dannybuoy

I sold the Aguilar. Wasn’t a fan of the dual filter vowel sounds, and as a straight up filter it was good but as squelchy as some others. The Emma is still my #1 but I might have to try a Spectrum or new Proton still!

Playing my fretless the other day, I realised that down by the first fret, it was really hard to barre with a forefinger and play every string at the right pitch. As my arm was stretched out quite far with my hand cupped towards me, the tip of my forefinger was pointing towards my head, so I had to rotate my hand to a slightly uncomfortable position to compensate. If this was a multi-scale bass, that would have required a very uncomfortable stretch get my finger in line with the first fret line! A shorter scale (or longer arms!) would have helped though. But if the 1st fret is a bit of a reach for you, then it's not comfortable to also have your forefinger pointing away from you and still be able to grip the bass, give it a try!

It'd be quite interesting to feed it original material and see what basslines it comes up with. Might provide some ideas to use that you wouldn't have had by yourself.

That range switch was on the v1 I had, since sold. It wasnt on the later version I bought, which was a v3, so I guess this is a v4+ ?! It was too clean and subtle sounding and didn't go deep enough for my tastes, but I see the new one has been completely redesigned according to the 1st vid!

The 3Leaf Octabvre Mini also sounds just like the OC-2, but doesn't suffer from the same lack of volume that the original and Valeton have when soloing the suboctave.

It does sound like the optocoupler could have failed based on the description. Not sure how easy they are to source but at least it looks like a relatively simple soldering job! I always wanted to mod mine to have an expression control but never quite built up the courage to hack into it!

The best I've found (and I've tried most of them) are the Fwonkbeta and Discumbobulator, but I would check out the Source Audio Spectrum if shopping for a new filter!

Also recommend Tech 21, but the DP3X. It does that nasal grind but also has a crossover to keep the lows clean and compressed. I have a Terror Bass too, and my best tip is to boost the mids and cut the bass on the eq. The flat sound is not all knobs at 12 like the markings suggest, it's more like bass and treble off and mids maxed when BassGearMag measured it. Bear in mind that is with the older version, not sure how similar the new one is!

I meant like an internal Volto rather than a 9v battery clip. Kinda like the PJB Bighead that’s rechargeable via USB.

If you're going that minimal, I'd just ask Max to build a battery into the pedal!

I was going to say the answer was a Stingray until I saw the Jazz! I'd still like a fretless 'Ray some day, Every Time You Go Away is one of my favourite bass lines.

Ah, I was talking about the SFX Micro Fuzz!

It's a good one isn't it! So much low end, muffish at low gain and synthy at high gain. I had the old one before they added the mid switch.

The shape would be fine if it wasn't two-tone.

There are a lot of alternatives these days, check out the Kala U Bass and its many cheaper clones, just search for ‘ukulele bass’. A few people make solid body versions too.

Ashbory bass?

A good option for adding a MM pickup to a P is to place the pickups right next to each other. Then you have the 2 classic sounds available, even if the pickups blended don’t sound that great.

SFX Micro Fuzz is a Coloursound Bass Fuzz clone: http://www.sfxsound.co.uk/microfuzz/ Get in touch and I’m sure they’d build you one.

Try pushing the treble control on the Mojo Mojo up to 3 o'clock, it's still not bright by any measure, but it does add some missing clarity back! Re the Tech21 pedals Al, DP3X still sounds king when played in a mix with my band's old albums. Played solo though I do enjoy the VTDI more. The Leeds is very similar but less farty and more throaty when pushing the gain! I'd need to play them against each other at high volume in a band setting to see how they fare in real life, but I can't see that happening for the foreseeable!

Does it allow for live low latency jamming, or is it more for being able to share audio tracks between DAWs?

Give me a shout if you ever decide to move it on!

Also 500K pots can give you a brighter tone. I used to have one of the early Squier VM Precisions that had them, and that thing snarled.

I've used shipito.com to buy pedals from US makers that didn't want to ship overseas. Set up a free account, you get a US address to give to Broughton, once Shipito receive it you'll get an alert and a choice of delivery options, they only charge a couple of dollars on top.

If you can find one used, the VLE is basically an LPF:

I think the Stingray would've done a much better job wearing flats and a less scooped EQ. The Joe Dart MusicMan bass for example!