Wolverinebass

I'm still of the opinion that this is a total waste of time as its so gimmicky. Unless you're playing a jazz gig there is no way the elf and that cab will be enough. If they're going to roll out some much bigger amps then obviously I'm interested, but at the moment it looks like a gimmick to get people talking about them again which has worked to be fair. After all, who ever thought that TE would release an amp the size of a microchip which you needed a magnifying glass to change the dial settings? As a setup though, I think 200W is laughable in today's climate. Such a pity.

[quote name='wateroftyne' timestamp='1490680886' post='3266902'] Beautiful! And yes, being shipped with insanely low action seems to be the norm, for some reason! [/quote] Please stop it! I'm trying not to get one! However it sounds like Adrian's set up is much like mine (sub 1mm at the 12th fret), and this seems like something I can get on board with. Ironically, I can't get my Wal that low and I'm not shimming the neck on a bass like that!

[quote name='Woodinblack' timestamp='1490470723' post='3265402'] Finally got round to finishing mine - very happy with it. I could have had it done earlier but I went a bit overboard on the box! [IMG]http://i405.photobucket.com/albums/pp133/alienrat/Combined_zpsjurmb5sp.jpg[/IMG] [/quote] That looks great! Did you do the decal yourself?

[quote name='fretmeister' timestamp='1490517560' post='3265565'] Westside are well known for controlling prices. And they won't warranty repair non EU (soon to be non U.K.) bought items, they are non even keen on U.K. Items outside of the warranty period. And Mesa won't release schematics to help local techs do non-warranty repairs. [/quote] That's absolutely outrageous! What a bunch of tossers! Maybe they went to the same customer service school that educated most of the Rickenbacker and Gibson upper management..... If that's true, I'm never buying a Mesa product ever if they won't repair it out of warranty or if I bought it in the States to avoid them ripping me off.

This is depressing about the Mesa pricing. It seems to me that the formula which distributors apply is this: Take US pricing. Remove dollar sign from the front and replace with a pound sign. Add £200 to whatever the number was. Tech 21 are another example of this syndrome and why their stuff is a bit pricey over here rather in New York. Their distributor is screwing us and the shops have no option but to pass the cost on to us. The joys of middlemen 20%'ing tosspots.

[quote name='NancyJohnson' timestamp='1489943942' post='3260992'] I'm just wondering what colour now...the bass is black with a lot of chrome. [/quote] Red LEDS. My buzzard is the same colour scheme and they're about right. I've found basses with green or blue too piercing.

[quote name='Jack' timestamp='1489767782' post='3259702'] I hate to argue with somweone who's had first-hand experience, but I can't see why that Peavey wouldn't be a good amp. Everything else Peavey makes is, and it's specs say it's -3dB is like 5Hz. Don't worry about the 120Hz hpf, it's not really a hpf it's a crossover for PA duty. [/quote] Yeah, but I was talking about the sound with that disengaged. There was virtually no signal below about 85hz. One good thing about having a spectrum analyser in my rig with a 31 band eq is that this stuff can be tested very easily. It's my experience and I'm only disappointed that it didn't work out for me.

From experience, the Peavey IPR1600 is crap. It has a low cut filter on the back for 120hz. Even with that turned off I don't believe that the cut off is much lower. Anaemic is a pretty good way to describe it. One of the channels on mine failed and it was replaced under warranty, but I didn't trust it again and got my Yamaha p5000s which although only 100w a side more completely kills. Also, my rig is midi controlled so it was the same settings with the same cabs and lo and behold I actually got some bass. Okay the Yamaha isn't light, but that'd be the only reason anyone would get that Peavey because the tone suck on it is horrific.

That's outrageous. Just outrageous. Nobody should own a bass that good looking.

I played a Fractal a few years ago. Whilst I didn't think the distortions were that great for bass, the rest of the effects were really good. Like everything, it takes time to learn to programme and you either like that fact or not. The bass and sims were tacked on somewhat at that time. I don't know if they're still a bit ropey now. Wouldn't mind playing a helix to try it. Seems like a good bit of kit. The main question is how much flexibility and processing power do you need?

I have nothing against ES, but I think saying he writes all his own songs is a bit much as like most folk of his ilk these days (Jake Bugg being another) virtually all the songs are co-written with a team of folk. Much like James Blunt as well. I'm sure I read that they all used the same lady who wrote a load of stuff for Pink, but the name escapes me. I suppose this is nothing new, but it's something I think gets lost in the noise of publicity for people. Whilst I find all the folk I mentioned above make music I don't like, they all seem like folk I'd like to meet and have a laugh with.

