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    I have a cheap and decent squier mustang for exactly this. I was dubious at first, but boy this thing has blown me away!
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    That’s ok, I prefer brighter colours or natural anyway
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    Excellent bass that sounds beefy, plays well and feels lush! Only selling because I don’t like dark coloured basses. I’d swap for another SR in a colour I prefer. This colour is sky veil matte and it’s nigh-on impossible to photograph. It’s much more subtle in the flesh and textured with a ghostly silver quality. Pics just make it look ‘striped’. It isn’t! The headstock pic is more representative. £170 collection from Cheltenham only, supplied with a tatty but functional hard case. There are a couple of tiny marks that I’ve filled in with sharpie. One on the lower horn and one in the lower neck pocket area. They are only visible if you hunt for them. Ignore the tape on the pole pieces. I always do that, it will be removed for sale. It’s just my preference.
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    Out of over 200 basses owned, many 4 figures plus, this budget Harley Benton is one of the very best! which is both nuts and annoying! it does a good ray, a good jazz and a good p. The action is low and fast, the neck is smooth and wonderful to play. The only downside is the reason I’m selling it. The weight. It’s heavy. I started a refinish on the headstock and then loads of gigs came up, so I never finished it and left it as is. I kinda like that way tbh. There is a big route around the neck pickup, NOT the full swimming pool, but enough to be annoying, and without the pick guard the control cover doesn’t quite cover the cavity. I repositioned it to cover all but a tiny gap. But be aware if planning to use it without the pick guard. Im afraid it’s collection from Cheltenham only. £170 If a heavy bass doesn’t bother you then this is a no brainer! It truly feels, sounds and plays like a way (waaaay!) more expensive bass. Will trade for an Ibanez soundgear in a colour I like! Mobile phone video here: https://fb.watch/8xIdefrWM4/ (Don’t judge me, first time playing the song and first gig with said band too!)
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    Mine’s nothing fancy. Two/three simple signal paths. The zoom is my primary sound. Each bank (a-J) has my basic clean sound in position 1 with the relevant EQ, NR compression etc. Then the remaining three are used for other effects. It mostly stays on bank A where chorus, drive and synth are located as my most used sounds. Everything is then duplicated on the next set of user banks (0-9) but with amp sim for headphone practise. Live I mostly just go from the zoom headphone out to the rolls for my IEMs, taking an aux feed from the desk. This way I have a ‘more me’ control. If I’m using my headrush cabs I go to the eq to cut the very low and very highs, to the preamp strip for volume control and minor tone shaping. (None usually) and then the A/B/Y pedal sends the signal to both cabs. (If I daisy chain them, the second one is noticeably quieter, so this way is better) Finally, if I’m in a rehearsal studio using an amp, or recording, then it’s just straight out the zoom’s L mono out. Simple and not fancy, but I like it.
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    I’m a huge fan of the zoom bass stuff, excited to see this. The B9.1 is my entire rig these days as I’m ampless. (If anyone has one they’re not using I could use a backup!) I’ll be keeping an eye on this for sure.
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    I had one and it was pretty awful. Just a poorly put together, wuffly sounding mess.
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    I’ve just switched to iems and happily the foh sub is on my side of the stage, so I get a lovely mix of feels and hears
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    My MiJ Geddy Lee needed tweaking every five minutes, and any stingray or Ibanez soundgear I’ve owned too. But otherwise I’ve never had them move around much. My mij fender ‘trigger’s broom’ neck has had virtually no attention ever.
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    I’ve started using the cheap £30 odd quid lekato too. No dramas with it so far.
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    Same here. Just moved to two headrush 112s and am very pleased indeed:)
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    gafbass02 replied to stewblack's topic in Effects

    On the other hand, I’ve just sold the nux! I preferred the sonicake strip in the end, so went with that.
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    Thanks. It sounds epic!! Not been out with one yet, but I wouldn’t think twice about it tbh.
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    The middle one was the house monitor on that side. I just left it there and set up around it. This is how they are sat now waiting for tonight’s show.
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    It’s been a long time since I posted a pic in here, so here’s a more recent, post long-hair, post COVID recovery shot
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    My current setup, I’m really pleased with it, even coming from Bergantino.
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    My last one was a lovely pub-garden job on a nice big stage with a great PA set up. The engineer was the band’s old one, which was handy! The sound was great, we played well, there was bunting and very Cheltenhamy folk sipping wine and beer with mud in and folks cheered and danced. Good times I snapped a shot of my setup, which both myself and the engineer were pleased with. I could’ve gone with one headrush, but as both were handy I just ran both flanking the house monitor.
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    This was a bit of an extreme case 🤪
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    Mine was horrendous. A private birthday do that turned out to be something akin to a scene from ‘shameless’. Lots of drunken, testosterone fuelled angry men wanting to fight each other amongst a forest of greasy, wailing harpies loving the peacocking efforts intended to impress them. We cut short.
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    OnSong is superb
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    I use the ‘over’ app on an iPad, works very well is so so easy.
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    I started out on the H||H VS100, back in the early 90s. Always had a soft spot. GLWTS
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    I once owned a white B2A. It came in a flight case almost as big as me 🤪😂 EMG pickups and a great sound, I couldn’t get on with it then, but wish I had it now
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    I have switched to two headrush 112s. So far I’m one gig in and it was an odd one, so not a good benchmark. (I played on a skate ramp). The main issue I found that caught me out was, when daisy chaining the two cabs, the second one was a LOT quieter than the first. No idea why! I switched them round, changed inputs and cables, but always with the same result. Anyway, I’ve solved the problem two ways, with an ABY pedal to run both in mono, and a second preamp to split the signal path between a front stage monitor and one further back by the drums, or to run in stereo. I have a series of typical function and pub gigs coming up, so I can report back on the pros and cons of going to the headrush cabs. (Which was all I could afford)
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    I plugged one in at the Princess Charlotte in Leicester once back in the early 90s and it blew the power out in the entire building. By the time it was fixed, the crowd had gone and we had 20 mins left! I ran the sound there a few times, and one of the power amps used to shoot a foot long flame out the front when you powered it up. Those were the days 😂
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