dannybuoy

+1 I’ve had all the pedals Supernaut listed and also really like the Spark. The Tonehammer is the closest thing to the Spark with a mid control. It sounds a bit creamier. I have a Jive coming also that I ordered months ago on sale and am still waiting for it to arrive!

Sorry if I missed the finer points of your post, it was a bit late for me to absorb a wall of text! But yeah, my guess would be string coating acting as an insulation, but the nut makes a firmer contact which forces more metal-on-metal contact. My P bass doesn’t make any noise whatsoever now that I’ve sorted the earthing issue out further down the chain, so this whole conundrum of touching nuts doesn’t even come into question. Hope you get to the bottom of it!

What are you plugging into? I get a lot of ground noise if I plug certain preamp pedals in between my bass and my battery powered Phil Jones Bighead headphone amp… but that noise disappears when I plug in the charging cable, and I don’t get any noise through my amp either.

I thought the Beta worked really well live as a dirty boost. Loads of other pedals that sounded fine at bedroom levels seemed to drop lows at high volume except the Beta and Blower Box!

Nice! I wish they offered a fretless though. https://www.fender.com/en-GB/ukuleles/concert/fullerton-precision-bass-uke/0970583500.html

Speaking of finding happiness with cheap pedals that fly under the radar and parallel blending… I have found solace in the Hartke Bass Attack for my always on scooped dirty tone, with a TC Spectracomp in front of it. This is after trying almost everything on offer from the likes of Darkglass and Tech21, as well as the Origin Effects Super Vintage. Then I’m using the parallel out from the Hartke into a Boss HM-2 and using a Mosquite Blender to mix the 2 pedals in parallel.

When my old Mk1 OTB died, I took it into PMT in Cambridge, who then sent it onto Orange for a repair. It was 2nd hand and well out of warranty, and if I recall correctly all I had to pay was the courier charge!

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I can assure you they’re not all like that! Mine are all loose.

Funny how the algorithm works, almost 100K subs and I’ve never seen that one before, yet it popped up those other smaller ones randomly in my feed!

I was meaning bass oriented channels, but fair enough that looks good! 🐷

There are lots of popular channels out there from BassTheWorld, The Bass Channel, JuliaPlaysGroove, Scotts Bass Lessons, etc… here’s a couple of new-ish channels I subscribed to recently that don’t have many followers but are well worth a look: Bassed - a couple of bass geeks from Kentucky who review gear and interview players The Wetter Bass - gear reviews tastefully done, great playing and always gets the best out of the pedals being demoed Shout out any others that deserve more attention down below!

FWIW I rate the cheaper digital example of the TC Spectracomp over the Keeley and the Cali! Don’t write it off if you haven’t tried one.

The whine can happen with digital pedals sharing power (the cab sim is digital). Happens with EHX digital stuff, but not TC - perhaps they have better power supply filtering going on!

I thought it was based on the Ampeg SB-12.

I’ve not tried the Germanium, let me know if you fancy swapsies for the LM308!

One Control Hooker's Green wasn't bad either, and certainly ticks the 'small' box!

I'm looking at this also... I have the Mk2 and LM308 Custom Shop at present.

It works well for a farty P. Your shortlist should also include the BJFE Blueberry (or One Control Blackberry which looks like a new variant), Fuzzrocious Dark Driving, Solidgoldfx Beta, and TC Spark or MojoMojo! As for which of those is best, that's a matter of taste! I've had them all and still have the Beta and the Spark. Spark is better for lower gain with more clarity. Beta is better at higher gain.

TC pedals are fine daisy chained I find, unlike certain other digital pedals that get really noisy when sharing power.

Lots of ways to split your signal so that only the DI gets the cab sim treatment. Sansamp VTDI/BDDI pedals have an unaffected thru output. There’s also the Darkglass Element and OmniCabSim, which both offer cab sims with a DI, headphone amp and aux in. The Element can be connected to the speaker cab if you want to capture your amp sound!

Definitely helps with the Diabolik to run a passive bass direct in, then the clean tone sounds really dark and bassy. Flick to active, or put any buffered pedal in front, and the clean tone sounds thinner and full range. I’ve not used the Amptweaker either, but seems more versatile, perhaps a bit more utilitarian / vanilla / boring. Whereas the Diabolik might be more limited but it has an incredible sound that you might struggle to replicate and it’s more likely to generate bass face.

The P&C and Diabolik are 2 pedals I sold as they’re a sound I wouldn’t use in a band… but I wish I’d kept both as they sound so good and are such fun to play.

Been a while since I played one, but maybe!

MXR Bass Envelope Filter always reminded me of this tone. Closest you’ll get with a standard filter if you don’t want to go down the Source Audio route.