dannybuoy

I doubt metal strings would help much - you'll either need a bigger bass like the Aquila Shortbass One, or an amp. Here's the Shortbass One unamplified with some ukes: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xC2tEIFBS5U

[quote name='elephantgrey' timestamp='1438780476' post='2837202'] [url="http://redbearlab.com/blendmicro/"]This[/url] is a tiny cheap blend pedal that you might find useful. [/quote]

Very tempted! Some great sounds in there, particularly bridge + middle and bridge + neck. Would love to whack a set of flats on one of these!

Yeah, there's an A/B/Y switch behind the wah splitting the signal, so one of those tuners is just an expensive mute pedal!

Why two tuners?!

I don't know of very many cheap ones that are usable on bass except for the EHX Bass Big Muff, Mooer Thunderball and Mooer Fog.

Not a massive hip-hop-head, but I do love a bit of J5 and Charlie Tuna!

... and when I've ordered pedals from them I've not liked, I've been able to return them for free as well, which is a great service. I assume the same would apply to a bass even though the shipping costs are much higher and Thomann would end up losing out? But perhaps in the end they win if more people buy their stuff from them as a result.

A box just for putting them in serial like the OBBM one above makes more sense - to hook them up in parallel just use the built in thru-jacks on the cab, or multiple outputs on the amp. Unless of course neither your amp nor cab have these!

I've always thought burgundy mist really suited an old Jazz bass.

The Blower Box is an awesome low-medium gain pedal. Not transparent though. Sounds terrible at high gain if you ask me!

They are the most recognised pedal brand, and for a while, their only 'bass overdrive' pedal was a nasty (in a good way) distortion pedal. So new bassists bought ODB3s in their droves looking for mild 'overdrive' only to be disappointed, then start researching their options to upgrade from their Boss pedal. So a lot of bassists now have a built-in dislike for Boss pedals. They've come out with the BB1-X now, but it's a bit crap, I sold mine after playing with it for only 5 minutes. Still have my ODB-3 though, not much can touch it for sheer brutality! They have some decent pedals, but many have drawbacks and aren't the top pick in their respective categories. I see them as mostly mediocre, with a few exceptions that are classics.

Some from the most recent threads:[list] [*]Playlist Help Required [*]Paying The Bill [*]Whatever Happened To Rock and Roll [/list] And from the oldest topics in off topic:[list] [*]The Perfect Band [*]What on Earth is Post-Hardcore? [*]Grade 6 Theory Exam [*]How Old is Too Old? [*]Easy Money [*]A Walk in the Park [*]Sgt. Pepper's Woeful Farts Club Band [*]Metal Illness [/list] A veritable goldmine!

This one is on my radar: http://pedalsandeffects.com/review-fwonk-envelope-filter-by-mr-black/

The metering is supposedly a multi-colour LED, similar to the Diamond Compressor. It's not as nice as a meter, but it's still very usable if implemented well!

The ultimate bass compressor? http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:NEv-ont1Y-8J:www.mansons.co.uk/product/origin-effects-cali76-compact-bass-compressor-7147+&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=uk&client=

Now is a very good time to buy stuff from Europe. £376 for one of these is a steal!

The strat style input jack and bridge mean it's the older model. I bought a 5 string Streamer for £280 from an Italian shop, Overbeat.it. A good deal cheaper than anywhere else in Europe, maybe they listed it wrong! It was set up really well out of the box, in fact I have not bothered to touch the set up yet until I get round to changing the strings, which were ok as well. The electronics were a major let down though - passive humbuckers wired up to 2x 25K volume pots?! Should be 250K or 500K surely, and the output level is woeful. Going into a boost pedal into the B7K though and it sounds immense - I have a Darkglass preamp waiting to be fitted to it that should give it a proper kick up the jacksie.

Your post cheered me up, then the price you quoted for your Sandberg reminded me that the Euro is not doing well lately therefore driving down the price of the TT5 I've been meaning to list on here for ages!

It's a very nice fuzz - lots of variation and bags of low end. A bit tricky to dial in though as the 8 control knobs are unlabelled, the bass control works the opposite way around to what you'd expect, as does the blend, and the blend is implemented like the Darkglass pedals, where the volume knob only affects the fuzz portion rather than being a master volume. I need to spend a little more time with it to see what it's capable of!

[quote name='vmaxblues' timestamp='1437477075' post='2826268']Black Little Wing Numb Sultans Swing Down in the Tube Station I Love Charming Man Last Nite Brown SuperSoaker Running American Girl Don't Look Back Anger Dakota Sex Fire Going Underground[/quote] Certainly an unusual setlist, I've not heard of any of them!

£319 new here: http://www.mannsmusic.co.uk/guitars/fender-squier-classic-vibe-jazz-bass-60s-rosewood-neck.htm