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Oh bugger, that's a real shame. I bought a Jazz bass off him back in 2013.

There is an arpeggiator in the Source Audio C4 and also a Cooper Moments Machine but they don't have ADSR per step so two notes at the same pitch just become one note twice the length. The Eventide Pitch Factor has an arpeggiator but the patterns are preset. There is a CV message based hack but it's far from convenient to implement. Adrenalinn III has an arpeggiator with ADSR per step but it's based on a pink noise generator not an audio source. I have the C4, the Moments Machine and Adrenalinn. The first two are for sale at the Gallery right now along with an old Akai SB1. I sold the Pitchfactor about 8 years ago. So basically there are a number of pedals who have taken a shot at the functionality and only sort of half implemented it.

The idea is to arpeggiate without need for MIDI or extra stuff.

I'm glad Andras is going from strength to strength in the FI story. FWIW is all I would like in ANY bass synth pedal is a 16 step arpeggiator with ADSR control and mute for each step. Source Audio thought it was a good idea but had already hit the limits of their hardware. Obviously Andras is taking things in a different direction too which is disappointing for me but no doubt the bulk of users out there don't need it. Which bass are you using for this clip, Peter? I found even with the Akai SB1 that single pickup basses tended to track best. I'm wondering if that might have changed.

£8000 for a Warwick Thumb NT now. I have a few bits of Mesa guitar kit at home, and the Bass 400+ is the best valve bass amp I have ever owned. They made some utterly fantastic kit in the nineties. But check out the manouverings of Ernie Ball, Warwick and a few other brands this year. They have spent the last ten years cultivating a fan base in the US and leveraged on that to support sales internationally. Helped to no small degree by lump sum pension pots being made available within their customer fan base. This isn't really about demand and supply as it is about goose, gullibility and raiding golden (nest) eggs. I owned three Smith basses in the mid to late noughties. I owned three Celinders. I owned four Musicman Cutlass basses and I still have an Alembic. I have given up any hope of being able to owning a halo model from a boutique builder now. In some ways I'm OK with that because I don't really have GAS any more and my tastes have become very specific. But in China there are some very nice imported brands available second hand for about 20% less than they might get in the US or Europe. Ernie Ball, looking at you in particular with £800 for a nineties SR5. Or PRS with £1200-1500 for a core Custom 24. Dingwall seem to be one of the few manufacturers who have retained any degree of self control on prices.

I'm going to appropriate this.

I also use the triple grade of grit Boots nail buffers (or the closest available alternative) for CA glue based finish repairs to minor chips and dings.

I just finished a refret on one of my guitars where the same issue happened on the third and fifth frets (and 11th). The fingerboard was dead straight and recently re-radiussed. I took a fret rocker and fret file and slowly pared the fourth and sixth frets down ever so incrementally until there was no more rocking. After restringing it played buzz free.

I've just pulled the trigger on a Roland XPS30 for 3000RMB so I can use a Yamaha CS6R quad synth module I've had kicking around. I don't think the XPS30 is available outside Asia but it can do pretty much anything that an earlier Roland keyboard can do and play samples from WAV files. I heard the Fender Rhodes patch on it and it was every bit as convincing as a Nord Electro so I was sold on that alone.

These two were sitting in the approval queue waiting for a mod to approve them. I'm surprised you found them...!

Fair enough, I've modified the settings. It's probably something worth messaging privately about in future. Even if it's not clear who exactly, any of the mods will ensure a message reaches the right person.

What is the most desirable seventies or eighties BB bass and what are they selling for? I have access to Japanese imported BB1200s and 1100s plus later models.

If you have any issues, feel free to drop me a message.

Damn, I'm sorry to hear about this Matthew. I hope he was at peace and this thread has helped show how many of us benefited from coming into contact with him.

@Matthew Canty look what I discovered while sorting through some old books! I knew I still had it somewhere... Jaydee aren't dead yet though.

It's why Smith basses have relatively soft woods in the neck but a sodding great slab of ebony for the fingerboard. The neck is just stiff enough rather than as stiff as it can be. I've encountered the same effect in a guitar with the softest maple and mahogany laminates in the neck but an ebony board for preserving rigidity. I'm fond of ebony fingerboards because they can be dressed to very fine tolerances and are tonally neutral. They seem to affect high end frequencies that are beyond what most of us need in a bass.

Hi Des, location makes no difference to log in success. Let's discuss this offline as it might involve digging about in your account history to see what is going on.

We had a gig at the Duxford Air Museum once. We travelled there from London, arrived early for setting up and sound check. It was magnificient, the stage was partially under the wing of Concorde. I checked out their Vulcan bomber XJ824 while waiting. About an hour before kick off, it started snowing outside and we were put on alert that they were reviewing the event on H&S grounds. About 15 minutes before we were due to kick off, they cancelled the event. We were on stage waiting to hit that first note and then had to pack up and get back to London before any roads were closed. We did got paid but it was a shame. NB: Not technically a gig "last night".

@mamayo Here's a question: Could you talk to us about what it's like rehearsing with GG? He's arguably one of the most technically accomplished guitarists since Allan Holdsworth.

Hey Yolanda - welcome back. 😉

We love you. While OT is useful for members to get to know each other outside bass, the content doesn't help our search engine rankings much and in the past a clique of members used OT to artificially inflate their post count. They were probably confusing quantity with quality.

Yes, this one has a graphite through neck, it's the headed version of mine. I've been searching for a specific white one like yours for about 5 years which Bass Direct had for sale. They have 15mm string spacing which feels perfect. I've installed Barts and an East preamp in mine to free up a bit more warmth and mids.

Any pics? Do they have graphite necks? I'm wondering how close they both might be to mine.