dannybuoy

The small pub version of this rig is to get a couple of Ampeg SVT210AV cabs - cheap and light and takes up about 1 square foot of space when stacked vertically, which results in a tower of power roughly equivalent to half a fridge. Amp-wise I would recommend the Tech21 VT Bass amp to go with it - not the Ampeg Micro VR that was designed to go with the cabs ironically, since it it goes snap crackle and pop when hooked up to two of these cabs! Or if you have a decent micro amp already just add a VT Bass pedal for that SVT flavour.

[url="https://spitfiretortoiseshellpickguards.wordpress.com/pictures-and-styles/"]Spitfire[/url] - overseas and expensive, but doesn't get much better!

Big fan too, that track in particular! I heard an interview with Joe Dart where he said they bass used in that vid is just a cheapo no-name bass with TI flats fitted. It sounded so damn funky it made me GAS for Stingrays that I had previously disregarded thinking they were only good for that bright cutting agressive twangy sound. I picked up a Sandberg Basic from here that has the MM pickup just slightly further north of the Stingray position, and with the mids boosted to give it some honk, it sounds pretty close - now whenever I'm bored I find myself picking up this bass and playing this track! (poorly, I need to learn it properly!)

Get the measurement from the center of the pickup to a reference point such as the bridge (harder since the saddles are staggered), nut, or 12th fret on a real Stingray. Then divide by 34 and multiply by 30 and you should get the equivalent distance for a 30" scale bass.

I would build one with an MM in the sweet spot and a pair of Jazz pups either side - you should be able to achieve a 70s position for the bridge pickup!

The Zoom B1on is a good buy - £40 gets you 100 effects (including decent models of the Bass Big Muff for fuzz and BB Preamp for overdrive), tuner, looper, drum machine, and headphone practice unit with aux in.

Chrome disabled support for Adobe Flash a long time ago, Flash should no longer be required to play YouTube videos. This seems to be a recent breaking change in either the site or Chrome for Android. It doesn't work on my Android phone but I can see the videos on my iPad in both Chrome and Safari (neither devices have Flash installed).

Try and swap that Mad Professor Blueberry out for the Bearfoot version too!

The B1on requires you to press both pedals at once to go into bypass, which can be tricky, you might change patch by mistake. The B3 requires you to hold a button down which is not ideal... I've not used an MS-60B, but I think you can stomp it on and off and hook up an extra patch up/down switch (I have seen some in the post-your-pedalboard threads on Talkbass). Workarounds though are to either set up a blank patch, or use an external bypass looper!

[quote name='colgraff' timestamp='1445001480' post='2888066'] I haven't used either, but for me Darkglass Duality is perfect. A lovely rich fuzz that can be as bassy or trebly as you want. [/quote] He's after CHEAP pedals though!

On a budget you'd be hard pressed to do better than a Boss ODB-3 and an EHX Bass Big Muff if it's fuzz you're after rather than light overdrive - for which I would steer you to a Hardwire CM-2, EHX Glove or Bass Soul Food.. the Joyo Pure Sky is also an option, supposed to be a Timmy clone with more bass!

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All ears are different of course, but I thought those three all sounded pretty different, and the Blueberry absolutely slayed the other two! Within one minute of playing with each, I knew that I would sell on the Beta and HGBM, and that I would never ever sell the Bearfoot.

A P/J sounds great with both pickups blended, but I think a soloed J bridge pup sounds a bit weak. A P/MM (with the MM in the sweet spot right up close to the P) doesn't sound as good blended but it does give you a more usable soloed bridge pickup. Options - add a coil split switch to the MM to give you just the south coil - this should sound close to the single coil J and perhaps blend better with the P. Especially if you use that funky Delano pickup that is half J and half MM. Or, what I would love to do, but would ideally need an unrouted body as a blank canvas - 70s position J + sweet spot MM + reverse P!

I see you're now rocking the Blueberry! This should be mandatory on every bassist's board!

I also wonder what the Suhr Buffer is bringing to the table when you already have plenty of buffers already in the form of the G30, Thumpinator, Wonderlove (switchable), Empress (if it's always on) and Tech21?

Not ideal for someone trying to sell a Ray4 though!

Here you go...