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I've just managed to get it on my board. It's replaced the Big Muff, the size difference made for a lot of fun. It sounds massive on its own but blended with a clean signal is still big but not all consuming. It does very weird things to the effects after it in the chain!

Ah yes. But still, an interesting project.

Thank you. So could I reproduce the effect on the FI then?

No issues at all. I have in fact just connected up the B1on again and added a few guitar amp sims just for fun. All working perfectly.

I got to chatting with a guy on FB. Turned out he makes pedals. All sorts of lovely wooden boxes, filled with exciting bits and pieces. He made the Littlebox for another guy runs a shop called Funny Little Boxes. I'm trying to build a home grown rig, supporting smaller businesss where possible and this fitted right in. It's a fuzz box which allows you to starve the important bits of volts, or something, and thereby produce some startling sounds. It has a bass cut switch and two leds. The switch does what it says on the label, the lights are just pretty. Why cut bass if I'm a bassist? When run parallel with my clean signal it sounds fantabidosey. The core sound is thick. Oozing. A coagulating river of fuzz lava. Never thin. Never fizzy or vague. Every nuance of your playing is still there, but oh boy it's just disgustingly filthy. I got the idea for running a clean signal alongside the bass cut fuzz off a YouTuber. Below are my pics and his review - which is loads better than I could do. Mine is number 4. Gotta love a single digit serial number. Came with a handwritten letter from the shop and a discount for my next pedal purchase. Lovely people, great product, I commend them to the Basschat Community.

Dad's was naval guns on an anti aircraft cruiser.

I thought I needed a flanger for the sound I was after. Turned out it was a phaser. TC E was on my list but I snagged a Mr Black Gilamondo before I got to try one. It sounds so good in my soul band adds a psychedelic vibe.

currently relaxing to a fairly steady chord, hum and two whistles. My dad lost hearing in one ear doing his bit in WW2. He always said he could cope with the deafness but the tinnitus drove him to distraction. Like someone tuning an old fashioned wireless set with the high squiggly noises helicopter and hiss. Most well mannered, considerate man I ever knew and yet he put up with that from 1945 to 2005 without complaining. Only told me about it when I asked him.

Thomann have a very reasonable price two switch one I might get once my basket reaches the free postage threshold.

I don't actually know! They were built by a guy I work with who moved house and couldn't find room for them.

I sent condolences via WhatsApp to a friend who I know has been massively influenced by EVH. Seemed appropriate as I knew he'd be genuinely upset. Personally I can't name one VH song so obvs to me the news was sad but no more so than any other cancer death of a stranger. If Bruce Thomas died I'd be desperately sad but as I didn't grow up in the age of social meeja I'd probably express that sadness in a different way. The passing of people who have enriched my life and made my world a far far better place is worthy of mention. That's a simple human response. We have new choices how to make that response, that's all. We don't need to like nor decry the choices others make.

Only used it for two gigs and a handful of rehearsals but I really like it.

Not easy to see jammed in the corner but bigger than my Barefaced 12"

Don't know if it's the angle is the problem, maybe if the front was higher the curse of the varifocal specs wearer might not come into play.

I would do the decent thing and buy a couple from Thomann purely for research purposes. However I already share my room with several large bass cabs and a couple of hi fi cabs bigger and heavier than some bass cabs.

Another thing I've been telling folk, HB strings are just fine.

Everything @uk_lefty said 👆 there is an exact mirror to my pedal board experience. I once even went to the extreme of owning a board fully loaded with effects all the same (not budget) brand and just thought, meh, in the end and got rid. I blew hot, I blew cold. I spent months programming patches and then wished I could twiddle individual pedals sur le mouche. Only now has the penny dropped. It's not anything to do with getting the right sound, or even a good sound. It's all about the board itself. Building it, stripping it back, velcro versus 3M, battery versus mains, effects loops versus straight in, clean signals alongside effected/affected signals, several distortions in parallel as opposed to one in series. Geraniums or silly cones, digital or analogue, self made patch leads, shop bought patch leads, flat or round patch leads, hard case, soft case, single tier, double tier, always on, midi controlled, and a million other considerations. These are not things you plough through en-route to the ultimate board, these are actually the reasons for having a pedal board in and of themselves. Oh, and handmade British boutique pedals created from old Marconi radio parts and housed in a train set controller. Oh yes, make no mistake. It's an addiction. Another obsessive, illogical, train spotty, borderline spectrum disorder, largely male, fanatical, self feeding, collecting hobby. And that's why I love it.

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I'll get to it soon, @Al Krow, I'm awaiting delivery of a special new pedal which is going to create a fascinating challenge to my board layout. B1-Four may be coming off anyway, but it will need extracting from the underground carpark!

Thanks mate, I'll give them a shout. So glad I listened to your advice this amp is just soo good

It all sounds fantastic to me. I've been banging the Benton drum so loud folk must be sick of it, so it's nice when a real quality musician showcases how great their stuff is. Listening with decent cans and man it sounds good. What strings do you have on it?

Yes it was 😂😂

I don't mind it at all. Neither do I mind that you do mind it.