dannybuoy

I play an Orange Terror through a Trace 1153, which I picked up used for £100. I got it for a cheap cab to tide me over until I found something better, but I've fallen in love with it. I was going to trade for an Orange OBC115, but the Orange sounded way too muffled - the Trace is way growlier, loads more top end and not a tweeter in sight. Only drawback is it's rated for 250W (although I've heard it can go much louder than that), but I'll just buy a second one if I need more volume!

Try an Ibanez ATK305, awesome bass and you'll have plenty of change left over!

The Gretsch Jet Baritone is worth a look too, although more expensive than the Dano. I bet the Dano would sound a lot twangier with it's single coils though.

I've not tried the TC heads, but I'm really loving what the Catalinbread SFT can do to Motownify your tone: I go P-Bass + Flats -> SFT -> Orange Terror -> Trace Elliot 1153 and get a great motown tone. A bit of foam would help even more, so PM sent to the Grand Wazoo!

I like the [sfx] Micro Fuzz for heavy synthy Muse like fuzz. It's great for Uprising, and has more low end boom than any fuzz I've ever tried.

^ Looks like he's playing guitar hero!

[quote name='gary mac' post='925740' date='Aug 15 2010, 06:36 PM']Not sure how I feel about paying £870 for a mexican instrument[/quote] I would feel like a bit of a mug considering you can get them for £700: [url="http://www.google.co.uk/products?q=fender+road+worn+precision&hl=en&scoring=p"]http://www.google.co.uk/products?q=fender+...n&scoring=p[/url] Aren't they the same as the Mex 50's reissues but without the relic job? You could buy a used one of those that would have been 'road worn' by the previous owner, then use the money left over to buy sandpaper to finish the job! [url="http://basschat.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=98681"]http://basschat.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=98681[/url]

Check out the Tech21 VT Bass and/or Catalinbread SFT pedals (one for sale in the classifieds). Both sound great for rock bass tones, the VT is better for the more grindy sounds played with a pick and roundwounds, the SFT has the edge when it comes to old school tones.

Not tried the Drive Plus, but I could not for the life of me get a decent sound out of the Lomenzo. Sounded a bit weak to me, neither a warm tubey overdrive or a high gain distortion, just somewhere inbetween in the land of 'meh'. Also the lows were lacking since the distortion signal is just a narrow midrange band added on top of the dry signal resulting in a big mid hump. Still, lots of people seem to like it and it's dirt cheap so give it a try!

Not strictly a neck pickup, more on the middle, but the Epiphone Jack Casady is a great bass, and the varitone switch can be used to get a real thumpy sound approximating a pickup closer to the neck. They're about £470 new on Thomann.

I say do it anyway. You would have a unique set of notes to play with and could make some really interesting music in the key of B [size=3]⅓[/size].

I think you can convert it to Mk2 specs by snipping one resistor out, Google will be able to tell you more than I can!

[quote name='BTS_Spacebass' post='914470' date='Aug 3 2010, 11:59 PM']Man that wilson freaker is a decent price as well. that may be on the cards. Cheers for the advice guys [/quote] The Wilson Freaker is a Parapedal clone with adjustable Q and sweep knobs - if you want a 100% faithful replica of the real thing, I'm selling a Chicago Iron Parachute!

I'm not sure without opening it up (which I can't do right now) but one thing to bear in mind is that there are 2 versions. Users complained that the mod settings were too subtle even with the trimpots maxed so they changed a resistor or something to increase the depth of the chorus effect. Therefore a lot of Mk1 owners would prefer higher settings than default whilst Mk2 owners may be happy with the default settings.

If you want the Vimtage, but smaller, check out the new Barefaced Super Twelve or the Ashdown LB212!

I've found the best wah sound from using my [sfx] X&M crossover/mixer with a gnarly old guitar wah in the high channel, keeping the lows clean. Even most bass wahs lose low end when pushed towards the toe end, but not with a setup like this. Certainly not the cheapest method though!

Everyone, meet Acid King: (couldn't find a decent video of the last one!)