dannybuoy

[quote name='Guinness21' timestamp='1407776080' post='2523899'] Thanks for the advice Yeah think it's either the b3, or the boss limiter enhance, tuner and bass overdrive. [/quote] There are much better comps out there than the Boss, and if you were referring to Boss for all three - their bass overdrive is more of a heavy fuzzy distortion. I love it personally but I would never label it as an overdrive! If it's just experimenting you're after for now, the Zoom B1on is miles cheaper than the B3 (£49 vs £129), has the same sound quality but with has some extra features (aux in and ability to chain more than 3 fx) and has some effects that aren't on the B3 too. Worth getting for the headphone amp, tuner, looper and drum machine alone, it's a superb practice tool. You probably won't need more than a tuner and an overdrive for now. Which overdrive, now that's a minefield and a slippery slope towards pedal addiction. I'd check out the COG Knightfall, it gets raved about around here. Your amp should has a decent enough compressor built in also.

The main thing I look for is a non slip backing. I have leather straps with a grippy suede backing and they stay put when I let go of the bass, whereas the ones with a smooth leather or fabric backing slip and slide around, which is especially a nightmare if the bass is top heavy and prone to a bit of neck dive.

I got my mum a Samsung one recently to go with her Samsung TV. It turns itself on and off with the TV, it senses it via the HDMI connection. Sometimes it pays to match the brand of the sound system with the TV! Also, you should turn the TV speakers off when using a soundbar, don't try to balance them.

That Jazz would look great with a black guard and hardware.

[quote name='Andyjr1515' timestamp='1406201555' post='2509238'] [/quote] I love this and want the same done to my RBX270F!

Probably have to use an insert cable, typical in fx loops (this is the EBS one): Yup that's the one Si

I was thinking of ordering one but after this I just went and ordered one from WD Music. Very happy with the result too, it's proper celluloid tort and cost £70. I would've liked something a bit more orangey to go with my sunset orange P, but not if I have to take the risk of it turning out like Billy's! Will upload pics to the 'where has all the decent tort gone' and 'Precision porn' threads once it's done! It's not too late to fix this and retain your reputation if you're out there reading this!

With those, overdrive before the BBM for sure. And do the master volume mod on the BBM if you can to tame the volume in dry mode! The BBM really comes alive with a dirty boost / overdrive in front of it. Then set it to dry mode and you effectively have overdrive in parallel with boosted BBM! Of course try both ways. But I used a BB Preamp (similar to a tubescreamer) into a BBM like this for years and sounded great live. I layered it up with clean tone, then overdrive, then all three - I didn't like the sound of the fuzz by itself.

The black Pahoehoe strings feel and sound the best to me but they aren't very stable. The Aquila strings are brighter and stickier, but hold their tuning better. Repeatedly lifting the string out of the nut slot when tuning is par for the course with these strings!

Yeah, I tried adding a switch to my P bass once to send the pickup directly to the output jack, made it sound much brighter, I wasn't a fan! You could probably remedy that by wiring in a fixed resistor if you still wanted to present a load to the pickups.

Valve amps like to be presented with the correct load unfortunately. I didn't know these were that cheap - £390 for an all-tube 300W monster with 6x 6550s?!

I took my out of warranty OTB to PMT also. They recommended that they send it to a local tech as it would probably be cheaper, but I requested they send it to Orange instead, as I'd read it was a common fault and they were often fixing them for free. Which they did! Get it sent direct to Orange, they should sort it.

And a VM Jazzmaster Baritone which is a 30" scale Bass VI: [url="http://www.thomann.de/gb/fender_sq_vm_baritone_jazzmaster.htm"]http://www.thomann.d..._jazzmaster.htm[/url]

New 5-string Jazz too: Thomann link for the Jazz V: http://www.thomann.de/gb/fender_sq_steffi_stephan_jazz_bass_v.htm

Thanks for the heads up - that one pictured looks terrible and nothing like you specified.

I wasn't a massive fan of the Beta, too much bass boost and treble roll off... Might work with some setups really well but my bass and amp already lean in that direction (P or BB into a Terror Bass) and the cumulative effect was a bit too dark. Plus the actual overdrive at low gain sounded a bit fizzy and artificial compared to the SFT and Darkglass Vintage. Take that with a pinch of salt though as plenty of people love it, including the guy who bought mine!

Can't go wrong with a wizard on a motorcycle:

Don't attach the pictures here, upload to a photo hosting site (I use imgur.com) and paste the links they provide!

[quote name='Mark_88MPH' timestamp='1406411626' post='2511366'] Anyone have any experience with this bad boy? [url="http://www.thomann.de/gb/amt_wh_1b_bass_wah_wah.htm"]http://www.thomann.d...ass_wah_wah.htm[/url] Looks good but does it sound good? [/quote] I've had one. It's a good solution if you NEED a tiny wah for board space reasons, but ultimately there are better pedals out there if you can manage something larger. I found out of the 3 modes, the lowest one was great but maybe a bit too subby (watch your speakers!), the middle one no good, and the upper one just about right but could do with more lows mixed in. It also suffers from loud true bypass clicks. I'm using the G-Lab now and give it the thumbs up, never tried the Ibanez.

[quote name='oscaraluke' timestamp='1406276280' post='2509954'][b]The strings from factory do are sticky[/b]. I hope the Aquilas are better than them. (do you know the brand of the originals? [/quote] The factory strings are Aquila Thunderguts as far as I know, they are renowned for being sticky. If you want a less sticky, warmer sounding string, try the Road Toad Toad Pahohoes.

John Davis also uses/used the WMD Fatman envelope filter. I used to have one and it's the best filter I've tried for really subby envelope 'womp!' noises.

Well, Timmy C used a 105Q on the RATM stuff, and the old Metallica stuff was one of the vintage Morley wahs which sounds very different to the current crop. The Ibanez Weeping Demon and G-Lab Wowee Bass Wah are contenders too.

[quote name='pitchard' timestamp='1405941511' post='2506681'] This is my current bass pedalboard, which features my usual bass pedals on the bottom row and my 'fake guitar' sound on the top, to emulate the Royal Blood tone. This is what it sounds like! [/quote] Awesome! Now I have pitch shifter GAS. Full rundown here: http://adamflanagan.wordpress.com/2014/07/19/royal-blood-out-of-the-black-bass-cover/