Had fun today and met Ped, Seashell and finally Dood for the first time. I did see McDaddy, Bluejay and Sibob, but they were somewhat busy and I didn't want to interrupt. It was also really cool to catch up with Alan at ACG and Martin Simms as well. I had 2 massive "step away from the vehicle" moments though. The first one was trying that light burl Shuker. Good grief!! That was evil!! It had a particular growl in the low end that I've only ever heard anything similar with really old Warwicks. Brilliant bass. I can now see why Shukers are rated so highly, though until today I'd never played one. The other was the new Darkglass amp. No Youtube demo can do that thing justice. It's just devastating. I was playing a Maruszczyk Hellwood into it and the thing just killed. What was more insane was when I looked at the volume knob which was somewhere down in the 7 o'clock position (barely on) and the thing was brutally loud. I could have quite happily went home with them. I do think that not giving you the bag with the amp is a bit cheeky though, but that's another matter. The Jon Stockman pedal is really, really good as well, but I guess it has to be being that it'll probably be more than £300. I had never tried Cog effect pedals and I'm not a fuzz person at all. However, on wandering round, I catch this gentleman playing a Warwick into this Cog 66 pedal and I thought it just sounded fantastic. I'm kicking myself now that I didn't buy it. Tonally it wasn't that far off the Darkglass or even the Jon Stockman pedal they had. Yeah, okay, some of you are going to should "DIE HERETIC!!!" at that, but they had similar properties on some frequency bands I felt. In the end I came away with nothing, which is most unusual and not what I expected as I thought I'd get some strings or something, but it was good to meet a few Basschatters and browse some quality gear as always. Ida Nielson was brilliant and Glen Matlock was hilarious as well. A top day out.

Finally, I got my hands on one. I tried a Hellwood at the Darkglass stand. I quite liked it, but for the nut width being too thin. Will Adrian alter that if you ask? I'd want it changed to 42 or 43mm as the standard 40 is just too thin for me and feels odd in my hands. Where is the price listing for all of the models? I don't seem to be able to see a price for anything except on the stock basses.

[quote name='CamdenRob' timestamp='1488446969' post='3248956'] I have a character flaw (among various others) where the more I am told I must do something (outside of work) the less likely I am to do it... I've left a few projects where I've been expected to play a certain bass... Being asked to play a bass other than the one you have chosen seems to have as much to do with asserting the authority of the person asking as it does anything to do with the aesthetics of the band. If you cave in it's basically saying someone else's opinion of what your playing is more important that your own... and what follows that? "Hey mate maybe you should try playing that bassline like this instead..."... its a downward spiral... [/quote] My thoughts are exactly the same. It's a downward trajectory of the assertion of power that they can make you do something. Absolutely nobody will tell me how to play a song as that for me is Defcom 1. I have the exact same "flaw" in that I will not be "told" to do something though if it's "suggested" I'll think about it. Only over the course of my life has this dawned on me that this isn't a flaw per se but a byproduct of growing up in a fairly rough area of Scotland where being told to do something would inevitably have negative consequences. So my reaction is ingrained behaviour. Invariably it's the correct one though there have been a few great opportunities I've screwed up because of this where the more someone has persisted, the more I've dug in. Whether it's been worth it as a price to pay for not putting up with being stepped on is something I've never fully decided.

I fail to see why anyone is advocating any form of gentleness with this. Unless the issue is in the small print of the contract, the bloke is robbing them and should be stood on in any legal way to stop him doing it though I'd imagine saying something at the gig would be easier in this situation the second this clown came off stage.

My response to crap like this is simple. This. http://youtu.be/aNEiBl3aQcY

[quote name='LewisK1975' timestamp='1487775000' post='3242715'] Hey folks. Whats your opinion on this one? My favourite Bass to gig with is undoubtedly my sonic blue Yamaha Attitude ltd3. Love everything about it. Been told that the Prog band I'm in requires a more 'traditional' looking Bass, a Fender basically. No problem, I have suitable looking Basses I can use, but none of them feel as 'right' to me as the Yamaha. I'm pretty pragmatic about it and will do what's necessary, I'm not the 'main' guy in the band, and I enjoy the music so if the look is [i]that [/i]important, then so be it. But what would YOU do? [/quote] They're tools. It's a genre that doesn't require a specific instrument type to fit in stylistically. In my experience, anyone who has ever suggested I play "a proper bass - like a fender" is a moron as I deliberately play in genres where you don't need to. That's not to say I dislike fenders, but if someone tells me what to play and it's not warranted due to genre of the band then they can go do one.

