two walls are the same. Lathe and plaster, horse hair, plaster board, brick, blocks of all different types, steel frames, wood frames, the list goes on. Having the right kit and know how for each is the trick. A set of full length, interlined velvet curtains can weigh far more than a bass guitar. If the customer has chosen an iron pole with only two fixings in the bracket and their wall was built 300 years ago, it's a nasty scenario for the dope with the drill. Oh and central heating pipes, electric cables, both hidden in the wall add spice to the job too! Don't trust that metal detector to tell you where the pipe is. Turn the heating up full and feel the wall for the heat, just to be safe.
  8. stewblack
    Very well put together and the editing was really slick. At the moment I've only listened via phone speakers (in bed and headphones are just out of reach) and I can't hear any difference (when not watching I can't tell when the pedals change!). I'm sure when I listen with 'cans' the nuances will be clearer. Down the pub on a Saturday night with some guitarist howling and tub thumper thumping? No one will ever notice the difference. Which is a massive positive because it means you could choose based on size and price if you're only thinking of a pub band scenario. Of course recording is a totally different ball game.
  9. stewblack
    That does look nifty! I'm sure no one at Basschat Towers would mind you linking to the guy. Check with one of the mods. They all come down to dining room for kedgeree and kippers at 9am (although I believe Ped has his breakfast brought to him in his suite by his valet)
  10. stewblack
    One of the few things that I'm actually any good at is fixing things to walls. Unfortunately I am not allowed to drill the walls in my room. I like drilling holes in walls.
  11. stewblack
    Interesting stuff. I agree with what you say about feeling what you play. Until I tried it I had no Idea what a difference it could make. I put everything through my vibrating seat, backing music too. When paired with headphones the effect is astonishing. And the volume levels in the room don't disturb anyone else in the house. If not using headphones I have a small powered speaker I run everything through. Again, feeling the bass means I don't need the thing nearly as loud as before. I tried playing a game on my pc with the set up and it created an immersive environment. Good for explosions in films too!
  12. stewblack
    It's a tough one, considering how differently two players can make bass sound. I think the only thing you can do to highlight what different strings 'do' is (as has been said) keep absolutely everything the same and play the same thing for each string type. Keep the piece short so that listeners can hear the difference between all the different strings. Personally, while I harbour no specific prejudice against the technique, I do roll my eyes and sigh when any bass demo is just a fast barrage of slapping. It seems to me too cluttered when trying to divine subtle differences between the gear on show.
  13. stewblack
    I would love to get the back beat - especially for when I start gigging again. The rest of the room never seems to be as excited as I am when it comes to feeling the bass.
  14. stewblack
    I use a budget (home made) version of Ped's rather splendid set up. Cheap amplug style battery powered headphone amp, a Bluetooth receiver (ebay less than a fiver) plugged into the 'aux in' , a really good and inexpensive android app on my phone which allows me to loop sections of songs, slow them down and pitch shift up an octave for ease of picking a bassline. When not wandering around but sat at my desk I use a different set up. Instead of the Backbeat I have two resonator speaker thingies attached to my office chair and powered by a Trace Elliot Elf. I doubt they are remotely as good as the proper thing, they're certainly not portable, but I get bass vibrations in my back, up through my fundamentals, and even in my feet. The noise in the room however is quiet and midrangey so no disturbance to anyone. With my cheap studio headphones on and the previously mentioned vibrating fundamentals I am a very happy bass player.
  15. stewblack
    The Valeton strip neatly covers all your needs, is very compact, has a tuner and a couple of other effects as well. They come up on the for sale section here for not very much at all. I've been tempted by the Battalion but haven't tried any of the others you mention. There is always the Zoom B1 Four which gives you a choice compressors, drives and eqs. And of course has many other effects 'under the bonnet'. Mine cost me 45 quid second hand, even less than the Valeton. It is a multi effect which can be used to build patches out of various effects, but, crucially, it can also serve as 5 pedals in a line. Takes hardly any space, light, can run on batteries and makes an excellent headphone amp for home practise.
  16. stewblack
    I have the Detroit, and it I cannot fault it.
  17. stewblack
    I did some recording this week. Wasn't quite getting the feel right (fast line, loads of notes and octaves all around first three frets) with the full sized basses. In an idle moment tried my frugal as French fries Jack and Danny shortscale jazz which has a perfectly scaled down neck. Not only did it play beautifully, the sound was surprisingly good. I thought the tune needed flats, but the rounds I slung on that little jazz sat really nicely, and helped the rhythm of the piece brilliantly. If @Dolis or anyone else is considering taking the plunge into the Lilliputian world of the shorty, this is an extremely affordable way to dip a toe before committing full funds. The only negative I found was the supplied strings were loose and twangy. I put a set of new (perfectly ordinary) ones on it their place and they're fine. Also I had to tweak the tuning a few times during the recording process. Whether the neck was reacting to temperature changes as the heating kicked in, or (as seems more likely) the tuners are a bit crapola, I don't know.
  18. stewblack
    Oooh - I was keen on one of these, but bought a phonkify with the last of my pennies.
  19. stewblack
    What a good idea!
  20. stewblack
    Unbelievable board! And number 5 is one of my favourite descriptions of a pedal, ever.
  21. stewblack
    Thanks folks. I shall have to wait until I get some work again. But my questions have been comprehensively answered.
  22. stewblack
    Any keen DIY types removed the front panel from an RM combo? Thinking of a lockdown project...
  23. stewblack
    Hi folks, I have some very specific questions, so I don't necessarily expect anyone to have answers, but I'm going to try. Has anyone owned Future Impact, SA Spectrum, and Pigtronix bass phaser? If so can FI, and / or Spectrum do what the Pigtronix does? Or can either at least get close to it? Is the Spectrum easy to adjust and set up on the fly or do you really need to be using a computer or an app? If the latter is the app easy to use or do you really need to connect up to a computer? NB: When I say 'easy' I am clearly using entirely subjective terminology, but I hope we can vaguely agree on a definition. I don't mean easy enough that someone like Donald Trump could use it, I mean someone with a few years experience of effects pedals could get comfortable with it in a couple of weeks. Thanks.
  24. stewblack
    Great post.
  25. stewblack
    Thanks Greg, I have zoom meeting on Friday evening, but appreciate the link.
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