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I was joking, no worries 😄

How can they be one of a kind if there's fifty of them??! 🤔

If I can get a babysitter I'll gig it next Friday and let you know. So far it feels good. But flats ALWAYS feel good 😉👍

I had Fender tapewounds on mine which sounded great on a P bass but I think it took something away from the JC, it felt like it was holding back. It didn't sound bad by any means, I just think there's more in that pickup and three way switch Getting it back from a proper set up tomorrow with Maruszczyk flats on it and hoping it opens up a little more.

Indeed it does! I've only done one set with mine, and it was string with tapewounds but it was great for pop/ rock stuff. The only reason I didn't use it for the whole set was that I needed to EQ out some really strong volume boosts at some frequencies that I hadn't accounted for.

Active three band Stingray varies from treble just a bit up from centre, mid cut 25% Ish, bass boosted 50% or more. I sometimes boost the mids way up, treble cut a smidge and bass only boosted a tiny amount. Any passive bass is usually everything on full unless I need a more traditional sound then the tone might go halfway back or more. At the moment I try to have two "go to" sounds for each bass that I think of as modern or traditional. Then I got a Jack Casady and there's just so much the three way switch and the tone knob do I'm still experimenting months after buying it.

If it inspires you to play more, play differently, and brings a smile to your face, all without causing financial hardship you've won. Hope it goes well. I've not used them either, would have thought the epoxy fretboard had more influence on the sound, but every detail helps.

Interesting! Can't wait to get it all downloaded and explore. My "new" band does a lot of pop stuff and there's room for synth bass and using the bass to play synth melodies in parts. I invested in a Boss SY1 which is great and I will use a few settings off that, but it doesn't do the fat fuzzy envelope filter type synth sound that I crave. I tried making my own in Helix but it was really hard work and never came out right.

Lots of scams on Facebook and a few BC'ers have been sting by the same well known crook who has a method to this. Pedal is priced too good to be true, your PayPal payment keeps getting bounced until you pay in a way you can't get it back then he blocks you and never replies. All the while the same item is still being advertised for sale and the next victim is taken for their cash. Sad fact is people know his name, where he lives, and have reported it but there doesn't seem to be much action from the authorities.

Yep but your browser will probably send you to the GB version unless you're on a non British connection or vpn

What does this word mean??! 😉

No, their GB version of the site has it all costed in. So actually, yes, but it's not an extra surprise bill off the courier. What you see is what you pay. I've bought quite a lot off them since Brexit and it's always gone well.

Interesting gizmo. Looks like they saw the 'strip' style effects units and said "nice format, but we can do it better". I won't bin my Helix Stomp for it but I had I seen this first it may have been a difficult decision between the two.

What else sounds like Ashdown heads? Hashbrown threads.

Meters headphones

I've bored everyone enough about my Helix Stomp not being a one box solution... So my pedal board, a good quality Donner thing (now for sale) became too small. I needed to add synth, expression pedal for the synth and space for a Smoothound. I bought the Harley Benton because I like Thomann and Harley Benton gear. The Spaceship comes pre-carpeted which is nice, it's solid aluminium, the bag is well padded, and it has plenty of space. Hence the name. The only odd thing is it has slots underneath for a power supply which my cheap Caline box is too big for, sadly, as I do like powering from below, and the adjustable feet don't fix to the board, you stick em in each time you need them, which I find a bit unnecessary. Anyways, for the cash I don't think you can beat it. There's nothing cheap or flimsy about it so it seems great value in comparison to most. Obligatory pics ..

As things evolve... I joined a new band at the end of last year and that needs me to use more effects, plus the guitarists give me more space... So, my board has evolved. I went from separates to a big multi to a Helix... Now to a Helix plus other pedals. So here it is before linking everything up...

I wasn't actually involved but my previous band hadn't rehearsed much or done much at all over the lockdowns. WhatsApp conversation with drummer but with whole bad watching Drummer: "Can you do X date, calendar says you're away?" Me: "No, I'm away on a mates stag, can't do that weekend" Drummer: "Will you be back for the night?" Me: "No, I'll still be away" Drummer: "Ok, the next month says you're out for three days for a wedding, is that right?" Me: "Yes" Drummer: "Pretty long f*cking wedding" Me: "Well it's in York and I'm going up the night before, then there's the night of the wedding, then driving back on the Sunday and there's no way I'm doing a gig that night" Drummer books a gig for date x without me and announces on Facebook which is my first notice of it, AND the same for the rest of the band too. No rehearsal beforehand, and the last one was months earlier and dreadful. Five days before the gig and nobody, not a single member of the band knows what time they're playing etc. Two days before I privately message the drummer and tell him he needs to sort it out because NOBODY knows what's going on, he blames the singer, who blames the drummer. Turns out the drummer must have just been drinking in the pub one Sunday said "we'll do a gig on Saturday!" Slaps it on Facebook then washed his hands of it. Guitarist described this gig as a "car crash". I'm not in that band anymore.

It's begging for an upside down headstock though, isn't it?!

I don't want to get into the inevitable debate on "at least it's not another P!" "But everything else they do never sells". I think it looks great, a bit Thunderbird, a bit of the ESP type thing going on. They won't make one upside down for us lefties, but if they did and it came from MIM at £700 or less I'd be very tempted.

You make a good point, everything affects the effect: playing dynamics, pick or fingers, which part of the finger, strings, pickups, active EQ or passive, what's in the chain before the pedal, then what's in the chain after the pedal, and the amp... The only way to really know is to try yourself with your own gear. Then even if it sounds good does it sound good with your other pedals and with each different bass you may use??? I hated this pedal lottery so got a "one box" solution in a Helix Stomp. Problem is there's things that just doesn't do. So you end up buying complementary bits... I've just had to buy a bigger pedal board (yes a board, to host my "one box solution" multi effects pedal) a year after trading in three multi FX units to replace with "just one". In all seriousness it's good to have a number of different drive/ distortion types at the push of a button. I was never an effects guy, always preferring a clean tone, until I joined a band that played a wider variety of music and crucially had two guitarists that actually give me some room to be heard, it made varying my bass sound a lot more important. A good multi effects, or a very flexible single pedal, or a string of pedals to give you fuzz, drive, distortion, would be good to keep mixing up your sound.

Logic I can't comment on but my tactic would be to read reviews, watch the YouTube's with the caveat you've already mentioned, then buy at a price I know I can recover if I need to sell it on. Or go for the ones with the coolest names.

This is what I need.... I go through cycles of wanting the bare minimum amount of kit then a new shiny thing catches my eye and I end up with seven basses, two Amps, loads of cabs.... Just to go through it all over again.