Wolverinebass

Sack him and get someone better. Nobody needs to put up with that.

This has just put me off getting a Bergantino cab as I was considering them.

Maybe one day Blue will leave his current band and we won't see these threads every 2 months and he'll be a regular poster in Jack's "auditions in hell" thread instead.

In years gone by, people might have seen their own blood for stuff like this. However, as I've mellowed with age, I realise that some things aren't worth the hassle. If this is an originals band, I'd have left well before this stage occurred. However, my response to this conundrum is still the same "Go f@?k yourself" now as it would have been then. There just wouldn't be anyone getting chinned for it nowadays so I guess that's progress.

I used a Roland PK6 with a Moog Slim Phatty in one of my last bands. It does take a certain level of concentration to play bass whilst standing on one leg and playing pedals with the other. Bottom line is if you don't read a manual or don't like programming stuff, this isn't for you.

This is what I'm using with my Wal. Front pickup on 10, bridge pickup pulled and on 7.

I use a Korg dtr2000. It's brilliant.

I've only had a chance to try it with my 50s precision so far. Certainly to me, the mid scoop is very evident at almost any dirty setting, but it's only one bass. Might need a bit of pre or post eq to fix. As I say, it's only one bass and I'll know a lot more when I try a few of the others. Brutal though and absolutely insane to boot.

70 feet from my back door in my studio. Sod paying to rehearse or record again!

If it works for you squire I'm happy for you. You have an amp you like. Everyone's needs are different. I just think the wattage has been cooked up as I tried it against my Hartke HA5500. That was much, much louder and it's only 500w by comparison. Personally, I think it's a 300w amp as you have to redline it to get some volume out of it.

It has landed! After the unfortunate situation where yesterday's postman had to take retirement on medical grounds (mainly due to him not being medically alive for his gross failure of duty), today's replacement postman handed me a package hoping to placate my all consuming thirst for distortion pedals. So, here we are. The smallest pedal I've ever seen with so many controls. Plus my new rizla box. Maybe. Thanks to Darren for sorting this out. Will be having a play later today after I get my alibi sorted for yesterday with my legal team.

That's why I was confused as to why there wasn't an Entwistle setting as that's the sound I'm expecting under certain settings. Lead bass.

Well, my postman has just been. Nothing. I ran out of my front door kicking him to the ground shouting "Where's my pedal motherf@cker!!" When he whimpered that he didn't know what I was talking about through trying to stem the bloodflow from his broken nose, I took out my lead cosh and started..... Well, I'd best leave it there until I get a lawyer......

At least you'll be able to sleep by the door for when it arrives.

I look forward to the free watch that comes with it!!

Where are the tracking numbers?!! All of us want to click "refresh" every 30 seconds tomorrow for 6 hours..... Ha!!

Many years ago, I had an idea. Why didn't bass amp manufacturers do an amp which had distortion bands seperated by frequency? That was 15 years ago and now, the future is here. For those of you who "set everything flat" or "don't do distortion," leave now. There is nothing here for you except pain. Some of you may be aware of the fact that Wounded Paw do a 700W version of this, but as I don't like the "small box" format. I wanted a rack pre format. Basically, it's a switchable 2 channel pre. One side being the 6 band overdrive and the other being a clean channel. The 6 band overdrive is immensely flexible and can do a clean tone if you want and can go all the way to full on armageddon. The textural variances you can get from this is truly remarkable. If you play a 5 or do downtuned, then this thing will work for you really well. It has better low end distortion than Darkglass to my ears (much more crack) and the treble has so much harmonics going on that the treble knob often has to be used to tame them a bit. I really can't overstate the flexibility of this. You can go from clean to mild overdrive, to fuzz, to total insanity. It is also possible to have a clean low end and distorted top end. The other night I got a very "Live at Leeds" type tone with my 50's Precision, then recorded with my Wal in drop D in a more "Justin Chancellor" type setting. I did ask for a few tweaks from standard. On the back panel I got an extra XLR out added as well as a parallel input so as to use it in the loop of something else if you wanted to. I also asked for a mod making the effects loop active on the clean tone. This was to cover myself for other things. As for other features, the Effects loop can be pre/post on the dirty channel, but only pre on the clean. I'll get back to this in a minute. Due to the extra switching and because I have the first one, there was a bit of teething trouble with getting it to work quite right, but Preston is great and was really helpful in sorting this out. I suppose you could argue that this is the "Wolverine signature" preamp, but maybe that's a bit of a stretch even for my own vanity. The clean tone is very, very clean and I'd imagine too clean for even many purists that swear by it. This was why I wanted the effects loop to be active, so that you could say use a preamp pedal with a bit of dirt to jazz it up a bit. I've tried this and it works brilliantly. The dirty channel is a distortion that allows the inherent character of your instrument to come through. My Mk2 Wal sounds like a Wal and my Status Buzzard, still sounds like it always did. Some distortions take over, this doesn't. Moving on then to the Battering Ram EQ. I got this for 2 reasons. Mainly as a stand alone pre pedal for light gigs and also for recording to jazz up my synth setup. So, firstly, the EQ. It's very, very flexible due to the parametric nature of it. As a clean tone, it's fantastic. The overdrive and fuzz are in parallel which has it's added benefits. Firstly, the overdrive. It's not really a distortion per se, it's mainly an overdrive even at max settings. It's quite dark as it retains the lows brilliantly. Now to the fuzz. This adds the juice really. All the mid character you want for a bit of cut. Pile in the octave up fuzz and you have a brutal tone. Like Doom? You'll love this. It actually works immensely well for guitar as well as a mate was recording some guitar for his solo album and used it with a Peavey 5150. He thought it was "the tightest fuzz I've ever played." He was also amazed it wasn't much more expensive. In truth, this is great gear with a unique character of it's own. It has elements of Darkglass, Tech21, Big Muff, Ampeg even, but is of course none of these things and a refreshingly original take on the age old medium of distortion and fuzz. I'm surprised Wounded Paw doesn't get more love per se, but being based in Toronto might have something to do with that for those of us in the UK. If you're after something a bit different, then I'd encourage you to check it out.

That rabbit looks like something from a horror film. It's giving me the fear.....

We find out who was really responsible for JFK's assassination? Westside Distribution to close citing "falling profit margins?" Darkglass to lower prices of pedals? Ashdown to admit that the Geezer Butler head is total pony? Miranda Hart to become the new Gibson CEO? There is so much good news out there, I wait with baited breath.

Andertons and gear4music now suggest between 10th-15th May. Not long now.

No, it's a bass pod.

I tried it at the LBGS and thought it was crap. An ABM with a cheap and somewhat weedy fuzz. You'd get a better deal getting a decent fuzz pedal. I have nothing against Ashdown, but £1400 for that was having a laugh.

Very true Chris. However, if you don't see them as a massive improvement, then it looks like brazen rip off. I'm not saying it is of course. That's a subjective value judgement. The Aguilar cabs I've played were okay, but they are never worth that kind of cash. If I were going high end, it's probably going to be Vanderkley after playing @Al Krow's 2x10 which just killed. At this point @Bill Fitzmaurice will be along to skewer my dream by saying they use cheap drivers in a random sized box....

At the LBGS I looked at their prices and laughed. £1750 for a 4x10?!! Which was 5 times more than the Peavey 4x10 a couple of stalls down. Their pedal prices were beyond stupid as well. It makes Westside Distribution price gouging us on Mesa gear look reasonable. Pfft. Jog on.