dannybuoy

This sucker analyses your pedals to recreate them in software. If I can clone my Blueberry, Team Awesome Fuzz Machine and B7K in this, I might have to sell my pedals! You can also take any of the guitar pedals and fine tune the filters at each gain stage to let more low end through and also add a clean blend. Looks like the iPad version does not support the tone match feature though. But I wonder if I could capture my pedals on PC and then transfer them (it sounds as if you can!)? http://youtu.be/JyUHVIKFNDo

I don't know about you, but I find the whole idea rather corny.

The Tech21 has a blend knob, set to the left the EQ will be active but without the amp modelling (or sansansamp!). Then you will have a pretty clean amp that you can then flavour with your choice of preamp pedal if you like.

[quote name='discreet' timestamp='1445906868' post='2895354'] I'm going to throw the G-K MB500 in there. [/quote] And there is (was?) an MB500 Fusion (with extra tubey goodness) going for £400 in the classifieds recently!

I think there are two separate issues that some people have - 'floppiness' or a lack of note definition. Setup and a string change can make a world of difference for both of these issues - I've had basses where I hated the low B until I put a new set of strings on - so start there, especially if you're still on the stock strings. Take extra special care to ensure there is no degree of twist in the string as it is tightened up - this can kill the sound. Construction helps too. I can see how this might help note definition - increased stiffness and decreased damping in the neck material and body join will stop the higher order harmonics being absorbed as quickly, which results in a brighter sound making it easier for your ear to detect the pitch. But I can't see this affecting 'floppiness' much unless the neck is so bendy that plucking the low B makes the neck bow sufficiently to slacken the string momentarily and make it clack against the frets. Increased scale length also helps, but I have played 34" basses with better B's than some 35" basses, so it's not a cure-all by itself. As for only expensive basses having good sounding B's - that may have been true 5-10 years ago, but it certainly isn't today. The 'best' low B (i.e. the most clear piano like tone) I have played comes from a 34" Warwick Rockbass Streamer that cost £280 new - although it does have a 5 piece laminated quarter-sawn neck which is not common at this price point! Even the low end Yamaha necks have a similar construction these days.

Don't forget your chorus pedal!

There are no plugins installed, and Chrome on Android no longer supports them. The issue seems to be that the site is trying to serve up Flash content to my Android device when it used to deliver them via HTML5. Safari and Chrome are still able to play embedded content on my iPad, and none of these devices have ever had Flash player installed. Assuming the site hasn't had any code changes recently, this was probably broken by a recent change in Chrome for Android. But since I don't have any issues viewing similar embedded content in other sites such as Talkbass, this suggests that whatever the issue is, it should in theory be fixable at your end!

This has become an issue again, I've tried multiple Android phones with Chrome and Firefox, both are getting a 'missing plugin' box instead of an embedded video. iOS works fine and that doesn't support Flash - so these videos must be able to play over HTML 5 but something is broken when it comes to Android!

£100 for a Wealdstone Raider? Perhaps the price is low because they've got no fans?

If you do go the all-valve route, you should probably look at the Ampeg V4B instead of the SVT. 100W vs 300W - not only cheaper and lighter, but let's you get the sound of pushed tubes at useable volumes. You would blow the roof off of most small venues with an SVT + 810 if you wanted those power tubes cooking nicely!

Check out the Epiphone Jack Casady bass too.

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!