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The panel being greyed out doesn't sound right, but I can't remember what you need to turn on to get it to light up. There is a manual for the software, do you have it? Might be some useful stuff on Chris Graham's site - there are some sample patches and a review of how the pedal works. http://www.cgraham.com/chris/music/bass/super_synth/

Some of the Zoom pedals have emulations of the Xotic Bass BB Pre-Amp and the Xotic EP Booster .

It claims to be compatible with G5n, MS-60B and MS-70CDR firmware version 2.0 . As far as I can tell GuitarLab doesn't work at all on the older pedals, so Tonelib is still useful if you don't have a Xn version.

There's also tonelib:

I went to see a great duo last night, the Washboard Resonators - playing 20's 30's, 40's ragtime and swing. The washboard player James is brilliant, and is clearly also a very skilled percussionist.

The Mackie DL1604 is an analogue mixer with 6 Auxes, which should give you enough for your monitors and some left over to send out effects to an external processor unit or maybe your ul112. I looked at these but eventually bought a Yamaha MG206C, which has up to 3 auxes for pre-eq (for monitors) and a 4th which is set to post-fade for effects. Neither this or the Mackie has built-in effects. The smaller version of the Yamaha does, but has only 2 auxes. The Auxes on Yamaha and Mackie are Jack, but you could use adaptor tails if long runs are an issue. I used to run them on a 25m snake/stage box with no discernible ill-effects. I went for the 206C because it had more microphone pre-amps and we needed to get a lot of drum mikes onto the main mixer as well as vocals, keys and all the other usual stuff. You can also use an insert to get compression and gate from an external processor for kick-drum mikes if you want to follow EBS Freak's suggestion. The Alto looks like amazing value for money. Only 2 of the 4 aux mixes have pre/post switches: if the other two are set to post that might be an issue for one of the monitor mixes. It also doesn't have any group busses - I found it handy to assign 6 drum mikes to a group bus to adjust the overall drum kit volume, but if you don't need that it's not an issue.

I love these basses, they have a lovely old-school tone and the build quality is excellent.

I think it's quite useful to do the due diligence of google searches to see who is already using the name, and what you might run into. Hopefully not loads of porn sites!

You could try sending him a personal message. Find a posting (there's one in this thread), mouse over the user name and you should get an option to send a message to him. And we could try this: @Low End Bee

Yup, been there, done that, I was right and he wasn't. Didn't get the gig. This particular muppet was also the band leader and thought it would be a good idea to audition two bass players at the same time, taking it in turns. I should have realised at that point it was doomed to be a waste of time.

There are no stupid questions. But there are a heck of a lot of inquisitive idiots :-) Just kidding. First question, yes, if you use the DI output from the Sansamp anything after it in the chain will not go to the mixer. If there is no amp downstream, you wont get those effects anywhere. And yes, you can use a regular jack cable from the last pedal in the chain and provided the cable is reasonably short (less than 5 metres or so) you probably wont notice a lot of difference. Since you seem to have 2 Sansamps, you could also put the second one at the end of the chain and just use it as a DI Box. You might also find that the sound engineer in the venue will expect you to use one of his DI boxes, so you could put that at the end of your chain.

It's not a necessity. The transmitter jack will still sit in the socket even if the pad loses it's grip on the bass. You don't have the option with the Line 6 G30 transmitter because it is much bigger and more unwieldy than the SmoothHound, and you have to either clip it onto the strap or stick it into a pouch. It is 2.4 GHz only and there are no facilities to manually adjust the transmitting power or set the channels. It uses some internal smoke-and-mirrors to allow you to use up to 4 Smoothhound devices together, with a proprietary protocol which evidently does similar tricks to the Line 6 gear, but isnt' necessarily compatible with it. We could ask Chris. Which is really what funkyjimbob should have done in the first place - customer support from @SmoothHoundChris is normally top drawer.

Yup. If you hold down the button nearest the middle for a few seconds, the display will flash a green cross and 'B' at you. Do it again and you get back to 'G' mode.

That's nothing. This is far worse:

Nope - couldn't get on with it. The Octaver was the best bit. Chris Graham summed up my experience pretty well : http://www.cgraham.com/chris/music/bass/super_synth/ Much as it pains me to agree with BigRedX, he's right about one thing: if you want synth bass, play a synth.

I've tried most of them, except for the Deep Impact, and the only one I miss is the Korg G5, which is less versatile and less compact than pretty well anything else on the market, but was the only one with really useable sounds. How I wish I hadn't got rid of mine!

All solutions have pros and cons. I'd rather have something that doesn't have to be held together with gaffer tape.

Very happy with my SmoothHound too.

Douglas is in France so he's on CET and therefore one hour ahead. I think this might be a browser issue in that case, I'm still seeing dates bass-ackwards in Firefox, but if I look at the same thread with Chrome or Vivaldi it's the right way round. Apologies in that case, please mark this one as solved. Weird indeed, but then we're posting to a bass playing forum, so goes with the territory.

I've just noticed that when someone quotes a post, the date in the header is presented using US format mm/dd/yy rather than the expected UK format dd/mm/yy . This may be intended behaviour, but for me it seems wrong for a UK - oriented site. Comments, questions, thoughts?

It would be nice also to see Lindsay Buckingham join the reformed Split Enz, although the hair might need some work.

It doesn't - it has white pearl ears on gold machine heads. This picture doesn't really show them properly.

Urban explorers web sites will give you some possible locations, but whether you can get permission to go and film at these locations is another thing entirely. www.28dayslater.co.uk for example. You'll probably have to travel: Hertfordshire is not exactly renowned for dark satanic mills.

How about something like this - bonus is it comes in handy for putting up banners, lighting rigs, ... https://www.screwfix.com/p/work-platform-aluminium-600mm/5892p