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Another one for you to check out that's on my radar - Malekko / Wolftone Unity! http://youtu.be/xigFH7i356w

The standard iRig would do the job just fine, especially just for practice, but the Sonic Port has a few advantages: - Line6 apps thrown in - Higher quality conversion using dedicated hardware instead of repurposing the iPhone mic input - More ins and outs, e.g a 1/4" out jack so you can plug into an amp

Get a Line6 Sonic Port, iRig or similar. This acts as an audio interface for your iPhone, you plug your bass and headphones into this little brick that links to your phone. You can run all kinds of amp simulators and effects in parallel with your music player apps - the Line6 software is free to use with the Sonic Port too. If at least one of the apps supports background play then you can listen to two apps at once; most of the amp sims do, so you can set your tone up then switch apps to the music player. There's also an app called Audiobus where you can load apps into slots and create multiple signal chains. GarageBand is free and comes with some great Ampeg amp sims now,can think they sound even better than the paid options!

It's the preamp that's really hot on these basses - some complain that the output is distorted but it's all about what you're plugging it into! Nice and clean sound from the one I had as long as the input gain on the amp was turned down.

Flatwounds, they are much tighter feeling than rounds so it's normal to step down a gauge. But yours are very strange to start with - it's common to have heavier strings on the bottom for drop D etc, but not on the top! What tuning are you using? I have heard of people getting custom sets from LaBella before, so I'd try contacting them directly, unless you have another brand of flats in mind (in which case contact them!).

[quote name='AustinArto' timestamp='1457011407' post='2994436'] My old Mammoth didn't like my Warwick, it sounded really thin and reedy. [/quote] So did mine, with any transistor stage / buffer before it. It likes to see a direct connection to the pickups. There are some clones around that work around this though. The TAFM (smallsound/bigsound Team Awesome Fuzz Machine) is a good choice, as is the Malekko Diabolik. I also have a Lucid Audio Fuzzopotamus for sale which is a very bass heavy tweaked fuzz face with a gate control and another knob to adjust for active/passive basses. I've never actually used it with an active bass come to think of it, if I get time I'll try and make a couple of clips to see if it floats your boat!

I hate blue as a bass colour for some reason. I do have a blue bass though, but only because there was a very cheap Sandberg Basic going in the classifieds and it sounds to good to sell! I bright red one would look pretty decent though!

I'd say you wouldn't need an overdrive per se, but the classic slightly overdriven Ampeg tone would slot in very well here. Not obviously distorted, but just a bit of extra growl and fatness. So if you're not getting that from your amp already I'd maybe look into a new amp or a preamp pedal like the VT Bass or Le Bass or something. Then a mild OD or simple boost pedal just to kick things up a notch when required... and maybe a RAT-ish pedal for when you want very prominent distortion for the occasional track that has a stand-out-front bassline (don't be afraid to rewrite some of those basslines either!). Just had Soundcloud playing as I wrote that. Some overdriven bass with a few growly slides thrown in would work very well in I'm Not a Hero in the intro where the screams alternate with the delayed guitar!

I wouldn't say 99% of startup bands never see their first gig. Perhaps the bar is much lower over here but I'd say the vast majority of (especially cover) bands that form get to see at least one gig as long as they can all play!

Click A or B and that channel is active. Press the active channel button again to go into bypass. Press both to go into fusion. That's pretty much it!

No major noise issues with mine - I got mine from Thomann so it has a European power supply which might be a different model. The cab sim adds a tiny bit of hiss but it's only barely noticeable. It's also noisy if I plug the headphone out into the line in on my PJB Bighead, yet the same headphone out is quiet with headphones plugged in. Definitely no pops when activating the foot switches either. Silent as can be. In cold fusion mode, the fusion knob is simply a volume control of channel A which is blended in parallel with B. You can easily go from clean to dirty by just switching channels. Using the fusion modes requires pressing both foot switches though which can be tricky but I find it easy enough (but then again I'm used to riding the delay knob on my Carbon Copy with my foot to play the oscillation like a theremin whilst playing bass so maybe I just have magical twinkle toes).

For single pedals I don't think any modern pedal would have an issue - it's more when they are stacked up in series, there's a lot of redundant A/D D/A conversion going on... but I guess if you had enough pedals to make a difference, your sound would be so smeared in delay/reverb/whammy that you wouldn't be able to tell anyway!

This requires investing in a Windows device with pen input such as a Surface, but looks like a really natural way to interface with written music: http://www.staffpad.net

Latency is well known about and discussed when it comes to audio interfaces for PCs/Macs/iPads - basically there is a processing delay between you playing and the signal coming out of the other end. If there's 10ms or more delay between me playing and hearing I can feel it, especially when playing fast funky stuff. Most devices can operate around 5ms which is fine for me. But what's the typical latency of a digital pedal? They have nowhere near the processing power of a computer or tablet, but on the other hand they will be more optimised, e.g. not having to route audio through a USB controller. I've never noticed any latency from a digital pedal so it must be pretty low. But I have seen boards where people run several digital pedals in series (e.g. multiple Source Audio, Strymon and Eventide pedals) - surely they must be stacking up and approaching the tipping point where it starts to become noticeable? I wonder if these players would have a revelation in re-experiencing the immediacy and direct connection with their instrument if they were to switch to analog gear or just plug straight into the amp!

There's been no official word other than 'planned for April'. Best place to stay up to date is the Darkglass megathread on Talkbass where Doug actively posts, or follow him on Instagram which is where he tends to post teaser pics and vids first.

[quote name='hiram.k.hackenbacker' timestamp='1456769579' post='2992083'] In that case, any recommendations for alternative free quality photo hosting? [/quote] I always use http://imgur.com A couple of things to try; do you see a toolbar full of buttons when composing a post? On a mobile device you don't, you are editing the raw form of the post and have to use IMG tags. If you see the buttons however, there is a button to insert an image, where you then paste the direct image link into the popup box.

Depends what you're after, thick warm beefy passive PJ, or modern sizzling active J! I love my BB1025X and doubt I could ever replace it with any J-type bass (but I have not tried the Sire!). Maybe it's just me but I only ever like the sound of Jazz basses with both pickups on full, either pickup soloed sounds weak to me, whereas the BB has two great usable sounds in it (not counting the bridge soloed as I hate that sound too, on any bass!). I prefer a flatter fretboard like the Yamaha, the curvy 7.25" radius of the Sire is one of the things that puts me off trying one out.

The wood looks so good on these I really wish they routed the back and left the top naked!

Cheaper if you cut out the middle man (i.e. eBay!) http://www.retrovibe.co.uk/t-rod/butterscotch-bass.html

You'll be fine using the headphone out, but you'd get better sound quality from a dedicated audio interface. I've not used the Tone Port but it would probably do the trick and play back PC audio as well as being used to record. I used a small Behringer mixer to hook up my monitors to my interface. My monitors had a volume control on the back of each speaker which was hardly practical, so I needed a volume control in between the PC and speakers, plus it allowed me to plug other sources in and do stuff like turn the bass all the way down on a music source when jamming along on bass. I've sold my monitors now but the mixer is still available! http://basschat.co.uk/topic/277361-behringer-ub802-mixer/page__fromsearch__1

Will if the Epiphone and Gibson cases aren't interchangeable, the Classic Pro might need the Gibson one as it's different to the standard Epiphone model!