dannybuoy

There’s a big difference, a tribute band don’t write their own songs. Although one could argue neither did Led Zeppelin!

That's fine if you're happy only listening to albums that currently exist and aren't interested in hearing something new. Have any of those tribute bands put out an album's worth of original material?

There’s not many decent new bands in this genre around and the old rockers are mostly out to pasture these days, so I’ll take what I can get! Check out Ape Machine too.

Looks like an Ampeg B100R / B200R next to him, I don’t think he uses pedals, the amp is probably just cranked to 11! But pretty much any amp that can get overdriven will be able to get there, particularly Ampeg/Fender/Ashdown/Orange. Or a pedal like a TC Mojomojo or Bearfoot Blueberry!

Considering they're all like 20 years old, they have a (hopefully) long and bright future. As long as they don't disappear up their own chocolate starfish like Billy Corgan and Alex Turner!

Give their album an audition before making any judgements if all you’ve seen is that video, it’s on Spotify. Opening track:

Love em, they are definitely one band I want to see live. For the uninitiated:

This, but you're too late, it's sold!

Sounds great, but let down by the fact there is no gain control, so you're stuck with the pre-set gain level. I preferred the sound of it with the volume rolled down some on my bass, it would have been nice to be able to achieve the same effect via the pedal controls. Never used it in anger at high volume, but I don't recall it being one of those fuzzes that puts out serious heft in the low end (like a EHX Russian Big Muff for example).

New kid on the block! https://www.seattleguitarstore.com/mxr-vintage-bass-octave-pedal/

These are the things I'm aware of: 415 -> 425: Laminated neck, unpainted headstock, angled string thru design. Pickups look very similar, probably the same. 425 -> 435: New colours, pickguards, painted headstock, new pickups (more Fendery / traditional, being alnico rather than ceramic with rails for example)

Darkglass Alpha Omega / Omicron is one to try. I'm a big fan of the Russian reissue muff even though it doesn't have much in the way of mids, it still makes itself heard because it dominates the bass and low mids, in that it sits under and supports the guitars rather than overpowers them! Best experienced at high volume, I was sceptical about it at bedroom levels!

I would try drive off, master up full, adjust gain to set your volume. You should be able to get a clean tone that way, then you can try lowering the master / increasing the gain from there.

Given the price, no reason to not give the Spectracomp a go, especially if you can pick up a used one and flip it later. It made me sell my Cali CB, I can really notice the limitations in single band compressors after getting used to what the multiband does for me. Prime example being if I agressively pop a string, a single band will react to that peak and turn the volume of the whole signal down for a split second, whereas a multiband can limit the top end spike without neutering the low end. I'm not too worried about future support since I prefer the stock setting, if in 10 years time the Windows/iPad app were to stop working, I’d be disappointed but I wouldn’t be left with a paperweight. I’ve used the app exactly zero times since I auditioned all the presets on day one!

Nice. This one caught my attention recently: http://bassdirect.co.uk/bass_guitar_specialists/Sandberg_Chris_Childs_Enigma_5.html Looks like the same pickups and colour scheme as yours, however it sounds like the neck pickup is actually a P-like split coil inside that MM-like housing. Perhaps yours is the same?

BTW I think the B3n is the only one of the Zooms that let you apply the cab sim by itself, on the older ones it's just an option you can dial in on each amp model.

Prymaxe price is £269.05 before the discount (their public discount code doesn't work for all brands as some vendors insist on a minimum price, but they will give you a private discount code via their online chat), shipping is very reasonable, and I've not been hit by any charges after ordering dozens of pedals from them.

If a pedal like this had just come out and there are next to none on the used market, a £350 pedal would sell for £300 pretty easily. Buy it from Prymaxe with their 20% discount code and you could even sell it for a profit!

This 'artificial aging' is almost the opposite of relicing though. Relicing is purely a process to make it look and feel old on the outside. The ARE / IRA processes are all about making it sound and resonate like an old bass but still looks brand new. The 2024 series used ARE and IRA, whereas the new P34 only gets IRA. Perhaps that's why it's cheaper. ARE is basically heat treating the wood, perhaps similar to how Musicman do their roasted necks. IRA is a vibration treatment that is supposed to bed everything in, I suppose it makes all the mating surfaces between the paint, body, neck and hardware settle closer together, eliminating any tiny gaps or stresses there might be that adversely affect how it resonates. I'd have to play one next to my 1025X before committing, but as it's my favourite bass I'd certainly be interested in trading up to the 2025X!

I have a 1025X played a 2024X. The only thing that stood out as higher quality is the neck - a rubbed oil finish, smoother more polished frets, etc. I understand the body is more contoured also but In didn't have them side by side to spot the difference!

Actually at the start, each footswitch is a unique chain of FX, so with the 3rd one an empty patch, it is doable. The footswitches only control individual pedals in the patch when you switch to stomp mode.

I'd say a Seymour Duncan SPB-3 and some steel strings such as D'Addario ProSteels. A Sansamp wouldn't hurt either!