stewblack

It's interesting, often when folk do start a new thread on a familiar topic they run the risk of the "oh God not this again" reaction. (Rude and unnecessary but not mod worthy) so you're kind of damned if you do and damned if you don't. I love the atmosphere and humour on Basschat. Start too much regulation and you might kill the very thing makes it a fun place.

Oh and I'll be 2 not one (same guest I paid for before)

If Frank's there I'm there. Never got to shake his hand when we met like two masked highwaymen!

So what tracks would you JH aficionados recommend to showcase his style?

Just realised I set out one weekend to do a couple of gigs. I incorporated a bit of Basschat buying and trading while on my travels. Turned up for the Sunday afternoon gig with two new speakers, a new P-bass and a new Ashdown head none of which had been with me when I set out from home. Played with them all there and then!

Jet was one of the names the erstwhile Mrs Black rejected for my boy. See also Pitch and Squidgy.

Not the best sounding by any means but the best designed I've found is in the Zoom multi effects. They include a fine tuning control so using an external tuner you get it bang on. If they didn't sound quite as much like a warbling space canary with a cold they'd be perfect.

I'm sold. One of the very best pedal reviews I've ever seen. I really like and use octave /pitch shifting both for messing and gigging. I've been through a ton of them (including some highly regarded) before settling on what I like. But this looks like it's versatile enough to compliment and work with my current line up. Very very interesting.

I like all the things the op dislikes. So, using some kind of logic, I guess what I don't like will fit the bill. Something with a lot of controls, a powerful preamp with tone controls on steroids and a maple fretboard. Always feel like I'm riding a wild horse with no bridle when playing these kind of basses. Yeah and a big ol' humbucker set right back by the bridge.

etc

Course, we had it tough...

It worked! In fact it worked so well that one of the dodgy old pedals I tried it on actually started working again.

I suppose you're all expecting me to buy one just so that I can tell you what it's like.

A lot of folk bandy words like trust and respect. Well I'm going to put my money where my mouth is and prove how much I mean those two simple words. I'm going to do what you say and to hell with the consequences.

Yeah I know what you mean, but on the other hand I don't own a bass with a reverse headstock, so there's as good a reason as any!

Yes indeed. Two in fact. Joyo XIV and Digitech Ricochet. The Ricochet is so good I can play chords with it an octave up.

The posts posted with an apparently valid reason are seldom anywhere near as interesting. I had the Eden chorus but it wasn't quite what I was after. The Future Impact is almost certainly the greatest and most ludicrously complex music related thing I've ever owned. I've always fancied the Bass Synth Wah.

Literally everything I need to do a gig except microphone and mic stand. And I'm not a singer so..

DAMMIT

OK. I'm not letting this go without a fight. Following advice from the legend that is the @Dood I have now purchased some 8 X AA holders. And yes I have now spent more than another Harley Benton recheargable power supply would have cost. And they have two outlets, and phone charging, and they're smaller, and they have a torch. But where's the fun in being sensible? Here's the problem though. When I plug in my recheargable batteries I am getting just over 10.3 volts. I read somewhere that pedals will cope with 10% more than the recommended 9v. I don't know if I believe that enough to hook up several hundred pounds worth of noise machines to my non money saving crackpot homemade idea. What can ya'll tell me about this? I mean, other than go buy a proper supply, I've done that they're £35 and utterly brilliant. Does the danger of the output diminish the more pedals you hook up? Should I just throw in one older crappy battery to drop the v's?

I'm guessing kristo has inside knowledge

What have you done lately that made you look in the mirror and shake your head? What historic bass related embarrassment still haunts you in the wee small hours? I'll start. I just bought an ABY pedal. Jolly useful little chaps. What sets me above the herd, so I thought, was that mine has level controls for both outputs. Oh and only cost 15 earth pounds. What I failed to notice was that I have bought the world's only ABY pedal WHICH HAS NO Y. I can output to A. I can output to B. But not at the same time. Which is, of course, precisely the function for which I bought the darn thing.

I put my Trace through two 15" Barefaced cabs. I can highly recommend it. As well as sounding incredible they are so light to carry.

Thank you!