Bigwan

Just saw this on FB:

https://www.joyoaudio.com/product/235.html

Clone of the MXR M87 apparently. 

Judging by my current love affairs I'd say a Vigier Excess 5 but with a passive P pickup...

Saw Del Amitri in Belfast last night... Suppose I should have posted this yesterday, given the thread title!

Seen them a few times before and they always hit the spot. Justin Currie looking a bit frail though. A bit of a worry for a guy in his late 50s. He never admitted to being much of a bass player but he keeps things pumping along nicely! Good old sing-song had by all!

Ha! 1500 quid? Nope... 

8 hours ago, danbowskill said:

It's a good looking board. Like something Batman would use!

2 hours ago, danbowskill said:

What's that just left of the tuner @danbowskill? 

Without a P-bass? No...

@Kev is the only Quad Cortex user I know here. Looks like a serious piece of kit!

What's your budget? 

Anything Polyphia... SOOOOO good live.....

15 minutes ago, BigRedX said:

 

Coil them, place them in a large plastic container and wait for the bin men to empty it.

 

Then fit some new strings to your bass.

What am I, made of money?

Coil them, place them in a large disposable plastic tub and cover with meths. Put on the lid and agitate a little bit. I usually leave overnight. Remove, uncoil and hang to dry. 

14 hours ago, T-Bay said:

Great for a low cost pedal. It isn’t as transparent as the spectracomp I have but works really well. Very pleased with it.

Any idea what it's based on and what the half pint/full pint switch actually does?

Result! Bought a used C4 off reverb with a cheeky offer. I'm not REALLY a deep dive kind of effects user, but I WILL build myself a midi controller to happily flick between presets other people have uploaded to the Soulrce Audio app! 

Not a chance...

If anyone is looking rid of a C4 give me a shout. Have a wanted ad up but don't know how many folks look in there... 

Edit: just watched Zach Rizers in depth demo... Wow! 

Oasis had a few good tunes, but were tossers that people tired of quickly

Ed Sheeran knows folks who can write catchy tunes, but I'd rather watch paint dry

RHCP have been unlistenable since BSSM

Elton John hasn't been good since the 70s and should have given up 30 years ago

Florence from Florence + the Machine sings flat... All the time! Makes my teeth hurt when she comes on the radio...

I don't like bass as a solo instrument... 

I prefer Jason to Cliff... and Rob for that matter...

>34" scale is not required for a good B string (fairly recent one for me that...)

Stingrays are rubbish...

I'm sure many more will occur to me

21 hours ago, SumOne said:

 

I've learned that mini pedals can be annoying as there's no standard placement for the connections - so they often don't align and squeeze in closely together. Much bigger pedals with top mounted connections don't actually take up much more room on a board like this e.g. an Aguilar Grape Phaser would probably fit in that Phase 95 slot.

I may have asked this before, but what's the Homer pedal? B3K clone?

Surprised they haven't released the VT Bass version... 

I made my own but prefer the Oxford! 

2 hours ago, ossyrocks said:

Hmm, they are £269 new inc. postage, so for an extra £40 I could have a new one.

You could... and then decide you don't like it and loss that £40 in resale... but I doubt you'd not like it to be honest! Great, great pedal. The one in the classifieds is no longer available anyway as I've just shipped it out!

Origin Effects Cali76 Compact Bass for sale. 

Recently acquired this and its totally changed my opinion on compressors. Wonderful sounding and (more importantly for me) feeling compressor, but I've built a ThorpyFX Fat General clone that does a pretty good job for a ludite like me so to free up some beer tokens this has to go. Boxed with instructions. 

£220 plus postage or trade for a Source Audio C4 with cash my way. *SOLD*

Darkglass X7 for sale.

Bought this from @danbowskill a few months back, but after a brief dalliance I upgraded to @Kev's X Ultra... Then took a sideways step to  Tech21 dUg... Then back to this in conjunction with a Darkglass Element... But after all that I'm back to my fav drive pedal of all time, the Lomenzo Hyperdrive, which just tickles my pickle in a particular way. So it's time for this to go. 

Boxed. A few VERY slight cosmetic marks but nothing much to write home about. No feet or velcro present but I have a few little rubber feet knocking around I can include if necessary. 

Now looking £170 including postage or trade for a Source Audio C4 or a Darkglass Alpha Omega (or Alpha Omicron with a little cash my way) 

As I play less frequently nowadays I find a compressor extremely helpful - I used to hate the things so this is only a recent revelation, maybe 2-3 months old, and I'm on my 3rd compressor already. The Origin Cali76 Compact Bass is outstandingly good, but since I don't like to have too much money tied up in pedals I built a clone of the ThorpyFX Fat General which sounds awesome...

37 minutes ago, bloke_zero said:

Looks great - thanks for the nudge - I'm going to build one! They have a huge range of pcb's - I built their hudson duocast clone with a NOS mullard OC71 that is older than me! It really has an amazing tone.

A hudson clone is on my to-do list! Was going to vero it, but after this experience I think I'll grab a PCB!

Just a follow-up on yesterday's babble about this PedalPCB General Tso (ThorpyFX Fat General clone)... 

First build in a LONG time. First Musikding kit - other than the poor quality 125B clone enclosure, a pretty good kit. First time using a PedalPCB board - they're not for the beginner as the documentation is a bit thin. But it turned out brilliantly! Probably my favourite pedal I've built. Doesn't look like much but at this point I couldn't care less! Need to find my stash of knobs...