Linus27

Thank you, I thought that was the case and the same as my Sansamp. I just wanted to check in case I was missing something 👍

Andertons price is £449 which is inline with the other Bassrigs. Am I right in thinking that if I wanted to have drive, I would have to stop playing, turn the drive dial to suit and then start playing again? There is no way to play with a clean tone and then kick in the drive to switch to a dirty tone on the fly?

I pretty much agree with most of what you've said, the only thing I kind of dont agree with is being moderately well known. Despite being together for only 4 years, they still achieved success with Love Will Tear Us Apart which charted at No.13 in 1980 in the main UK chart and No.1 in the UK independent chart. Their album, Closer also topped the UK independent album chart. New Order however have the biggest selling 12" record in history, 2 No.1 albums and a no.1 single so quite a bit more success. If you replace Joy Division with The Smith's, then what you wrote fits both bands, short lifespan, moderate success and cult following, a no.1 in the independent chart but minor success in the main charts. I'm not a fan of either bands really but I do love New Order.

I totally agree and he certainly influenced me a lot. His melodic approach and use of playing an open root note while playing a melody on another string is something I learnt from him and an integral part of my playing.

In terms of iconic bass lines to popular songs and who played them, then I think my choice of photos would be Paul McCartney (Ths Beatles), Sting (The Police) and maybe someone like Roger Waters (Pink Floyd) or John Deacon (Queen) or James Jamerson (Motown/Marvin Gaye) or someone from the Disco era (Bernard Edwards/Louis Johnson). If it was my choice then it would be Pino Palladino, John Giblin and Jaco, be all out fretless bass and have contributions from Paul Webb (Talk Talk), Derek Forbes (Simple Minds), Sting (The Police), Jeff Ament (Pearl Jam) and Tony Levin (Peter Gabriel) to name a few. Now that would be a show 😂

I agree, I find it quite baffling regarding the comments on Adam Clayton, who bass lines couldn't be further from playing just root notes, at least no more or no less than any other rock band like Queen, Pink Floyd, Bon Jovi or Iron Maiden. He also plays in the rock genre and is simply serving the song, the role of any good bass player. Plus it's about iconic bass lines and not virtuoso player, if you look at bass lines like Under Pressure, Come As You Are, New Years Day, Love Will Tear Us Apart, Money, all very recognisable so iconic, but certainly not hard to play or on any level of virtuoso.

Exciting times and they say the pedal will be available to buy on the 18th 😮

I personally can't wait to get my hands on one. I'm not much of one who will tweak and fiddle with sounds so I'm super keen to try and use the Michael Jackson Thriller preset. I also use octave all the time so the octave setting looks like it will be used and if it replaces my Boss OC5 then I'll get a space back on my pedalboard. I just have to wait for them to be available to buy again.

For me, this is super easy, my best purchase was the Harley Benton Custom Line Chorus CH-5 pedal. As a fretless bassist, I'd been on an endless mission to find that awesome Chorus tone that I'd always had in my head. I've tried EBS, EHX, Behringer, Boss, MXR and many others but none came close to that lovely 80's Chorus tone. I then stumbled across a Bass The World video of the Harley Benton Custom Line Chorus CH-5 pedal and it was the tone I was after. At £33 it was worth a shot and I can honestly say it is unbelievable, absolutely perfect. Sadly, it's been unavailable for the last few months and I contacted Harley Benton to purchase a backup but sadly they said they will not be making them again.

I've not joined the queue yet as I was hopeful they'd start to come available by now. Looks like I'll be waiting a little bit longer.

I also love the amps from back in the day, they just had something magical about them that Class D amps have lacked. I've tried a lot of Class D amps and have been generally disappointed but I did really like the Ampeg PF500, some of the MarkBass heads, the Ashdown MiBass and the Warwick Gnome Ipro 300. My favorite amp head ever was the Hartke HA7000, its weight was similar to a tank but what an incredible sounding amp head. I also played Glastonbury this year and had the chance to play through an old Trace Elliot 15" combo and it sounded incredible. It was like stepping back in time and the presence, punch and tone was just amazing. At my age, I'm super grateful for the Class D amps and lightweight cabs but to my ears, they've always been a compromise in tone but I'm happy to take that for ease of portability.

What amazing tone, I guess its the Sandberg DK TT and one of the latest MarkBass combo's. Great tone.

The 80's is the generation that influenced me as a bassist and a lot of the great bassists who's tone and playing style has already been mentioned. My own favorites are John Giblin (Simple Minds and Kate Bush), Derek Forbes (Simple Minds), Pino Palladino (Paul Young), John Taylor (Duran Duran), Adam Clayton (U2), Peter Hook (New Order), Paul Webb (Talk Talk), Gary Garry Beers (INXS). Saying that, the 80's is full of other incredible bass players from bands like Spandau Ballet, Culture Club, Big Country. Deacon Blue to name a few. As for effects then as already mentioned then Chorus and Flanger were super popular as was an Octave pedal.