dannybuoy

No blend or reverse sweep on the JoshWah, and it's low pass. It sounds a lot like a Mutron III. It gets pretty clean with the gain down low, but not 100%. It has more range and is easier to dial in than the Fwonkbeta. It is a contender for sure, but 'the best' would depend on which bass your playing, what you're playing on it, your fingers, and your ears! Each shines in different situations. I've had it for several months and might let it go as I'm about to massively downsize my gear collection to clear out some clutter and focus on what I need in the band. But like I did with the MXR I'll probably change my mind several times (already sold one of those and bought it back again)!

On the board is just a Hotone Bass Press wah pedal. Discumbobulator, MXR and JoshWah I just like to play with at home every now and then!

They only recommend that because some digital pedals leak noise into the power line that gets picked up by other pedals. Some, but not all. EHX, Digitech and Zoom are notorious for it, but Mooer and TC have pretty good filtering in my experience and are fine sharing power. Like I said, experimentation is the way! You don't get it of jail free by putting two of these noisy digital pedals on the same splitter either. Especially as many now like TC and Strymon have an analog dry through signal path. It's not just digital ones you want to watch out for, any pedals that double to 18V internally might need isolating too, as I found to my dismay with the RMI Basswitch compressor.

A JoshWah should come to just under £200, including $40 postage, VAT and the £8 handling fee. But I might sell mine for less... The distortion on it is no replacement for a dedicated OD though.

You should try the OmniCabSim, Andy! Not many about over here though. Not seen the Captor before though, looks great on paper as long as the speaker sim isn't overly dark like the one in the Le Bass? There are a couple of different vibrating platforms on the market to give you a big rig feel when using IEMs, including one for sale in this forum somewhere. I'd feel like a bit of a knob standing on a neon-lit platform at a gig though!

I had the B9 and C9, kept the B9. Lent it to a friend who keeps forgetting to bring it out when I see him! Must get it back! How's your filter quest going Al? I've decided to keep the MXR btw, thanks for not buying it off me!

It doesn't matter at the end of the day - you can get the mA rating from the manual, and test manually in a daisy chain to see if it creates noise when sharing power with other pedals. Those are the only two things that are important!

I think pretty much all tuners except the old school ones with the moving needle are digital. That doesn't necessarily mean it needs isolating though - I know my Polytune doesn't have any problems on daisy chain with other pedals.

Nice selection. Always wondered how the Mel9 fares on bass...

Keep it, looks great. Tort on black is a good combo as long as it's red and not brown. Spitfire aren't the only ones making quality tort these days, the guards that WD Music sell for example are pukka.

Try LaBella copper, gold, or white nylons. I have a set of coppers waiting to be tried out on my Godin A4 fretless, but the Chromes that come stock sound great so I've not felt the need to yet!

The Cioks DC5 fits underneath also. 2x 300mA output and 3x 100mA outputs, not sure if that is sufficient, but it would be if you were planning on putting a supply under each Nano I guess! I've powered 400mA pedals from the 300mA sockets before so they are rated rather conservatively I reckon. Less overall output than the Ojai, but more flexibility with 12V and 18V options should you need those. And they make 3 way daisy chain leads so you can run multiple low-draw pedals from a single outlet. Hotrox are the only UK stockists that I know of btw!

Maybe with the blend at nil also... Mine's still pretty dirty with the gain all the way off! But set to the alpha side it's a great dirty amp sim when used like that.

Can't you just pull the silk off?

The Sub'n'Up is a good shout also, one of the few that do two octaves down.

If you are after trying to get the most realistic bass guitar sound out of a guitar with flawless tracking, I say Digitech Whammy V. Also the Whammy Ricochet as it's smaller, but I feel it has slightly more latency than its bigger brother (I have both and AB'd them recently!).

[quote name='M@23' timestamp='1507575860' post='3386489'] I didn't find it to be wimpy. Certainly a marmite sort of sound though. Also, I much preferred it with more vintage voiced cabs. [/quote] I agree with this. I love the sound, but it doesn't work in my current band which calls for a brighter sound. But for playing blues etc with a P and flats, I have never heard a better amp.

[quote name='JapanAxe' timestamp='1507566717' post='3386393'] I seem to recall molan (of this parish) remarking that the TH500 used the same Class D power stage as the allegedly 900W Streamliner! [/quote] That would explain the wimpiness of the Streamliner 600 I had, it probably had the same module as the TH350!

Talkbass user AzureSkies has been producing his own pedals for a while now and has been gaining somewhat of a cult following. Now he finally has a site! http://broughtonaudio.bigcartel.com http://youtu.be/8P0LLCOC2-g

I think the new Peavey amps have some processing along similar lines but I'm not aware of anything in a pedal. The Aphex and BBE units don't quite do the same thing, i.e. adding extra harmonics above the fundamental to trick the brain into hearing low frequencies that aren't there.

Probably a typo and should be DC. I have the little Roland guitar cube and it takes a standard 9V supply like a regular pedal. You should be fine if that 186mA value is correct and your supply can dish out up to 250mA, but it doesn't sound like very much. A typical digital multi FX would use that alone without having to actually push a speaker as well!

You can probably push that DC8 a lot harder, I'm running quite a few from my DC5! Hotrox sell the 3-way daisy chain adapters for Cioks BTW.

[quote name='Joerivv' timestamp='1507506346' post='3385978'] The grounding on the bass is ok. [/quote] Sounds like it might not be ok. Can you test with a multimeter to make sure all the ground points are connected from the jack to the pots and bridge?

Stick that DC8 under the board and you'll be able to fit a ToneHammer and an Agro in there!

Glock preamps usually have a passive tone control in the circuit when switched to passive mode, useful for the Motown requirements!