dannybuoy

I've never found an amp modeller that was good enough for me to prefer it over a good old analogue VT Bass. But then again my experience is limited to the older Line6 Bass Pod range and the Zoom B2/B3/B1on. I had been wanting to try a Helix without forking out for one and just realised that Helix Native is available as a free trial that has all of the same effects - so as soon as I get my interface issues sorted out I will be giving that a bash!

Buy new, if you don't like it, return it for a full refund! It does a pretty good job IMHO, not as good as down tuning but the next best thing.

Digitech 'The Drop' is probably the best solution.

Are you familiar with all the gestures on iOS? Swipe up twice from the bottom and you get your play/pause control right there. Or swipe up once, then drag your music player on screen and you have it in a mini floating window, which you can dismiss by swiping it to the side, and bring it back by swiping in from the edge. Also you can swipe with 4 fingers left or right to quickly switch apps.

Anyone want to buy a Vox Amplug?

Perhaps the old ones are a league above, or perhaps some of us have just encountered a few random duds out there! I played about 10 or so PJ basses in Wunjos last summer and the Aerodyne J was the most disappointing of the bunch. The old MIJ Jazz Special on the other hand came home with me!

There are a few universal truths to bass tone, most of them already covered: - Most audiences won't give a damn about your tone unless it sounds wrong in context of the music. Use a punk tone in a punk band and a Motown tone in a Motown band, as long as you're in the ballpark they'll be happy. - That last 10% of the tone quest, this amp/bass/pedal/string vs whatever, only the bassist will be able to hear or give a damn about. But if they are happy with everything they will play better as a result. - If you have too much gear to play with you waste too much time auditioning this sound vs that sound when you could have been spending that time learning how to be a better player. I for one need to drastically simplify my choices available to avoid falling into this trap so I can practice playing instead of tweaking tones!

I understand the vintage pickups that these are supposed to emulate are a lot brighter / clankier than the more recent Thunderbird pickups which go the other way towards mudbucker territory. Probably best to stick to the previous model is you want that thicker darker sound!

I've not had a look for any more recent videos of it on bass, but note that all of Patrick Hunter's demos are recorded into a Line6 Ampeg model and Juan from pedals and effects into a mic'ed up SVT. So both have a heavily coloured slightly dirty tone as their clean baseline, which means you aren't just hearing the pedal there. They could be demoing a clean boost pedal that would sound like a great overdrive since it's just pushing the amp into more saturation. Always try and find clips of whatever you're interested in recorded direct to contrast and compare!

Says Proline on the trussrod cover, indicating it’s a proper ‘Wick.

The Pro is a bigger more expensive pedal, the new mini one is simply the Tender Octaver MkII.

I'd say my favourite setting on the TAFM just pips it, but then again the Photon has way more sounds in it and can get very close to the TAFM. Forget the octave setting on it though, it's useless on bass. It's an octave up fuzz that needs lots of high frequency content (i.e. a guitar) for it to react properly, plus it sounds out of phase with the main dirt and dry signal. The Agro is a different kettle of fish altogether, it's more used as a low gain dirty amp sim!

FEA Photon II fuzz can do both light OD and full on fuzz, with internal dip switches for a LPF on the clean channel and HPF going into the drive channel. Probably the most versatile pedal I've had that can do really good fuzz and light drive rather than just mediocre versions of one or the other!

Moore Tender is pretty much a direct clone. So much so that it was discontinued and they became very sought after and prices rocketed. They have a MkII now that apparently sounds very close but with a few extra features.

Working fine for me. You have to click the 'listen in browser' banner on each one.

Excellent! Can't say fairer than that can you.

I thought you were telling Mr FXPR he could rent one from FXPR! Although I now see you were probably aiming the suggestion at someone else, sorry! The pedal description page doesn't say for sure, but does it place the HPF/LPF before the send jack or after the return? As I would expect the former, but prefer the latter (or at least for it to be switchable). Reason being, I messed around with an SFX X&M many years ago and one of the things that made it less useful with dirt pedals is that they react very differently when fed a high-passed signal. I wanted to try a setup with clean compressed lows combined with distorted highs (a la Dug Pinnick but before I'd even heard of him) but filtering all the low end going into the drive signal just neutered it. Having the filter take place after the fx return would have solved that particular problem!

Get a refund and check out the shortscale Mustang PJ for sale in this forum!

If you haven’t played a note on it, send it back to the shop for a full refund, which you are perfectly entitled to.

I had La Bellas come with the Epi Classic Pro I bought, couldn’t whip em off quick enough! I like flats on my P-Bass, but it was just too dark for my liking with the ‘bird.

You don’t usually want a steep roll off on the LPF, since they are typically used as a vintage speaker sim, which has a smooth gradual roll off. The main purpose of the Broughton LPF is at the end of the chain to tame drive pedals before they go to the PA or hi-if bass rig.

Cheap small flightcase from Maplins is a perfect fit if you just st want a basic hard case.

Great thread! Find a problem, try to throw money / gadgets at it before realising the simple solution! "My new bass is too bassy!" "What new pedal shall I buy to fix this?" "Lets come up with an uber patch that uses an LPF and multiple parametric EQs!" "Hmm, I'll just turn down the bass on my amp."

If the band isn't gig ready, and all members are happy doing so, then of course.