dannybuoy

Sounds quite similar to the Tone Hammer from your description. That pedal does Motown like no other! For pick playing my top 'pick' is the Blower Box set to low-ish gain.

Yup, I've been thinking of contacting both Tom and Max for a quote to see what they come up with. I do prefer the aesthetic of the COG pedals however.

Alternative layout for you - JMJ! You can get the MM pickup in the sweet spot then have the J's either side in a sandwich. The J will be quite far back in the 70s-ish position but it should be a good setup, best of both worlds!

[quote name='DanEly' timestamp='1471589000' post='3114153'] Pretty sure the GigRig G2 does this? [/quote] At £749, I don't care what it does! A little 1590A nano box with one footswitch and a couple of mini pots would be ideal. Maybe if there's enough interest and it's a common problem for everyone, someone like Tom at COG or Max at SFX could get on the case and do a small production run?

Never. Although if it ever did happen, I bet it would be my Yamaha BB1025X. Those new bridges are string through body combined with a really sharp fulcrum resting point at the saddle!

I have a few pedals that suffer from one of the following issues:[list] [*]Volume drop or boost when enaged, but no volume knob on the pedal to sort it (e.g. Mini Q-Tron, Phase 90) [*]Pedal sensitive to input levels, e.g: [list] [*]My Mr Black Fwonkbeta only triggers properly with reasonably high output bass [*]My COG T16 sounds much fatter with a more consistent tone with a slight clean boost before it [*]Various overdrives don't react well to high output basses [/list] [/list] I want a simple true bypass loop pedal that has a gain trim control on the send and return. Does such a thing exist?

I own a T16 but prefer the tone of the Ovtabvre from clips I've heard, it's more OC-2 like. I'd be happy with an OC-2 if it had more volume on tap for the solo octave tone! I have an Octabvre Mini inbound, let battle commence!

Always fancied auditioning one too. Big Blueberry fan also, but I've been using my Tone Hammer pedal instead lately, amazing when set up for subtle drive.

If anyone who has one plans on popping in there soon, take it with you to show him and have a word!

I put a Stinger in mine but then put it back to stock as it sounded too dull. If you like that treble bite, mod the stock pre or go for something else.

Talk about it then!

If you only want it for recording Youtube demos that seems overkill. Do you need to record more than a couple of tracks, say a bass and a mic?

If the compressor is always on, you might not need for the buffer, since it effectively is one. The only reason you would need the buffer is to prevent signal losses if you were running a long chain of FX and the compressor was near the end instead of near the beginning of the chain.

[quote name='Westenra' timestamp='1469802815' post='3101196'] Software sounds so sterile and too perfect to my ears, give me genuine pedals any day [/quote] These reverb pedals are all digital though and therefore run software inside them! Are there any reverbs other than the Nimbus that have a high pass filter on them so that just the top end is reverberated?

Looks like Thunderbolt-to-Firewire adaptors can cause issues with audio interfaces btw: https://cooltechpc.com/articles/thunderbolt-firewire-and-usb [quote]Although Apple has released a Thunderbolt to Firewire adapter, it isn’t a direct conversion. The Thunderbolt to Firewire adapter actually places another chip in between the Thunderbolt port and your Firewire device, which requires a driver. This will cause issues with audio devices, which are particular about which chipset your 1394 (Firewire) card has. External devices (such as the M-audio Project Mix I/O) may not even show up, unless you use a 1394 card that has a TI chipset. If you need to use a Firewire device (particularly for audio recording), we recommend using a Firewire card that has a TI chipset, instead of using Apple’s Thunderbolt to Firewire adapter. Alternatively, you could use onboard Firewire, but beware onboard Firewire doesn’t normally include a TI chipset, and is subject compatibility problems. This is why we use Firewire cards with the 1394 Ti chipset in them when building our digital audio pcs (if the customer wants the option of using Firewire).[/quote]

[quote name='stingrayPete1977' timestamp='1471341970' post='3112236'] I disagree totally. Maybe wet have different ideas of high quality mixer, I'm thinking digital, put an ampeg plug in into the fx rack. I've done almost all of my recoding and live playing pre eq di. [/quote] Are you running the ampeg plugin on the mixer itself, or via a laptop? I've always been wary of laptops live and would sooner just shove a VT Bass or Tonehammer in there instead, they don't crash as often! I have a rigless gig coming up soon and after auditioning various bits at home, I'll be going with a P-Bass with flats and an Aguilar Tonehammer pedal with the AGS on. Sounds amazing!

Obsolete as in you don't see them on devices any more. Mackie don't supply drivers for it after Windows 7, but Macs are still supported. No idea if needing an additional whatever-to-Firewire adapter in line will add latency, but it's a possibility. Anyhow, I've not used it in years, the base station with the extra ports is very hit and miss and would rarely fire up if ever, but the pull out unit (which has 2 line outs plus 2 mic/instrument inputs) always worked fine. Here's a review: [url="http://www.soundonsound.com/reviews/mackie-satellite"]http://www.soundonso...ackie-satellite[/url] Up for grabs for the price of the postage if Bubinga5 doesn't want it!

Does it have a firewire port? I think they are generally obsolete but if your machine has one I have an old Mackie Onyx Satellite going spare...

[quote name='NancyJohnson' timestamp='1471204344' post='3111271'] I doubt I'll be buying much from Thomann until such a time as Sterling recovers against the Euro. Pound for pound it's quite possibly cheaper buying from UK retailers at the moment. [/quote] This. Unless you review everything you ever bought from them and get a €5 voucher for each one like I did!

[quote name='Funky Dunky' timestamp='1471221361' post='3111386'] God that is a bargain! Shame it's collection only from Milton Keynes. And a month too early! [/quote] Ad says you can send your own courier!

Ever tried soaking your strings in denatured alcohol to bring them back to life? If you are seriously wanting to change them after only one gig, that would be far more cost effective if it would work out for you. Cheapest I've tried are the £9 Legacy ones from Strings Direct, which may well be the same as the ones you found but rebranded. They were ok but nowhere near as good as D'Addarios.

No mention of the Squier Classic Vibe 50s Precision? I would try and find a used example of the now discontinued butterscotch version: These are no longer on the Squier site but there are some white blonde ones knocking about still: https://www.hwaudio.co.uk/Product/Fender-Squier-Classic-Vibe-50s-Precision-Bass-White-Blonde-Pine-p428316

There's a fretless ShortBass One 14 on eBay at the moment. If you're open to fretless I would seriously consider it!

Punters will notice if an instrument/vocal is too loud or quiet, or if the overall sound is too boomy / weak bass, or overly shrill / muffled. But a lot of that is not the gear but how you use it. You don't need to spend a lot to get a good sound, but you do need equipment good enough so that the average punter thinks it sounds decent - no point going for audiophile levels of sound quality for a pub environment.

Yup, error that the device is trying to draw too much power! Oh well.