dannybuoy

My point was you can save yourself a few quid by just using the software version if you're only messing with it in your home studio.

The HX Editor is just an editor for a Helix device. If you sell your Stomp, that software will be useless. Helix Native is an entire Helix running inside your PC for £79 (with discount, £315 normally!).

If you're just using the Stomp in your home studio, take advantage of the fact that Stomp owners get a big discount on Helix Native and install that on your DAW before you sell it!

Always thought this was a bit dodgy

I like Pyramid Gold, Chromes and TIs myself, wasn’t a fan of the La Bellas. Good comparison here!

Glad to see him playing these MM style basses again, they sit in the mix perfectly for this style of music!

This will sort it without having to go to a fully isolated power supply: https://www.amazon.co.uk/JOYO-ZGP-Guitar-Effect-Supply/dp/B07CS6T95Z Or sell it and get a TC Polytune, they have no such issues.

Well he is looking for a new right hand man! (or woman)

That’s when you choose something to measure employee performance, which ironically then leads to overall poor results. For example if a programmer gets rated on how many lines of code they write per day, they will churn out lots of inefficient code instead of thinking how to simplify 100 lines down to 10. Also team members will spend less time doing things that aren’t measured, such as sharing knowledge and helping others. Therefore a load of rowlocks!

I’ve never seen so many requirements in a single ad, but it’s good in that it will scare off the chancers who aren’t quite up to the job!

I would say it's worth the upgrade, question is will they fit, and is it more worthwhile to just trade it in for a different Ibanez bass that already has them?

That one supposedly charges at a slower rate than a regular one to allow safe recharging of ‘non-rechargeable’ batteries.

Btw I saw this recently - a battery charger that works with regular alkaline batteries: https://www.amazon.co.uk/EBL-Alkaline-Battery-Disposable-Batteries/dp/B07FPB1RBK

Both will work. I don't quite understand how the common earth thing works, but you can easily see if you plug it into a 9v daisy chain by itself, the LED is dim. Add another pedal to the daisy chain and it burns bright just as if you were powering it from 12V. Not sure what happens if you give it a 12V daisy chain though!!!

I’ve not compared them, but the story goes that the 3 band is not simply a 2 band with an added mid, it does sound rather different. So not so much a case of choosing to limit yourself to two bands, but more selecting the one that delivers the sound you want. There’ll be tons of threads out there discussing the details. John East do make a model that does provide the 2-band sound with an added mid control, many 3-band owners upgrade to it for this reason.

I believe people were using the AcBsPre model in the older units (including the B3 and B1on) that didn't come with a dedicated HPF.

Thumpinator, or perhaps an FDeck or Broughton HPF, depending on why you want a HPF in the first place. The Thumpinator cuts really low (something like 28-30Hz) so should not have an audible effect on the bass spectrum, but will stop any really low freqs that would make your speaker cones lurch about as they struggled to reproduce them. End result is you can expect your speakers to last longer and to be able to squeeze more clean volume out of your rig. Those others are adjustable - so you can use them if you want to cut for example everything below 40-50Hz to tighten up the bass and reduce the amount of sub bass yet still keep the important 60-100Hz upper bass range intact. The Broughton does not have as steep a cutoff slope as the Thumpinator though, making it less effective as a <30Hz speaker protector, but much better suited as a form of EQ. The Zoom HPF is similar in operation to the Broughton I believe.

I'd change your strings first before trying anything else. 2 years is quite old for a set of rounds unless the bass had hardly been played during that time.

The Spectracomp is not only one of the cheapest compressors around, it's one of the best. I also preferred it to the Cali, a very expensive unit considered by many to be the best of the best! And you're right, the HPF in the Cali is not in the audio path. The Zoom multis certainly have some decent compressors plus a HPF, but I still prefer the Spectracomp. When it comes to a HPF like the Thumpinator, many amps have something similar already built in and just don't advertise it, so it's hard to find this information out. What are you using?

They are both alder bodies, but wood can vary from batch to batch, I might have been really lucky with my 415. The neck was a bit fatter on my 1025X, then factor in a bigger bridge, ferrules, scratchplate, control plate, metal nut and knobs, it all adds up!

I haven't weighed either of them @Al Krow, but I can tell you my 415 was a hell of a lot lighter than my 1025X! At least 1lb less, probably more like 2!

This is happening again btw!

Wait for the new Source Audio C4 if you can. It may well have all the octave/dirt/filter/synth capabilities you can dream of! https://www.talkbass.com/threads/source-audio-spectrum-inteligent-filter.1385756/

A wireless system will have the same result as say plugging into a bypassed Boss tuner. The output will be buffered and low impedance so that you can drive long cable runs and plug into low impedance inputs (like a line input of a mixer) without signal loss. The output volume should be roughly the same however. Which means that even now your signal is now ‘active’, you can still use a ‘passive’ input of your amp, because the active input is more designed for coping with really hot basses, e.g. an 18V MM Bongo with neo pickups with the EQ given some serious welly!