[quote name='NancyJohnson' timestamp='1486895090' post='3235256'] ...sorry, I had to go and make breakfast. So yes, we're at the studio. He sets up and we just have a little chat and decide what to play. As Montgomery Burns would have said, 'And we were off!' End of the first song, me, the guitarist and the singer are kind of looking at each other. The guitarist is smiling, which is strange enough in itself and I'm kind of at that point where I just want to laugh loudly because there's joy in my being. The guy is fantastic; he's taken the loops I put into the original demos and has bettered them. The guy plays like Taylor Hawkins. He sings. He harmonises. He's a machine and frankly one of the funniest guys I've ever met. Band politics are gone, we're a gang. So we gave him the chair. He accepted. We're about a dozen gigs in, we've done studio time and did a two hour radio show. Andy/Wolverine has heard the studio stuff and said some really nice things about it. I'm made up. [/quote] It's amazing how much of a difference an adjustment like this can make. From hearing the Johnsons material I can say that it's fantastic. It has a great energy to it, the songs are really good and it's brilliantly produced with probably some of the best drum sounds I've ever heard on it. The bass is Sansamp perfection if you like a bit of crunch (as I do) and it's almost impossible to come away from listening to it without thinking that the band have had loads of fun recording the material. If there is one thing that is impossible to fake it's the presence of joy and it is clearly evident here. I'm sure that this is in no small part due to the acquisition of a new drummer. I'd certainly be happy to be in a band with him. I'd recommend the tunes to anyone as they're really, really good.

[quote name='fretmeister' timestamp='1485423188' post='3223807'] £84 for a bag? That's stupid. [/quote] Darkglass can now officially go and do one. That's just insane and grotesquely greedy. I await the first £400 distortion pedal. Pfft. Jog on.

[quote name='0175westwood29' timestamp='1485286221' post='3222821'] also at that price its in the same kinda range as chase bliss brothers, def not the same kinda sound but with all the midi possibilities and different sound on tap via presets the Brothers looks pricey but kinda worth it, but it does sound very good! andy [/quote] A very good point. Unless it's just a stompbox then that's okay to not have midi implementation, but Darkglass are somewhat more than that. Or at least they market themselves as that rightly or wrongly. I think that the ultras and their new amp should be midi enabled. For what they cost for a pedal, I wouldn't entertain getting one without it. No presets on a pedal that costs almost £350? It does seem a bit odd.

Interesting. Glad that there will be a blended output. Wouldn't mind trying one, but I bet it'll end up being £500 when it comes out over here.

I saw them in April 2011 I think and myself and my mate met them all afterwards. Lovely guys and a devastating live band. I'll be going to Islington.

[quote name='Merton' timestamp='1484934554' post='3219895'] I emailed Peavey yesterday, those in the Customer Services offices don't yet know a release date apparently. They kept this very very hidden from all but a few employees there it seems. Or so they claim at least [/quote] It wouldn't have been that hard to hide though now would it? The amp is only the size of a matchbox.

[quote name='Rich' timestamp='1484826287' post='3218773'] Very disappointing. Like a lot of you, what I really want to see is a lightweight small-package SMX with all its classic features. Doesn't have to be ultra teeny tiny, just sub-10lbs and around the 500w mark. A good take on this would see my Shuttle 6.0 up for sale and, I would suggest, could be something of a world-beater. Instead, we get yet another clone fag packet. [/quote] Exactly. This is beyond a level of sub par crap. I'm now not actually disappointed but now quite angry that they thought they could toss off any old crap and get away with it. Awful.

I'm seriously underwhelmed. After all this time, the best they can do is a GK mb200 clone and a pseudo paraphrase of the Tech 21 flyrig?!! Really?!! Try just a bit here!! Obviously, Trace Elliot must have hired the same consultants that advised Hartke to create such awful amplifiers for the last 8 years. How difficult is it? Just put the graphic and drive functions in a box with a 1000w power module and you're good to start on the way. But no. Instead we get this crap. Who even uses a 200w amp anymore anyway? (unless it's a very old trace). Pitiful. Absolutely pitiful.