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Wonderful! Is it heavy? How long did it take you to make?

Done

What's wrong with me? I had thus sorted after a week of work now I'm back at it I think I'm addicted

Just completed an entirely painless transaction with Mart. Absolutely no problems at all.

@Kiwi I'd love to hear some sound clips

Thanks mate, this was very theoretical. Now I have the TPM I'm realising just how complex the possibilities are. But also how easily adjustable too. Great tip about the B3 thank you.

Actually my first gig with it will be as a splitter. Sending an octave up to a guitar amp through guitar effects.

Well yes, no argument there but we have a very very good keys player and no one can convince me that keys can't do way more than a guitarist. I am aiming simply to fill the sound a little, under solos for instance , and to beef up songs in places where the require beefage. Anyway if this lot don't go for it I know bands that will

After a solid week of work it was game on last night. Well rehearsal on at least. I hadn't told the band what i've been up to as I was interested in their reactions to the sound not their pre judgement. They were utterly underwhelmed. I know we should never anticipate another's reaction to something we hold dear and then judge them if their response fails to meet our hopes and expectations. It's not up to me what others think. But still. Went home quite deflated. If they noticed at all they didn't say and the first comment came as I was just messing with the Whammy between songs, some snidey reference along the lines of wonder what he got for Christmas. Problem is I need every penny this band can earn and half of the others are doing it for fun. This, in my experience always leads to conflict. They speak airily of adding guitar players, horn sections, backing vocalists, string sections, rappers, second keyboard players, marching brass bands and so forth and all I see is my 'cut' getting smaller and smaller. OK OK they only want a guitarist but my point stands. So, lets have it please, a Basschat list of great bands with just keys, bass and drums (singers optional, don't mind if the vocals come from the musicians or from a separate entity but no other instruments)

It's less ingenious more Heath Robinson! Lidl collapsible sacktrucks lots of bungee straps.

New one on me! I see its intergalactic though, and that alone makes want it.

I don't mind waiting, I'll pm you we'll sort something out.

@Newfoundfreedom That's brilliant thank you. At present I'm 'wasting' my non-parallel mixer using it as a splitter - but it does the job really well with the phase switch and independent volume controls. However it can do so much more!

I'm well into this. I don't have a 'smart harmony' like yours @Newfoundfreedom I've looked into the Boss Harmonist but I'm a bit confused what happens with major and minor chords so for now I'm sticking with octave and fifths. Thirds would be a great addition of course. As far as ABY goes I wonder if A + B pedal might be better. So I can drop the bass out or the 'guitar' and kick back in whichever is out. Don't see how to do that with A/B Y. But I've not tried so...

surreal

I think we are all affected by pre judgement and our own narrow experiences. I have a deep seated negativity around another highly regarded brand after using one of their combos in an audition. Ludicrous and indefensible but kind of visceral. I had this weird idea that Ashdown were bedroom amps for kids just starting out. Can't tell you where that came from, literally no clue. My Trace Elliot love is well known to some of you and the Ashdown connection ought to have been a huge plus. But there was something wishy washy and pale blue about them. And that homemade looking logo always struck me as amateurish. All of this utter nonsense wasting brain space before I'd ever played through any Ashdown gear. I bought a couple of cabs which came with an ABM 500 virtually thrown in so why not? I could always sell it on. What a revelation. Seriously. I now own the CTM 100. It hasn't quite pushed the SVT out of the door... yet.

That was great. Lovely bit of bass geekery. @yorks5stringer in fairness that part of the video was talking about the rise of the electric bass in general rather than the Precision in particular.

Hey Blue, I like your attitude

What would be amazing is five toneprints. Any you want, any combination. Swoon.

I was in a band once where we all learned the material from demo cd's the band leader and songwriter gave us. He was in charge, set up the band, wrote all the material However he gave us compete artistic freedom to come up with our own parts. A perfect arrangement. Except for TMWHTD. Just didn't bother. One rehearsal he casually dismissed the BL with 'oh you never gave me a CD' BL didn't respond just reached into the drum stand box and pulled out said CD from where TMWHTD had tossed it the week before. I don't do ultimatums, it's egotistical, confrontational and unhelpful but it became an 'I go or he goes ' situation. So I went. In that scenario we just couldn't move forward with one guy winging it - not with original material. Nowadays one of my covers bands features a young guitarist who rarely bothers to learn material, but we get paid, he's a great showman and I'm older and wiser. I now recognise what other people say and do is none of my business.

Are they sound activated?

No question about it. Of course you need one

It's so much fun. Seriously. A totally different discipline to just bass of course. I just discovered the joys of the two pitch shifts in parallel rather than in series. Now that opens a whole new can of worms.

So, meet our new rhythm guitarist. Doesn't drink, smoke, take drugs, turns up on time about as often as I do, plays in time, happy to take a back seat and only play under solos and choruses, agrees with all band decisions without argument and plays for free. I just wish he'd chip in for rehearsal costs and carry his own gear.

Yep me too. Admittedly we used to do the Specials take on it but I would go nuts whenever we played it.