MichaelDean

@Jack strangely, they don't sound quite as bad recorded as they do with headphones. Maybe open back headphones aren't the thing when you're using the pitch shifter! Still not the worlds greatest pitch shifter, but might be a good get out of jail option. 1 semi-tone up: OneUp.wav 2 semi-tones down: TwoDown.wav

I've just taken delivery of this mini 23" scale Harley Benton for my daughter's 4th birthday next month! Hoping to be the proud dad of a bassist! She has wanted a bass of her own for a fair old while now and prefers when I play my basses over my guitars. Just need to tidy the fret ends before we wrap it up as they've sprouted. She's also said that she wants her second bass to be black. I've taught her well already 😂 And it just so happens that I've got a black Squier Jaguar SS stashed away for her too.

I would say the pitch shifter and octaver are so bad they're both unusable.

I can confirm it does cycle back to A after scrolling through the list. @Jack I can try to record a quick bit of the pitch shifter so you can see after work if that'd be useful?

That's totally possible. I don't think much of the pitch shifter or octaver though... Both are very warbly/chorusy and not really useable. The low end of these modellers all seem to have the same issue with pitch based effects. Maybe a decent one is too DSP intensive?

I think they wouldn't need to necessarily reinvent the wheel with captures. If they just included a NAM block, that would probably be enough. That's all the Anagram has done on the capture side. Hiring a UI designer would be a great help, and yes, the apps are all a bit shocking. The load time from selecting the patch on my GX-100 to showing it on mobile/computer editor shouldn't take 10/20 seconds. I don't know what protocol they're using to transmit the data, but it needs to be modernised. I think that they do get so much right with the functionality though, like the options to assign any parameter to any control and the properly seamless preset swtiching. More assigns would probably be on some people's wishlists. Oh, and the wavetable and input assigns to parameters is great too. I personally think that their amp sims do leave something to be desired. I've never been totally won over by them and struggle so much to get them to sound like I want to that I've kinda given up with them. Compared to something like the cheap Sonicake Pocket Master that I've got, where the Twin sounds perfectly useable to me with a few tweaks, the one on my GX-100 just doesn't have the same ease of dialling it in. Adding a good synth would be a good selling point too. And maybe getting all of the effects from the Plugout might be a USP for them? Give it all to the users of the new gen pedal.

I prefer a bit more helium in my tone air, for the high frequency response 😂

Our guitarist/singer couldn't make it last night. He's had shoulder pain since before Christmas and has been on some meds for that waiting for a physio appointment. And he let us know yesterday that he was in such pain that 111 had advised he call an ambulance. Turns out the shoulder pain meds were not playing well with the cocktail he also takes for his back and it was giving him chest pains. Glad that the doctors know why he was having that issue. Doesn't sound fun and needless to say, he couldn't make practice last night! So a bit of an odd one. We hope he's well enough to at least sing at our gig on Saturday the 7th. I decided to bring my Fazley jazz bass along to practice with my Spector to see how they compared. I did the first half with the Fazley and it's such a lovely bass to play. The neck is super quick and very playable, but it wasn't quite cutting through. I also missed my high C string for my usual CGCFC tuning. It just brings an extra element that I feel is part of my sound for the band when I'm doing big open three octave hits. The Spector for the second half just cut through perfectly. The sharp fretboard edges are quite annoying though. I'm going to need to roll those. I've been spoilt by the entirely rounded edge of my Dingwall! I also put the Mojo Mojo and Bass Big Muff back into my effects loop of my GX-100 for practice yesterday. It's a different texture to the options I have in the Boss unit and I fancied having that available again. I think there's one song in particular where it works better. There were other bits where I think it didn't work as well as the fuzz I've got from the GX-100. Completing the gear was my trusty Laney Digbeth DB-500H head and the practice space's Ashdown 810. It's such a joy being able to use an 810 regularly! I love big cabs!

I've got a Sonicake Pocket Master and very much like it with an SVT NAM profile I've loaded on to it and a bit of an EQ tweak. You can do all of the editing on the device itself (except NAM loading), or you can use the app. I do more practicing because I've got it. Combine it with a cheap wireless unit and then you've just got the headphone cable going to you. I've also got a Valeton GP-5, which is a great little thing too. No battery, so it needs power and you can't edit on the device itself, you need to use the app. That's where the GP-50 is a better bet for practice as you can edit on the device and it has a battery. I like the Mesa amp sim on my GP-5. I also think I'm going to put my GP-5 on my pedalboard so that I can have it on the spare output from my Boss GX-100 to use as an amp sim and headphone amp for practice when I want to use the whole shebang but not wake my daughter. (Yes, the GX-100 has amp sims built in, but I go out to my amp for gigs, don't want duplicate patches with an amp sim at the end just for practice) I have had a Mooer Prime P1 and it was the worst bit of gear I've ever purchased. I didn't like any of the sounds in it and I spent so long trying to find something half decent that I didn't practice. Then I'd turn it off being somewhat happy with the sound, but the next time I turned it on I would start the tone search again. With my Pocket Master and GP-5, I plug in and play.

Yup.

One of the guitarists in my band had to wait three years for his Old Boy from Jaydee. He also got similarly strung along and it wasn't until he threatened to go to small claims court for his deposit back that they actually built it. He couldn't get through on the phone, their voicemail is constantly full and they weren't responding to his emails for months after initially quoting an 18 month build time at the time of order. He eventually got it just before Christmas and it is a lovely guitar, but they took the p*ss. Apparently after they've caught up, they're just going to be building stock instruments and selling when finished. No custom specs and no orders.

Yet another beautiful build! You've been knocking it out of the park recently! So many great instruments!

You're not trying hard enough 😝 Seriously though, I've only ever had it happen when playing with a pick and really going for it. But it puts the whole instrument out of tune and sounds terrible. Really not good. Enjoy your new bridge Gazz! It's a looker!

I had a go on an Anagram today at Bass Direct. I prefer my GX-100. I've gotten to know it well and have put the time in to get some real filth out of it. I felt like I'd need to start again from the same place with the Anagram. It didn't feel as simple as just adding some blocks and heading to the gig. Plus, the reverbs and delays weren't as fully functioned or as deep sounding. AND I've got loads more footswitches and expression options, which I do take full advantage of. It's nice to come away pleased with what you've got. Now, if only I could say that about the bass I was trying it with. I NEED a D-Roc 5 😅

It looks to me to be ideal as a music shop amp. You can sit in front of it with a bass and easily see all of the controls.

They're great live! I saw them in Bristol a few years ago, highly recommended!

If you have Beyerdynamic headphones, get this. It makes them sound more like studio monitors. Makes my DT990s sound much flatter. https://europe.beyerdynamic.com/headphone-lab?cid=hp_hl_icamp

Looks like it should be ok!

I've been playing my jazz the most recently out of all of my basses. I'm thinking about sanding back the body and staining it purple when it's a bit warmer too.

Enjoy! Good choice on the colour too!

I bet you could be persuaded with something purple, sparkly and with three pickups!

Rubbish! I hope you both find it has been worth the wait!

I'm the opposite. White/mint guards are very rarely acceptible to me! They remind me of cheap starter basses from when I started. Black is generallly my preference. Never had a tort, but I wouldn't say no if a bass I wanted had one.

She's Daisy Pepper. I think she started an online presence for a college course and is now a session bassist. There is a looper on it. It says "LOOP" on the front as a hint 😅

Apparently there's a bass synth on the GX-1B! Hopefully that gets moved over too 🤞