dannybuoy

After you've been gigging for a few years you probably can't hear above 5kHz anyway!

I used to have a DHA VT2, and I've not encountered anything since that can add the same great sounding shimmering harmonics over my sound. The VT1-EQ-Drive looks great, I'd go for it if the bulk of it and the heavy power supply aren't an issue for you. I want to pick up another one some day. For me though, I wanted something smaller and 9v powered (I know the DHA can work at 9v but really sounds best at 12v) and settled on the new Sansamp VT Bass, which I much prefer over the older BDDI. People are going nuts over this pedal, there's a huge thread over at Talkbass where people are wetting themselves and talking about it like it's the messiah. It's not the messiah, it's a very naughty pedal.

Check out the Ashdown ABM heads too.

A Wooly Mammoth will get you a similar sound too.

The GK MB2-500 is even tinier and more toy like:

I would check out the Barefacedbass Vintage for a lightweight 2x15. But that's nearly all your clams gone right there...

Loads have popped up for sale on Talkbass recently, go there and keep em peeled.

He said he made it from scratch. Hammond make a similar one though if you were thinking of making one yourself.

If one of the amps has a tuner out, you could use that to link to the other amp. If the tuner output is buffered then even better.

Only thing with the Bad Monkey is that the amp output has a speaker sim on it that dulls your sound, even when the pedal is off.

You can also use a stereo chorus pedal set to a very slow subtle setting. This will thicken up your sound a bit as well as splitting your signal.

Nice job. I'm about to make a mini version with just one loop, and was wondering what kind of wire to use... yours doesn't look like the kind of wiring you see in effects pedals, more like household mains wiring!

Nah, they only do the flanged one and it's over £7! Cheers though.

Also, get a folding luggage cart, it'll make your life a lot easier!

I wouldn't bother with putting a DI across the speaker outputs unless you're trying to capture the sound of power tubes. As far as I know, the Walkabout has a solid state power section, so the post-EQ DI output should sound the same as if you'd hooked up a DI to the speaker outputs. Also, if you ever try doing that, make sure you have a cab in paralell with the DI to soak up the power, or will fry it.

I recommend the VT Bass pedal, sounds great through a PA. Or find a cheaper studio - which one are you using?

I'm sure you could re-work that and fit it all on a little better. I'm re-doing my Jr at the mo, it's a bit of an art form!

Cheers, that's the one. They're pretty cheap so I'll order a few as I'm bound to c0ck up the drilling part! In fact, RS do the [url="http://uk.rs-online.com/web/search/searchBrowseAction.html?method=retrieveTfg&binCount=1&Ne=4294957561&Ntt=1590a&Ntk=I18NAll&Nr=AND(avl%3auk%2csearchDiscon_uk%3aN)&Ntx=mode%2bmatchallpartial&N=4294957507&Nty=1"]1590A [/url]for £4.19, I prefer the more rounded look to the Eddystone one on Maplin.

Does anyone know where I can get hold of some tiny enclosures such as those used by Catalinbread? I want to build a little bypass loop box out of one. These are the kind I'm talking about:

Either use shorter screws and flip the bottom plate over to save gunking up the bottom face, or make a spacer plate to replace the rubber feet. Someone over a Talkbass did this by making a wedge plate out of floppy disks, attaching Velcro to that and screwing it to the bottom of the wah.

Shouldn't it be BFB for Bare Faced Bass?